Smart Sensors and Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Urban and Territorial Planning, Management and Monitoring
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Intelligent Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 2201
Special Issue Editors
Interests: intelligent transportation systems (ITS); microsimulation; artificial intelligence; road safety; public transport
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Interests: methods and models for urban and territorial planning; management and control; remote sensing techniques for the monitoring and control of territorial transformations processes
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the last few years, rapid population growth has led to the unplanned urbanization and uncontrolled built-up development determining negative impacts, such as soil consumption, farmland loss, the depletion of natural resources, loss of ecosystem services and pressure on urban resilience, which represent a serious threat to assets and lives.
Recent technological advances in sensors and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have led to the development of sustainable urban and territorial planning, management and monitoring processes, encouraging the efficient use of land and the decodification of natural and anthropic hazards.
Multi-temporal RS data, including optical RS data, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data, street view images, and combined heterogeneous data, can, for example, provide abundant information to identify land use and land cover (LULC) changes in a specific area across a period of time and a rapid mapping of degraded areas, playing a fundamental role in more effectively and efficiently reducing the disruptive environmental, social and economic impacts of critical situations.
This Special Issue encourages original and high-quality studies on the use of innovative technologies for urban and territorial planning, management and monitoring, focusing on, but not limited to, sustainable land development through the analysis of LULC and the implementation of innovative natural and anthropic hazards mitigation measures. In addition, this Special Issue will accept review manuscripts that show the state-of-the-art and potential of both advanced systems and applications on the topic of intelligent solutions for sustainable urban and territorial planning, management and monitoring.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Mobile apps and AI-integrated applications for sustainable urban and territorial planning, management and monitoring.
- Remote sensing data-based methodologies for sustainable urban and territorial planning, management and monitoring.
- Simulation, deployment, and tested software platforms for sustainable urban and territorial planning, management and monitoring.
- Accessibility, resilience, and security of IoT infrastructures for sustainable urban and territorial planning, management and monitoring.
- AI techniques for devices and embedded systems for sustainable urban and territorial planning, management and monitoring.
- Review manuscripts on intelligent advanced systems and their applications for sustainable urban and territorial planning, management and monitoring.
Dr. Alessandro Vitale
Prof. Mauro Francini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable urban and territorial planning, management and monitoring
- spatial planning
- efficient land use
- land use and land cover mapping and changes
- natural hazards and anthropic disasters
- big data analytics
- artificial intelligence models
- deep learning and machine learning methods
- smart sensors
- multi-source remote sensing data
- simulations and tested software platforms for remote sensing data processing
