Special Issue "Application of AI and UAV Techniques in Urban Water Science"
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 June 2023 | Viewed by 5699
Special Issue Editors

Interests: remote sensing of water science; hydrology; water resources; climate change; big data; AI; urban flood and control; sponge city
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: remote sensing of water environment; urban waterlogging prevention; spatial analysis and policy simulation
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: application of remote sensing in water science; climate change; urban climate; AI
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are two most popular techniques in many sectors including urban water science. With global climate change and human activities such as urbanization, urban climate and hydrology are changing along with raises of water quality and ecology problems. Accurate real time track and forecast of urban floods, droughts and water quality/ecology are of significance for sustainable development in urbanized areas. Compared to traditional methods/techniques, AI and UAV can provide real time and/or near real time information of urban water-related issues with higher accuracy in most cases, providing new tools for urban water management. In this special issue, we welcome papers focusing on AI and/or UAV with applications to urban water-related problems like floods and water quality as described above. Both general methodological contributions and case studies on AI and UAV covering different regions are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Zhaoli Wang
Prof. Dr. Yaolong Zhao
Prof. Dr. Weilin Liao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)
- remote sensing
- water quality
- water ecology
- flooding
- drought
- urban environment