TOPICS OF SIG-URS

• Urban climatology, geology, and geohazards
  • Urban heat island (UHI) 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 sciences
  • Applications to vital statistics
  • RS and health
  • RS and GIS applications to social sciences
  • 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
  • Change detection
  • High spatial resolution satellite data
  • Pixel and object based classification
  • Unmixing
  • 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