Mission
Urban Areas are growing rapidly in all countries of the world. Urban growth
and its associated problems are very challenging tasks in which remote sensing
imageries could help to get up-to-date information. During the last decades and
especially during the last few years we recognized rapid advances in the imaging
technology (e.g. high spatial resolution and 3D) and in the digital image analysis techniques.
According to the growing awareness of urban areas, agglomerations and mega
cities more and more scientists focus on topic related to them. To further
support research and information exchange in this area EARSeL established the
SIG "Urban Remote Sensing".
This new SIG is chaired by Prof.Dr. Carsten Jürgens from Ruhr-University
Bochum, Germany and Prof. Dr.Derya Maktav from Istanbul Technical University,
Turkey (see 'Contacts').
If you have any comments, ideas or suggestions relating this SIG please do not
hesitate to contact us. Besides, clicking on the 'membership' you can be a
member of the Group and also see the list of our members.