Optical and SAR Remote Sensing of Urban Areas

A Practical Guide

Courage Kamusoko (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

119 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2022
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-16-5148-9 (ISBN)

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This book introduces remotely sensed image processing for urban areas using optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data and assists students, researchers, and remote sensing practitioners who are interested in land cover mapping using such data. There are many introductory and advanced books on optical and SAR remote sensing image processing, but most of them do not serve as good practical guides. However, this book is designed as a practical guide and a hands-on workbook, where users can explore data and methods to improve their land cover mapping skills for urban areas. Although there are many freely available earth observation data, the focus is on land cover mapping using Sentinel-1 C-band SAR and Sentinel-2 data. All remotely sensed image processing and classification procedures are based on open-source software applications such QGIS and R as well as cloud-based platforms such as Google Earth Engine (GEE).

The book is organized into six chapters. Chapter 1 introduces geospatial machine learning, and Chapter 2 covers exploratory image analysis and transformation. Chapters 3 and 4 focus on mapping urban land cover using multi-seasonal Sentinel-2 imagery and multi-seasonal Sentinel-1 imagery, respectively. Chapter 5 discusses mapping urban land cover using multi-seasonal Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 imagery as well as other derived data such as spectral and texture indices. Chapter 6 concludes the book with land cover classification accuracy assessment.

Courage Kamusoko is an independent geospatial consultant based in Japan. His expertise includes land use and cover change modeling, and the design and implementation of geospatial database management systems. His primary research involves analyses of remotely sensed images, land use and cover modeling, and machine learning. In addition to his focus on geospatial research and consultancy, he has dedicated his time to teaching practical machine learning for geospatial analysis and modeling. Recently, he published the book Remote Sensing Image Classification in R (Springer).

- Geospatial Machine Learning in Urban Areas: Challenges and Prospects.- Exploratory Analysis and Transformation for Remotely-Sensed Imagery.- Mapping Urban Land Cover using Multi-seasonal Sentinel-2 Imagery, Spectral and Texture Indices.- Mapping Urban Land Cover using Multi-seasonal Sentinel-1 Imagery and Texture Indices.- Improving Urban Land Cover Mapping.- Land Cover Classification Accuracy Assessment.- Appendix.

Erscheinungsdatum	13.12.2021
Reihe/Serie	Springer Geography
Zusatzinfo	90 Illustrations, color; 13 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 119 p. 103 illus., 90 illus. in color. With online files/update.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 279 mm
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Grafik / Design ► Digitale Bildverarbeitung
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
Schlagworte	Geospatial machine learning • Land Cover Mapping • Optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data • Robust classification accuracy assessment • urban remote sensing
ISBN-10	981-16-5148-5 / 9811651485
ISBN-13	978-981-16-5148-9 / 9789811651489
Zustand	Neuware