Geomatic Techniques Applied to Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems to help Urban and Land-Use Planning

Dear Colleagues,

In the current climate crisis, comprehending global warming and climate change triggers the need to develop new urban planning scenarios that include new paradigms in designing and building our urban environments worldwide, such as biourbanism and regenerative urbanism amongst others. Urban water management is central to adapt cities to climate change. Intense flood events and severe droughts affect human activities and endanger food and citizen security. Nature-based solutions (NBS) and green infrastructure have been highlighted by the United Nations (UN) and the European Union (EU) as key techniques to tackle these urban challenges under a new paradigm in urban water management, based on the philosophy known as water sensitive urban design (WSUD). Sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) are the techniques utilized in this context, having been proven to be effective against the urban heat island (UHI) effect, flood mitigation, rainwater harvesting in drought areas, pollution treatment, and improving urban livability and amenity.

Parallelly, geomatic techniques are providing new solutions for the data acquisition, management, and analysis of multi-source geospatial data. At this point, geomatic techniques can play a central role in SUDS, thanks to the new developments in remote sensing data acquisition, low cost mapping platforms, GIS analysis, and other terrestrial techniques (e.g., mobile mapping systems). Therefore, the synergies between both (SUDS and geomatics) can develop more effective urban development plans related to NBS and the subsequent environmental, social, and economic improvements.

This Special Issue aims to increase the knowledge in how geomatic techniques applied to SUDS can (1) contribute towards urban/regional planning, (2) improve design by increasing the accuracy of methods and calculations, (3) integrate social aspects and ecosystem services, and (4) monitor and evaluate the different management trains. Therefore, we would like to invite you to contribute by submitting articles about your research, experimental work, reviews, and/or case studies related to this topic. Contributions may be from, but not limited to, the following keywords.

Dr. Luis A. Sañudo-Fontaneda
Dr. Pablo Rodríguez-Gonzálvez
Dr. Cristina Allende-Prieto
Guest Editors

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