Remotely sensed (RS) imagery is increasingly being adopted in investigations and
applications outside of traditional land-use land-cover change (LUCC) studies. This is due to …

Filling the need for a comprehensive book that covers both theory and application, Remote
Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover: Principles and Applications provides a synopsis of …

In the last three decades, the technologies and methods of remote sensing have evolved
dramatically to include a suite of sensors operating at a wide range of imaging scales with …

We began satellite monitoring of the Earth's land areas nearly a half century ago, in 1972,
when the United States launched ERTS-1 (Earth Resources Technology Satellite 1, cum …

Our ability to change ourselves and our surroundings incrcases with each technological
advance. Changes today are more ertensive and occur more rapidly than ever before. The …

Investment in understanding the Earth pays off twice. It enables pursuit of scientific questions
that rank among the most interesting and profound of our time. It also serves society's …

Accurate and detailed land use and land cover information forms an important resource for
hydrologic analysis; remote sensing forms a critical resource for acquiring and analyzing …

Remote sensing has long been an important component of urban and regional planning for
applications ranging from rural–urban fringe change detection (eg Treitz et al., 1992; Bähr …

As more natural lands are transformed into urban lands with more people in urban areas, it
is important to understand how these environmental changes may impact living conditions …

With more than 100 leading global contributors, this book is the most comprehensive
documentation of the scientific and methodological advances that have taken place in …