Smart Data Smart Cities & 3D GeoInfo

Dear Colleagues,

Data and data science play key role in informed decision-making for various businesses. 3D location data and 3D data analysis add more advantages for identification of problems, patterns and trends by location and time to make smarter decisions for our cities. Smart cities get benefits from data, data science, location data and analytics to provide accurate information for better decision making at local and regional scale. Sensing technologies and real time data collectors are also great tools for collecting different dimensions of data. In a smart cities era, all these data and information require appropriate collaborative and communication technologies for better management and sharing of data and information.

We invite contributions on (but not limited to) the following topics:

• GIS, urban informatics, and smart cities 
• Sensing technologies, laser scanning and smart cities 
• BIM and infrastructure 
• Data science, visualisation and City Analytics 
• Mobility data and visualisation  
• 3D/4D modelling of cities  
• BIM/GIS integration and digital twins 
• Derving insights from digital twins 
• Digital twins levels of maturity   
• Spatio-temporal patterns 
• Smart cities during and after Covid-19  
• Big data/big spatial data analysis and management   
• ICT and smart cities 
• Smart transportation  
• Smart construction
• Net zero emission cities
• Smart homes 
• Realtime/web based/interactive data visualisation 
• Cities’ dashboards 
• Smart Energy efficiency solutions  
• Data and analytics for circular economy in cities 
• Participation and empowerment 
• Privacy, data security challenges in digital twins and smart cities 
• Blockchain technology for municipal management 
• Open data and open urban platforms 
• Crowdsourcing data collection and analytics 
• Monitoring systems 
• Disaster management/warning systems 
• Application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning in smart cities 
• Drones for monitoring/inspecting cities and construction sites 

Dr. Cynthia Changxin Wang
Dr. Johnson Xuesong Shen
Dr. Mitko Aleksandrov
Guest Editors

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