Showing posts with label Remote Sensing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Remote Sensing. Show all posts

Saturday, October 26, 2019

Remote Sensing


Remote sensing is an essential tool of land change science because it facilitates observations across larger extents of Earth’s surface than is possible by ground based observations. This is accomplished by use of cameras, multispectral scanners, RADAR and LiDAR sensors mounted on air and space borne platforms, yielding aerial photographs, satellite imagery, RADAR and LiDAR datasets.  (http://ecotope.org/people/ellis/papers/ellis_eoe_lulcc_2007.pdf)
Remote sensing

               • Helps connect local resources with global perspective
               • Can address immediate needs for information or graphics
               • Shows change over time
               • Provides unique views of natural disasters
               • Helps interpreters support management decisions
               • Helps spark interest among visitors
               • Connects today’s exploration with themes of historical sites
               • Are great sources of information

           Remotely sensed imagery is an effective data source for urban environment analysis that is inherently suited to provide information on urban land cover characteristics and their changes over time at various spatial and temporal scales [2–6]. In the past decades, remote sensing has been widely used in various applications, such as urban structure extraction, urbanization monitoring, change detection, and so on [5,7–13]. With the development and innovations in data, technologies, and theories in the wider arena of earth observation, urban remote sensing has rapidly gained popularity among a wide variety of communities from many aspects such as Land Use/Land Cover (LULC mapping, Urban Heat Islands (UHIs) analysis, impervious surface area estimation and urban ecological security assessment (Du, P. et al, p.6)


References

Du, P. et al. 2014. Remote Sensing Image Interpretation for Urban Environment Analysis: Methods, System, and Examples. Remote Sensing. 6, 9458-9474 pp. https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/RS4interp1.pdf
Ellis, Erle et al., 2007, Land Use and Land Cover Change accessed at http://ecotope.org/people/ellis/papers/ellis_eoe_lulcc_2007.pdf)

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