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Advances in urban remote sensing for coastal sustainability
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.
Editors
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Hongsheng Zhang
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (zhanghs@hku.hk)
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Chengbin Deng
State University of New York at Binghamton, USA (cdeng@binghamton.edu)
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Yinyi Lin
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (yinyilin@hku.hk)
