Introduction, Tarek Rashed and Carsten Jurgens.- Theory: The Structure and Form of Urban Settlements, Elena Besussi, Nancy Chin, Michael Batty, Paul Longley.- Defining Urban Areas, John R. Weeks.- The Spectral Dimension in Urban Remote Sensing, Martin Herold and Dar A. Roberts.- The Spatial and Temporal Nature of Urban Objects, Richard Sliuzas, Monika Kuffer and Ian Masser.- The V-I-S Model: Quantifying the Urban Environment, Renee M. Gluch and Merrill K. Ridd.- A Survey of the Evolution of Remote Sensing Imaging Systems and Urban Remote Sensing Applications, Debbie Fugate, Elena Tarnavsky, and Douglas Stow.- Techniques and Applications: Classification of Urban Areas and Inferring Land Use… from the Interpretation of Land Cover, Victor Mesev.- Processing Techniques for Hyperspectral Data, Patrick Hostert.- Segmentation and Object-Based Image Analysis, Elisabeth Schpfer, Stefan Lang and Josef Strobl.- Data Fusion in Remote Sensing of Urban and Subarban Areas, Thierry Ranchin, Lucien Wald.- Characterization and Monitoring of Urban/Per-Urban Ecological Function and Landscape Structure using satellite Data, William L. Stefanov and Maik Netzband.- Desert Cities of Developing Countries, Mohamed Ait Belaid.- Remote Sensing of UrbanEnvironmental Conditions, Andy Kwarteng and Christopher Small.- Applying Remote Sensing for Urban Land Use cahnge Analysis in Developing Countries - An example from Bykekmece, Istanbul, Turkey, Derya Maktav, Filiz Sunar Erbek.- Use of Satellite Images in Policing Urban Environments, Meshkan Al-Awar, Farouk El-Baz.- Using DMSP OLS Imagery to Characterize Urban Populations in Developed and Developing Countries, Paul C. Sutton, Matthew J. Taylor, and Christopher D. Elvidge.