Geodata Science and Spatial Analysis with Remote Sensing

Dear Colleagues,

Global warming and climate change have become indisputable facts. The Earth has decisively entered the Anthropocene phase. A series of resource, environment, and ecology issues have arisen due to continuous anthropic activities, particularly industrialization and urbanization. For example, air pollutants and toxic metals have had significant negative effects on public health and the environment.  Sustainable development has been severely influenced by a variety of issues such as air contamination, water pollution, heavy metal pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, organic pollution, and microplastic pollution.

To address the above issues, it is necessary to consider the environmental parameters and resource conditions, analyze the dynamics of each parameter and resource, identify the main ecological and environmental issues on a regional and global scale, and predict the trends for these environmental elements. The outcomes can supply scientific support to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the United Nations.

Remote sensing technology supplies a new perspective to monitoring environmental parameters and resources due to its capacity for fast detection, wide spatial coverage, and multiple spectral characteristics. Notably, the limited number of ground monitoring stations which can help to manage environmental issues can be effectively compensated for with the use of remote sensing technology. Remote sensing technology has been widely used to record and assess ecological parameters. Meanwhile, previous studies have also used nighttime light remote sensing images as a proxy to predict social–economic parameters such as population density, GDP, and electricity consumption. Furthermore, some previous studies took advantage of hyperspectral remote sensing to analyze the pollutant concentrations in soils, the air, vegetation, and water bodies. It is clear that remote sensing technology plays an important role in data collection and further spatial analysis. With an increasing number fine-resolution sensors being launched, it is clear that the role of remote sensing will be more significant in the future.

Hence, it is urgent that we conduct related research in the field of geodata science and spatial analysis with remote sensing. The objective of this Special Issue is to publish papers with new perspectives and viewpoints on the use of remote sensing techniques in the field of geodata science and spatial analysis. This Special Issue mainly seeks to utilize remote sensing techniques, spatial analysis methods, models, and numerical simulations to address complicated social, economic, resource, ecology, and environmental issues. Articles are not limited to the above-mentioned topics, and articles on other topics related to remote sensing are also encouraged.

Prof. Dr. Qiangqiang Yuan
Dr. Bin Guo
Dr. Sergio Bernardes
Guest Editors

Prof. Dr. Hailiang Jia
Guest Editor Assistant
Email: hailiang.jia@xust.edu.cn
College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China
Homepage: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nxzyyWkAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN
Interests: rock mechanics; rock damage; hydraulic fracturing; heat and mass transfer in porous rock; rock weathering

Dr. Xiaowei Zhu
Guest Editor Assistant
Email: xz3@pdx.edu
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA
Homepage: https://www.pdx.edu/profile/xiaowei-luke-zhu
Interests: heat transfer; air pollutant dispersion; urban environments

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• air pollutants
• heavy metals
• nighttime light
• data-driven models
• hyperspectral remote sensing
• coupled CFD-GIS