Geoinformatics for Sustainable Urban Development

這本書透過在城市領域中廣泛應用地理空間技術來解決可持續發展挑戰，提供了引人入勝的新見解。它闡明了地理空間技術（如地理信息系統和全球導航衛星系統，包括遙感）在城市管理中的作用，並涵蓋了城市可持續發展轉型的理論和實踐。它提供了案例研究和具體工具，用於城市轉型的治理，以展示地理空間技術在城市環境中的各種應用。

1. 詳細介紹了城市分析的定量方法
2. 專注於城市規劃和發展中的可持續性問題
3. 包括全球相關案例研究，以實施城市規劃實踐
4. 檢視智慧城市與可持續發展之間的相互關係

這本書針對地理信息系統、城市科學和地理學的研究生、研究人員和專業人士。

Sulochana Shekhar is Dean of the School of Earth Sciences and Head of the Department of Geography at the Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur, India. She is the proud recipient of the Erasmus Mundus (European Commission) Fellowship, Commonwealth Academic Fellowship (United Kingdom), and Endeavour Research Fellowship (Australia). Her research interests include urban geography and the application of remote sensing and geospatial techniques in urban environments. She is presently teaching urban geography and the fundamentals and applications of Geoinformatics at the post-graduation level. She has worked on cellular automata-based urban growth models and urban sprawl assessment using entropy for her doctoral research. Object-based image analysis was the main theme of her post-doctoral research at ITC, Netherlands. She has previously worked on projects involving spatial decision support systems for slums (UCL, UK) and extraction of slums and urban green space using object-based image analysis (UTAS, Australia). She has completed major funded projects on housing the urban poor (HUDCO), and the environmental impact of urbanisation (UGC-Major) using geospatial techniques. She has collaborated with Cambridge University, UK, and completed the UKIERI research project on the interactive spatial decision support system for managing public health. She recently wrapped up a DST project about urban heat island studies using multi-source remote sensing data. Under this project, she has developed an urban spectral library for selected urban built-up surface materials. Currently, she is working on building sustainable and resilient cities.

Deepak Kumar is an academic research professional with over 10 years of experience. Dr Kumar has been working as a Research Scientist since August 2022 at the Center of Excellence in Weather and Climate Analytics, Atmospheric Science Research Center (ASRC), State University of New York (SUNY), University at Albany (UAlbany), New York (USA). He has been associated with Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida (India), as a full-time Assistant Professor from 2016. He has been revisiting a wide range of issues associated with traditional research activities in the intersection area of Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics, Information Science, Energy Sciences, Climate Sciences, Sustainable Urban Studies, Environment and Climate Change, Urban Weather and Climate Modelling, Database Systems, Data Analysis and Visualization. He has completed two government- sponsored research projects namely "Hybrid Urban Landscape Analysis for Green Smart Cities through Geospatial Technology" sponsored by the Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, and "Meta- sensing of the urban footprint from airborne synthetic aperture radar (ASAR) data" sponsored from Space Applications Centre (ISRO), Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India as a sole principal investigator. Dr Kumar has led a cross-functional research team for project development, management, laboratory setups, and supervision, along with academic research training for undergraduate, postgraduate, and PhD students and fellow researchers. He has published 45+ research articles in high-impact web of science/Scopus-indexed international journals by Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Emerald, SAGE, and Wiley publications. He has reviewed more than 150+ research articles as an ad-hoc/adjunct/invited reviewer or editorial board member for high-impact factor journals published by IEEE, Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis Group, Wiley, SAGE, Emerald, MDPI. He has supervised four PhD students and 29 postgraduate students. He has conducted 15 academic, research, and industrial visits for undergraduate students. He encourages researchers to develop their skills, knowledge, and experience through conference appearances, outreach activities, and the contribution of professional membership of learned bodies. He is a member of a lifetime member of various prestigious professional bodies like IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, American Geophysical Union (AGU), European Geosciences Union (EGU), Member of American Meteorological Society (AMS), International Association for Urban Climate (IAUC), American Association of Geographers (AAG), International Geographical Union (IGU), International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing etc.

Sulochana Shekhar是印度泰米爾納德邦中央大學地球科學學院院長和地理學系主任。她曾獲得Erasmus Mundus（歐洲委員會）獎學金、Commonwealth學術研究獎學金（英國）和Endeavour研究獎學金（澳大利亞）。她的研究興趣包括城市地理學以及遙感和地理空間技術在城市環境中的應用。她目前在研究生課程中教授城市地理學和地理信息學的基礎和應用。她的博士研究主要涉及基於元胞自動機的城市增長模型和使用熵進行城市擴展評估。她的博士後研究主題是基於對象的影像分析。她曾參與關於貧民窟的空間決策支持系統項目（英國倫敦大學學院）和使用基於對象的影像分析提取貧民窟和城市綠地的項目（澳大利亞塔斯馬尼亞大學）。她使用地理空間技術完成了關於住房貧困人口（HUDCO）和城市化環境影響（UGC-Major）的重大資助項目。她與英國劍橋大學合作，完成了關於管理公共衛生的互動式空間決策支持系統的UKIERI研究項目。她最近完成了一個關於城市熱島研究的DST項目，使用多源遙感數據。在該項目中，她建立了一個選定城市建築表面材料的城市光譜庫。目前，她正在致力於建設可持續和有彈性的城市。

Deepak Kumar是一位擁有超過10年經驗的學術研究專業人士。自2022年8月以來，Kumar博士一直在紐約州立大學奧爾巴尼分校的大氣科學研究中心（ASRC）的氣象和氣候分析卓越中心擔任研究科學家。他曾在印度北方邦諾伊達的阿米蒂大學擔任全職助理教授。他在遙感和地理信息學、信息科學、能源科學、氣候科學、可持續城市研究、環境和氣候變化、城市天氣和氣候模擬、數據庫系統、數據分析和可視化等交叉領域的傳統研究活動上進行了廣泛的探討。他完成了兩個政府資助的研究項目，分別是由印度科學和技術部科學和工程研究委員會資助的“運用地理空間技術進行綠色智慧城市的混合城市景觀分析”和由印度空間應用中心（ISRO）資助的“從機載合成孔徑雷達（ASAR）數據中感知城市足跡的元感知”。Kumar博士帶領跨功能研究團隊進行項目開發、管理、實驗室建設和監督，並為本科、研究生和博士生以及研究人員提供學術研究培訓。他在Elsevier、Springer、Taylor & Francis、Emerald、SAGE和Wiley等出版社的高影響力Web of Science/Scopus索引國際期刊上發表了45多篇研究文章。他曾擔任IEEE、Elsevier、Springer Nature、Taylor & Francis Group、Wiley、SAGE、Emerald和MDPI等高影響因子期刊的臨時/兼職/邀請審稿人或編輯委員會成員，審查了150多篇研究文章。他指導了四名博士生和29名研究生。他為本科生進行了15次學術、研究和工業參訪。他鼓勵研究人員通過參加會議、開展外展活動和貢獻學術機構的專業會員資格來發展他們的技能、知識和經驗。