Week 01 - Urban Informatics for Smart Cities and Smart Sensing of Urban Environments | PolyU Academy for Interdisciplinary Research (PAIR)

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

Chair Professor of Geographical Information Science and Remote Sensing in the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-informatics

Director of Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Smart Cities Research Institute

+852 2766 5975
john.wz.shi@polyu.edu.hk

Prof. ZHU Xiaolin

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

Member of Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Smart Cities Research Institute

+852 2766 5976
xiaolin.zhu@polyu.edu.hk

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:

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
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