Table of 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.