Dr Magesh Nagarajan’s co-authored editorial article on ‘Data-Driven Approaches to Enable Urban Transformation’ has been published by Frontiers in Sustainable Cities journal. Dr Sujit Sikder (Researcher Leibniz Institute for Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) Dresden, Germany), and Dr Kh Md Nahiduzzaman (Assistant Professor University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus Kelowna, Canada) are co-authors.
The editorial article for a special issue explores how with the emergence of urban artificial intelligence, data-driven approaches have been applied to various dimensions of urban environment and smart cities. The contemporary goals of data-driven science are to foster openness in scientific approaches, to utilize open data or technology, and to disseminate the resulting products, such as open prototype tools or analytics, for informed decision-making. The editorial presents the overarching themes from the four articles presented in the special issue providing valuable insights into real-world decision-making for sustainability transformation, particularly in research that incorporates popular geospatial methods or active and passive sensing systems.