Dear Colleagues,

Although ornamental trees in urban environments are beneficial for people considering psychological, well-being, and aesthetic aspects, they also are a relevant cause of allergy due to the released airborne pollen, which is often overlooked by urban planners. Due to the increasing urban population and because they are simultaneously affected by the exposure to other pollutants, affecting also the allergenicity power for their pollen grains, this number of sensitized people is predicted to increase in the future.

Thus, the evaluation of local factors influencing pollen dispersion, mapping the sources within the cities and possible modeling, can be used to enhance urban air quality and to detect possible non-obvious patterns within this distribution and their effects. These issues should be other elements to consider in green infrastructure design and urban environmental planning. This Special Issue aims to enlighten how GIS and remote sensing techniques can be useful to reach an enhancement in urban air quality by studying aerobiological particles and their emission sources. 

Dr. Jose María Maya Manzano
Dr. Jose Antonio Oteros Moreno
Dr. Jesús Rojo Úbeda
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Remote Sensing is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• Aerobiology
• Botany
• Ecology
• Pollen modeling
• Remote sensing
• GIS
• Geo statistics
• Mapping sources
• Urban landscape
• Ornamental trees