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Lecturers from Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Smart Cities Research Institute (SCRI)

Prof. ZHU Xiaolin

Associate Professor in the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-informatics

Member of Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Smart Cities Research Institute

 

Topic Overview:

This lecture introduces urban informatics, an interdisciplinary science that increasingly underpins the development of efficient, sustainable smart cities. It then begins a technical exploration of the urban-informatics approach by providing an overview of advanced remote sensing technologies for monitoring the urban environment.

 

Key Topics:

 

  1. Urban informatics for smart and sustainable cities
    • Key concepts, scopes, and academic framework of urban informatics
    • Development history and consciousness building of urban informatics
    • Research agenda of urban informatics
  2. Advanced remote sensing technologies for monitoring the urban environment
    • Introduction of daytime and nighttime remote sensing technologies
    • Challenges and solutions in all-weather monitoring

 

Teaching Format

Lecture and case studies

 

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