Week 01 - Urban Informatics for Smart Cities and Smart Sensing of Urban Environments

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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