Dear Colleagues,

Visual interpretation of 2D and 3D remote sensing data plays a vital role in addressing a wide variety of critical urban mapping tasks, including construction monitoring, forest investigation, population estimation, and urban land-cover mapping. In recent years, the rapid growth of machine learning techniques, especially deep learning-based ones, has significantly uncovered the potential for developing algorithms and broadening applications in the scenario of urban mapping, with less manual activities involved. In addition, an increasing amount of multiple sources with 2D and 3D urban datasets are becoming accessible, which provides rich and diverse information facilitating the development of data-driven methods and the application of smart data processing techniques. To this end, we present this Special Issue with the scope focusing on the cutting-edge intelligent interpretation for urban mapping based on 2D and 3D remote sensing data.

Potential topics for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to the following:  

• Learning-based algorithms for low-level remote sensing image processing, including image super-resolution, image denoising, image fusion, etc.
• Intelligent methods for 3D point cloud processing, including point cloud filtering, point cloud registration, etc.
• Advanced semantic interpretation methods of 2D images and 3D point clouds in urban scenarios, including semantic segmentation, scene classification, object detection, etc.
• Advanced data fusion methods based on machine learning techniques using 2D images and 3D point clouds
• Innovative mapping applications using multi-source 2D images and 3D point clouds

Manuscript Submission Information

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• Geopatial data
• Artifical intellegence
• Scene perception
• Semantic interpretation
• Sensor fusion