Sustainable Development: Role of Geospatial Modeling, AI and Remote Sensing
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability in Geographic Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2024) | Viewed by 11199
Special Issue Editors
Interests: spatial-temporal analysis and its applications to crime, public health, and human sustainability; data mining, natural language processing (NLP), and their applications on social media big data; substance abuse epidemic and drug problem
Interests: remote sensing applications applied to Arctic snow, lake hydrology, water resources, cryospheric processes, and global climate change; using a variety of advanced remote sensing technologies and geospatial analysis methods to quantify and analyze rapid environmental changes in the hydrosphere and cryosphere within the context of global climate change
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Interests: cutting-edge technologies in GIS and remote sensing, including machine learning and AI in GIS, UAV remote sensing, coastal ecosystem monitoring, wildfire mapping, urban heat, urban crime, and urban transportation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development of the United Nations proposes 17 goals to improve the lives and prospects of everyone, everywhere, for now and in the future. The aim of this is to ensure a sustainable world and society where we preserve the health and vitality of the natural environment and human society so that future generations can inhabit happily and bountifully. The advancement in geographic information science and technology (GIS&T) will be a vital part of this process. GIS&T can be an important tool in the various stages of sustainable development: scope exploration, project design, data collection, data analysis, results exhibition, strategy proposition, policy implementation, and more. Meanwhile, GIS&T also has a scientific significance as it can discover and create new knowledge to help build a sustainable world. Thus, multiple disciplines related to sustainability are using GIS&T, for instance, geography, geology, community planning, environmental studies, agriculture, economics, engineering, ecology, sociology, emergency management, public safety and health, history, political science, etc.
In this Special Issue, we cordially invite your expertise and innovations through the submission of papers that demonstrate applications of GIS&T, e.g., a geographic information system (GIS), remote sensing, database development and management, crowdsourcing, geo-visualization, spatio-temporal modeling, quantitative/qualitative analysis, programming, machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), etc., on building a sustainable society and making it a better world. We welcome the submission of original research articles and reviews that address the following issues using GIS&T:
- Environmental sustainability: climate change, clean water, clean energy, habitats, deforestation, desertification, pollution, soil erosion, land sliding, coastal monitoring and management, etc.;
- Human sustainability: crime, safety, public health, traffic congestion, housing, overcrowding, urban heat island, knowledge and education, etc.;
- Social and economic sustainability: poverty, unemployment, well-being, equality, accessibility, etc.
Dr. Minxuan Lan
Dr. Song Shu
Dr. Bo Yang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- GIS
- remote sensing (RS)
- spatial analysis
- artificial intelligence (AI)
- environment
- human society
- sustainable development
- climate change
- public safety and health
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