Big Data in Remote Sensing for Urban Mapping
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2020) | Viewed by 23265
Special Issue Editors
Interests: remote sensing; spectral imaging; image classification; image processing; machine learning
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Interests: remote sensing; big data processing and analysis; image processing; signal processing; machine learning; deep learning; image retrieval and classification
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Interests: remote sensing; machine learning; deep learning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The current unprecedented technological developments in remote sensing are driving innovative research towards new challenges. On one hand, the high quality of modern remote sensing data, often available to users at low or no cost, open large opportunities for research. On the other hand, the abundance of these data implies significant efforts for data handling, (pre-)processing, and interpretation. The complementary sources of information also require new approaches to interconnected data handling and exploitation.
In the field of remote sensing, urban areas are of particular interest, as they imply large agglomerations of individuals in a limited area. The steep increase in the world population brings new challenges related to social, economic, and environmental actions. Remote sensing comes into the scene as a great companion, as it offers a plethora of possibilities to analyze the evolution of urban areas over time, jointly, with a clear view on their actual state. As the available data are plentiful, the focus moves towards improving the methods that exploit such data, in the field of applications as well as data processing.
In this Special Issue, submissions in a broad range of “Big Data in Remote Sensing for Urban Mapping” related research and applications are encouraged. Topics may include but are not limited to:
- Urban big data processing, analysis and management;
- Multisensor and multiresolution data analysis/validation for urban mapping;
- Machine and deep learning for urban dynamics characterization;
- Land-use and land-cover change monitoring for urban areas;
- Large-scale 2D and 3D urban modeling;
- Urban planning with big data evaluation and assessment;
- Inference of environmental variables (e.g., socioeconomic indicators, population density, life-quality indicators, air pollution) for urban dynamics characterization;
- Interactive platforms for public access to scientific results on urban mapping.
Dr. Marian-Daniel Iordache
Prof. Begüm Demir
Dr. Claudio Persello
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Urban mapping
- Remote sensing
- Big data
- Machine/deep learning
- Data management and storage
- Cloud computing
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