The challenges for sustainable cities to protect the environment, ensure economic growth,
and maintain social justice have been widely recognized. Along with the digitization …

Big Data has emerged in the past few years as a new paradigm providing abundant data
and opportunities to improve and/or enable research and decision-support applications with …

Rapid urbanization at the expense of the environment led to a reduction in vegetation cover,
and consequently aggravated land degradation, urban water logging, heat island effect and …

The amount of data produced and communicated over the Internet is significantly increasing,
thereby creating challenges for the organizations that would like to reap the benefits from …

Urban heat island (UHI), the phenomenon that urban areas experience higher temperatures
compared to their surrounding rural areas, has significant socioeconomic and environmental …

Low impact development (LID) is a land development approach that seeks to mimic a site's
pre-development hydrology. This study is a case study that assessed flood reduction …

In recent years, several types of simulation and prediction models have been used within a
GIS environment to determine a realistic future for urban growth patterns. These models …

Traditional theories and methods for comprehensive environmental performance evaluation
are challenged by the appearance of big data because of its large quantity, high velocity …

The recent explosive publications of big data studies have well documented the rise of big
data and its ongoing prevalence. Different types of “big data” have emerged and have …

Global urbanization is exerting severe stress and having far-reaching impacts on the eco-
environment, and yet there exists a complex non-linear coupling relationship between the …