Remote Sensing Technology Supporting the "Belt and Road" Sustainable Development
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 20255
Special Issue Editors
Interests: remote sensing of vegetation; remote sensing of ecological environment; agriculture remote sensing; machine learning
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Interests: remote sensing technology and application; information extraction and engineering; quantitative remote sensing
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Interests: digital image processing; remote sensing of land covers; geographical information systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The "Silk Road Economic Belt" and the "21st Century Maritime Silk Road" (referred to as the "Belt and Road") which is proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping in September and October 2013 have become a great practice in developing a community with a shared future for humankind. The “Belt and Road” has a wide range of regions, complex ecosystems, and frequent changes in the ecological environment. Remote sensing provides the only effective means for quickly monitoring a large area. Quantitative, accurate and scientific evaluation of the ecological environment, construction planning and green development have huge potential in supporting the realization of sustainable development goals of various countries.
Most of the countries along the “Belt and Road” are developing countries, and they are faced with the sustainable development needs of the utilization of natural resources and responding to natural disasters in the process of their construction. At present, it is difficult for most countries along the “Belt and Road” to use their own independent space observation capabilities to monitor and evaluate the ecological environment, such as vegetation, water resources, and atmosphere. Therefore, it is urgent to use remote sensing data resources and technologies, jointly with the "Belt and Road" countries to carry out the sustainable development of remote sensing technology and application research around the application topics of common concern, such as land water resources and ecological environment. This Special Issue of Sensors focuses on “Remote Sensing Technology Supporting the "Belt and Road" Sustainable Development”. Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Advances in Remote Sensing Data Processing;
- Land cover remote sensing;
- Vegetation and ecological remote sensing;
- Atmospheric remote sensing;
- Remote sensing of water and carbon cycle;
- Remote sensing applications;
- The "Belt and Road" and sustainable development goals;
- Remote sensing supports sustainable development evaluation index system;
- Remote sensing assessment about the “Belt and Road” region of the comprehensive status and trends.
Dr. Xiangqin Wei
Prof. Dr. Xingfa Gu
Dr. Thomas Gathungu Ngigi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- advances in remote sensing data processing
- land cover remote sensing
- vegetation and ecological remote sensing
- atmospheric remote sensing
- remote sensing of water and carbon cycle
- remote sensing applications
- the “Belt and Road” and sustainable development goals
- remote sensing supports sustainable development evaluation index system
- remote sensing assessment about the “Belt and Road” region of the comprehensive status and trends
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