Remote Sensing and Urban Analysis: GISDATA 9 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748408606 ISBN 13: 9780748408603

Publisher: CRC Press, 2000

Synopsis

One of the key geographical developments over the last two centuries has been that of urbanisation. In recent years this has exploded globally, particularly in developing countries. It is essential for governments, planners and researchers in geography and allied fields to understand this process and the main way of being able to do this is to accurately map these changes. The main method of this mapping is Remote Sensing.
This up-to-date analysis of the area looks at a wide range of methodologies currently being used to produce and analyse remotely sensed data of urban areas. The authors examine the various techniques used to extract information from digital, multispectral images of urban areas. Donnay and Barnsley then go on to look at the identification of urban forms, the delineation of agglomerations and the development of urban morphology, considering the analysis of integrated data sets and surface models and going on to look at the estimation of human population levels.

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Review:

Extremely useful compilation of advances in techniques... understandable even to those with only a basic knowledge of remote sensing. -- Photogrammetric Record, 2002

Synopsis:

The remote sensing of human settlements depends on exogenous data and GIS functionalities. Urban remote sensing has the distinctive characteristic of allowing the combination or physical and morphological data with socio-economic data, but is not yet functioning to a high degree of operationality. A wide range of methodologies for the production and analysis of urban remote sensing data are outlined in this book.To begin with, a number of techniques are examined for the extraction of information which can be applied to digital, multispectral images of urban areas. These include improvements to conventional per-pixel image classification algorithms, various methods of image fusion, the application of syntactic pattern recognition techniques, the role of mathematical morphology, and geostatistical approaches to the analysis and interpretation of image textural and spatial patterns. The book then moves on to the identification of urban forms, the delineation of agglomerations, and the measurement of urban morphology.

Surface models are considered, for the analysis of integrated data sets, in which the scope of the applications is widened to consider the estimation of human population levels.

About this edition

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0748408606
• ISBN 13: 9780748408603
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Donnay Jean-Paul, Barnsley Mike J., Longley Paul A.