Remote Sensing of Urban Vegetation and Its Applications

We are soliciting submissions for a Special Issue on the topic of remote sensing of urban vegetation, also known as “green infrastructure”. Vegetation, whether trees, shrubs, or herbaceous plants, plays an important role in cities that is becoming more critical as climate change increases urban temperatures and intensity of rainfall and runoff, among other things. Vegetation also fulfills critical functions with respect to recreation, property values, amenity value, and overall quality of life. However, vegetation also comes with tradeoffs, such as increased water consumption and maintenance costs. Because the role of urban vegetation varies greatly with respect to type, characteristics, and location, precise, continuously updated mapping is essential to enacting comprehensive management and planning strategies. Thanks to newer data types, such as LiDAR, and high-resolution classification techniques, such as object-based image analysis, urban vegetation can be mapped more precisely, more quickly, and with more attribution than ever before, and the study of how vegetation affects critical outcomes has been greatly facilitated. This Special Issue will look at 1) new methodological approaches towards mapping urban vegetation and quantifying its characteristics and 2) how remotely sensed data can be used to study the costs, benefits, and management implications of urban vegetation.

Dr. Austin Troy
Dr. Mehdi P. Heris
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Remote Sensing is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.