Leveraging Socioeconomic and Geospatial Data for Understanding Urban–Rural Continuum
A special issue of Urban Science (ISSN 2413-8851). This special issue belongs to the section "Intelligent Cities and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 265
Special Issue Editors
Interests: geospatial AI; environmental sciences; remote sensing of urban environments
Interests: urban ecology; natural resource; remote sensing; GIS
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Dear Colleagues,
Rapid urbanization has intensified the need to better understand the spatial heterogeneity and dynamic complexity of the Urban–Rural Continuum (URCs). Recent advances in socioeconomic and geospatial data science, as well as their integration, provide unprecedented opportunities to address critical challenges in urban environmental studies.
This Special Issue will highlight innovative empirical and theoretical studies that align with the aims and scope of Urban Science, including the Urban–Rural Continuum (URC) structure/morphology, urban development/expansion, resilience and the sustainability of URCs. Both original research articles and reviews are welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Urban/urban agglomerate/watershed environmental studies;
- Geography and structure of URCs (Urban–Rural Continuum);
- Geospatial AI (Artificial Intelligence);
- Geospatial ML (Machine Learning);
- RS (Remote Sensing )/GIS (Geographic Information System) methodology and application.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Jin Wang
Prof. Dr. Zhifeng Wu
Dr. Shan Wei
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- URC (urban–rural continuum)
- socioeconomic data
- geospatial data
- urban environment
- remote sensing
- artificial intelligence
- machine learning
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