Urban Green and Blue Infrastructure Monitoring Using Remote Sensing: Current Progress and Future Vision
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2024 | Viewed by 23177
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban ecology; remote sensing; urban greenspace; spatial pattern; urban heat island; landscape ecology
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: Integrated risk assessment; ecosystem service; resilience; vulnerability; urban agglomeration
Interests: urban ecology; remote sensing; urban sustainability; GIS modelling
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Urban green and blue infrastructures provide myriad ecosystem services (ESs) that are fundamental to human well-being and urban sustainability. Remote sensing has long been used to quantify the spatial and temporal patterns of urban green and blue infrastructures, and their linkage to ecological function and services. With the improvement of temporal, spatial and spectral resolution, remote sensing data has been increasingly becoming the main data sources for describing and monitoring urban landscapes. Particularly, the wide availability of high-resolution imagery, hyperspectral imagery, LiDAR data, and microwave remote sensing data offers new opportunities to better understand the structure and function of urban green and blue infrastructure.
The Special Issue aims to enhance our understanding on the applications of remote sensing, especially high-resolution imagery, hyperspectral imagery, LiDAR data, and microwave remote sensing data in urban green and blue infrastructure monitoring. We particularly welcome new approaches, new algorithms, and new data that can be applied to improve the accuracy and efficiency of quantifying the spatiotemporal patterns of urban green and blue infrastructures. But topics may cover anything from classical urban land cover classification and estimation of urban greenspace and water variables, to spatial pattern analysis, landscape dynamics, urban ecological and environmental problems, urban planning and management, and more comprehensive aims. We welcome studies conducted at the local scale, or city scale, or regional and global scales.
The topics of this Special Issue include but are not limited to:
- Urban land cover classification;
- Urban greenspace variables inventory;
- Urban water variables inventory;
- Spatial pattern analysis;
- Landscape dynamics;
- Urban planning and management;
- Remote sensing data fusion;
- Remote sensing monitoring;
- Urban biodiversity;
- Urban water pollution;
- Urban heat island.
Dr. Weiqi Zhou
Dr. Xiaoqian Liu
Dr. Zhonghao Zhang
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- Urban greenspace
- Urban ecology
- Urban water
- Urban wetland
- Spatial pattern
- Urban landscape
- Urban dynamics
- Urban biodiversity
- Urban resilience
- Remote sensing data fusion
- Remote sensing monitoring
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Study on forest resources evaluation in typical mining area based on hyper spectral remote sensing
Authors: Xiaodong Huang; Xiaoxian Yan; Sike Ma
Affiliation: College of Applied Arts and Science of Beijing Union University Beijing, 100191
Title: Integrated ecological risk evaluation of drilling machines in Yellow River delta
Authors: Jiantao Liu
Affiliation: School of Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Shandong Jianzhu University
Title: Changes of vegetation photosynthesis and response to water constraint in the Yangtze River and Yellow River Basin, China
Authors: Anzhou Zhao
Affiliation: School of urban planning and design, Peking University, 100871,China
Title: Estimating aboveground carbon stock at the scale of individual trees in subtropical forest using UAV LiDAR and hyperspectral data
Authors: Haiming Qin
Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 10085, China
Title: Mapping urban greenspace using high spatial resolution imagery
Authors: Luis Inostroza
Affiliation: Geographisches Institut, IA 6-115 Fakultät für Geowissenschaften, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, German
Title: Remote sensing data fusion for urban green and blue space mapping
Authors: Zhonghao Zhang,
Affiliation: Institutional information: Institute of Urban Studies, School of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, 200234, China