Urban Remote Sensing

Yanhua ChenYanhua Chen is a doctoral student at the Department of Geography, the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include remote sensing, ecosystem services, and machine learning.

Alexandra A. ChudnovskyAlexandra Chudnovsky is an Associate Professor of Geography at the Tel‐Aviv University, Israel. Her research focuses on the understanding of ecological effects of air pollutants through integrating state‐of‐the‐art remote sensing techniques with GIS, environmental engineering, and advanced statistics. Using high‐resolution satellite measurements of aerosols, she evaluated the contribution of local and regional pollution sources to the urban air quality, which include anthropogenic activities in and outside cities and natural sources such as desert dusts. She authored or coauthored over 50 peer‐reviewed publications.

Sam CooperSam Cooper is a doctoral researcher at the Earth Observation Lab of the Humboldt‐Universität zu Berlin, Germany. He received his BS in Ecology and Environmental Sciences and MS in Geography from South Dakota State University, USA. His research interests focus on the use of remote sensing for mapping and monitoring natural and semi‐natural ecosystems, especially investigating the capability of imaging spectroscopy for such endeavors.

Jeroen DegerickxJeroen Degerickx completed his PhD track on urban remote sensing at Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven, Belgium in 2019, during which he focused on using hyperspectral and LiDAR data to characterize the urban environment. Currently, he is employed as R&D professional at the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO) in Mol, Belgium, where he is building remote sensing applications in the domains of agricultural monitoring and smart farming. His personal mission is to harness the power of remote sensing for a more sustainable planet.

Sha FengSha Feng is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA. Her research centers on carbon cycle science, particularly in the regional numerical modeling, an area in which she has played a leading role. She serves as a proposal review panelist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Department of Energy, as well as a manuscript reviewer for more than 16 journals.

Dorothy FurbergDorothy Furberg recently obtained her doctoral degree in Geoinformatics from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. She obtained a master’s degree in international relations and worked for an environmental NGO in Geneva, Switzerland before taking up environmental engineering studies in Stockholm. She is currently a geodata project manager at the city environment unit of Stockholm City’s traffic office. Her main research interest is in the use of geographic information in support of sustainable urban development and environmental conservation in growing metropolitan regions, particularly Stockholm, Sweden.

Song GaoSong Gao is an Assistant Professor in GIScience at the University of Wisconsin‐Madison, USA. He holds a PhD degree in Geography at the University of California‐Santa Barbara, a M.S. degree in Cartography and GIS at Peking University, and a B.S. degree in GIS at the School of Geography, Beijing Normal University. His main research interests include Place‐Based GIS, GeoAI, Geospatial Big Data, and Social Sensing. He is the author of over 40 book chapters, journal, and conference papers. He is currently a board member of CPGIS and AAG GISS Specialty Group and an Associate Editor for Annals of GIS .

Taïs GrippaTaïs Grippa is a Geographer and Geomatician at the Institute for Environmental Management and Land‐use Planning (IGEAT), the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He received his PhD in 2019. His research activities mainly focus on using state‐of‐the‐art and open‐source GIS, remote sensing, and machine learning solutions for mapping land cover and land use from very high‐resolution satellite imagery.

Uta HeidenUta Heiden received her PhD in Urban Spectroscopy from the Technical University of Berlin and the German Research Centre for Geosciences in 2003. Currently, she is with the Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). She is interested in airborne and spaceborne imaging spectroscopy with a focus on material‐based reflectance properties of urban surfaces. Recently, Dr. Heiden has widened her interests toward a better process understanding of soils in degrading ecosystems. She is the Science Coordinator for the spaceborne imaging spectroscopy mission DESIS onboard the ISS and member of the Science Advisory Group of the German spaceborne imaging spectrometer mission EnMAP.

Virginia L. KalbVirginia L. Kalb is a Data Analyst and Software Developer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. She supports ground processing of satellite data in the areas of gridding and mapping, as well as product development. She is the lead developer of the VIIRS top‐of‐atmosphere day/night band product, VNP46A1, in the Black Marble suite. Her research interests include development of applications of the day/night band to aurora observations and the use of Geographical Information Systems as the visualization and analysis platform.

Chaogui KangChaogui Kang is an Associate Professor of Geographic Information Science at Wuhan University, China. He is currently a visiting scholar at New York University’s Center for Urban Science and Progress. He is leading Urban CoLab at Wuhan University with the mission to develop data‐driven, human‐centric, and edge‐cutting methodologies for tackling urban problems from a geospatial perspective. His primary research interest lies in the intersections of travel behavior, built environment, and social inequality with the assistance of pervasive urban sensing techniques.

Yuhao KangYuhao Kang is a PhD student in GIScience at the GeoDS Lab,the University of Wisconsin‐Madison. He holds a M.S. degree in Cartography and GIS at the University of Wisconsin‐Madison, and a B.S. degree in GIS from Wuhan University. His main research interests include Place‐Based GIS, GeoAI, Social Sensing, Cartography, and Geo‐visualization. He is the author of over 20 book chapters, journals, and conference papers.

Monika KufferMonika Kuffer received her PhD from the University of Twente in 2017 and her MSc in Human Geographer from the TU Munich (Germany) in 2001 and another MSc in Geographic Information Science from the University of London in 2010. She is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Geo‐Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente, Netherlands. Her main research foci are urban remote sensing, especially in monitoring deprived urban areas as well as analyzing the urban form and dynamics. Presently, she is working on three related research projects, SLUMAP, ACCOUNT, and IdeaMaps.

Bin JiangBin Jiang is a Professor of Computational Geography, Division of GIScience, Faculty of Engineering and Sustainable Development, the University of Gävle, Sweden. His research interests center on geospatial analysis of urban structure and dynamics, e.g. topological analysis, scaling hierarchy applied to buildings, streets, and cities, or geospatial big data in general. Inspired by Christopher Alexander’s work, he developed a mathematical model of beauty – beautimeter, which helps address not only why a structure is beautiful, but also how much beauty the structure has.

Marianne JilgeMarianne Jilge is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. She holds the B.Eng. degree in cartography and geomedia technology from the University of Applied Sciences Munich, Germany, the M.Sc. degree in applied geoinformatics from the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria, and the PhD degree in geomatics from the Ruhr‐University Bochum, Germany. Her main research interests are related to urban mapping with remote sensing techniques, especially the mapping of urban materials, and spectral libraries from imaging spectroscopy data.