04686nam a22005655i 4500 978-3-031-54114-8 DE-He213 20251030111502.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240306s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031541148 978-3-031-54114-8 10.1007/978-3-031-54114-8 doi G70.212-.217 RGW bicssc SCI030000 bisacsh RGW thema Grubesic, Tony H. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 72498 UAVs for Spatial Modelling and Urban Informatics [electronic resource] / by Tony H. Grubesic, Jake R. Nelson, Ran Wei. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XII, 170 p. 1 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Chapter 1: An Overview of UAVs for Spatial Modeling and Urban Informatics -- Chapter 2: UAV Operating Environments -- Chapter 3: UAVs for monitoring property code violations -- Chapter 4: Unmasking Invisible Infrastructure Systems with UAVs -- Chapter 5: Maximizing the Thermal Comfort of Pedestrians with UAV Imagery and Multiobjective Spatial Optimization -- Chapter 6: Evaluating Rooftop Solar Energy Inequity with UAVs -- Chapter 7: UAVs for Rapid Storm Damage Assessment -- Chapter 8: Identifying Critical Micro-infrastructures -- Chapter 9: Drones and Their Future. This book aims to provide a wide range of real-world applications in using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for geographic observation, spatial modeling, and urban informatics. Specifically, UAVs are incredibly effective platforms for connecting people, places, and technology. This book explores the utility of UAVs for monitoring, measuring, and improving urban infrastructure systems, urban sustainability, and the urban environment. The dynamism of cities provides opportunities for economic, social, and environmental change, but benchmarking and measuring cities continues to be challenging. This challenge is due, at least in part, to a lack of monitoring systems that can collect and analyze data at a granular enough scale to capture the nuance of local phenomena. UAVs offer a promising mechanism to fill this niche, serving as a measurement platform that can rapidly and inexpensively collect data and monitor change in cities. However, their use is fraught with social, operational, regulatory, and technical challenges for successful deployments. This book provides a resource for urbanists (e.g., planners, geographers, sociologists, epidemiologists, engineers), educators, and students who work with geographic information and seek to enhance these data using data and information from unmanned aerial vehicles. At the same time, we provide operational and methodological frameworks for carrying out these advanced analyses in a manner that considers the challenges of incorporating UAVs in research within the urban environment. We provide six unique applications of UAVs for urban analysis, detailing relevant policy and empirical questions, UAV mission parameters, data collection, spatial modeling, and the associated empirical results. Further, we discuss how best to integrate these results into actionable geospatial intelligence and policy development to improve city infrastructure systems, sustainability, the environment, and neighborhood quality. Geographic information systems. 61967 Medical informatics. 60693 Geography. 62292 Application software. Geographical Information System. 66422 Health Informatics. Geography. 62292 Computer and Information Systems Applications. Nelson, Jake R. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 72499 Wei, Ran. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 72500 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031541131 Printed edition: 9783031541155 Printed edition: 9783031541162 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54114-8 ZDB-2-EES ZDB-2-SXEE 58132 58132