Geospatial Technology: Modern Applications and Their Impact, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Earth Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2026 | Viewed by 1058
Special Issue Editor
Interests: planetary surfaces; geophysics; geodesy; geographic information science; remote sensing; geoAI; autonomous mobile mapping systems; point cloud processing; ionospheric dynamics
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Dear Colleagues,
Geospatial technology, including sensors, cameras, lasers, telescopes, unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous mobile mapping robots, geographic information sciences/systems, remote sensing, and global navigation satellite systems, is growing at a rapid pace and is now informing decision-makers on topics such as industrial engineering, biodiversity conservation, climate change, ecological and agricultural monitoring, humanitarian relief, and many more. Geospatial technology, which takes the possibilities of humankind to all-new levels of advancement, usually generates large and complex datasets for reality capture that call for the use of all aspects of artificial intelligence/augmented intelligence (AI) as well as innovative and straightforward visualization platforms to reveal meaningful information. The scope of geospatial technology applications embraces every sphere or industry where location-based data play a crucial role in answering major social questions related, but not limited to, the environment, climate change, crisis management, sustainable development, civil infrastructure/assets mapping, and structural health monitoring. The goal of this Special Issue on “Geospatial Technology: Modern Applications and Their Impact, 2nd Edition” is to provide a unique forum for the dissemination of theories and innovative applications of geospatial data/imagery analysis and visualization across several diverse fields, including geophysics, geography, agriculture, ecology, law enforcement, mapping, engineering, marine science, meteorology, as well as those of an interdisciplinary nature. Lastly, papers describing theoretical results will also expand on their practical utility.
Dr. Laramie Potts
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- reality capture
- AI
- machine learning
- visualization
- multi-criteria decision analysis
- geoAI
- big data
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