Cities remote sensing, urban and countryside development

The cities remote sensing and the development of its technologies brought the new concept to the Urban-rural integration. Shanghai is an economical developed cities-cluster, consequently a high standard Urban-rural development target is required here. Today the cities remote sensing technologies is not only limited in the original idea of ldquourban area remote sensingrdquo but can also help to construct a human oriented ecological environment for both urban and countryside. Therefore, the cities remote sensing and its related technologies, e.g. the concept of whole urban and rural areas´ coverage by the spatial information grid based on remote sensing, will be widely adopted in new millennium in Shanghai to accelerate the progress of spatial information application theory. At this stage, to well utilize the cities remote sensing solution in both the spatial and environmental developments for the Urban and Countryside to serve the human habitat, becomes the most important task for Shanghai.