Remote-Sensing Insights for Sustainable Urban Ecosystems
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 319
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Accelerated global urbanization and intensifying climate change have imposed unprecedented pressures on the structure, function and service capacity of urban ecosystems, manifested as urban heat island intensification, biodiversity decline, ecological degradation and resource allocation imbalance. As a state-of-the-art Earth observation tool, remote sensing enables the large-scale, spatiotemporally continuous and high-resolution dynamic monitoring of urban ecological environments, providing critical technical support for quantifying urban ecosystem patterns, assessing ecological quality and supporting science-based urban sustainability governance. This field is of profound scientific significance and practical value for advancing low-carbon, resilient and eco-friendly urban development.
This Special Issue aims to collect frontier theoretical advances, methodological innovations and practical applications of remote sensing in sustainable urban ecosystem research and to foster interdisciplinary integration across remote-sensing science, urban ecology and environmental geography. It aligns closely with the scope of Remote Sensing, which publishes high-quality research on advanced remote-sensing technologies, algorithms, multi-source data fusion and their interdisciplinary applications in Earth and environmental sciences.
We encourage submissions of both regular research papers and reviews on topics including, but not limited to, the following:
- urban ecological environment monitoring and assessment,
- multi-source remote sensing for urban biodiversity and ecosystem services,
- remote-sensing-based urban ecological risk early warning,
- AI-driven remote sensing for sustainable urban planning,
- high-resolution satellite, aerial and UAV data in urban analysis,
- time series analysis and urban change detection.
Dr. Xiaojing Yao
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- urban remote sensing
- urban sustainability
- urban resilience
- urban biodiversity and ecosystem services
- AI-driven remote sensing
- smart cities with remote observation
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