Special Issue "Remote Sensing in Coastal Ecosystem"

Guest Editor
Dr. Thomas R. Allen
Department of Geography, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
Website: http://personal.ecu.edu/allenth/allenth.htm
E-Mail:
Phone: 252-328-6624
Fax: 757-328-6054
Interests: geographic information science and technology; emphasizing GIS, remote sensing and environmental modeling of coastal and estuarine environments; landscape ecology and spatial epidemiology of vector-borne diseases

Dear Colleagues,

Many coastal regions face continuing pressure from surging population growth, natural resource extraction, natural and technological hazards, climate change and attendant sea-level rise. These issues beckon advances and applications of remote sensing in the coastal environment for resources inventorying and monitoring, planning for sustainable development, and coastal hazards assessment. Dynamic coastal environments pose challenges and opportunities to remote sensing science, particularly the capture and characterization of highly dynamic coastal processes, complex estuarine and subaqueous habitats, and spectral characteristics of water and its suspended and solute contents. This special issue invites scholarly papers that advance the science of remote sensing for coastal environments through innovative algorithm development and novel applications.

Coastal-related topics especially welcome include:

Technical and algorithmic advances

• coastal habitat mapping (wetlands, benthic, and estuarine habitats)
• thermal and bio-optical characteristics of coastal waters
• coastal modeling and RS/GIS integration
• Airborne and terrestrial LiDAR
• change detection
• multi-sensor integration and fusion for coastal applications

Applied topics

• coastal hazards
• sea-level rise
• shoreline erosion
• population growth
• coastal storms, hurricanes, and storm surges
• wetlands
• coastal habitats and resource mapping

Dr. Thomas R. Allen
Guest Editor

Submission

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. Papers will be published continuously (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are refereed through a peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Remote Sensing is an international peer-reviewed Open Access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 500 CHF (Swiss Francs). English correction and/or formatting fees of 250 CHF (Swiss Francs) will be charged in certain cases for those articles accepted for publication that require extensive additional formatting and/or English corrections.