Sustainable Urban Energy System Research Using Remote Sensing

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce a Special Issue on remote sensing approaches for renewable energy applications in cities. Given the ongoing global trends of urbanization and ever-increasing energy demand, urban renewable energy systems offer a pathway for more sustainable development. In fact, a majority of areas forecast to be urbanized in the coming decades have yet to be built, so there is enormous opportunity to integrate renewable energy systems into growing cities. Within urban environments, renewable energy resources are highly sensitive to site and surroundings, and remote sensing technology offers an excellent approach to assess the spatial variability and constraints of urban renewable energy resources and systems.

This Special Issue will highlight novel research on remote sensing approaches, broadly defined, for renewable energy applications in cities. We welcome a range of submissions about, but not limited to: geospatial resource assessment; micro-siting methods; impacts and feedbacks of renewable energy systems on urban climates and environments; machine-learning techniques; and energy system design and planning. Submissions focused on one (or more) of a wide range of renewable energy technologies (wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, wave, etc.) in a diversity of physical and social environments are also encouraged.

Dr. Ben Crawford
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Remote Sensing is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• renewable energy
• urbanization
• remote sensing
• urban climate
• sustainable cities
• district energy