Remote Sensing and GIS Integration Theories, Methods, and Applications

Over the past three to four decades, there has been an explosive increase in the use of remotely sensed data for various types of resource, environmental, and urban studies. The evolving capability of geographic information systems (GIS) makes it possible for computer systems to handle geospatial data in a more efficient and effective way. The attempt to take advantage of these data and modern geospatial technologies to investigate natural and human systems and to model and predict their behaviors over time has resulted in voluminous publications with the label integration. Indeed, since the 1990s, the remote sensing and GIS literature witnessed a lot of research efforts from both the remote sensing and GIS communities to push the integration of these two related technologies into a new frontier of scientific inquiry.