Frontiers in Spectral Imaging and 3D Technologies for Geospatial Solutions

Dear Colleagues,

Spectral imaging and 3D sensor technologies have developed explosively in recent years for a variety of geospatial applications, ranging, but not limited to, agriculture (precision farming, vegetative index and water supply mapping), forestry (forest inventory, forest health monitoring), mapping, environmental monitoring (surface geology survey, pollutant and hazardous substances mapping), industry (large industrial plant monitoring), etc. New cutting-edge hardware and software solutions are emerging, and integration of multi-modal information is allowing increasingly accurate, automated and fast remote sensing.

The main ambition of this Special Issue is to promote discussion on new developments in the field of combined use of spectral and 3D remote sensing technologies, comprising sensing technologies, thematic information extraction, and geospatial solutions. It aims at bringing together research presented in the first ISPRS SPEC3D workshop "Frontiers in Spectral imaging and 3D Technologies for Geospatial Solutions" organized in Finland in 25–27 October, 2017, as well as high quality scientific contributions from the global research community. Researchers and experts are kindly encouraged to submit innovative papers related to integrated use of spectral and 3D technologies, focused on, but not limited to, the following topics:

1. New aspects of sensors, systems and calibration: 3D spectral information capture using spectral imaging, LIDAR, micro-LIDAR and -RADAR, low-cost 3D and spectral sensors, emerging platforms (aerial, UAV, robotic, mobile, portable, etc.), and geometric and radiometric sensor and system integration and calibration.

2. Processing and interpretation requirements for novel spectroscopic and 3D data, including georeferencing, radiometric calibration, multisource data fusion, video data analysis, time-series and change detection, context awareness, big data, and crowd sourcing, as well as aspects of automation, fast response and real-time processing.

3. Geospatial solutions utilizing the new sensors and data in indoor and outdoor applications, such as mapping and monitoring in natural and built environments, forestry and agriculture, biodiversity, industrial and civil applications, robotics, and virtual and augmented reality.

Dr. Eija Honkavaara,
Dr. Konstantinos Karantzalos,
Dr. Xianlian Liang,
Dr. Erica Nocerino,
Dr. Ilkka Pölönen,
Dr. Petri Rönnholm
Guest Editors

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