Long description:

Earth Observation in Urban Monitoring: Techniques and Challenges presents the latest techniques of remote sensing in urban monitoring, along with methods for quantitative and qualitative assessment using state-of-the-art Earth observation technologies. The book details the advances of remote sensing technologies in urban environmental monitoring for a range of practical and research applications, Earth observation datasets, remote sensing of environmental considerations, geostatistical techniques and resilience perspectives. Chapters cover sensor applications, urban growth modelling, SAR applications, surveying techniques, satellite time series analysis and a variety of other remote sensing technologies for urban monitoring.

Each chapter includes detailed case studies at a variety of scales and from a variety of geographies, offering up-to-date, global, urban monitoring methodologies for researchers, scientists and academics in remote sensing, geospatial research, environmental science and sustainability.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction to earth observation in urban monitoring
Chapter 2: Major challenges in the urbanizing world and role of earth observations for livable cities
Chapter 3: The role of nocturnal earth observation in urban environment monitoring
Chapter 4: Surveying techniques for urban areas
Chapter 5: Geoinformation for integrated urban water resource management
Chapter 6: Advances in remote sensing in measuring urban heat island effect and its management
Chapter 7: Impact of seasonality and land use changes on urban heat island using earth-observing satellites
Chapter 8: Using PlanetScope imagery and GEOBIA to map urban green spaces
Chapter 9: Deep learning approach for monitoring urban land cover changes
Chapter 10: Earth observation applications for urban mapping and monitoring: research prospects, opportunities and challenges
Chapter 11: Earth observations and AIML for urban growth modeling
Chapter 12: Monitoring urban ecological conditions using remote sensing
Chapter 13: Landscape modeling for management of the urban environment .
Chapter 14: Artificial intelligence for sustainable urban climate studies
Chapter 15: Geoinformation for urban Geoenvironmental hazard-risk and vulnerability assessment
Chapter 16: Nature-based solutions and ecological urban planning and design for the sustainable urban environments
Chapter 17: Shrinking urban green spaces, increasing vulnerability: solving the conundrum of the demand-supply gap in an urbanizing city
Chapter 18: Earth observations for urban policies and future pathways for urban environmental research