PART II SCALE IN REMOTE SENSING OF PLANTS AND
ECOSYSTEMS
79
5 Change Detection Using Vegetation Indices and Multiplatform
Satellite Imagery at Multiple Temporal and Spatial Scales
81
Edward P. Glenn, Pamela L. Nagler, and Alfredo R. Huete
6 Upscaling with Conditional Cosimulation for Mapping
Above-Ground Forest Carbon
108
Guangxing Wang and Maozhen Zhang
7 Estimating Grassland Chlorophyll Content from Leaf
to Landscape Level: Bridging the Gap in Spatial Scales
126
Yuhong He
PART III SCALE AND LAND SURFACE PROCESSES
139
8 Visualizing Scale-Domain Manifolds: A Multiscale Geo-Object-Based
Approach
141
Geoffrey J. Hay
9 Multiscale Segmentation and Classification of Remote
Sensing Imagery with Advanced Edge and Scale-Space Features
170
Angelos Tzotsos, Konstantinos Karantzalos, and Demetre Argialas
10 Optimum Scale in Object-Based Image Analysis
197
Jungho Im, Lindi J. Quackenbush, Manqi Li, and Fang Fang
PART IV SCALE AND LAND SURFACE PATTERNS
215
11 Scaling Issues in Studying the Relationship Between
Landscape Pattern and Land Surface Temperature
217
Hua Liu and Qihao Weng
12 Multiscale Fractal Characteristics of Urban Landscape
in Indianapolis, USA
230
Bingqing Liang and Qihao Weng
13 Spatiotemporal Scales of Remote Sensing Precipitation
253
Yang Hong and Yu Zhang
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