About Journal

The Journal of Spatial Planning and Geomatics is one of the TMU Press journals that is published by the responsibility of its Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board in the determined scopes.
Spatial planning is to achieve balanced and sustainable development of the environment and its efficiency and establish a logical and systematic human group, institutions, and physical activities in space, the fourth dimension and concrete planning process, economic development, social-cultural of the country that is the task of geography and geographers emit, particularly after the publication of scientific geography in its application to pay. 
Regional, national, transnational, international, and global focus and emphasis. 
Such as models, techniques, and methods of spatial planning, regional planning, urban planning, rural and tribal, models and methods, space planning, organizing political space, preparation of defense-security, space planning, cultural tourism, planning and environmental hazards so on. 

Aims and Scope:

The Journal of Spatial Planning & Geomatics is devoted to publishing peer-reviewed, high-quality, original papers in the field of Geography Science. The Journal welcomes, but not limited to, papers from the following topics:
-Land use Planning
-Urban & Regional Planning
-Rural Planning
-Climatic & Geomorphological Hazards
-Remote Sensing
-GIS

-Tourism
-Artificial Intelligence Applications in RS & GIS.

Peer-Review Policy: The peer review process in The Journal of Spatial Planning and Geomatics is double-blinded in which the reviewer’s name is unknown to the author and, vice versa.
The peer review process in The Journal of Spatial Planning and Geomatics is double-blinded in which the reviewer’s name is unknown to the author and, vice versa.
Submitted articles go through a structural and subject evaluation to align with
The Journal of Spatial Planning and Geomatics principles. Matches go through a double-blind peer review by three field experts (non-editorial staff) chosen by the Board based on specialty. The Board makes the final article selection.

Duties of Reviewers:

  • Assist editor in decision-making and potentially help authors improve papers through editorial communication.
  • Decline reviews if unqualified or unable to promptly review.
  • Treat manuscripts as confidential documents and avoid unauthorized sharing.
  • Conduct objective reviews, avoiding personal criticism and providing clear, supported feedback.
  • Identify relevant, uncited published work and report potential plagiarism or overlap with other publications.
  • Maintain confidentiality of information and ideas, avoiding personal gain or reviewing papers with conflicts of interest
Copyright Policy: Under open open-access license, authors retain ownership of the copyright for their content, but allow anyone to download, reuse, and reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy the content as long as the original authors and source are cited properly