Remote Sensing Technologies and Applications in Urban Environments IX

The global urbanization constitutes an epochal transformation of the Earth. According to the United Nations in 2050, around 75% of the world population will be living in cities. This development poses unprecedented challenges regarding environmental problems and energy demand, population density, transportation, infrastructure and new forms of mobility and sharing, migration and demographic change linked to aspects of vulnerability and environmental justice, and finally climate change, sustainability and resilience. In any case, the urban environment plays a major role in the development of humanity and the quality of life of the individual citizen needs to be strengthened.

Remote Sensing Technologies and Applications offer a wealth of possibilities and opportunities to monitor the urban environment, to support planning processes, to enhance the availability of relevant information, to shape the resilient and sustainable city and to improve the quality of life of citizens. To achieve these objectives a combination of remote sensing and imaging with Big Data science, citizen science, numerical and statistical modelling as well as AI and machine learning is highly welcome.

The conference aims further at highlighting the role of the remote sensing and imaging community to implement the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations in particular, but not limited to, Sustainable Cities and Communities (11), Climate Action (13), Good Health and Well-being (3), and Build Resilient Infrastructure and Foster Innovation (9).

We invite papers related to advanced remote sensing technologies, applications and information systems focusing on the urban environment that push beyond the state-of-the-art. These include:

Remote Sensing of Urban Air Quality and Climate

• air pollution and greenhouse gas monitoring using satellites, aerial planes, UAV and mobile platforms
• urban atmosphere and local climate zones
• urban climate under global climate change
• CO₂ emissions, capture and sequestration
• urban energy budget and heat fluxes
• integrated urban climate services
• urban heat island.
  

Remote Sensing for Urban Resilience and Urban Planning

• urban land surface information extraction
• urban morphology, infrastructure and traffic
• urban land cover and biodiversity
• urban planning indicators
• sustainable urbanization and adapting and transforming towards sustainability
• strategies with respect to natural disasters
• urban metabolism
• nature-based solutions.
  

Smart Cities

• AI methods and machine learning for mapping and monitoring
• Big Data science and applications
• Digital Twins
• crowd sourcing and microsensors
• data assimilation (combining measurements and models)
• information services and mobile applications
• quality of life services and support to people at risk.