Applications of Remote Sensing Imagery for Urban Areas
A special issue of Earth (ISSN 2673-4834).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 983
Special Issue Editors
Interests: satellite image processing; satellite image analysis; remote sensing; image registration; image reconstruction; image restoration; cloud cover; missing data analysis; image mosaic; image fusion; image inpainting; multitemporal analysis
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: point cloud data processing; remote sensing image processing; object detection; object segmentation; deep learning
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
2. Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto, No. 100 St. George St., Toronto, ON M5S 3G3, Canada
Interests: remote sensing; urban vegetation; vegetation index; spatial-temporal reconstruction; ecosystem carbon cycle; climate change
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: remote sensing; image processing; geometric correction; image stitching
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Urban areas are the center of human settlement with intensive anthropic activities and dense built-up infrastructures. Urban areas have been suffered, and still undergoing, great evolution in population shift, land-use change, high-rise buildings, industrial production, and so on. Urbanization induced environmental pollution, climate change, and ecosystem degradation are the research hotpot that not only highly relates to human lives, but also is the main force of global change. Besides, urban planning, public health management, and human security policy are also crucial research subjects throughout the globe that are significant to human sustainable development.
Remote sensing imagery provides essential information for these applications in urban areas. Especially, the continual improved spatial resolution can satisfy the description of the complex urban geographical system. The data from different platforms (drone, airborne, and spaceborne) and different sensors (optical, thermal, SAR, and LiDAR) have various characteristics and spatiotemporal resolutions, and therefore are applicable for numerous natural and anthropogenic issues in urban areas at different scales. Furthermore, the development of big data mining, machine learning, and cloud computing technology also advance the applications of remote sensing data and present new opportunities and challenges.
As a result, this special issue proposes to address recent thematic outcomes and advances on the urban applications based on remote sensing imagery. Topics of interest include, but not limited to:
- Phenomena and evolution of urban ecosystem and environments: urban climate, atmosphere, soil, water bodies, vegetation, thermal environment;
- Main applications on urban monitoring: urban sprawl, urban planning, spatial configuration, anthropic activities, public health, and emergency management;
- Urban visualization and 3D/4D urban modeling from remote sending datasets;
- Urban classification and object-analysis, including the identification of damaged infrastructures, land subsidence, pollution, and garbage;
- Applications of new generations of sensors and high-resolution remote sensing data in urban areas;
- Urban remote sensing data-processing: image registration, mosaic, data fusion, quality improvements, machine learning, cloud computing, and data mining.
The Special Issue “Applications of Remote Sensing Imagery for Urban Areas” is jointly organized between “Remote Sensing” and “Earth” journals. Contributors are required to check the website below and follow the specific instructions for authors:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/instructions
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/earth/instructions
The other special issue could be found at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/urban_imagery.
Dr. Xinghua Li
Dr. Yongtao Yu
Dr. Xiaobin Guan
Ms. Ruitao Feng
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Earth is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1200 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- remote sensing
- urban climate
- urban pollution
- urban thermal environment
- urban ecosystem
- land-use change
- urban object-analysis
- urban planning
- urban spatial configuration
Benefits of Publishing in a Special Issue
- Ease of navigation: Grouping papers by topic helps scholars navigate broad scope journals more efficiently.
- Greater discoverability: Special Issues support the reach and impact of scientific research. Articles in Special Issues are more discoverable and cited more frequently.
- Expansion of research network: Special Issues facilitate connections among authors, fostering scientific collaborations.
- External promotion: Articles in Special Issues are often promoted through the journal's social media, increasing their visibility.
- e-Book format: Special Issues with more than 10 articles can be published as dedicated e-books, ensuring wide and rapid dissemination.
Further information on MDPI's Special Issue polices can be found here.
