Urban Vegetation and Ecology Monitoring Using Remote Sensing
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 June 2022) | Viewed by 11395
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear colleague,
Increasing urbanization, coupled with the impacts of climate change, has generated efforts to understand how different urban landscape elements and their spatial composition affect local environment. The information is needed for sustainable urban development and maintaining/improving human well-being.
Urban greenery with its potential for carbon sequestration, air filtering, noise reduction, microclimate regulation, etc., provides a range of environmental and social services that benefit city residents and visitors. However, quantification of such services requires a detail data and information about individual greenery elements, their structural characteristics, interaction with and impact on the neighbourhood.
Different categories of remote sensing data at high spatial and spectral resolution offer great potential to identify greenery elements, their properties and an impact on environment, e.g. surface/air town temperatures.
The Special Issue seeks for multidisciplinary contributions with innovative and original approaches in getting different parameters of urban greenery from a single and multimodal RS data on scale of individual elements (tree, bush, and grassland), their spatial configuration, and the relationships to urban environment.
Specific topics include, but are not limited to:
- Estimation of the Leaf area index (LAI) the trees/bushes:1/from LiDAR (airborne/proximal ALS and/or ground GLS); 2/ from airborne/proximal airborne hyperspectral data; 3/ combination of ALS/GLS and hyperspectral
- Morphologic features of trees/bushes estimated from airborne/proximal ALS, multispectral/hyperspectral data
- Biochemical properties of urban greenery from space/airborne/proximal multispectral and/or hyperspectral data; health status and Sun Induced Vegetation Fluorescence
- Contribution of urban greenery to mitigation of heating islands and local microclimate extremes- estimated from airborne/proximal thermal and other contextual data (GIS)
Guest Editor
Dr. František Zemek
Keywords
- urban greenery
- ecology monitoring
- leaf area index (LAI)
- LIDAR
- local microclimate extremes
- GIS modeling
- airborne imaging spectroscopy