Qihao Weng 
Scale Issues in Remote Sensing 

Provides up-to-date developments in the field of remote sensing by assessing scale issues in land surface, properties, patterns, and processes

Scale is a fundamental and crucial issue in remote sensing studies and image analysis. GIS and remote sensing scientists use various scaling techniques depending on the types of remotely sensed images and geospatial data used. Scaling techniques affect image analysis such as object identification and change detection.

This book offers up-to-date developments, methods, and techniques in the field of GIS and remote sensing and features articles from internationally renowned authorities on three interrelated perspectives of scaling issues: scale in land surface properties, land surface patterns, and land surface processes. It also visits and reexamines the fundamental theories of scale and scaling by well-known experts who have done substantial research on the topics.

Edited by a prominent authority in the geographic information science community, Scale Issues in Remote Sensing:

* Offers an extensive examination of the fundamental theories of scale issues along with current scaling techniques

* Studies scale issues from three interrelated perspectives: land surface properties, patterns, and processes

* Addresses the impact of new frontiers in Earth observation technology (high-resolution, hyperspectral, Lidar sensing, and their synergy with existing technologies) and advances in remote sensing imaging science (object-oriented image analysis and data fusion)

* Prospects emerging and future trends in remote sensing and their relationship with scale

Scale Issues in Remote Sensing is ideal as a professional reference for practicing geographic information scientists and remote sensing engineers as well as supplemental reading for graduate level students.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix

CONTRIBUTORS xi

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY xv

INTRODUCTION 1

1 Characterizing, Measuring, Analyzing, and Modeling Scale in
Remote Sensing: An Overview 3

Qihao Weng

PART I SCALE, MEASUREMENT, MODELING, AND ANALYSIS 11

2 Scale Issues in Multisensor Image Fusion 13

Manfred Ehlers and Sascha Klonus

3 Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing for Analysis of Landscape
Ecological Processes: Current Insights and Trends 34

Dale A. Quattrochi and Jeffrey C. Luvall

4 On the Issue of Scale in Urban Remote Sensing 61

Qihao Weng

PART II SCALE IN REMOTE SENSING OF PLANTS AND ECOSYSTEMS
79

5 Change Detection Using Vegetation Indices and Multiplatform
Satellite Imagery at Multiple Temporal and Spatial Scales 81

Edward P. Glenn, Pamela L. Nagler, and Alfredo R. Huete

6 Upscaling with Conditional Cosimulation for Mapping
Above-Ground Forest Carbon 108

Guangxing Wang and Maozhen Zhang

7 Estimating Grassland Chlorophyll Content from Leaf to
Landscape Level: Bridging the Gap in Spatial Scales 126

Yuhong He

PART III SCALE AND LAND SURFACE PROCESSES 139

8 Visualizing Scale-Domain Manifolds: A Multiscale
Geo-Object-Based Approach 141

Geoffrey J. Hay

9 Multiscale Segmentation and Classification of Remote Sensing
Imagery with Advanced Edge and Scale-Space Features 170

Angelos Tzotsos, Konstantinos Karantzalos, and Demetre
Argialas

10 Optimum Scale in Object-Based Image Analysis 197

Jungho Im, Lindi J. Quackenbush, Manqi Li, and Fang Fang

PART IV SCALE AND LAND SURFACE PATTERNS 215

11 Scaling Issues in Studying the Relationship Between Landscape
Pattern and Land Surface Temperature 217

Hua Liu and Qihao Weng

12 Multiscale Fractal Characteristics of Urban Landscape in
Indianapolis, USA 230

Bingqing Liang and Qihao Weng

13 Spatiotemporal Scales of Remote Sensing Precipitation
253

Yang Hong and Yu Zhang

PART V NEW FRONTIERS IN EARTH OBSERVATION TECHNOLOGY
265

14 Multiscale Approach for Ground Filtering from Lidar Altimetry
Measurements 267

Josee L. Silvan-Cárdenas and Le Wang

15 Hyperspectral Remote Sensing with Emphasis on Land Cover
Mapping: From Ground to Satellite Observations 285

George P. Petropoulos, Kiril Manevski, and Toby N.
Carlson

INDEX 321

Over de auteur

QIHAO WENG, PHD, is a Professor and Director from Indiana
State University; an Associate Editor of ISPRS Journal of
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing; the series editor for both
Taylor & Francis Series in Remote Sensing Applications and
Mc Graw-Hill Series in GIS&T; and has published more than 150
refereed journal articles and book chapters. He is the Coordinator
for GEO Global Urban Observation & Information Task (2012-2015)
and was a National Director of American Society for Photogrammetry
and Remote Sensing. Dr. Weng was awarded a senior fellowship from
NASA in 2008 and an Outstanding Contributions Award in Remote
Sensing from American Association of Geographers in 2011.