Aerial lidar and infrared thermography for urban-scale energy assessment and planning

This volume collects 34 selected articles that have been grouped into 4 chapters organized in thematic clusters. They refer to the impacts of human activity on the environment, highlighting the state-of-the-art potentialities of Earth Observation in the environmental analysis, monitoring, and protection, with particular concerns about climate change-related effects, natural resources, and human health. 1. Urban & cultural heritage focuses on contributions given by EO in the framework of environmental risks, urban planning, cultural heritage monitoring and documentation, and energetic efficiency. 2. Environment includes works representing studies at the territorial scale about different environmental components in relationship with threads that climate change has introduced. 3. Agriculture and Forestry, show the increasing role of EO in the agricultural and forest fields, related to their roles to the environmental sustainability of management and carbon stocks balances. 4. Algorithm & sensors presents and comparing new approaches and algorithms to support sensitive needs from civil society, like photovoltaic plants monitoring and location, oil spills, infrastructures monitoring.