3D City Modelling and Remote Sensing: Advances, Challenges, and New Technologies (Second Edition)
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 3240
Special Issue Editors
Interests: geographic information systems; business–IT alignment; strong background in academics and university–industry framework supported by distinctive field experience in project management
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2. Chair of Geoinformatics, TUM Department of Aerospace and Geodesy, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Interests: BIM/GIS integration; GIS for built environments; information architecture; urban dynamics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are launching the second Special Issue of Remote Sensing, titled “3D City Modelling and Remote Sensing: Advances, Challenges, and New Technologies”.
Today, digital societies are largely dependent on information. However, several tasks in urban and architectural design are undertaken in a geospatial context. Building information models (BIMs) and geospatial technologies offer 3D city models that provide information about buildings and the surrounding environment. A 3D city model is generally defined as a digital representation of the Earth’s surface and the built environment within a city. Using such a model, a variety of applications can be created, including ones that cover the whole city or focus on a specific building model. As models become more detailed, the relationships between the spatial objects have to be modelled.
The recent developments in technology, especially in the restoration and storage of data, have introduced several advantages for the construction of more detailed city models that can be used in different applications. As a result, two domains, BIM and GIS, are moving closer to each other in terms of easier integration and interoperability processes between them. BIM-GIS integration provides a unified view of geospatial information and is seen as the future development of urban planning and smart city applications.
As a result of the increasing demands for integrated views and data standards in urban planning, unified applications have received great amounts of attention at both the national and international levels. At the EU level, different initiatives, such as the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) directive (European Commission—INSPIRE, 2007–2021), have suggested building common geospatial applications for EU countries based on BIM-GIS integration. This has contributed to smart cities having different applications in smart planning, end-to-end solutions, services, management, sustainable practices, outcomes and policy making, emergency, and security, among others. In a smart city ecosystem, the geospatial structure can serve any or all of the above functions.
Research and development in the above-described areas is sought for this Special Issue on “3D City Modelling and Remote Sensing: Advances, Challenges, and New Technologies”. Potential topics include, but are in no way limited to, the following:
- Three-dimensional city modelling;
- BIM-GIS integration;
- Urbanization and settlements;
- The sustainable development of cities;
- Smart cities and regions;
- Different applications of 3D city modelling (e.g., 3D cadastre, crisis management, etc.).
Dr. Mohamed El Mekawy
Dr. Ihab Hamzi Hijazi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- three-dimensional city models
- BIM-GIS integration
- urbanization
- smart cities
- crisis management
- artificial intelligence
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