- 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
