LEADER 04608nam 22006255 450 001 9910993985803321 005 20250807132303.0 010 $a9783031541148 010 $a3031541146 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-54114-8 035 $a(CKB)31367723000041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-54114-8 035 $a(EXLCZ)9931367723000041 100 $a20240306d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aUAVs for Spatial Modelling and Urban Informatics /$fby Tony H. Grubesic, Jake R. Nelson, Ran Wei 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (XII, 170 p. 1 illus.) 311 08$a9783031541131 311 08$a3031541138 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1: An Overview of UAVs for Spatial Modeling and Urban Informatics -- Chapter 2: UAV Operating Environments -- Chapter 3: UAVs for monitoring property code violations -- Chapter 4: Unmasking Invisible Infrastructure Systems with UAVs -- Chapter 5: Maximizing the Thermal Comfort of Pedestrians with UAV Imagery and Multiobjective Spatial Optimization -- Chapter 6: Evaluating Rooftop Solar Energy Inequity with UAVs -- Chapter 7: UAVs for Rapid Storm Damage Assessment -- Chapter 8: Identifying Critical Micro-infrastructures -- Chapter 9: Drones and Their Future. 330 $aThis book aims to provide a wide range of real-world applications in using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for geographic observation, spatial modeling, and urban informatics. Specifically, UAVs are incredibly effective platforms for connecting people, places, and technology. This book explores the utility of UAVs for monitoring, measuring, and improving urban infrastructure systems, urban sustainability, and the urban environment. The dynamism of cities provides opportunities for economic, social, and environmental change, but benchmarking and measuring cities continues to be challenging. This challenge is due, at least in part, to a lack of monitoring systems that can collect and analyze data at a granular enough scale to capture the nuance of local phenomena. UAVs offer a promising mechanism to fill this niche, serving as a measurement platform that can rapidly and inexpensively collect data and monitor change in cities. However, their use is fraught with social, operational, regulatory, and technical challenges for successful deployments. This book provides a resource for urbanists (e.g., planners, geographers, sociologists, epidemiologists, engineers), educators, and students who work with geographic information and seek to enhance these data using data and information from unmanned aerial vehicles. At the same time, we provide operational and methodological frameworks for carrying out these advanced analyses in a manner that considers the challenges of incorporating UAVs in research within the urban environment. We provide six unique applications of UAVs for urban analysis, detailing relevant policy and empirical questions, UAV mission parameters, data collection, spatial modeling, and the associated empirical results. Further, we discuss how best to integrate these results into actionable geospatial intelligence and policy development to improve city infrastructure systems, sustainability, the environment, and neighborhood quality. 606 $aGeographic information systems 606 $aMedical informatics 606 $aGeography 606 $aApplication software 606 $aGeographical Information System 606 $aHealth Informatics 606 $aGeography 606 $aComputer and Information Systems Applications 615 0$aGeographic information systems. 615 0$aMedical informatics. 615 0$aGeography. 615 0$aApplication software. 615 14$aGeographical Information System. 615 24$aHealth Informatics. 615 24$aGeography. 615 24$aComputer and Information Systems Applications. 676 $a910.285 700 $aGrubesic$b Tony H$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0855602 702 $aNelson$b Jake R$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 702 $aWei$b Ran$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910993985803321 996 $aUAVs for Spatial Modelling and Urban Informatics$94359728 997 $aUNINA