1. Modern photogrammetric mapping / Ayman F. Habib -- 2. Airborne LiDAR remote sensing and its applications / Keqi Zhang, Zheng Cui, and Patricia A. Houle -- 3. Advanced algorithms for land use and cover classification / Mahesh Pal -- 4. Global digital elevation model development from satellite remote-sensing data / Dean B. Gesch -- 5. Digital elevation model generation from satellite interferometric synthetic aperture radar / Zhong Lu [and others] -- 6. Shoreline mapping / Chr istopher E. Parrish -- 7. Seeing residential buildings from remotely sensed imagery : an object-oriented approach / Xuelian Meng [and others] -- 8. Assessment of urbanization patterns and trends in the Gulf of Mexico region of the southeast United States with Landsat and nighttime lights imagery / George Xian and Collin Homer -- 9. Fractional vegetation cover mapping from the HJ-1 small satellite hyperspectral data / Xianfeng Zhang and Chunhua Liao -- 10. Estimating and mapping forest leaf area index using satellite imagery / Ruiliang Pu -- 11. Effects of the spatial pattern of vegetation cover on urban warming in a desert city / Soe W. Myint -- 12. Remote sensing of algal blooms in inland waters using the matrix inversion method and semiempirical algorithms / Glenn Campbell -- 13. Advanced geospatial techniques for mapping and monitoring invasive species / Le Wang and Amy E. Frazier -- 14. Surface deformation mapping with persistent scatterer radar interferometry / Guoxiang Liu [and others] -- 15. Mapping marine oil spills from space / Tae-Jung Kwon and Jonathan Li -- 16. Remote-sensing techniques for natural disaster impact assessment / Piero Boccardo and Fabio Giulio Tonolo.