Remote Sensing of Urban Built Environment for Sustainable Development
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 19
Special Issue Editors
Interests: 3D morphology remote sensing; urban built environment; human-environment spatiotemporal interactions; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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Interests: geographic information systems (GIS); urban climate; urban planning; urban greenspace; construction management; environmental engineering and modelling
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Urbanization has transformed landscapes at an unprecedented rate, with ~68% of the global population projected to live in cities by 2050 (UN). Remote sensing (RS) technologies, ranging from hyperspectral imaging to LiDAR and SAR, together with multisource big geospatial observations and artificial intelligence provide powerful tools for monitoring urban built environment dynamics, and assist in creating roadmaps towards the development of a sustainable, inclusive, and livable society. This Special Issue seeks to compile cutting-edge research on the following topics:
- Urban land use/cover change (LUCC).
- The high-resolution mapping of urban expansion, slums, and green spaces.
- AI-driven classification (e.g., deep learning for impervious surface detection).
- Climate resilience and environmental monitoring
- Urban heat island (UHI) modeling using thermal RS.
- Air/water quality assessment via multispectral and hyperspectral data.
- Disaster risk reduction
- Flood/flood susceptibility mapping (e.g., Sentinel-1 SAR for inundation monitoring).
- Post-disaster damage assessment (e.g., UAVs for earthquake resilience).
- Social and infrastructure applications
- Three-dimensional city modeling with LiDAR and photogrammetry.
- The use of crowdsourced RS data (e.g., street-view imagery) for urban livability studies.
Dr. Shengbiao Wu
Dr. Siqi Jia
Prof. Dr. Raffaele Lafortezza
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urban built environment
- remote sensing
- sustainable development
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