Special Issue "Urban Remote Sensing"

Guest Editor
Dr. Geoffrey J. Hay
Department of Geography, University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr. N.W. Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
Website: http://www.ucalgary.ca/f3gisci/
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Phone: + (403) 220‐4768
Fax: + (403) 282‐6561

Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. Thomas Blaschke
Centre for Geoinformatics, Salzburg University, Hellbrunnerstrasse 34, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria
Website: http://www.uni-salzburg.at/portal/page?_pageid=142,126748&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
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Phone: +43-662-8044 5225
Fax: +43-662-8044 182

Dear Colleagues,

With over half the planets human population estimated to live in urban agglomerations, urban systems pose unique Remote Sensing challenges to monitoring green-space and vegetation status, urban sprawl and population growth, traffic and pollution characterization, urban heat island effects, impermeability mapping, disaster response and civil defense.

With recent advances in the resolution of remote sensing systems, in-situ measurement networks, GPS and live video feeds, semi/automated geo-object based image analysis (GEOBIA) and web-based geospatial data infrastructures, new holistic opportunities exist for modeling the physical, environmental and socioeconomic variables governing and emerging from complex urban settings. However, much remains to be accomplished. In response to these needs, this Special Issue seeks to highlight leading edge Urban Remote Sensing research that represents critical advances in the algorithms, methodologies and applications related to the analysis and visualization of urbanscapes with geospatial technologies.

Submissions in a broad range of Urban Remote Sensing related research and applications are encouraged. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• 3D urban modeling from satellite, airborne and terrestrial sensors
• Data processing methods and algorithms
• Disasters, monitoring and change analysis
• Multi-disciplinary case studies
• Multiscale sensors and systems: specific ‘urbanscape’ challenges
• Multispectral/SAR sensor data integration
• Radar and LiDAR applications
• Scale issues related to urbanscapes
• The Urban Heat Island Effect and thermal sensing
• Urban applications of high-resolution optical sensors
• Urban data synthesis and analysis
• Visualization issues and Virtual Reality applications

Prof. Dr. Thomas Blaschke
Dr. Geoffrey J. Hay
Guest Editors

Submission

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. Papers will be published continuously (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as 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 refereed through a peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Remote Sensing is an international peer-reviewed Open Access monthly 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 500 CHF (Swiss Francs). English correction and/or formatting fees of 250 CHF (Swiss Francs) will be charged in certain cases for those articles accepted for publication that require extensive additional formatting and/or English corrections.

There are already 8 papers under review, articles can still be submitted until 15 March 2011.