Urban Morphology and Environment Monitoring
A special issue of Geomatics (ISSN 2673-7418).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 2994
Special Issue Editors
Interests: spatial data science; digital technologies; smart sensing; earth observation; environmental monitoring; landscape ecology; tropical forest ecology; urban ecology; smart cities; urban climate; climate change; vegetation-climate interaction; land-cover land-use change; drought; cropland; air pollution; water quality; cloud computing; machine learning; big data for SDGs
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Interests: environmental science; environmental economics; resource economics; social policy; clean energy; urban expansion
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Interests: climate change; environment; location based services; urban development; spatial patterns and processes
Interests: landscape architecture; urban planning; landscape ecology; urban sustainability; tourism; environmental science; sustainable development; land use planning; landscape design
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Unprecedented urban growth is one of the most critical global challenges. Understanding the urban design, urban sprawl, morphological changes and their association with urban climate and environment can provide critical insight into sustainable urban practices.
During the last five decades, the emergence of Geospatial technologies has transformed methods for urban planning and monitoring associated environmental challenges. Satellite remote sensing data-derived land-use change along with modeling of climate and socio-economic drivers of change are playing a vital role in advancing interdisciplinary research.
The huge amount of data currently produced by modern Earth Observation (EO) missions, the availability of high-performance computing platforms and the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) provide new opportunities to advance our knowledge.
Considering these advances, this Special Issue invites manuscripts that present new developments and methodologies, best practices, and applications to address the issues related to urban morphology and environment, such as the United Nations’ call for “Sustainable Cities and Communities”.
Dr. Sawaid Abbas
Dr. Ghaffar Ali
Prof. Dr. Nitin Kumar Tripathi
Dr. Sertaç Güngör
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urban sprawl
- landscape architecture
- urban planning
- landscape ecology
- urban microclimate
- densification of urban area
- urban heat island (UHI)
- solar energy
- low carbon societies
- urban ecology
- land cover land use
- urban green spaces
- urban morphology and publica health
- monitoring change
- machine learning
- biophysical and social data integration
- sustainable development goals monitoring
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