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New initiative of ‘Invited peer-reviewed papers’ launched

We at Geocarto International are delighted to launch a new initiative with this issue: we are publishing our first ‘invited’ paper entitled ‘Empty Spaces: Neighborhood changes and greening of Detroit 1975-2005’ by Hoalst-Pullen et al. We are grateful to Professor Jay Gatrell, Professor of Geography and the Dean of Graduate College at Indiana State University, who accepted our invitation to contribute this first invited paper with his research colleagues. The main objective of this initiative is to invite leading experts in diverse areas of geospatial sciences, remote sensing, and GI sciences to contribute papers that highlight an important application or present interesting research findings. All invited papers are peer-reviewed per the policy of our journal. Several other invited papers are under consideration on themes that our readers will find both interesting and informative. We would appreciate receiving your feedback on this initiative. In addition to the invited paper discussed above, Khorram et al. develop neural network based land use classification using multi-resolution remote sensing data, Everitt et al. use hyperspectral techniques to distinguish aquatic plant species, Gnanappazham and Selvam study dynamics of mangrove distribution in South India and Sharma et al. assess landslide vulnerability using statistical indicators. These papers make this issue interesting.