Assessing Sustainability over Space and Time: The Emerging Roles of GIScience and Remote Sensing

• Other Authors: Estoque, Ronald (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Geography; sustainable development; Earth observation; SDG indicators; EO4SDG; SDG global indicator framework; global SDG indicators database; social-ecological indicators; Urban Surface Ecological Status (USES); Remotely Sensed Surface Ecological Index (RSUSEI); sustainability; impervious surfaces; US cities; National Land Cover Database (NLCD); wetland; muthurajawela marsh and negombo lagoon; socio-ecological; spatio-temporal analysis; urban ecology; remote sensing; conflict resources monitoring; disease control and prevention; human rights; genocide tracking; human rights violation; geopolitics; population mapping; Landsat; deep learning; multi-temporal; ResNet-N; Google Earth Engine; China; SDGs; remote sensing ecological index; ecological protection; principal component analysis; entropy value method; spatial autocorrelation; Wuhan city; M-RSEQI; DMSP; entropy method; coupling coordination degree model; remote sensing data; urbanization; sustainable development path; life service resources; spatial justice; GIScience; Beijing; SDG11; geospatial big data; sustainable development goals; earth observation; Guilin; intra-urban heat island; space-time; GIS; land use and land cover change; shifting cultivation; tropical forest gain and loss; topographic factors; distance to roads; logistic regression; n/a
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Sustainability is a critical global challenge that requires comprehensive assessments of environmental, social, and economic indicators. The formulation of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represents a significant leap forward in humanity's pursuit of sustainability. The SDGs now ser...