Estimating the Ecological Services of Urban Green Infrastructures Using Remote Sensing
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 138
Special Issue Editors
Interests: remote sensing; urban sustainability; greenhouse gases; air pollutants; precision agriculture
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Interests: remote sensing; geographic information systems; climate change; precision agriculture
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The urban population is rapidly increasing, with approximately 90% expected to live in cities by 2100. As urban environments are hot spots for greenhouse gas and pollutant emissions and are set to become even denser, sustainable urban living requires careful and well-informed planning to mitigate these emissions effectively. Urban green infrastructures are a common solution, typically considered a net sink for CO2. They also reduce the urban heat island effect through evapotranspiration and enhance the comfort of city dwellers through shading. However, due to the heterogeneous nature of urban land use, accurately isolating and quantifying its ecological services is challenging.
This Special Issue aims to showcase studies exploring various aspects of using remote sensing to better understand the contribution of green infrastructures to urban sustainability and to estimate their ecological service capacity. Urban green infrastructures (UGIs) are defined as urban green ecosystems that include vegetation, soil, and built elements and can range from a single tree in the street to an urban forest. Contributions utilizing all remote sensing platforms (e.g., satellites, planes, and drones) and sensors (e.g., spectral, thermal, and LiDAR) are welcome. Articles may address, but are not limited to, the following topics in combination with remote sensing and UGIs:
- Preprocessing remote sensing imagery for the study of UGI, e.g., classification and downscaling;
- Carbon cycle of UGIs;
- UGIs evapotranspiration and urban heat island effect;
- Shading of UGI and walkability;
- UGI planning and management to increase urban sustainability;
- Biodiversity of UGIs and its impact on their ecological services;
- LULC change in vegetation and its impact on urban sustainability.
Dr. Oz Kira
Prof. Dr. Arnon Karnieli
Guest Editors
Mr. Julius Bamah
Guest Editor Assistant
Affiliation: The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel
Email: [email protected]/[email protected]
Interests: environmental monitoring; solar induced chlorophyll fluorescence; GIS; remote sensing of environment; image processing
Mr. Alexander Takele Muleta
Guest Editor Assistant
Affiliation: The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel
Email: [email protected]/[email protected]
Interests: environmental monitoring; solar induced chlorophyll fluorescence; GIS; remote sensing of environment; image processing
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Keywords
- urban sustainability
- urban green infrastructures
- urban ecological services
- vegetation classification
- carbon cycle
- evapotranspiration
- urban heat islands
- shading
