Application of Remote Sensing in Urban Planning: Supporting Sustainable Land Use and Nature-Based Solution in Cities
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2025 | Viewed by 259
Special Issue Editor
Interests: spatial statistics; satellite image processing; vegetation mapping; geostatistical analysis; earth observation; landscape ecology; R programming; land use modelling; data science; python
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Remote sensing is increasingly recognized as a valuable tool for urban planning. With ever-evolving sensor designs and platforms, as well as enhanced analysis techniques such as machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), it is time to harness these developments and make them accessible to the areas in which the majority of people live: cities.
This Special Issue aims to present novel methods, extend knowledge in under-researched areas, and provide multi-city analyses, while highlighting the importance of these findings for urban planning and beyond. In addition, the various steps of decision making or decision support in multi-actor governance networks are of interest. In this way, remote sensing could be employed more actively for engagement, visioning and other important purposes. The relevance of these advances to practitioners can be emphasized by presenting results in interactive ways (dashboards, web applications, etc.), by linking them to social science concepts such as environmental justice, or associating them with overarching concepts such as sustainability or resilience.
The reproducibility of findings is important, and articles providing datasets and code are particularly welcome. I particularly welcome the submission of studies that address under-researched areas, such as rapidly growing medium-sized cities in the Global South.
I look forward to receiving your articles, questions and comments, so please do not hesitate to get in touch. Let us establish this timely Special Issue together and extend the already inspiring ideas to the remote sensing community and beyond; this is in order to promote the wider application of our data and tools in the planning and governance networks of cities.
Dr. Thilo Wellmann
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- remote sensing
- earth observation
- urban ecology
- urban planning
- governance
- artificial intelligence (AI)
- landscape ecology
- land use
- nature-based solutions (NbS)
- green and blue infrastructure (GBI)
- biodiversity
- environmental justice
- SDG 11
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