Themes
A large number of thematic areas may be addressed by the conference, such as amongst but not limited to:
- Remote sensing methods for urban mapping (HR Multispectral, HR Hyperspectral, VHR, LiDAR, SAR, inSAR, Thermal Infrared)
- multi-sensor, multi-scale and multi-temporal approaches to urban mapping
- global mapping and monitoring of human settlements
- detailed urban land cover and land use mapping
- urban change detection
- 3D mapping of cities
- modelling of urban development and growth patterns
- characterisation of urban areas
- urban mapping and population distribution
- mapping of informal settlements
- nature based solutions (urban greening, urban ecology)
- resilient cities (including disaster risk reduction in cities)
- urban climatology (urban heat islands, urban air quality)
- urban subsidence
- citizen science and crowd sourcing
- platforms and tools for urban applications
- EO integration in urban social science
- EO integration into urban development agendas (SDGs, Sendai Framework, New Urban Agenda)