Green/Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Sustainable Development
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2024) | Viewed by 3691
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Interests: energy; environment; GIS; development
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Dear Colleagues,
The importance of green development in addressing the climate crisis and promoting environmental protection cannot be overstated. As smart cities become the future of urban environments, leveraging GIS to map and monitor various aspects of sustainable development becomes crucial. This Special Issue is particularly interested in the integrations of artificial intelligence, big data, IoT, and other cutting-edge technologies, which hold the potential to revolutionize sustainable practices and reduce global temperatures.
GIS is a perfect platform for mapping and monitoring, which can combine with new techniques and become the most important instruments in decision makers’ hands. Artificial intelligence, big data, computing technology, the Internet of Things, blockchain, 3D printing, robotics, advanced sensors, and 5G telecommunication are only some of the most crucial advancements bringing development on the market, as well as new and innovative applications for decreasing global temperature.
This Special Issue aims to discuss GIS’s green applications; we welcome research results from researchers including but not limited to:
- Advanced techniques in GIS: models, algorithms, data mining techniques, decision support model, machine learning-based analysis, IoT-based GIS, components, GIS-assisted tools, GIS databases;
- GIS for industry: industry and raw materials for decreasing CO2 emissions, transforming the production model by using green energy, improving recycling–reusing–reducing processes;
- GIs in energy: distributed renewable energy sources and energy efficiency/savings, intelligent systems;
- GIS in agriculture: decreasing usage of energy, water, fertilizers, and farming with sustainable methods;
- GIS in transportation and logistics: with the necessity of smart transportation arrangements, with new fuels and electrifying all transportation means from private vehicles to ships and airplanes;
- GIS in smart cities: smart daily and long-term local governance, net-zero buildings, improvement of public infrastructures’ resilience, and low energy consumption processes;
- GIS in climate monitoring: spatiotemporal analysis; landscape; ecosystems; heat island effect; water resources.
All of the above, combined with GIS applications and information and communication technologies (ICT), offer a broader horizon for greening the production model in developed and developing countries.
Prof. Dr. Yannis Maniatis
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- GIS
- geographic information systems
- remote sensing
- spatial analysis
- 2D/3D GIS analysis
- mapping
- monitoring
- WebGIS, mobile GIS, distributed GIS GeoAI
- geospatial data urban climate
- urban landscape
- urban ecosystems
- urban heat island
- 3D digital soil mapping
- climate change
- carbon emissions
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