Remote Sensing of Urban and Suburban Areas

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Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing VOLUME 10 Series Editor:

EARSel Series Editor:

Freek D. van der Meer Department of Earth Systems Analysis International Instituite for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) Enchede, The Netherlands & Department of Physical Geography Faculty of Geosciences Utrecht University The Netherlands

André Marçal Department of Applied Mathematics Faculty of Sciences University of Porto Porto, Portugal

Editorial Advisory Board:

EARSel Editorial Advisory Board:

Michael Abrams NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.

Mario A. Gomarasca CNR - IREA Milan, Italy

Paul Curran University of Bournemouth, U.K. Arnold Dekker CSIRO, Land and Water Division Canberra, Australia Steven M. de Jong Department of Physical Geography Faculty of Geosciences Utrecht University, The Netherlands Michael Schaepman Department of Geography University of Zurich, Switzerland

For other titles published in this series, go to http://www.springer.com/series/6477

Martti Hallikainen Helsinki University of Technology Finland Håkan Olsson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Sweden Eberhard Parlow University of Basel Switzerland Rainer Reuter University of Oldenburg Germany

Remote Sensing of Urban and Suburban Areas Tarek Rashed

Geospatial Applied Research Expert House (GSAREH), Austin, TX, USA and

Carsten Jürgens

Geography Department, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany

Editors

Editors Dr. Tarek Rashed Geospatial Applied Research Expert House (GSAREH) Austin, TX USA [email protected]

Dr. Carsten Jürgens Ruhr-University Geography Department Geomatics Group Universitätsstr. 150 44801 Bochum Germany carsten.jü[email protected]

Cover illustrations: Landsat satellite image of San Francisco, CA, USA, combined with photograph taken by Maike Reichardt. Responsible Series Editor: Freek van der Meer ISBN 978-1-4020-4371-0 e-ISBN 978-1-4020-4385-7 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-4385-7 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010929276 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Cover design: deblik, Berlin Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Acknowledgments

The preparation of this volume was possible due to the fact that all authors ­supported the original idea behind this book. We thank all authors for their contributions and their patience. The publication process did not run smoothly in all stages and we apologize for the resulting time delay. We also thank all reviewers whose valuable comments improved the content of the different chapters. Finally we thank the Springer team for the