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Maximizing the Thermal Comfort of Pedestrians with UAV Imagery and Multiobjective Spatial Optimization
This chapter explores the application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) imagery for identifying shaded paths, which can be valuable for urban...
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An Overview of UAVs for Spatial Modeling and Urban Informatics
The recent growth of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for research is astounding. UAVs provide a unique platform for develo** a geospatial...
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UAVs for Rapid Storm Damage Assessment
Nearly one-half of the annual precipitation in the Phoenix metropolitan area occurs during the North American monsoon (NAM). While these convective...
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UAVs for Monitoring Property Code Violations
City offices are constantly responding to public service requests. The efficiency at which they can do this depends on gathering data about where and...
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Drones and Their Future Applications
Predicting the future of drones and their operational characteristics, including onboard computing, propulsion systems, and battery longevity, is...
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Accuracy Assessment of UAS Photogrammetry with GCP and PPK-Assisted Georeferencing
Establishing a dense, well-distributed ground control point (GCP) network for unmanned aerial system (UAS) surveys can be time-consuming and...
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Resilience & Vulnerability: Concepts and Policy Contexts
Climate change is an unparalleled global challenge, with profound implications for the environment, societies, and economies. As the Earth’s climate...
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Satellite Image-Based Drought Monitoring: Vision to Enhance Drought Resilience
Drought is the most challenging climate-related issue in the examined area because of the vast changes in the land-cover, the dynamics of the plants,...
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Statistical Approach to Visualize the Seven-Decadal Rainfall Variation as Response to Climate Change in a Semiarid Region of Karnataka, India
In this research, trend detection and analysis of rainfall during 1952–2019 have been performed using Mann-Kendall (MK) and Innovative Trend Analysis...
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Detection of Unmonitored Graveyards in VHR Satellite Data Using Fully Convolutional Networks
Lima, Peru, is a highly dynamic urban region home to perpetually evolving informal areas. Earth observation (EO) studies on these areas focused...
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Reconstructing 36 Years of Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Slums in Brazil by Integrating EO and Census Data
Officially, by 2019, more than five million households in 734 Brazilian municipalities were in slums, accounting for 7.8% of the total households....
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Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Inversion of Mineral Abundance Based on Sparse Unmixing Method
The task of mineral abundance inversion using hyperspectral images is a promising challenge. This study presents several existing state-of-the-art...
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Geological Lithology Semantic Segmentation Based on Deep Learning Method
Remote sensing data has been widely used in geological researches. The geological researching tasks such as lithological and soil type map** can be...
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Remote Sensing Lithology Intelligent Segmentation Based on Multi-source Data
Due to complex geological and physicochemical processes, rocks indicate spectral variability and diversity, especially in areas with vegetation...
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Concluding Remarks
This books explores the burgeoning field of geological remote sensing, emphasizing intelligent interpretation across five key dimensions of...
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PNT Parameters
Positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) parameters are the basic spatial–temporal reference parameter information of ships, aircraft and other...
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Inertial Navigation
There is a story in “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”: Holmes is kidnapped and blindfolded, tied up in a carriage. Holmes estimates the time spent...
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Integrated Navigation
Navigation systems have a variety of types and can provide information in different working conditions by various means. Thus, in practice, people...
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Navigation Coordinate System
Why does navigation study coordinate systems? We know that describing object motion is relative to a certain reference frame. The task of the...
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Complexity Theory as the Meeting Point Between Urban Planning and Psychoanalysis: Joy in Beit Safafa
Similarities between the human being and the city, which is the result of human activity, seem natural: the city is a man-made creation, it can be...