Digital Earth and Remote Sensing for Land Management, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 June 2026 | Viewed by 70
Special Issue Editors
Interests: geomatics; digital aerial photogrammetry; digital surface models; deformations monitoring; 3D surveys; land subsidence
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Dear Colleagues,
A digital representation of the Earth’s surface is a crucial tool in land management. Remote sensing techniques, in many cases integrated with ground-based data, allow the monitoring of the ground surface with different details, resolutions, and accuracies. These data can be used in the analysis of land use/land cover pattern modifications, urban morphology changes, land surface deformation monitoring, etc.
The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and/or review papers) to give insights into land management using a digital representation of the Earth’s surface obtained from, but not limited to, remote sensing data. Digital Elevation Models, orthophotomaps, InSAR time-series, GNSS measurements, and various types of information and data (e.g., photogrammetry with optical and/or thermal cameras, LiDAR, multi-beam bathymetry, etc.) acquired from different platforms (e.g., unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as well as unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) or unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs)), helicopters, and airplanes) can be processed and analyzed by means of GIS tools in the field of land management.
This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes by using digital Earth data and land remote sensing techniques:
- Land management;
- Land deformation monitoring;
- Land use and/or land cover changes;
- Urban and urban–rural morphology modifications.
Dr. Massimo Fabris
Dr. Michele Monego
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- digital earth
- satellite imagery
- InSAR
- digital elevation models (DEMs)
- land monitoring
- land use
- land cover
- urban morphology
- GIS tools
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