Spatial Analysis for Environmental Applications

Dear Colleagues,

The last few decades have seen increasing greenhouse gas emissions, unprecedented losses in species, deforestation, degradation of soil through erosion and agricultural practices, and many issues related to water and air pollution. These environmental problems require sustainable solutions but inevitably involve tradeoffs between multiple competing objectives. This is further impacted by rising populations, increasing urbanization, wealthier populations and changing diets, all of which create a rising demand in natural resources, agriculture and other ecosystem services.

At the same time, developments in computing power/storage, the ubiquity of mobile phones and sensor networks, higher resolution satellite imagery (both spatially and temporally), and the movement towards open data and Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) means that we have more environmental data at our disposal than ever before. This Special Issue will examine the state-of-the art in spatial analysis for solving the types of pressing environmental challenges outlined above, given the current technological and data rich era in which we find ourselves.

Papers in the Special Issue might consider questions such as: Are current methodologies sufficient or do we need to make a step change in the way we integrate, analyze and visualize environmental data? What new methods need to be developed in order to make optimal use of VGI? Are collaborative spaces with access to big data streams and contributed algorithms opening up new ways of doing research? What approaches outside of the more traditional spatial sciences can we apply to these problems? Papers can focus on applications, methods or more conceptual issues around solving environmental problems with spatial analysis.

Dr. Linda See
Guest Editor

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