Urban Modeling: Simulating Urban Growth and Subsequent Landscape Change
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 14401
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban growth; remote sensing; urban growth modeling; scenarios
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Monitoring and modeling land use and cover changes (LUCC) associated with urbanization are of great importance to understanding how urban expansion and subsequent landscape changes interact with ecological and social processes. Many computational urban growth models were developed and applied in order to improve our understanding of spatial urban expansion dynamics and behavior, develop hypotheses, and predict or project future LUCC. Several reviews show that these existing models vary widely in underlying the theoretical assumptions and methodological approaches. Most of them are based on an empirical modeling framework using historical, remotely sensed images and biophysical and socio-economic data. Despite recent advances, urban growth modeling continues to raise several issues, particularly those related to the calibration and validation processes. Therefore, there is a need to continue developing new algorithms and innovative methodological approaches in order to capture the dynamic and non-linear human–environment processes that drive complex urban growth changes.
This Special Issue aims at collecting new developments and methodologies about your recent research on urban growth modeling. Accordingly, we would like to invite you to submit articles that provide the community with the most recent advancements, practices, and applications on all aspects of urban growth modeling and simulation, including, but not limited to, the following:
- New approaches and models for urban growth modeling and simulation;
- Developing robust methods and algorithms for model calibration and validation;
- 3D modeling of urban growth;
- Uncertainty, remote sensing data, and scales requirements for urban growth and subsequent landscape changes modeling;
- Non-stationarity of land use changes in calibrating and validating urban growth models;
- Emerging and innovative methods of urban growth scenarios development;
- Urban growth models to support adaptation decision, strategic planning, and sustainability assessment of urban land-use policy;
- Comparative studies of urban growth models;
- Comparative applications of urban growth simulations to various urban contexts.
Dr. Rahim Aguejdad
Dr. Thomas Houet
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urbanization
- urban growth
- modeling and simulation
- model calibration and validation
- uncertainty
- non-stationary urban growth
- urban remote sensing
- land use and cover change
- landsacpe change
- sustainable urban development scenarios
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