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Remote sensing for sustainability / edited by Qihao Weng.
LIBRA GE45.R44 R47 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Taylor & Francis series in remote sensing applications
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental monitoring--Remote sensing.
- Environmental monitoring.
- Sustainable development--Remote sensing.
- Sustainable development.
- Sustainable urban development--Remote sensing.
- Sustainable urban development.
- Sustainable agriculture--Remote sensing.
- Sustainable agriculture.
- Natural resources--Remote sensing.
- Natural resources.
- Renewable energy sources--Remote sensing.
- Renewable energy sources.
- Remote sensing.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 357 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2017]
- Summary:
- "Remote Sensing for Sustainability", edited by one of the authorities in remote sensing intends to contribute to the GEO's Strategic Plan by addressing and exemplifying a number of societal benefit areas of remote sensing datasets, methods, and techniques for sustainable development and moving towards a sustainable Earth. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781498700719
- 1498700713
- OCLC:
- 958262676
- Publisher Number:
- 99970255069
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