Remote sensing for sustainability

Preface : towards a sustainable Earth through remote sensing / Qihao Weng -- Extraction of parameters from remote sensing data for environmental indices for urban sustainability / John C. Trinder -- EO datasets for urban and regional planning / Thomas Esch -- Assessment of urban growth in the Pearl River Delta, China, using time series Landsat imagery / Lei Zhang and Qihao Weng -- InSAR monitoring of land subsidence for sustainable urban planning / Abduwasit Ghulam, Mark Grzovic, Maitiniyazi Maimaitijiang, and Mamat Sawut -- A tale of two cities : urbanization in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA and Guiyang, Guizhou, China / Honglin Xiao and Qihao Weng -- Role of remote sensing in sustainable grassland management / Alexander Tong, Yuhong He, Bing Lu, and Xulin Guo -- Classifying tree species using high spatial resolution imagery to support the conservation of an endangered bird species in Hawaii / Qi Chen -- Remote sensing of forest damage by diseases and insects / Gang Chen and Ross K. Meentemeyer -- Monitoring water quality with remote sensing image data / Bunkei Matsushita, Wei Yang, Lalu Muhamad Jaelani, Fajar Setiawan, and Takehiko Fukushima -- Urban air quality studies using EO data / Xuefei Hu -- Heat hazard monitoring with satellite derived land surface temperature / Yitong Jiang and Qihao Weng -- Remote sensing identification of threshold zones along a Mediterranean to arid climatic gradient / Maxim Shoshany -- Soil moisture using optical remote sensing and ground measurements : a case study from Pakistan / Mudassar Umar -- Global assessment of sustainable straw energy potential using EO / Thomas Esch -- Use of nighttime imaging data to assess decadal trends in energy use in China / Yanhua Xie and Qihao Weng -- Support of wind resource modeling using Earth Observation / Thomas Esch -- Assessing solar energy potential and building energy use in Indianapolis using geospatial techniques / Yuanfan Zheng and Qihao Weng