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A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecological Remote Sensing".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 6997

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Prof. Dr. Damien Arvor

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CNRS, UMR6554LETG, Université Rennes 2, Place du Recteur H. Le Moal, CEDEX, 35043 Rennes, France
Interests: climate change; land use and land cover change; agricultural frontiers; Amazon; agrosystems; forest dynamics; remote sensing
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Prof. Dr. Jinwei Dong

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Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: remote sensing of global change; land cover and land use change; integrated monitoring and assessment of terrestrial ecosystem
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Dr. Zhichao Li

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Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: health geography; climate change; land use and cover changes; applications of machine learning and deep learning in disease risk modeling

Prof. Dr. Xiangming Xiao

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Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Center for Earth Observation and Modeling, University of Oklahoma, 101 David L. Boren Blvd., Norman, OK 73019-5300, USA
Interests: applications of remote sensing and GIS in ecosystems science and natural resources; land use and cover changes; ecosystem service assessment; biogeochemistry of terrestrial ecosystems; ecosystem modeling at large spatial scales; integrated impact assessment of climate change; ecology and epidemiology of infectious diseases
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Dear Colleagues,

The changes in climate and land use have increased the probability of pathogen spillover between wild animals, domestic animals, and humans, which then increase the risk of infectious disease transmission worldwide. The “One Health” approach, which aims to explore the interactions between the environment, animals, and humans, promotes multidisciplinary and collaborative research and practices at local, regional, and global scales. Satellite images and other ready-to-use geospatial datasets contain rich information on climate, land use and land cover, ecology, and population. Accompanied by innovative spatial and temporal methodologies in remote sensing and geographic information science, big geospatial data can be used to advance infectious disease research, including the identification of risk drivers, disease risk mapping, and early detection and warning of disease outbreaks toward defining better strategies for disease control and prevention.

This Special Issue, “Applications of Remote Sensing for One Health”, aims to capture recent advancements in the application of big geospatial data in One Health-related studies and promote the realization of the “One Health” concept from theory to practice. Potential topics include (but are not limited to) the following: (i) integration, fusion, and analyses of multi-source and heterogeneous datasets for characterizing the human–animal–environment systems at various spatial and temporal scales, for example, climate, land use, environment, socioeconomic, and population; (ii) the use of big geospatial data and various models and computing technologies (e.g., machine learning and deep learning) to explore the hidden interrelations between the environment, animal, and human systems.

Prof. Dr. Damien Arvor
Prof. Dr. Jinwei Dong
Dr. Zhichao Li
Prof. Dr. Xiangming Xiao
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one health
zoonosis
environmental health
animal health
epidemiology
big geospatial data
data collection and integration
geospatial artificial intelligence
remote sensing

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Landscape Patterns and Topographic Features Affect Seasonal River Water Quality at Catchment and Buffer Scales

by Li Deng, Wanshu Li, Xiaojie Liu, Yazhu Wang and Lingqing Wang

Remote Sens. 2023, 15(5), 1438; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15051438 - 03 Mar 2023

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Effects of landscape patterns or topographic features on the river water environment have been broadly studied to control non-point source (NPS) pollution and to cut off potential pathways for pollutants to affect human health. However, spatio-temporal dynamics and scale effects with respect to the impact of landscape patterns and topographic features on the aquatic environment over successive years have not been elucidated. In this study, water quality parameters and land cover data for three consecutive years mainly in Tangshan City, located in the northeast of the Haihe River Basin, China, were obtained to determine the associations between landscape patterns and topographic features with the water environment. Results indicated that seasonal differences in dissolved oxygen (DO) and total nitrogen (TN) were significant (p < 0.001), and spatial variation was generally observed for each water quality parameter. Redundancy analysis revealed that landscape patterns and topographic features have different impacts on the aquatic environment as seasonal spans and spatial scales change. Overall, the best explanatory variables explained an average of 58.6% of the variation in water quality at various spatial scales over the two seasons. Topographic features made a greater contribution to river water quality changes at the buffer scale; conversely, at the catchment scale, water quality changes stemmed primarily from differences in landscape composition and configuration. The landscape shape index of cropland (LSI_crop) was an important factor influencing seasonal river water quality changes at various spatial scales. These results suggest that considering landscape connectivity at distinct spatial scales could enhance the understanding of the alteration of hydrological processes across multiple topographic features, which in turn has an impact on seasonal river water. Full article

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Runoff Responses of Various Driving Factors in a Typical Basin in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Area

by Zhaohui Feng, Siyang Liu, Yikai Guo and Xiaojie Liu

Remote Sens. 2023, 15(4), 1027; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15041027 - 13 Feb 2023

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Changes in land use and landscape caused by human activities, rapid socioeconomic development and climate change disturb the water cycle process and impact the runoff. This study analyzed the runoff responses to different driving factors in a typical basin in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region of North China combined with methods such as geographically and temporally weighted regression, landscape pattern indexes and Budyko theory. The results indicated that the runoff and runoff depth were higher in the central and south part and were lower in the northwest of the basin. Furthermore, the average runoff increased at the later stage of the study period. Artificial surface and land use intensity exerted positive impacts on runoff and runoff depth in most areas. The complex and diverse landscape with a high shape index blocked runoff to some extent. Moreover, runoff depth would increase by 0.724 mm or decrease by 0.069 mm when the rainfall or potential evaporation increased by 1 mm. In addition, population density and the economic development in both rural as well as urban areas put a heavy burden on runoff and water resource in this basin. From above it could be concluded that the impacts on runoff due to environmental change brought by human activities could not be neglected though the runoff was also greatly affected by climate change. This study reflected the runoff responses to driving factors in a typical basin of North China, which will provide reference for water resource protection and give enlightenment to water management. Full article

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Big Geospatial Data and Data-Driven Methods for Urban Dengue Risk Forecasting: A Review

by Zhichao Li and Jinwei Dong

Remote Sens. 2022, 14(19), 5052; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14195052 - 10 Oct 2022

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With advancements in big geospatial data and artificial intelligence, multi-source data and diverse data-driven methods have become common in dengue risk prediction. Understanding the current state of data and models in dengue risk prediction enables the implementation of efficient and accurate prediction in the future. Focusing on predictors, data sources, spatial and temporal scales, data-driven methods, and model evaluation, we performed a literature review based on 53 journal and conference papers published from 2018 to the present and concluded the following. (1) The predominant predictors include local climate conditions, historical dengue cases, vegetation indices, human mobility, population, internet search indices, social media indices, landscape, time index, and extreme weather events. (2) They are mainly derived from the official meteorological agency satellite-based datasets, public websites, department of health services and national electronic diseases surveillance systems, official statistics, and public transport datasets. (3) Country-level, province/state-level, city-level, district-level, and neighborhood-level are used as spatial scales, and the city-level scale received the most attention. The temporal scales include yearly, monthly, weekly, and daily, and both monthly and weekly are the most popular options. (4) Most studies define dengue risk forecasting as a regression task, and a few studies define it as a classification task. Data-driven methods can be categorized into single models, ensemble learning, and hybrid learning, with single models being further subdivided into time series, machine learning, and deep learning models. (5) Model evaluation concentrates primarily on the quantification of the difference/correlation between time-series observations and predicted values, the ability of models to determine whether a dengue outbreak occurs or not, and model uncertainty. Finally, we highlighted the importance of big geospatial data, data cloud computing, and other deep learning models in future dengue risk forecasting. Full article

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