Research Catalog

Title

Scale in remote sensing and GIS / edited by Dale A. Quattrochi and Michael F. Goodchild.

Publication

Boca Raton, Fla. : Lewis Publishers, [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors

• Quattrochi, Dale A.
• Goodchild, Michael F.

Description

406 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Remote sensing
• Geographic information systems

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: Scale, Multiscaling, Remote Sensing, and GIS / Michael F. Goodchild and Dale A. Quattrochi -- Ch. 1. Multiscale Nature of Spatial Data in Scaling Up Environmental Models / Ling Bian -- Ch. 2. Scale Dependence of NDVI and Its Relationship to Mountainous Terrain / Stephen J. Walsh, Aaron Moody and Thomas R. Allen [et al.] -- Ch. 3. Understanding the Scale and Resolution Effects in Remote Sensing and GIS / Changyong Cao and Nina Siu-Ngan Lam -- Ch. 4. Multiresolution Covariation Among Landsat and AVHRR Vegetation Indices / Lee De Cola -- Ch. 5. Multiscaling Analysis in Distributed Modeling and Remote Sensing: An Application Using Soil Moisture / Ralph Dubayah, Eric F. Wood and Daniel Lavallee -- Ch. 6. Examining the Effects of Sensor Resolution and Sub-Pixel Heterogeneity on Spectral Vegetation Indices: Implications for Biophysical Modeling / Mark A. Friedl --
• Ch. 7. Multiscale Vegetation Data for the Mountains of Southern California: Spatial and Categorical Resolution / Janet Franklin and Curtis E. Woodcock -- Ch. 8. The Use of Remotely Sensed Surface Temperatures from an Aircraft-Based Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner (TIMS) to Estimate the Spatial and Temporal Variability of Latent Heat Fluxes and Thermal Response Numbers from a White Pine (Pinus strobus L.) Plantation / Jeffrey C. Luvall -- Ch. 9. Scaling Predicted Pine Forest Hydrology and Productivity Across the Southern United States / Steven G. McNulty, James M. Vose and Wayne T. Swank -- Ch. 10. Modeling Effects of Spatial Pattern, Drought, and Grazing on Rates of Rangeland Degradation: A Combined Markov and Cellular Automaton Approach / Habin Li and James F. Reynolds -- Ch. 11. Scaling Land Cover Heterogeneity for Global Atmosphere-Biosphere Models / Ruth S. DeFries, John R. Townshend and Sietse O. Los --
• Ch. 12. Quadtrees: Hierarchical Multiresolution Data Structures for Analysis of Digital Images / Ferenc Csillag -- Ch. 13. Statistical Models for Multiple-Scaled Analysis / Donald E. Myers -- Ch. 14. Image Characterization and Modeling System (ICAMS): A Geographic Information System for the Characterization and Modeling of Multiscale Remote Sensing Data / Dale A. Quattrochi, Nina Siu-Ngan Lam and Hong-Lie Qiu [et al.] -- Ch. 15. Approaches to Scaling of Geo-Spatial Data / Zong-Guo Xia and Keith C. Clarke -- Ch. 16. Multifractals and Resolution Dependence of Remotely Sensed Data: GSI to GIS / Sean Pecknold, Shaun Lovejoy and Daniel Schertzer [et al.].

ISBN

156670104X

LCCN

96027156

OCLC

ocm35029589

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries