GeoAI and Remote Sensing for High-Resolution Mapping and Infrastructure Monitoring
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Engineering Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 50
Special Issue Editors
Interests: photogrammetry; remote sensing; point cloud; GeoAI; UAV; 3D modelling; LiDAR
Interests: mapping with remote sensing data; airborne laser scanning; optical and laser unmanned air vehicle; interferometry and radargrammetry; digital photogrammetry
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Interests: photogrammetry; adjustment computations; mobile mapping systems and lidar technology; surveying engineering
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recently, the volume and variety of geospatial data obtained from satellite imagery, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data, Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), photogrammetry, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), and other remote sensing sources have increased significantly. Artificial intelligence (AI) methods offer powerful tools for processing, interpreting, and integrating these large, multi-layered geospatial datasets into decision-support processes. High-resolution mapping of urban and rural areas and monitoring of critical infrastructure elements (bridges, dams, transportation networks, etc.) using GeoAI and state-of-the-art remote sensing techniques are vital in smart cities, agriculture, and disaster management.
This Special Issue will showcase studies covering the use of remote sensing data obtained from different platforms for high-resolution mapping and infrastructure monitoring in urban and rural areas. Specifically, the scope includes innovative methods for monitoring infrastructure elements such as roads, bridges, railways, power transmission lines, dams, water structures, urban networks, and critical facilities. GeoAI-supported remote sensing can be used to address issues such as high-resolution 2D and 3D mapping, infrastructure inventory extraction, change analysis, deformation monitoring, structural health assessment, automated object recognition, semantic segmentation, data fusion, and real-time monitoring applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- High-resolution mapping using remote sensing and GeoAI;
- 3D modelling and analysis;
- Monitoring with satellite, UAV, LiDAR, and photogrammetric data;
- Semantic segmentation of remotely sensed data;
- Multi-sensor and multi-source geospatial data fusion;
- SAR and InSAR for deformation analysis;
- Digital twins for infrastructure management;
- Risk assessment and resilience analysis;
- Smart city applications integrating GeoAI and remote sensing;
- Deep learning and machine learning for detection and classification;
- Structural health monitoring using remote sensing data;
- Real-time monitoring.
Dr. Muhammed Enes Atik
Prof. Dr. Umut Gunes Sefercik
Dr. Bashar Alsadik
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- GeoAI
- remote sensing
- deformation analysis/monitoring
- geospatial big data
- infrastructure monitoring
- disaster management
- smart city applications
- land use land cover mapping
- 3D modelling
- point cloud processing
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