Urban Resilience with Remote Sensing—Observation, Measurement, Evaluation and Applications II
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Remote Sensing".
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Interests: urban remote sensing; digital image analysis; big remote sensing data analysis; nightlight remote sensing
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Interests: coastal ecosystems and sustainability; coastal remote sensing; land use/land cover change; multi-sensor data fusion
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Interests: urban remote sensing; nightlight remote sensing; remote sensing image analysis; GIS; spatial analysis
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Interests: urban remote sensing; urban sustainability; big earth data process and analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are launching the second Special Issue of Remote Sensing to be released under the title “Urban Resilience with Remote Sensing—Observation, Measurement, Evaluation and Applications”.
In recent decades, the world has witnessed rapid urbanization, and the urban population is projected to rise to 80% by 2050. The high density of urban areas makes them especially vulnerable to both the impacts of acute disasters and the effects of the changing climate. It is thus critical that we address sustainability challenges facing cities by taking steps such as poverty reduction, disaster reduction and prevention, climate change mitigation, environmental sustainability maintenance, and social inclusion measures. These efforts towards urban resilience not only offer to help individuals, communities, and business cope with multiple stresses; they also allow for the exploitation of opportunities for transformational development, constituting the primary focus of many global agencies, such as the World Bank, UN, and GEO.
The urban resilience framework is multidimensional in nature, consisting of four core dimensions: leadership and strategy, health and well-being, economy and society, and infrastructure and environment. Remote sensing has been applied to the monitoring of urban infrastructure and environments in various ways. With recent advances in remote sensing in terms of spatial, temporal, and spectral resolutions and data processing algorithms, remote sensing is expected to provide important observations and tools for monitoring, evaluating, and modeling urban resilience. To help global cities persevere through future challenges, while also positively adapting and moving towards sustainability, this Special Issue invites for original research papers covering topics including, but not limited to:
- Urban spatial structure and development;
- Urban green space;
- Implementation of new technologies toward resilient cities;
- Urban transportation systems and development;
- Urban infrastructure and building health monitoring;
- Climate impacts on urban areas;
- Urban flooding: prediction, monitoring, and mitigation;
- Remote observations for resilient cities;
- Urban heat island;
- Urban carbon emissions;
- Remote-sensing-based urban resilient index;
- Urban resilience evaluation and modeling with remote sensing data as well as other data;
- Case studies;
- Dedicated hardware and software solutions.
Prof. Dr. Qingling Zhang
Dr. Hongsheng Zhang
Prof. Dr. Noam Levin
Dr. Zhongchang Sun
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urban resilience
- global change
- change detection
- multisource data fusion
- signal processing and data mining
- artificial intelligence
- urban science
- sustainability
- resilient cities
