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Urban Planning Supported by Remote Sensing Technology II

A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Remote Sensing".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 7940

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Christiane Weber

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DR CNRS, TETIS Research Unit, AgroParisTech, CIRAD, CNRS, Irstea, Maison de la Télédétection, 500 rue Jean-François Breton, 34000 Montpellier, France
Interests: urban environment; urban multifunctionality; remote sensing
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Dr. Jingxia Wang

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1. Department of Urban Studies and Planning, The University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
2. Institute of Geography, Ruhr University Bochum, 44801 Bochum, Germany
Interests: landscape and urban ecology; land resources management; landscape planning and management; social-ecological systems research
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This is the second Special Issue concerning the contributions of Urban Planning Supported by Remote Sensing Technology.

Remote sensing associated with urban NTIC innovations has strongly changed urban planning practices and tools.

Imagery has reinforced the importance of representation and location identification, largely supported by GIS capacities and development.

From the late 1970s to date, tremendous imagery enhancing has led to changes in practices, tools and norms. From inventory to global comparison products, imagery has pushed towards usable and homogeneous products that are valuable at various scales (EU or global products). If remote sensing products are variably disseminated in urban and planning offices, their impact is not negligeable.

Actual challenges regarding climate change and biodiversity conservation favor the importance of images in various evaluation directives and plans. Vegetation, water, sealed surfaces, and soils are resources that could be monitored regularly with the help of RS imagery. As such, products might be introduced in urban heat surface or local climatic zone identification, nature-based solutions design, urban ecological infrastructures, or urban health projects management. RS is a strong asset for urban complexity management.

Multispectral, superspectral, and hyperspectral sensors have diversified observation capacities and offered a large panel of applications: from cartography to prospective modelling promoting urban elements monitoring at various scales, from regional to local, and introducing imagery in urban planning practices and citizen applications.

Actual trends turn to integrated developments mixing massive information capacities, modelling, visualization capacities and collaborative assessments. Citizen sciences emerge, stressing the crucial role of spatial technologies for a large part of the population in their daily lives, and, consequently, the role of these spatial technologies for planning developments.

Spatial imagery development has promoted the use and the benefit of RS products in planning technologies for sustainable cities development and crises management. However, some difficulties might compel the introduction of RS products in planning rules, laws or territorial directives. As such, it might also be interesting to identify bottlenecks and practical problems that halt these potential disseminations.

Numerous applications can illustrate the interest of imagery in urban planning practices, and several tools or applications can be described in various contexts. This Special Issue aims to be an opportunity to share experiences, at various scales (urban project to metropolitan planning issue), and to confront both contextual positions, methodological choices and developments, and results for various countries or regions.

Suggested themes and article types for submissions:

  • Artificial and sealed surfaces monitoring;
  • Urban disaster management;
  • Subsidence monitoring;
  • Biodiversity monitoring;
  • Urban vegetation monitoring;
  • HUI and SHUI determination and monitoring;
  • Urban ecological infrastructure;
  • Nature-based solution;
  • Citizen sciences;
  • Sensors capacities and future development;
  • Enhanced methodologies, such as deep learning, spectral fusion, time-series analysis;
  • Data mining;
  • Data analyses;
  • Urban indicators.

Dr. Christiane Weber
Dr. Jingxia Wang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • urban challenges
  • urban monitoring
  • urban imagery
  • urban practices and tools
  • urban spatial technologies
  • news urban sensors issues

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Mapping the Influence of Olympic Games’ Urban Planning on the Land Surface Temperatures: An Estimation Using Landsat Series and Google Earth Engine
by Joan-Cristian Padró, Valerio Della Sala, Marc Castelló-Bueno and Rafael Vicente-Salar
Remote Sens. 2024, 16(18), 3405; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16183405 - 13 Sep 2024
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The Olympic Games are a sporting event and a catalyst for urban development in their host city. In this study, we utilized remote sensing and GIS techniques to examine the impact of the Olympic infrastructure on the surface temperature of urban areas. Using [...] Read more.
The Olympic Games are a sporting event and a catalyst for urban development in their host city. In this study, we utilized remote sensing and GIS techniques to examine the impact of the Olympic infrastructure on the surface temperature of urban areas. Using Landsat Series Collection 2 Tier 1 Level 2 data and cloud computing provided by Google Earth Engine (GEE), this study examines the effects of various forms of Olympic Games facility urban planning in different historical moments and location typologies, as follows: monocentric, polycentric, peripheric and clustered Olympic ring. The GEE code applies to the Olympic Games that occurred from Paris 2024 to Montreal 1976. However, this paper focuses specifically on the representative cases of Paris 2024, Tokyo 2020, Rio 2016, Beijing 2008, Sydney 2000, Barcelona 1992, Seoul 1988, and Montreal 1976. The study is not only concerned with obtaining absolute land surface temperatures (LST), but rather the relative influence of mega-event infrastructures on mitigating or increasing the urban heat. As such, the locally normalized land surface temperature (NLST) was utilized for this purpose. In some cities (Paris, Tokyo, Beijing, and Barcelona), it has been determined that Olympic planning has resulted in the development of green spaces, creating “green spots” that contribute to lower-than-average temperatures. However, it should be noted that there is a significant variation in temperature within intensely built-up areas, such as Olympic villages and the surrounding areas of the Olympic stadium, which can become “hotspots.” Therefore, it is important to acknowledge that different planning typologies of Olympic infrastructure can have varying impacts on city heat islands, with the polycentric and clustered Olympic ring typologies displaying a mitigating effect. This research contributes to a cloud computing method that can be updated for future Olympic Games or adapted for other mega-events and utilizes a widely available remote sensing data source to study a specific urban planning context. Full article
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Municipal and Urban Renewal Development Index System: A Data-Driven Digital Analysis Framework
by Xi Wang, Xuecao Li, Tinghai Wu, Shenjing He, Yuxin Zhang, Xianyao Ling, Bin Chen, Lanchun Bian, Xiaodong Shi, Ruoxi Zhang, Jie Wang, Li Zheng, Jun Li and Peng Gong
Remote Sens. 2024, 16(3), 456; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16030456 - 24 Jan 2024
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Urban renewal planning and development are vital for enhancing the living quality of city residents. However, such improvement activities are often expensive, time-consuming, and in need of standardization. The convergence of remote sensing technologies, social big data, and artificial intelligence solutions has created [...] Read more.
Urban renewal planning and development are vital for enhancing the living quality of city residents. However, such improvement activities are often expensive, time-consuming, and in need of standardization. The convergence of remote sensing technologies, social big data, and artificial intelligence solutions has created unprecedented opportunities for comprehensive digital planning and analysis in urban renewal development and management. However, fast interdisciplinary development imposes some challenges because the data collected and the solutions built are defined piece by piece and require further fusion and integration of knowledge, evaluation standards, systematic analyses, and new methodologies. To address these challenges, we propose a municipal and urban renewal development index (MUDI) system with data modeling and mathematical analysis models. The MUDI system is applied and studied in three circumstances: (1) at regional level, 337 cities are selected in China to demonstrate the MUDI system’s comparable analysis capabilities on a large scale across cities; (2) at city level, 285 residential communities are selected in Xiamen to demonstrate the use of remote sensing data as key MUDIs for a temporal urban land change analysis; and (3) at the level of residential neighborhoods’ urban renewal practices, Xiamen’s Yingping District is selected to demonstrate the MUDI system’s project management capabilities. We find that the MUDI system is highly effective in municipal and urban data model building through the abstraction and summation of grid-based satellite and social big data. Secondly, the MUDI system enables comprehension of the high dimensionality and complexity of multisource datasets for municipal and urban renewal development. Thirdly, the system is applied to enable the use of the newly developed UMAP algorithm, a model based on Riemannian geometry and algebraic topology, and the carrying out of a principal component analysis for the key dimensions and an index correlation analysis. Fourthly, various artificial intelligence-driven algorithms can be developed for urban renewal analyses based on the MUDIs. The MUDI system is a new and effective method for urban renewal planning and management that can be flexibly extended and applied to various cities and urban districts. Full article
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Construction and Optimisation of Ecological Networks in High-Density Central Urban Areas: The Case of Fuzhou City, China
by Jianwei Geng, Kunyong Yu, Menglian Sun, Zhen Xie, Ruxian Huang, Yihan Wang, Qiuyue Zhao and Jian Liu
Remote Sens. 2023, 15(24), 5666; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15245666 - 7 Dec 2023
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Constructing and optimising ecological networks in high-density cities plays an important role in mitigating urban ecological problems. Our study uses comprehensive evaluation methods such as Morphological Spatial Pattern Analysis (MSPA), the Remote Sensing Ecological Index (RSEI), and Connectivity to identify ecological source areas [...] Read more.
Constructing and optimising ecological networks in high-density cities plays an important role in mitigating urban ecological problems. Our study uses comprehensive evaluation methods such as Morphological Spatial Pattern Analysis (MSPA), the Remote Sensing Ecological Index (RSEI), and Connectivity to identify ecological source areas in Fuzhou City, and constructs and optimises the network using the Minimum Cumulative Resistance (MCR) model, current theory, and other methods. Meanwhile, the changes in urban landscape connectivity under different development scenarios were explored. The results show that the following: (1) the identification of ecological source sites based on the integrated approach is better than the single MSPA method; (2) the ecological network of Fuzhou City consists of 44 ecological source sites and 92 corridors; and (3) among the various development modes, transforming the top 30% of the bare land patches in Fuzhou City into green spaces improves the overall connectivity of the ecological network the most. The results can provide auxiliary decision-making for ecological construction in high-density cities. Full article
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Capturing Small-Scale Surface Temperature Variation across Diverse Urban Land Uses with a Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
by Junaid Ahmad and Jessica A. Eisma
Remote Sens. 2023, 15(8), 2042; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15082042 - 12 Apr 2023
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Urbanization increases the urban land surface temperature (LST), challenging society and the environment. This study measured the LST of diverse land uses (LU) in Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) using a high-resolution (8 cm) thermal infrared sensor onboard a small, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). LUs [...] Read more.
Urbanization increases the urban land surface temperature (LST), challenging society and the environment. This study measured the LST of diverse land uses (LU) in Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) using a high-resolution (8 cm) thermal infrared sensor onboard a small, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). LUs included park (PA), industrial (IA), residential low-cost (RLC), and residential high-cost (RHC) areas. LST was collected by the UAV at different times on eight nonconsecutive days. UAV-collected LST was compared with that from Landsat 8-9 and in situ measurements. RHC reported the highest mean LST, and PA showed the lowest mean LST. Dark-colored asphalt shingle roofs in RHC had the highest mean LST range at 35.67 °C. Lower LST was measured in shaded areas and under thick green cover, whereas areas with thin green cover occasionally reported higher LST than pavements. The micro-urban heat island (MUHI) was calculated between LUs and within land cover types (roof, pavement, green, and water). The MUHI varied from 4.83 °C to 15.85 °C between LUs and 0.2 °C to 23.5 °C within LUs for the less than 1 km2 study area. While the UAV thermal sensor and Landsat demonstrated a similar trend of LST variation, the UAV sensor reported more intense MUHI. An average percent bias (PBIAS) of 5.1% was calculated between the UAV sensor and in situ measurements. This study helps inform the urban design process by demonstrating how land use decisions impact LST locally and provides valuable insight for studies concerned with fine-scale urban LST variability. Full article
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