Beschreibung:
The purpose of this book is to investigate and develop alternate methodological approaches to understand urban environments and urban change. In particular, the study demonstrates the application of remote-sensing data and geographic information systems to the exploration of issues often ignored by the mainstream community of geo-technical specialists such as urban forestry, urban traffic, migration or quality of life in urban areas.
Applying Geospatial Technologies in Urban Environments.- Remote Sensing of Impervious Surfaces and Building Infrastructure.- Policy Implications of Remote Sensing in Understanding Urban Environments: Developing a Wetlands Inventory for Community Decision-Making in Lucas County, Ohio.- Making Spatial Data Usable to the General Public: a Case Study in Tax Mapping.- Modeling Human-Environment Interactions.- The Relationship Between Urban Leaf Area and Summertime Household Energy Usage.- The Urban Environment, Socioeconomic Conditions, and Quality of Life: An Alternative Framework for Understanding and Assessing Environmental Justice.- Image Homogeneity and Urban Demographics: An Integrated Approach to Applied Geo-techniques.- Local Government Perceptions of Urban Forestry.- Satellite Remote Sensing of Urban Heat Islands: Current Practice and Prospects.- Remote Sensing as a Program Assessment Device: The case of Urban Forestry and the Competition for Local Investment.- Urban Sprawl Detection Using Satellite Imagery and Geographically Weighted Regression.- Satellites, Census, and the Quality of Life.- Urban Environmental Approaches: Policy, Application & Method.