Application of Remote Sensing in Vegetation Dynamics and Ecology—2nd Edition
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 December 2025 | Viewed by 580
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Interests: remote sensing of wetlands; remote sensing of ecology; remote sensing of the cryosphere
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Interests: glaciers change; water resources
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This is the second edition of the Special Issue “Application of Remote Sensing in Vegetation Dynamics and Ecology”.
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests/special_issues/VCRKO8Q3IS
Vegetation is a crucial part of most terrestrial ecosystems, playing an important ecological role in the water cycle, material cycle, and carbon regulation. Vegetation is exhibiting clear and diverse responses to global warming, such as greening and browning, which have been reported by many remote sensing studies. Vegetation is an important and sensitive indicator of climate change and ecology. Quantifying the impacts of climate change and human activities on vegetation could provide an important reference for ecological conservation and development. The recent development of satellite-based remote sensing and the products it produces provide excellent opportunities for us to study vegetation dynamics and their relationships to regional and global climate systems. Moreover, cloud computing (such as the Google Earth Engine) combined with machine learning algorithms has become the most advanced tool for studying vegetation changes.
Potential topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Vegetation changes captured by various remote sensing data sources;
- Response of vegetation to climate change;
- Ecological effects of vegetation change;
- Response of vegetation to human activity;
- Relationship of vegetation changes to the climate.
Dr. Wangping Li
Dr. Donghui Shangguan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- vegetation type
- response to climate change
- ecological change
- response to human activity
- remote sensing
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