Remote Sensing Advancements in Sustaining Coastal Zones

Dear Colleagues,

The coastal areas are sensitive marine ecosystems and are of great significance for a country. Due to their aesthetic and economic importance, about 80% of the national population of the world’s coastal cities resides within 100 km of the coastline. Among these coastal cities, there are 15 mega-cities. The higher density of population around the coastal areas compels the overexploitation of natural resources that increases vulnerability of coastal zones to climate change and disturbs coastal ecosystems in different aspects, such as coastal water quality deterioration, shoreline change, and habitat destruction. To understand the dynamics of coastal regions, it is important to improve coastal management by reducing the anthropogenic factors operating over extensive areas of coasts. Satellite remote sensing has been playing an important role in monitoring such changes as it provides a synoptic viewpoint of areas of interest and revisit in a certain timeframe. With the advancements of satellite remote sensing during this decade, several space agencies are making their satellites data sets available to the public at no cost. This has led to the remote sensing of land, ocean and atmosphere at higher spatial resolutions with daily revisit.

This Special Issue is expected to advance our understanding on different factors affecting the coastal areas around the world by implying remote sensing and in situ data sets, i.e., proposing state-of-the-art methods for coastal water quality parameters estimation, shoreline change detection, and implementing new methods of oil spill detections, algal bloom monitoring and other natural/anthropogenic factors affecting the coastal areas. Submissions of recent progress in earth observation for the assessment of risk, vulnerability, and resilience in coastal megacities that apply advanced techniques to analyse the changing patterns in coastal areas are welcome.

Dr. Majid Nazeer
Dr. Mohammad M. M. Alsahli
Guest Editors

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