Preface ix Synopsis of the Book xiii Acknowledgments xvii About the Author xix 1 Urban Mapping Requirements 1 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Spectral Resolution Requirement 3 1.3 Temporal Resolution Requirement 6 1.4 Spatial Resolution Requirement 7 1.5 Linear Spectral Mixture Analysis of Urban Landscape 9 1.6 Summary 25 References 26 2 The Scale Issue 33 2.1 Introduction 33 2.

2 Urban Land Mapping and Categorical Scale 34 2.3 Observational Scale and Image Scene Models 36 2.4 Operational Scale 40 2.5 Scale Dependency of Urban Phenomena 41 2.6 Summary 46 References 47 3 Building Extraction and Classification 55 3.1 Introduction 55 3.2 Building Reconstruction 56 3.3 Building Classification 64 References 66 4 Estimation and Mapping of Impervious Surfaces 69 4.

1 Introduction 69 4.2 Methods for Impervious Surface Extraction 70 4.3 Case Studies 72 4.4 Summary 85 References 85 5 Land Surface Temperature Data Generation 91 5.1 Introduction 91 5.2 Generating Daily Land Surface Temperature by Data Fusion 95 5.3 Reconstructing Consistent LSTs at Landsat Resolution 111 References 121 6 Urban Heat Islands Modeling and Analysis 129 6.1 Introduction 129 6.

2 Characterizing UHIs Using a Convolution Model 130 6.3 ObjectBased Extraction of Hot Spots 138 References 146 7 Estimation of Urban Surface Energy Fluxes 151 7.1 Introduction 151 7.2 Data and Methodology 154 7.3 Heat Fluxes in Four Seasons 160 7.4 Heat Fluxes by LULC Type 162 7.5 Extreme Values of Heat Fluxes 164 7.6 Anthropogenic Heat Discharge 166 7.

7 Summary 167 References 169 8 Cities at Night 175 8.1 Introduction 175 8.2 Detecting Urban Extent Changes 177 8.3 Spatiotemporal Pattern of Energy Consumption in United States and China 185 References 197 9 Urban Runoff Modeling and Prediction 201 9.1 Introduction 201 9.2 Estimating Composite CN and Simulating Urban Surface Runoff 205 9.3 Surface Water Quality and Urban LandCover Changes 212 References 227 10 Urban Ecology of West Nile Virus 233 10.1 Introduction 233 10.

2 Research Background 235 10.3 Effect of Landscape and Socioeconomic Conditions on WNV Dissemination in Chicago 236 10.4 WNVRisk Areas in Southern California, 2007-2009 247 References 260 11 Impacts of Urbanization on Land Surface Temperature and Water Quality 267 11.1 Introduction 267 11.2 Impact of UrbanizationInduced LandUse and LandCover Change on LST 269 11.3 Simulating the Impacts of Future LandUse and Climate Changes on Surface Water Quality 283 11.4 Summary 299 References 300 12 Remote Sensing of Socioeconomic Attributes 307 12.1 Introduction 307 12.

2 Population Estimation Using Landsat ETM+ Imagery 312 12.3 Assessing Urban Environmental Quality Change 322 References 337 Index 343.