10.2190/2HW5-PT75-J3BY-ATM6 2HW5PT75J3BYATM6 7 Monitoring Urban Areas Using Visual Data Transmission Techniques 377 389 20020509 20020509 20020509 20020509 2HW5PT75J3BYATM6.pdf http://baywood.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=2HW5PT75J3BYATM6 4 Cortus T. Koehler California State University, Sacramento Several visual data transmission techniques are combined to monitor natural changes and man-made alterations of the urban environment. Aerial U-2 LANDSAT photographs and transparent overlays are used to analyze patterns of change and to assist in infrastructure planning for urban areas. Detwyler, Urbanization and Development, Duxbury Press, Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1971. City Planning and Aerial Information, Harvard City Planning Studies, 17, sponsored by the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Melville C. Branch, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1971. I. L. McHarg, <i>Design With Nature</i>, Doubleday and Company, Inc., New York, 1971.