Land Use/Land Cover Mapping Changes Using Earth Observations Techniques

Dear Colleagues,

Land use and land cover (LULC) changes are of essential importance for urban planning, environmental management, and sustainable development. Deforestation and urban expansion are LULC changes that have significant impacts on global climate change, water distribution, surface processes, and resource management. Furthermore, climate change is exacerbating these changes by altering precipitation patterns, increasing the frequency of extreme weather events, and affecting biodiversity and ecosystems. Understanding these changes is essential for regional planning and ecosystem conservation. Reliable LULC data are essential for studies on various environmental and socio-economic issues such as migration, droughts, floods, and climate change. Therefore, accuracy in detecting and analysing these changes is very important for resource management and the mitigation of environmental impacts. In recent years, remote sensing has been identified as a crucial tool to determine LULC and monitor its changes.

The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) that give insights into how Earth Observations (EO) are essential for LULC and LULC changes.

This Special Issue welcomes manuscripts that cover the following themes:

• New techniques to characterise LULC and its changes;
• New types of EO and/or original combinations of EO to improve LULC estimates and their dynamics;
• Original studies on LULC/LULC changes and their relationships with climate and/or anthropogenisation.

We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.

Dr. Frédéric Frappart
Dr. Lien Rodríguez López
Dr. Bertrand Ygorra
Dr. Luc Bourrel
Guest Editors

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