Multiscale Geospatial and Remote Sensing Approaches for Landscape Ecology

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce a Special Issue of Land titled “Multiscale Geospatial and Remote Sensing Approaches for Landscape Ecology”, which is a development of a previous Special Issue on “Multiscale Geospatial Approaches for Landscape Ecology”.

Spatial specifications of components and conditions have become essential endeavors in landscape ecological investigations, conservation, and stewardship, as have multiple metrics of mosaics. Current challenges extend to the synthesis of spatial structures and disturbance dynamics across a spectrum of scales for cognizance of context in climate change, exotic epidemics, and regional resilience. The term “multiscale” serves here as a euphemistic reference to the scope and stability of a spatial structure, and emphasis lies on the tactics and technology for tracking transference from site to landscape, landscape to locality, locality to vicinity, and reaching to regions over temporal trajectories. Derivatives of one data domain must be entered into ancillary data domains having a different spatial and/or temporal resolution, thematic purview, and software support. Scripting systems often offer perhaps partial platforms for such loose linkage. Each instance involves innovations while yielding insights on practical protocols. Spatial dependencies, anisotropies, and discontinuities along with temporal trends become key considerations, whereas were previously treated more as somewhat esoteric inferential excursions.

Submissions sharing thematic threads will provide additional organizing opportunities. One such thread is the ecology of human interactions with landscape elements, whereby site-specific data are collected by various authorities and/or interests that require assembly and integration to obtain sub-regional views. Another is multiple monitoring emplacements under the aegis of different operatives, involving data streams from automated sensors and/or scheduled visitation. Still another is the allocation of plots/points/etc. for special augmentation of coarse resolution data, perhaps to support spatial modeling of habitats or eco-economic aspects of impacts and opportunities where the modeling entails varying degrees of statistical sophistication regarding data dependencies.

Prof. Dr. Wayne Myers
Guest Editor

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