Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. Introduction -- 1. Remote Sensing and Urban Analysis / Jean-Paul Donnay, Michael J. Barnsley and Paul A. Longley -- II. The Physical Structure and Composition of Urban Areas -- 2. Improving the Spatial Resolution of Remotely-Sensed Images by Means of Sensor Fusion: A General Solution Using the ARSIS Method / Thierry Ranchin, Lucien Wald and Marc Mangolini -- 3. Urban Pattern Characterization through Geostatistical Analysis of Satellite Images / Pietro Alessandro Brivio and Eugenio Zilioli -- 4. Recognizing Settlement Structure using Mathematical Morphology and Image Texture / Martino Pesaresi and Alberta Bianchin -- III. From Urban Land Cover to Land use -- 5. Modified Maximum-Likelihood Classification Algorithms and their Application to Urban Remote Sensing / Victor Mesev, Ben Gorte and Paul A. Longley -- 6. Image Segmentation for Change Detection in Urban Environments / Hans-Peter Bahr -- 7. Inferring Urban Land Use by Spatial and Structural Pattern Recognition / Michael J. Barnsley, Lasse Moller-Jensen and Stuart L. Barr -- 8. Urban Agglomeration Delimitation using Remote Sensing Data / Christiane Weber -- IV. Defining Urban Populations Over Space and Time -- 9. Measuring Urban Morphology using Remotely-Sensed Imagery / Paul A. Longley and Victor Mesev -- 10. Predicting Temporal Patterns in Urban Development from Remote Imagery / Michael Batty and David Howes -- 11. Modelling Geographical Distributions in Urban Areas / Jean-Paul Donnay and David Unwin -- 12. Geographical Analysis of the Population of Fast-Growing Cities in the Third World / Yves Baudot -- V. Epilogue -- 13. Remote Sensing and Urban Analysis: A Research Agenda / Paul A. Longley, Michael J. Barnsley and Jean-Paul Donnay.