Geoinformatics for Sustainable Urban Development
暫譯: 可持續城市發展的地理資訊科學

本書提供了有關城市如何透過地理空間技術的主要應用來應對可持續性挑戰的新見解。它闡明了地理空間技術在城市管理中的角色，包括地理資訊系統（GIS）和全球導航衛星系統（GNSS）以及遙感技術，並涵蓋了城市可持續性轉型的理論與實踐。書中提供了案例研究和具體工具，以治理城市轉型，展示地理空間技術在城市環境中的各種應用。

1. 涵蓋城市分析的定量測量的實務方法
2. 專注於城市規劃和發展中的可持續性問題
3. 包含相關的全球案例研究，以實施城市規劃實踐
4. 回顧智慧城市與可持續發展之間的相互關係

本書的目標讀者為研究生、研究人員以及GIS、城市科學和地理學的專業人士。

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（Central University of Tamil Nadu）地球科學學院的院長及地理系主任。她自豪地獲得了歐盟伊拉斯謨獎學金（Erasmus Mundus Fellowship）、英國英聯邦學術獎學金（Commonwealth Academic Fellowship）和澳大利亞的奮進研究獎學金（Endeavour Research Fellowship）。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。她目前在研究生階段教授城市地理學及地理資訊科學的基本原理和應用。她在博士研究中專注於基於細胞自動機的城市增長模型和使用熵進行城市擴張評估。她的博士後研究主題是基於物件的影像分析，於荷蘭ITC進行。她曾參與涉及貧民窟的空間決策支持系統的項目（UCL, UK），以及使用基於物件的影像分析提取貧民窟和城市綠地（UTAS, Australia）。她已完成有關城市貧困者住房（HUDCO）和城市化環境影響（UGC-Major）的主要資助項目，並使用地理空間技術進行研究。她與英國劍橋大學合作，完成了有關公共健康管理的互動空間決策支持系統的UKIERI研究項目。她最近結束了一個關於城市熱島研究的DST項目，該項目使用多源遙感數據。在此項目中，她為選定的城市建成表面材料開發了一個城市光譜庫。目前，她正在致力於建設可持續和有韌性的城市。

Deepak Kumar 是一位擁有超過10年經驗的學術研究專業人士。Kumar博士自2022年8月以來在美國紐約州立大學（State University of New York, SUNY）阿爾巴尼大學（University at Albany, UAlbany）氣象與氣候分析卓越中心擔任研究科學家。他自2016年以來一直在印度諾伊達的阿米提大學（Amity University Uttar Pradesh）擔任全職助理教授。他重新審視了與遙感和地理資訊科學、資訊科學、能源科學、氣候科學、可持續城市研究、環境與氣候變遷、城市氣象與氣候建模、數據庫系統、數據分析和可視化等傳統研究活動交叉領域相關的各種問題。他已完成兩個政府資助的研究項目，即由印度科學與工程研究委員會（Science and Engineering Research Board）資助的「通過地理空間技術進行綠色智慧城市的混合城市景觀分析」以及由印度航天應用中心（ISRO）資助的「從空中合成孔徑雷達（ASAR）數據進行城市足跡的元感知」，並擔任唯一的首席研究員。Kumar博士領導了一個跨功能的研究團隊，負責項目開發、管理、實驗室設置和監督，並為本科生、研究生和博士生及其他研究人員提供學術研究培訓。他在Elsevier、Springer、Taylor & Francis、Emerald、SAGE和Wiley等高影響力的Web of Science/Scopus索引國際期刊上發表了超過45篇研究文章。他作為臨時/附屬/受邀審稿人或編輯委員會成員，對超過150篇研究文章進行了審稿，這些文章發表在IEEE、Elsevier、Springer Nature、Taylor & Francis Group、Wiley、SAGE、Emerald和MDPI等高影響因子期刊上。他指導了四名博士生和29名研究生，並為本科生進行了15次學術、研究和產業考察。他鼓勵研究人員通過參加會議、外展活動和專業學會的貢獻來發展他們的技能、知識和經驗。他是多個著名專業機構的終身會員，如IEEE地球科學與遙感學會、美國地球物理聯合會（AGU）、歐洲地球科學聯合會（EGU）、美國氣象學會（AMS）、國際城市氣候協會（IAUC）、美國地理學會（AAG）、國際地理聯合會（IGU）、國際攝影測量與遙感學會等。