Publications and Reports |
CIESIN's Thematic Guide to Night-time Light Remote Sensing and its Applications
(2008). Written by Christopher Doll. |
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CIESIN's Thematic Guide to Social Science
Applications of Remote Sensing
(2002). Section 5.6 provides an overview on urban remote sensing applications. |
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Nghiem, S., D. Balk, C. Small, U. Deichmann,
A. Wannebo, R. Blom, P. Sutton, G. Yetman, R. Chen, E. Rodriguez,
B. Houshmand, and G. Neumann (2001). Global
Infrastructure: The Potential of SRTM Data to Break New Ground.
White Paper produced by CIESIN and NASA's
Jet Propulsion Laboratory. |
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Potere, D. (2009). Mapping the World's Cities: An Examination of Global urban Maps and Their Implications for Conservation Planning. Dissertation in partial fulfillment of the PhD requirement at Princeton University, January 2009.
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Pozzi, F. and C. Small (2002). Vegetation
and Population Density in Urban and Suburban Areas in the U.S.A.
In Proceedings of the Third International
Symposium of Remote Sensing of Urban Areas, 11-13 June 2002, Istanbul,
Turkey, pp. 489-496. |
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Pozzi, F. and C. Small (2001). Exploratory
Analysis of Suburban Land Cover and Population Density in the U.S.A.
In Proceedings of the IEEE/ISPRS Joint Workshop
on Remote Sensing and Data Fusion over Urban Areas, 8-9 November
2001, Rome, Italy, pp. 250-254. |
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Pozzi, F. (ed.) (July 2001). Remote
Sensing Applications at the State and Local Level. Report
of a SEDAC User Workshop by the same title, Palisades, NY,
23 February 2001. |
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Small, C. (2001). Global
Analysis of Urban Population Distributions and the Physical Environment.
Paper presented at the 2001 Open Meeting
of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research,
Rio de Janeiro, October 2001. |
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Small, C., and R.B. Miller. (2000).
Spatiotemporal Monitoring of Urban Vegetation.
Paper presented at the International
Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, Capetown, South
Africa, 2000.
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Small, C., and R.B. Miller. (1999).
Monitoring the Urban Environment from Space.
Paper presented at the International Symposium
on Digital Earth, Beijing, 1999. |
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Other Resources |
100 Cities Project
The 100 Cities Project is a platform designed to bring policymakers and researchers together to apply urban remote sensing to the problems of urbanization, the environment, and sustainability. The project seeks to create meaningful partnerships with cities internationally to develop models of how best to address cities’ problems with urban remote sensing. At the same time we are developing relationships with academic researchers who produce urban remote sensing products and use them in their models. |
Dynamics of Global Urban Expansion
This study examined the dynamics of global urban expansion by defining a new universe of 3,943 cities with population in excess of 100,000 and drawing a stratified global sample of 120 cities from this universe. Population data and satellite images for two time periods - a decade apart - were obtained and analyzed, and several measures of urban extent and expansion - among them the built-up area of cities and the average density of the built-up area - were calculated. |
Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP)
The Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP) provides a new suite of data products that add urban-rural specification to the Gridded Population of the World (see below). This project was developed out of a need for researchers to be able to distinguish population spatially by urban and rural areas. The central data product resulting from GRUMP is called Gridded Population of the World with Urban Reallocation (GPW-UR) on a 1km grid. Additional datasets resulting from GRUMP include a land area grid showing urban areal extents worldwide and a database of human settlements, their spatial coordinates, and populations. |
Global Slum Mapping
This wiki grew out of an Expert Group Meeting on Slum Mapping, 21-23 May 2008, at ITC in Enschede, Netherlands organized by ITC and co-sponsored by CIESIN and UN-HABITAT. The focus of the meeting was to document methods for the identification and delineation of slum areas based on high resolution remote sensing and supplementary data sets, e.g. census and related GIS data on infrastructure and services. The wiki provides reports on that workshop and on subsequent meetings and development of collaborative slum mapping activities. |
Gridded Population of the World (GPW)
This geospatial data set provides population size and density on a 2.5' x 2.5' latitude/longitude grid. Based on census data at the lowest administrative level possible, grid cells can easily be aggregated up to correspond with natural geophysical boundaries, or used in conjunction with remotely sensed imagery to develop estimates of population size by land-cover class, or populations at risk from natural hazards.
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LandScan
The LandScan data set is a worldwide population
database compiled on a 30"X 30" latitude/longitude grid.
Census counts (mainly at sub-national level) were apportioned to
each grid cell based on probability coefficients, which are based
on proximity to roads, slope, land cover and nighttime lights.
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Urban Landsat: Cities from Space
This Web site provides a collection of Landsat scenes processed by Christopher Small. There are 77 JPEG images of cities around the world, of which 28 cities have the actual Landsat scene for download. |
Urban
Remote Sensing
Web site by Christopher Small, SEDAC Project
Scientist and Remote Sensing Researcher, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
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