Applied Remote Sensing for Urban Planning, Governance and Sustainability

Remote Sensing as a Tool for Urban Planning and Sustainability.- Automatic Land-Cover Classification Derived from High-Resolution IKONOS Satellite Imagery in the Urban Atlantic Forest of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by Means of an Object-Oriented Approach.- Advances in Urban Remote Sensing: Examples From Berlin (Germany).- Spatial Analysis of Urban Vegetation Scale and Abundance.- Urban Environmental Monitoring in Buenos Aires - Determining Green Areas.- Challenges in Characterizing and Mitigating Urban Heat Islands - A Role for Integrated Approaches Including Remote Sensing.- Phoenix, Arizona, USA: Applications of Remote Sensing in a Rapidly Urbanizing Desert Region.- Application of Remote Sensing and GIS Technique for Urban Environmental Management and Sustainable Development of Delhi, India.- Berlin (Germany) Urban and Environmental Information System: Application of Remote Sensing for Planning and Governance - Potentials and Problems.- Views of Chiang Mai: The Contributions of Remote-Sensing to Urban Governance and Sustainability.- 20 Years After Reforms: Challenges to Planning and Development in China's City-Regions and Opportunities for Remote Sensing.

From the reviews:"This collection of earnest and workmanlike essays had its origins in the 100 Cities Project - formerly the Urban Environmental Monitoring (UEM) Project-at Arizona State University. ... The book is intended to exemplify applications of remote sensing for urban environmental characterization, monitoring and government decision-making. ... is aimed mainly at planners whose interest is in the physical environment." (John Miron, Geomatica, Vol. 62 (1), 2008)