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Application of Remote Sensing in Environmental Monitoring

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 July 2025) | Viewed by 1794

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Dr. Wei Chen

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College of Geosciences and Surveying Engineering, China University of Mining & Technology, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: black carbon aerosol; aerosol radiative forcing; polarimetric remote sensing; atmospheric environment; environment ecology remote sensing; radiometric calibration
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Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, with the rapid development of remote sensing technologies and sensors, remote sensing has become widely applied in environmental monitoring. For decades, with the help of remote sensing images, land phenology has been evaluated to investigate the impact of global warming. Furthermore, with high-resolution remote sensing images, changes in urban environments can be evaluated in detail. Hence, remote sensing plays an important role in environmental monitoring.

These recent advances have promoted research in the field of environmental monitoring. With the development of artificial intelligence, and other remote sensing technologies, applications of remote sensing in environmental monitoring have become increasingly pertinent.

This Special Issue on the “Application of Remote Sensing in Environmental Monitoring” welcomes original research articles and reviews with a focus on new algorithms and applications in environmental monitoring with remote sensing technologies. We invite researchers to submit their recent work to our journal.

Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

  1. Algorithms in remote sensing environmental monitoring;
  2. Reviews on remote sensing environmental monitoring;
  3. Data analysis in remote sensing environmental monitoring;
  4. Dataset in remote sensing environmental monitoring.

Dr. Wei Chen
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • remote sensing
  • environmental monitoring
  • environment ecology

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Multi-Scenario Response of Ecosystem Service Value in High-Groundwater-Level Coal–Grain Overlapping Areas Under Dual Objective Constraints
by Qian Niu, Di Zhu, Yinghong Wang, Zhongyi Ding and Guoqiang Qiu
Appl. Sci. 2025, 15(16), 9172; https://doi.org/10.3390/app15169172 (registering DOI) - 20 Aug 2025
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Ecosystem services (ES) are a key bridge connecting natural ecosystems with human social development. The core significance of ecosystem service value (ESV) is to quantify the contribution of ecosystems to human well-being. The mining of mineral resources causes disturbance to the structure, function, [...] Read more.
Ecosystem services (ES) are a key bridge connecting natural ecosystems with human social development. The core significance of ecosystem service value (ESV) is to quantify the contribution of ecosystems to human well-being. The mining of mineral resources causes disturbance to the structure, function, and value of ecosystems. This study focuses on the high groundwater level coal–grain overlapping areas in eastern China, the mining of mineral resources has led to widespread loss of cropland and carbon sinks in the region. Considering the particularity of ecosystem evolution caused by coal mining subsidence, we developed multiple land use demand scenarios under dual objective constraints based on PIM and Markov chain, including Inertial Development (ID), Food Security (FS), Urban Expansion (UE), Ecological Restoration (ER). The PLUS model was used to simulate the spatial changes of land use and the equivalent factor method was used to calculate the changes in ESV, exploring the best path to improve the ecological benefits of the coal–grain overlapping areas. The results indicate that: (1) By 2030, the study area will add 54,249.09 ha of coal mining subsidence, mainly mild and moderate subsidence, and cropland being the most affected by subsidence among all land types. (2) In the multi-scenarios, the total ESV is ranked as follows: ecological governance scenario (CNY 51.21199 billion) > ID scenario (CNY 51.0898 billion) > food security scenario (CNY 48.4767 billion) > UE scenario (CNY 48.27157 billion). Among them, the ER scenario achieves all individual ESV gains and has the highest overall ESV. (3) Spatial analysis shows that in the ER scenario, the ESV of mining townships significantly increases and the ESV gap between other townships has decreased. However, the FS scenario and UE scenario have led to widespread degradation of ESV between various townships in eastern mountainous areas, and severe degradation of ESV in some urban townships. This study validated the accuracy and applicability of the PLUS model in medium scale and plain regions. The study has confirmed our hypothesis that reasonable land use and ecological restoration methods can achieve Pareto improvement in regional ESV, provided a holistic and local dialectical perspective for related research, and a scientific basis for the sustainable development of coal grain overlapping areas. Full article
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Using Bi-Temporal Lidar to Evaluate Canopy Structure and Ecotone Influence on Landsat Vegetation Index Trends Within a Boreal Wetland Complex
by Farnoosh Aslami, Chris Hopkinson, Laura Chasmer, Craig Mahoney and Daniel L. Peters
Appl. Sci. 2025, 15(9), 4653; https://doi.org/10.3390/app15094653 - 23 Apr 2025
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Wetland ecosystems are sensitive to climate variation, yet tracking vegetation type and structure changes through time remains a challenge. This study examines how Landsat-derived vegetation indices (NDVI and EVI) correspond with lidar-derived canopy height model (CHM) changes from 2000 to 2018 across the [...] Read more.
Wetland ecosystems are sensitive to climate variation, yet tracking vegetation type and structure changes through time remains a challenge. This study examines how Landsat-derived vegetation indices (NDVI and EVI) correspond with lidar-derived canopy height model (CHM) changes from 2000 to 2018 across the wetland landscape of the Peace–Athabasca Delta (PAD), Canada. By comparing CHM change and NDVI and EVI trends across woody and herbaceous land covers, this study fills a gap in understanding long-term vegetation responses in northern wetlands. Findings show that ~35% of the study area experienced canopy growth, while 2% saw a reduction in height. CHM change revealed 11% ecotonal expansion, where shrub and treed swamps encroached on meadow and marsh areas. NDVI and EVI correlated significantly (p < 0.001) with CHM, particularly in shrub swamps (r2 = 0.40, 0.35) and upland forests (NDVI r2 = 0.37). However, EVI trends aligned more strongly with canopy expansion, while NDVI captured mature tree height growth and wetland drying, indicated by rising land surface temperatures (LST). These results highlight the contrasting responses of NDVI and EVI—NDVI being more sensitive to moisture-related changes such as wetland drying, and EVI aligning more closely with canopy structural changes—emphasizing the value of combining lidar and satellite indices to monitor wetland ecosystems in a warming climate. Full article
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Multi-Scale Twin Networks for Coastal Zone Change Detection in Remote Sensing Imagery
by Peiqi Zhu, Xiaoyi Jiang, Qi He, Longfei Zhao, Yu Hong, Xue Guo and Hanrui Sun
Appl. Sci. 2025, 15(4), 1904; https://doi.org/10.3390/app15041904 - 12 Feb 2025
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Accurate coastal zone change detection is crucial for coastal urban planning and marine resource development. To address the specificity of coastal zone change detection and the category imbalance issue in the model, we propose a multi-scale coastal zone change detection method (AMMNet) based [...] Read more.
Accurate coastal zone change detection is crucial for coastal urban planning and marine resource development. To address the specificity of coastal zone change detection and the category imbalance issue in the model, we propose a multi-scale coastal zone change detection method (AMMNet) based on the attention mechanism. The method leverages multi-scale features extracted by the ResNet backbone, which are then optimized and integrated through high-frequency attention and spatio-temporal difference modules. These modules allow the model to focus on both global and local changes, enhancing its ability to detect variations in coastal zones. Additionally, the foreground attention module refines the model’s attention on relevant regions, ensuring improved performance. The experimental results show that our method achieves the highest scores in several evaluation metrics, demonstrating significant advantages in accuracy and generalization and effectively addressing the category imbalance problem. It provides a robust solution for coastal zone change detection. Full article
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