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September 2017
PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing (PE&RS)
August 2018 Special Issue Call for Papers
“Remote Sensing of Urban Environment”
Although only occupying a small proportion of Earth’s terrestrial surface, the
cities hold more than 50% of the world population and produce more than 90% of
the global economy. In the process of urbanization, some severe environmental
problems arise, such as urban congestion, air pollution, vegetation loss, water con-
tamination, and urban heat island, etc. In this context, monitoring and assessing
of urban environment are essential for urban planners and policy makers to better
manage and develop cities. Remote sensing techniques have been widely applied in
investigation of urban environment since it can offer a huge amount of Earth Ob-
servation data at local, regional, and global scale. New and improved methods as
well as practicable applications related to urban environment are urgently needed
in order to facilitate the recognition of urban function.
This special issue will focus on the state-of-the-art and the newly developed meth-
odologies and applications for urban environment monitoring from the remote
sensing data. It is expected to bring together researchers from different fields to
present their promising achievements and discuss the future directions. Submis-
sions may address, but are not limited to the following topics:
Urban heat island
Urban air quality
Urban information retrieval (e.g., buildings, roads, impervious layer, vegeta-
tion species)
Urban land cover/use mapping and updating
Urban climate change
Urban landscape and development pattern
Urbanization
Multisource (e.g. multi-angular, multi-temporal, multi-sensor) remote sensing
data fusion
New data and sensors for urban remote sensing (e.g. volunteered geographic
information)
Algorithms and techniques for interpreting urban remote sensing data (e.g.
machine learning)
Urban scene understanding and monitoring
We seek original and novel contributions on such topics. All submissions will be
peer-reviewed in line with
PE&RS
policy. Because of page limits, not all submis-
sions recommended for acceptance by the review panel may be included in the spe-
cial issue. Under this circumstance, the guest editors will select the most relevant
papers for inclusion in the special issue. Papers that are reviewed favorably, but
will not fit within the Special Issue, can be revised for publication consideration
in a future regular issue of
PE&RS
. Authors must prepare manuscripts according
to the
PE&RS
Instructions to Authors, published in each issue of
PE&RS
and
also available on the ASPRS website at
.
Please submit your manuscript via the website
When submitting, in the cover letter to the editor, please
explicitly indicate that your manuscript is for the special issue of “Remote Sensing
of Urban Environment”.
Important Dates
Manuscripts Due
September 31, 2017
Notification to authors
December 31, 2017
Final papers due
March 31, 2018
Publication
August 1, 2018
Guest Editors
Prof. Xin Huang
School of Remote Sensing and Infor-
mation Engineering, Wuhan Univer-
sity, P.R. China
Dr. Michael Ying Yang
ITC, University of Twente
The Netherlands
Prof. Rongjun Qin
Department of Civil, Environmental
and Geodetic Engineering
The Ohio State University, USA
Department of Electrical and Com-
puter Engineering
