Geomatics and Sustainability: Examples and Application in Urban and Landscape Management

Dear Colleagues,

Most of modern inland and coastal urban areas are strongly affected by anthropogenic impacts. Lifelines are critical infrastructures that need to provide essential services and security for both residential and migratory populations.

The main effect of this anthropization is the land use change and exploitation of natural resources that may have an impact on the climate and economy of entire countries. The ensemble of geomatics methodologies (mainly by means of GIS and remote sensing techniques) can provide several tools for monitoring and investigating the dynamics of complex processes and supporting stakeholders in decision making. Such phenomena include urban development, soil degradation and consumption, land cover changes, landscape dynamics, etc.

Thus, these methodologies can enrich the geographical information available and support the development of more exhaustive analysis aiming at supporting effective urban and landscape management, which is a critical issue in our current “Anthropocene” age. Human activities are still the major cause of global environmental change. Particularly focusing on sustainability issues, geomatics represents a fundamental pillar for implementing interdisciplinary methodological workflows, so as to provide for and deepen our understanding of human/environment interrelations. These techniques (spatial modelling, geo-computational techniques, geographical analyses, etc.) therefore foster sustainable development planning and monitoring, and facilitate the decision-making process at all levels.

Thus, this Special Issue will assemble innovative and original contributions considering current research and activities related to the abovementioned Issues.

In this Special Issue, we invite papers focusing on, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Geomatics for analyzing territorial issues and spatio-temporal patterns;
• Urban, landscape, and natural resources management;
• Land–climate interaction;
• Natural hazards;
• Development of new algorithms and science-based criteria in the above-listed topics.

Dr. Maurizio Pollino
Dr. Sergio Cappucci
Prof. Dr. Andrea Taramelli
Guest Editors

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