Computational Urban Science - Call for papers: Advances in urban remote sensing for coastal sustainability

The following special issue in Computational Urban Science is open for submissions. The submission deadline is Dec 31, 2022. The manuscript can be submitted at any time before the deadline. Once it is accepted (after peer review), it will be published online immediately with open access and social media promotion.

Call for papers:

Advances in urban remote sensing for coastal sustainability

Guest Editors:

Hongsheng Zhang, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (zhanghs@hku.hk)

Chengbin Deng, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA (cdeng@binghamton.edu)

Yinyi Lin,  The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (yinyilin@hku.hk)

Aims and Scope:

Recent decades have witnessed rapid and intensive urbanization processes in coastal regions, accompanied by the urban population surge, urban infrastructure expansion and tourism development, which brings along different social and environmental impacts, i.e., biodiversity loss, ecosystem fragmentation, and climate change induced vulnerability for human beings. Sustainable coastal development addresses the significance of timely and efficiently monitoring the urban process together with its related issues in coastal regions, including urban sprawl, transportation system, green space, biodiversity, air/water pollution, urban heat island, disaster, and etc. The advanced multisource remote sensing techniques including airborne and spaceborne optical, SAR, LiDAR at different resolution together with in-situ data can provide fine to coarse multi-angle, multi-scale and multi-frequency observations for coastal urban monitoring. This special issue invites original papers that present the advances, methodology, and challenges of monitoring different urban processes and its related issues in coastal regions using multisource remote sensed data. We hope this will contribute to the multisource urban remote sensing theory, methods, and models, and further support the inclusive, resilient, safe and sustainable coastal urban development.

Submitted manuscripts could cover but not limited to the following themes:

·       Multisource/multi-model remote sensing fusion

·       Urban land use/land cover change monitoring in coastal areas

·       Remote sensing of urban built-up environment, transportation networks, green spaces, soil status, biodiversity, etc. in coastal areas

·       Assessing urban environmental problems: air quality, flooding, urban heat island, disasters, etc. in coastal areas

·       Data acquisition and analysis from other new sources: LiDAR, sUAS, videography, etc.

Please submit your article here:  https://www.editorialmanager.com/cusc/ (this opens in a new tab)

When submitting your article, please select the designated Thematic Series in the "additional information Questionnaire" (the fourth step). 

Articles will undergo all of the journal's standard peer review and editorial processes outlined in its submission guidelines. (this opens in a new tab)