Integrating Scale in Remote Sensing and GIS

✍ Scribed by Dale A. Quattrochi, Elizabeth Wentz, Nina Siu-Ngan Lam, Charles W. Emerson (eds.)

• Publisher: Routledge;CRC Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 426
• Series: Taylor & Francis series in remote sensing applications
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Integrating Scale in Remote Sensing and GIS serves as the most comprehensive documentation of the scientific and methodological advances that have taken place in integrating scale and remote sensing data. This work addresses the invariants of scale, the ability to change scale, measures of the impact of scale, scale as a parameter in process models, and the implementation of multiscale approaches as methods and techniques for integrating multiple kinds of remote sensing data collected at varying spatial, temporal, and radiometric scales. Researchers, instructors, and students alike will benefit from a guide that has been pragmatically divided into four thematic groups: scale issues and multiple scaling; physical scale as applied to natural resources; urban scale; and human health/social scale. Teeming with insights that elucidate the significance of scale as a foundation for geographic analysis, this book is a vital resource to those seriously involved in the field of GIScience.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: 1. On Scale in Space, Time, and Space-Time / Ian J. Irmischer --
2. Complexity and Geographic Scale / Dolores Jane Forbes --
3. Scaling Geocomplexity and Remote-Sensing / Shaun Lovejoy --
4. Fusion of Multiscaled Spatial and Temporal Data: Techniques and Issues / Edwin Chow --
5. Error and Accuracy Assessment for Fused Data: Remote-Sensing and GIS / Bandana Kar --
6. Remote-Sensing Techniques for Forest Fire Disaster Management: The FireHub Operational Platform / Iphigenia Keramitsoglou --
7. Geomorphometry and Mountain Geodynamics: Issues of Scale and Complexity / Iliyana D. Dobreva --
8. Downscaling on Demand: Examples in Forest Canopy-Mapping / Wenge Ni-Meister --
9. Multiscale Analysis of Urban Areas Using Mixing Models / Phillip E. Dennison --
10. Urban Road Extraction from Combined Data Sets of High-Resolution Satellite Imagery and Lidar Data Using GEOBIA / Qihao Weng --
11. Integrating Remotely-Sensed Climate and Environmental Information into Public Health / Madeleine C. Thomson --
12. Scale in Disease Transmission, Surveillance, and Modelling / Guillaume Chabot-Couture --
13. Remote-Sensing and Socioeconomic Data Integration: Lessons from the NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center / Alex de Sherbinin.

✦ Subjects

Geographic information systems;Remote sensing