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Characterization and Monitoring of Urban/Peri-urban Ecological Function and Landscape Structure Using Satellite Data

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Remote Sensing of Urban and Suburban Areas

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This chapter utilizes a case study from Phoenix, Arizona to examine the relationships between ecological variables and landscape structure in cities. The relationships are assessed using ASTER and MODIS data; and through the techniques of expert system land cover classification and grid-based landscape metric analysis.

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  1. Image Science & Analysis Laboratory/ESCG, Code KX, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, 77058, USA

    William L. Stefanov

  2. Geography Department, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, 44801, Bochum, Germany

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Stefanov, W.L., Netzband, M. (2010). Characterization and Monitoring of Urban/Peri-urban Ecological Function and Landscape Structure Using Satellite Data. In: Rashed, T., Jürgens, C. (eds) Remote Sensing of Urban and Suburban Areas. Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4385-7_12

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