Dear Colleagues,

Improvement and advances in frontier technologies present new and unique chances and challenges at the same time. While promising prosperity, they also present risks of inequality, and thus raise new ethical and moral dilemmas. However, the current world is focusing on 'emerging technology' and its impact on sustainable development. This can be observed at every level of our life.

Development of new technologies has led to developments in science and scientific methodology. Currently, we are able to use frontier technologies and techniques to describe reality; we can reach deeper and deeper in order to describe in great detail current problems and prospects. After all, generally speaking, frontier technology is the intersection where futurological forward thinking and real-world implementation and execution meet. For better understanding of that relationship, in recent years, modern measurement techniques have been increasingly used to describe problems around the globe.

This Special Issue concentrates on the impact and usage of modern measurement techniques for sustainable development in the Global North and Global South. The advances in frontier technologies have a huge influence on analyses of their economic, social and environmental impact. These technologies possess immense potential for fostering growth, prosperity and environmental sustainability and accelerating the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

This Special Issue is looking for original research papers and reviews that utilise data that is provided or processed by modern measurement techniques and focus on the proposal and the application of methods and policies to promote and measure sustainable development. Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, economic and social development, urban development, land planning, sustainable investments, land use, geomatics, geodesy, GIS, geography, geology and others.

Overall, we seek papers that describe reality using modern techniques. Thus, with the use of frontier technology/techniques, they will describe current issues related to sustainable development.

Dr. Kamil Maciuk
Dr. Michal Apollo
Dr. Paulina Lewińska
Guest Editors

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• environment
• sustainability
• urban development
• land planning
• sustainable investments
• land use
• geomatics
• geodesy
• GIS
• GNSS
• geography
• geology