Data Fusion for Urban Applications
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 51122
Special Issue Editors
Interests: remote sensing; image analysis; interpretation; data fusion; simulation
Interests: remote sensing; data fusion; machine learning; geospatial data science
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Interests: remote sensing; image processing; data fusion; machine learning; disaster management; environmental monitoring
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Remote Sensing applications for urban areas are of major importance as the majority of human population is concentrated in these regions. Looking at reported literature, data from different sensors have been acquired, e.g., in order to characterize the nature of city areas, monitor urban development over time or detect changes after unexpected events. In this context, the unification of information from multimodal sensors in urban applications has always been very welcome, but so far hard to solve. On the one hand, finding appropriate strategies for combining the complementary information is difficult. On the other hand, the assignment of multi-modal information to entities of urban scenes is often not unambiguous. An increase of the spatial resolution of image data does not necessarily help but even tightens the conditions for useful solutions.
This Special Issue is devoted to strategies and methods for fusing multi-modal data in the context of urban remote sensing. As a general guideline, complementary sources should be combined in order to gain improved information about urban areas.
Submitting authors are encouraged to address one of the following topics in the context of remote sensing data (not exclusively):
- Enhancement of urban applications through exploitation of complementary information provided by data from multiple sensors, multiple sources and multi-temporal acquisitions;
- Integration of external prior knowledge into urban remote sensing;
- Fusion of information from remote sensing and non-typical Earth observation data sources (terrestrial data, data from social media, etc.) for improved understanding of urban problems;
- 2-D, 3-D and multi-dimensional data fusion for urban analysis;
- Multi-view fusion for exploiting different perspectives on urban elements;
- Data fusion for urban tasks conducted on data level, feature level, or decision level;
- Urban applications on different resolution levels (spatial, spectral, temporal).
Dr. Stefan Auer
PD Dr. Michael Schmitt
Dr. Naoto Yokoya
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Data fusion
- Image fusion
- Multi-sensor fusion
- Multi-source fusion
- Urban applications
- City monitoring
- Change detection
- Multi-resolution data
- Multi-temporal data
- Multi-spectral data
- Accuracy assessment
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