Geotechnology in Urban Landscape Studies

Dear Colleagues,

Due to ongoing changes in land cover/land use, global urbanization, and suburbanization, the urban landscape covers increasingly large areas adjacent to built-up and natural areas, often becoming the dominant landscape. It is a place of simultaneous interaction of many factors, the occurrence of frequently contradictory processes or phenomena of different geneses, scales, and effects, and it is often the object of decisions by different decision-making groups. Nowadays, the urban landscape has a communal meaning, and its space is a place of disputes, conflicts, and compromises on the condition that reliable and spatially based results of interdisciplinary and multidirectional research are provided.

Geotechnology, in conjunction with up-to-date tools and methods for the acquisition, processing, analysis, and visualization of data and results, offers new opportunities for the understanding of changes in the urban landscape, the determination of the directions of these changes, as well as the assessment of their sustainability, mitigation, and adaptation, or the study of the interdependence of selected components of the urban environment. Geotechnology helps us to understand processes and phenomena in the urban matrix, interpret and explain spatial phenomena, and provide detailed findings on individual components of the urban environment to make the most optimal decisions at different levels of its organization and to build different development scenarios.

This Special Issue focuses on integrating geographic information systems (GISs) and remote sensing (RS) to study sustainable practices occurring in urbanized areas. It highlights how geotechnology can improve the understanding, management, development and conservation of the urban environment.

I encourage representatives from different disciplines, specialties, or approaches to conduct targeted research on cities, suburbs, or broadly defined urbanized areas using geo-information and geo-informatics tools, remote sensing methods, analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

The aim of this Special Issue is to show how GIS technology or innovative geotechnological solutions can be used to support and sustainably develop urban landscapes. It will complement the existing literature by introducing new applications, providing detailed case studies, and highlighting interdisciplinary approaches and different viewpoints.

Prof. Dr. Mieczyslaw Kunz
Guest Editor

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