Call for papers for a special issue titled “Exploring the Potential of Urban Remote Sensing” in JSTARS

Call for papers for a special issue titled “Exploring the Potential of Urban Remote Sensing” in JSTARS

October 18, 2023

The Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE) took place in Heraklion in Greece in May this year: https://jurse2023.org/ https://remote-sensing.org/contributions-to-the-joint-urban-remote-sensing-event-1/

 

In combination with this event, a related JURSE special issue in the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing journal titled “Exploring the Potentiaö of Urban Remote Sensing” calls for papers. Deadline for submissions is the 31st of December 2023.

 

Please find the details of the call here: https://www.grss-ieee.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/cfp_JURSE23_revised.pdf

 

Guest editors are the local chairs of JURSE 2023 Nektarios Chrysoulakis and Giorgos Somarakis from FORTH, Greece, and the general JURSE chairs Hannes Taubenböck from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and our Earth Observation Research Cluster, Germany, Monika Kuffer from the University in Twente, The Netherlands, and Clément Mallet from the University Gustave Eiffel, IGN, ENSG, France.

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