New data & sensors for urban area remote sensing

• SAR

• InSAR

• Airborne and terrestrial LiDAR

• VHR optical orbital and airborne sensors and data

• Hyperspectral sensors and data

• Thermal IR sensors and data

• UAVs and airborne sensors

Structure detection and characterization in urban areas

• Change detection techniques

• Classification algorithms

• Multitemporal analysis

• Feature extraction methods

• Calibration and correction approaches

Algorithms and techniques for remotely sensed data interpretation in urban areas

• Building extraction and reconstruction

• Road and road network extraction

• Vehicle detection and traffic monitoring

• Urban area extraction

• Land use and land cover mapping

• Data mining

Algorithms and techniques for urban area applications

• Urban modeling

• Urban area trend monitoring

• Urban heat island monitoring

• Urban atmosphere monitoring

• GIS & remote sensing data fusion

Urban climatology, geology, and geohazards

• Urban heat island effects

• Air quality assessment

• Subsidence

• Hydrology

• Earthquake/Volcanic/ falling, landslide and debris flow geological hazards

• Coastal hazards

• Environmental monitoring (soil, groundwater contaminant studies)

RS applications to social science

• Applications to vital statistics

• RS and health

• RS and GIS applications to social science

• Applications to security and emergency

• Applications to "World Expo" and "Olympic Games"

• RS and GIS applications in archaeology

RS applications to urban planning and conservation

• Urban planning

• Transportation planning

• Digital city

• Urban conservation

• Urban simulation based on RS

• Cultural heritage

Urban development and growth pattern

• Urban development modeling

• Contributions to urban trajectory theory

• Detailed structure change

• Smart growth

Urban and peri-urban ecology

• Urban and peri-urban landscape ecology

• Urban and peri-urban ecological process modeling

• Comparative studies