Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Regions and land mosaics
- 2 Planning land
- 3 Economic dimensions and socio-cultural patterns
- 4 Natural systems and greenspaces
- 5 Thirty-eight urban regions
- 6 Nature, food, and water
- 7 Built systems, built areas, and whole regions
- 8 Urbanization models and the regions
- 9 Basic principles for molding land mosaics
- 10 The Barcelona Region's land mosaic
- 11 Gathering the pieces
- 12 Big pictures
- Appendices
- References
- Index
- Plate section
Appendices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Regions and land mosaics
- 2 Planning land
- 3 Economic dimensions and socio-cultural patterns
- 4 Natural systems and greenspaces
- 5 Thirty-eight urban regions
- 6 Nature, food, and water
- 7 Built systems, built areas, and whole regions
- 8 Urbanization models and the regions
- 9 Basic principles for molding land mosaics
- 10 The Barcelona Region's land mosaic
- 11 Gathering the pieces
- 12 Big pictures
- Appendices
- References
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
Five steps comprise the mapping procedure for satellite images of the 38 urban regions analyzed (Chapter 5).
(1) Locate data. Using an Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plan sensor, click on Map Search, toggle on “ETM+”, and enter the Place (e.g., Cairo, Egypt).
Download color band. After locating the area of interest, click on “Preview and Download.”
(2) Select images. In the options for downloading, focus on ETM+ data and individually select an image based on its unique identifier (quadrangle), XXX–XXX.
(3) Download bands. Using the download interface, which is similar to a file transfer protocol (FTP) interface, download band 1, band 2 and band 3.
(4) Activate ArcView import. ArcView moves the work forward by extracting the winzip (compressed file), importing the geotif (geographically referenced image), activating the Arc Tool “Composite Bands”, and scaling the map to the spatial scale of interest.
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- Urban RegionsEcology and Planning Beyond the City, pp. 346 - 351Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008