Remote sensing for sustainability / / edited by Qihao Weng

• Pubblicazione: Boca Raton : , : Taylor & Francis, a CRC title, part of the Taylor & Francis imprint, a member of the Taylor & Francis Group, the academic division of T&F Informa, plc, , [2017]; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 363.7/063028
• Soggetto topico: Environmental monitoring - Remote sensing; Sustainable development - Remote sensing; Sustainable urban development - Remote sensing; Sustainable agriculture - Remote sensing; Natural resources - Remote sensing; Renewable energy sources - Remote sensing
• Persona (resp. second.): WengQihao
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface : towards a sustainable Earth through remote sensing / Qihao Weng -- Extraction of parameters from remote sensing data for environmental indices for urban sustainability / John C. Trinder -- EO datasets for urban and regional planning / Thomas Esch -- Assessment of urban growth in the Pearl River Delta, China, using time series Landsat imagery / Lei Zhang and Qihao Weng -- InSAR monitoring of land subsidence for sustainable urban planning / Abduwasit Ghulam, Mark Grzovic, Maitiniyazi Maimaitijiang, and Mamat Sawut -- A tale of two cities : urbanization in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA and Guiyang, Guizhou, China / Honglin Xiao and Qihao Weng -- Role of remote sensing in sustainable grassland management / Alexander Tong, Yuhong He, Bing Lu, and Xulin Guo -- Classifying tree species using high spatial resolution imagery to support the conservation of an endangered bird species in Hawaii / Qi Chen -- Remote sensing of forest damage by diseases and insects / Gang Chen and Ross K. Meentemeyer -- Monitoring water quality with remote sensing image data / Bunkei Matsushita, Wei Yang, Lalu Muhamad Jaelani, Fajar Setiawan, and Takehiko Fukushima -- Urban air quality studies using EO data / Xuefei Hu -- Heat hazard monitoring with satellite derived land surface temperature / Yitong Jiang and Qihao Weng -- Remote sensing identification of threshold zones along a Mediterranean to arid climatic gradient / Maxim Shoshany -- Soil moisture using optical remote sensing and ground measurements : a case study from Pakistan / Mudassar Umar -- Global assessment of sustainable straw energy potential using EO / Thomas Esch -- Use of nighttime imaging data to assess decadal trends in energy use in China / Yanhua Xie and Qihao Weng -- Support of wind resource modeling using Earth Observation / Thomas Esch -- Assessing solar energy potential and building energy use in Indianapolis using geospatial techniques / Yuanfan Zheng and Qihao Weng.
• Titolo autorizzato: Remote sensing for sustainability
• ISBN: 1-315-35464-0; 0-367-87140-8; 1-315-37193-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910151566503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Taylor & Francis series in remote sensing applications.