Geographic Information Science for the Sustainable Development, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability in Geographic Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2025) | Viewed by 1593
Special Issue Editors
Interests: GIS; sustainability; LUCC; land use simulation; GeoAI
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Interests: sustainable land use; geographic trade-offs; geographic complexity; spatial entropy as applied in landscapes and image analysis
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Interests: spatiotemporal big data analysis; GeoAI; remote sensing AI; deep learning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Previously, we organized a Special Issue named “Geographic Information Science for the Sustainable Development”, which promoted our colleagues’ interests in this topic. Geographical information science (GIScience) is a link connecting multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary data, methods, and knowledge from various disciplines. Additionally, recent progress in large language models has tremendously reshaped the scientific paradigm. However, our world is facing more challenges on the way to achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. As geographers and geographical scientists, we believe that GIScience must play a role in promoting geographical science innovation and achieving a better and more sustainable world.
This Special Issue calls for additional contributions to GIScience’s theories, tools, and practices regarding sustainable development. We invite all researchers to share research articles, reviews, and case studies on tackling challenges at local, regional, and global scales with GIScience.
The scope of submission includes, but is not limited to, the following:
- GIScience theories or frameworks for sustainable development;
- Novel Geographical Information System (GIS) tools, models, or methods for sustainable development;
- Complex geosystems;
- Big data analytics for SDGs;
- Insightful applications of GIS/RS tools for sustainable development;
- GeoAI models and their applications.
Dr. Shi Shen
Dr. Peichao Gao
Dr. Shaohua Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- geographical information science
- sustainability
- sustainable development goals
- GeoAI
- high-quality development
- complex geosystem
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