Navigation and Remote Sensing for Sustainable Development
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 May 2021) | Viewed by 6471
Special Issue Editors
Interests: geomatics engineering; satellite navigation and multi-sensor integration for mobile indoor/outdoor mapping, unmanned aerial systems, and autonomous driving
Interests: LiDAR data processing; satellite sensor modelling; image segmentation and classification; 3-D modeling
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainable environments reflect effective resource management, including the natural environment of the land, water, and air, or the urban environment of buildings, cities, and infrastructure. Sustainability is critical for the human population, not only this generation but also for the generations to come. The transformation from traditional to sustainable environments requires interdisciplinary approaches in order to integrate knowledge and technologies, as well as examine, explore, and critically engage with issues and advances of urban environments. Research challenges in this field range from calibration, data acquisition, fusion, and modelling to efficient information extraction, visualization, and mapping. Therefore, the scope of this Special Issue covers research areas such as multi-sensor integration for sustainable urban environments, remote sensing for urban sustainability, and 3D city modelling, among others. This Special Issue focuses on new developments and applications using, but not limited to, big data analysis, machine learning, optimal data fusion algorithms, and advanced classification methods, among others. Researchers are encouraged to use a wide range of related data such as global navigation satellite systems, inertial measurements, images and LiDAR point cloud data from a single or multiple platforms, etc.
Prof. Dr. Ahmed El-Rabbany
Prof. Dr. Ahmed Shaker
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Multi-source, multi-platform navigation and remote sensing data acquisition, modelling, and analysis;
- Multi-sensor integration for sustainable environments;
- Innovative fusion techniques for multi-source geospatial data;
- Smart cities, urban planning, and disaster response;
- Multi-sensor integration for assets mapping and infrastructure monitoring;
- Big data management, processing, analysis, and visualization;
- Collaborative geospatial data acquisition, mapping, and management.
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