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Observation and monitoring the Earth’s terrestrial surface is crucial in order to increase our understanding of the Earth system as a whole and to enhance our management of Earth’s land resources. Observation can be achieved via remote sensing or field surveys, sometimes in combinatio...

The section on data and machine learning includes, but is not limited to, frontiers of research in spatial data science for obtaining, processing, analyzing, harnessing, and visualizing social, economic, and environmental data related to land.  Submissions on geospatial artificial intelligen...

The “Land Planning and Landscape Architecture” section of Land welcomes contributions that focus on theories, approaches, techniques, and arts concerning the analysis, design, planning, and management of landscapes. We welcome submissions of both an academic and a practical n...

There has been a growing interest in studying land as a coupled human–environment system in research and policy making at local, regional, national, and international scales. Investigating contemporary and historical land issues contributes to broader land manag...

Land systems (including land-use systems) are complex social–ecological systems composed of interacting social and biological actors, terrestrial environments, and the feedback among these components that shape the dynamics of Earth’s land surface across different scales, from local l...

Land use and land management have significant socio-cultural, environmental and economic impacts, affecting sustainability from local to global scales. Understanding such impacts is an important aspect of advancing sustainable land use and land management practices.

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The Land–Climate Interactions Section welcomes contributions concerning the interactions between land and climate processes, including energy fluxes, carbon and other biogeochemical cycles, and hydrological processes, as well as other dynamics between the land surface and the climate system...

Land-change dynamics affect biodiversity and, in turn, human wellbeing at societal and individual scales. Land-change dynamics, typically impelled by short-term economic imperatives, rarely acknowledge or reflect their implications for biodiversity and/or health, which are often somewhat removed ...

The Land, Soil, and Water section of Land invites papers and opinions addressing the protection, restoration and promotion of the sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems. Soil ecosystem services provide a robust platform for accomplishing these goals. Specifically, we are inviting manu...

The Section “Landscape Archaeology” of Land gathers research articles and reviews on observing, recording, and interpreting archaeological remains, traces, and sites with respect to the broader context of human activities and interactions with the environment and landscape in...

The “Urban Contexts and Urban–Rural Interactions” section of Land welcomes contributions focusing on patterns, processes and dynamics in urban landscapes and cities, as well as examinations of areas along the urban–rural gradient. The section is open to submission...