“…The requirements of the application field in combination with the selected sensor provides the framework for the selected image processing methods that are used to derive the desired information [39]. [41], vegetation density [42], landscape metrics [43][44][45] Building and vegetation structure [12,46], biotope mapping [47] Urban land cover materials [7,8], imperviousness [6] Local mapping of build up area, imperviousness, vegetation density [48], material mapping [4,24], urban structure mapping, biotope mapping [49] Urban growth assessment Built up area, land cover change [50][51][52][53] Change detection at building level [54] Change detection at building/material level [55] [56,57] Identification of hazardous materials [58,59] [61,62] Building and vegetation structure [46] material-based land cover, building and vegetation structure [17,63] …”