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Remote Sensing of Urban and Suburban Areas

Part of the book series: Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing ((RDIP,volume 10))

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Surface temperature and vegetation abundance are two environmental conditions that can be accurately measured from satellites. This chapter gives an overview of the following: (1) urbanization and the urban environment; (2) urban vegetation, surface temperature and public health issues; (3) techniques for urban vegetation mapping; (4) urban thermal mapping; and (5) comparison of urban vegetation and surface temperature and their impact on environmental conditions in New York City and Kuwait City.

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  1. Remote Sensing and GIS Center, Sultan Qaboos University, 33, Al-Khod, PC 123, Muscat, Oman

    Andy Kwarteng

  2. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, 108 Oceanography, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY, 10964-8000, USA

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Kwarteng, A., Small, C. (2010). Remote Sensing of Urban Environmental Conditions. In: Rashed, T., Jürgens, C. (eds) Remote Sensing of Urban and Suburban Areas. Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4385-7_14

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