<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>13</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gilbert L. Rochon</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Larry Biehl</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Okan Ersoy</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Magdy Abdel Wahab</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gamal El Afandi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gülay Altay</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tajje-eddinne Rachidi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chaker El Amrani</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mohamed Shokr</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tarek El-Ghazawi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mohamed A. Mohamed</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Darion Grant</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Souleymane Fall</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Thierno Thiam</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Joseph Essamuah-Quansah</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Angel Torres Valcarcel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bereket Araya</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bertin H. Mbongo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jinha Jung</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wonkook Kim</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Derrick Kearney</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Abdur Rahman M. Maud</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Toba Oluwatoba Omotilewa</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bala Murugan Gnanasekaran</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Magda Galloza</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Acushla Antony</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Benjamin M. Weiss</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jay Destino</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Advances in Urban Remote Sensing and the Implications for Sustainable Development &amp; Metropolitan Sustainability</style></title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2011</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">05/2011</style></date></pub-dates></dates><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The authors present the evolution of satellite remote sensing as applied to urban areas, beginning with the early concentration on cadastral mapping and research on urban heat islands and progressing to urban spectral signature libraries, deployment of GPS, LIDAR, hyperspectral analysis, multi-sensor, multi-temporal and increasingly higher spatial resolution data. Moreover, the authors address development of Enterprise GIS, encompassing multiple sectors within metropolitan areas and its transformation into urban, regional, national and even global spatial data infrastructures (SDI). The benign proliferation of small scale earth observing satellites, including those launched by or on behalf of countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America is presented, within the context of their expanding contributions to issues of particular relevance to sustainable development and environmental sustainability. A case study is offered as a possible model for collaboration among academic institutions, government agencies, NGOs, multi-lateral organizations and the private sector, in the form of the Mediterranean Dialogue Earth Observatory (MDEO), a developing real-time urban remote sensing initiative, funded by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) Science for Peace Program, originally conceptualized in the context of Cairo, Egypt and currently planned for implementation in Morocco at Al Akhawayn University (Ifrane, Morocco) and at Abdelmalek Essaâdi University (Tangier, Morocco), in collaboration with the Purdue Terrestrial Observatory in West Lafayette, Indiana, USA; Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama, USA and Tuskegee, Alabama, USA and Bogaziçi University in Instanbul, Turkey.
</style></abstract><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Hong Kong Polytechnic University</style></custom1><custom2><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Half-day Mini-Symposium on Remote Sensing of Urban Environment</style></custom2><custom4><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.lsgi.polyu.edu.hk/research-activities/research-activities-and-events/mini-symposium.asp</style></custom4></record></records></xml>