Advancements in Remote Sensing and GIS in Mobile Computing and Location-Based Services

Dear Colleagues,

The increasing availability of mobile devices has accelerated the development of geographical information systems (GISs). Currently, location-based services (LBSs) are an essential tool for society, with many possible useful applications in our daily lives. These services, along with the vast amount of information provided by remote sensing (RS), provide a heterogeneous source of spatiotemporal information, motivating the development of novel technologies capable of its management. However, the introduction of mobile devices introduced additional limitations related to computational resources, battery consumption, screen sizes, etc. These limitations require the exploration of scalable general-purpose solutions integrated into multiplatform applications.

This Special Issue (SI) focuses on research addressing the latest advances in remote sensing and GIS techniques for their application in mobile computing and location-based services. We call for contributions focusing on topics such as data-processing techniques, scalability strategies, algorithm development, novel frameworks, etc. We also welcome real-world experiments, review papers and high-quality research covering state-of-the-art techniques and development covering computational limitations. We especially encourage the use of freely available remote sensing data and open source processing software used in the Supplementary Materials.

Articles may address, but are not limited, to the following topics:

• Multimodal data fusion;
• Real-time processing;
• Data-processing methods;
• Machine learning for object detection, automatic image segmentation and change detection;
• Green and more efficient scalable algorithms;
• Smart cities;
• Outdoor and indoor positioning and tracking;
• Data visualization;
• Mobile device limitations;
• Heterogeneous-type and multilevel spatiotemporal resolutions of datasets.

Dr. Maria del Mar Martinez-Ballesteros
Prof. Manuel Carranza-García
Prof. Manuel Jesús Jiménez Navarro
Prof. Dr. Jorge Garcia-Gutierrez
Guest Editors

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• remote sensing
• mobile computing
• location-based services
• artificial intelligence
• machine learning
• geographical information system