Urban Reflectance

A consistent physical classification of urban reflectance properties provides inputs for urban microclimate

and air quality models. A consistent classification that represents the diversity of the urban mosaic also

provides a basis for quantitative comparison of urban morphology and satellite montioring of urban growth.

Spectral Mixture Analysis of urban reflectance at different spatial and spectral resolutions suggests that

spectrally diverse urban areas can be described as combinations of spectral endmembers within a spectral

mixing space like the one shown above. Details are provided in the papers below.