Global Urban Monitoring and Assessment Through Earth Observation

ISBN-13: 9780367867621 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 440 str.

Qihao Weng

Opis

Cities and towns are the original producers of many of the global environmental problems related to waste disposal, air and water pollution. There is a rapidly growing need for technologies that will enable monitoring of the world’s natural resources and urban assets, and managing exposure to natural and man-made risks. The Group on Earth Observ

Spis treści

Global Urban Observation: Needs and Requirements. Global Urban Footprint: Products and Datasets. Global Urban Morphological Database and Urban Climate Modeling. Linking EO Data Products with Ancillary Data. Concepts and Techniques for Effective Urban Sensing and Sustainability.

O autorze

Qihao Weng is the Director of the Center for Urban and Environmental Change and a tenured Full Professor at the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Indiana State University, USA.