Remote Sensing of Urban Change sessions at #AGU25

I co-organized (with colleagues Son Nghiem and Tom Pingel) two sessions for #AGU25 in New Orleans on Remote Sensing of Urban Change (description below with links). Looking forward to bringing together remote sensing researchers focused on urban issues from a variety of angles and using a slew of different data sources and methods. I'll be presenting a poster myself on spaceborne lidar for 3D building height estimation as well as chairing the oral session. Hope to see you in NOLA!

Oral Session

Poster Session

Description: The majority of Earth's human inhabitants live in built-up, urbanized spaces. Urban areas, not surprisingly, are highly dynamic and undergo constant change from urban sprawl to decline and demolition. Remotely sensing data are critical for providing snapshot observations of such change over time and across scales. The variety of data types (e.g., lidar, radar, multi-/hyperspectral, thermal) and ability to fuse such data is especially of interest to comprehensively understand urban processes. This session highlights novel remote sensing methodologies for examining urban changes (e.g., two- and three-dimensional land use and land cover change, localized urban greenness changes and impacts on the urban heat island effect and air quality, 3D build-up and air circulation impacts, etc.) and its subsequent impacts on urban residents.