Satellite Remote Sensing in Environmental Monitoring

Dear Colleagues,

Over the past few decades, recent developments in both active and passive satellite remote sensing sensors has brought new types of spatial information and enhanced capacities to gain insight into emerging applications and methods that are especially suitable to be applied in large-scale environmental monitoring. In fact, new satellite-based geospatial information, such as the recent medium-resolution open satellite data, hyperspectral and very high-resolution optical imagery, thermal infrared data, laser altimetry data (e.g. ICESat-2), and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and interferometric SAR Earth observation methods, has been widely recognized as a major data source to aid large-scale environmental monitoring. Since humankind faces a number of unprecedented Earth-scale challenges, e.g., climate change, clean energy production and sustainable development, and considering that making the right decisions largely depends on the quality and timeliness of the available information, the purpose of this Special Issue is to highlight new advances in the field of “Satellite Remote Sensing in Environmental Monitoring” by means of several key related topics, most of them based on mapping and monitoring dynamic land cover changes over time. Among the target topics for this Special Issue, we would like to highlight the following:

• Land cover change and thematic information extraction (vegetation disturbances, forest cover change, habitat mapping, invasive species mapping, desertification, and so on)
• Hydrological modeling
• Monitoring icebergs, ice sheet elevation and ice sea thickness
• Ocean and coastal areas monitoring
• Large scale forest inventory
• Ecosystem service values
• Multi-temporal satellite image processing
• Surface reconstruction from satellite remote sensing data
• Satellite remote sensing data fusion and assimilation in environmental monitoring
• Monitoring plant and soil water status
• Renewable energy potential estimation from satellite image processing

Note that the list of suggested topics is not limited to those mentioned above, but is open to related topics involving overview articles and progress reports on recent high-quality research and emerging applications concerning satellite remote sensing focused on environmental monitoring.

Papers must be original contributions, not previously published or submitted to other journals. Submissions based on previously published or submitted conference papers may be considered provided they are considerably improved and extended.

We look forward to and welcome your participation in this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Fernando J. Aguilar
Dr. Jorge Delgado
Dr. Antonio Novelli
Guest Editors

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