Urban high resolution remote sensing : algorithms and modeling Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments A Note on the Author List of Abbreviations Section I: Introduction Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 What Is Urban Remote Sensing 1.2 Simple Overview of the History of Urban Remote Sensing 1.3 Journals Relevant to Urban Remote Sensing 1.4 About This Book References Chapter 2: Urban Remote Sensing and Urban Studies 2.1 Characteristics of Urban Remote Sensing 2.2 Studies on Urban Remote Sensing 2.2.1 Architecture of Urban Remote Sensing 2.2.2 Topics of Studies on Urban Remote Sensing References Chapter 3: Advances in Urban Remote Sensing 3.1 Urban Remote Sensing Big Data 3.2 Characteristics of Urban Remote Sensing Big Data 3.3 Challenges in Urban Remotely Sensed Big Data Processing 3.3.1 Storage and Management of Urban Remote Sensing Big Data 3.3.2 Processing of Urban Remote Sensing Big Data 3.4 Challenges of Urban Remote Sensing Big Data 3.5 Intelligent Earth Observing Satellite System for Urban Remote Sensing 3.5.1 Change in Users Need from Image Based Product to Image‑Based Information Knowledge 3.5.2 Intelligent Earth Observing Satellite System for Urban Remote Sensing References Section II: Information Extroduction Chapter 4: Urban 3D Surface Information Extraction from Aerial Image Sequences 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Principle of Temporal and Spatial Analysis 4.3 Geometric Rectification of Image Sequences 4.4 Experiments in Spatio Temporal Analysis 4.4.1 Image Data Processing 4.4.2 Sensitivity to Occlusion 4.4.3 Rectification of Distorted Image Sequence Data 4.4.4 DEM Generation 4.5 Error Analysis 4.6 System Development 4.7 Conclusions Appendix A Appendix B References.