Current Advances in Remote Sensing for Arid Land Ecology and Environment Change Monitoring and Risk Assessment

Dear Colleagues,

Arid and semiarid lands encompass approximately 30–40% of the Earth’s surface. These areas have harsh climatic conditions and are also under significant pressure to produce food and fibers for their rapidly increasing populations, which involve a wide range of land utilization and management regimes that could result in a reduction in arid and semiarid ecosystem quality and socioeconomic development. Hence, it is of great importance to understand the effects and responses of arid and semiarid landscape diversity and dynamics on the local and regional climate, environment, atmosphere, surface energy balance, carbon exchange, and sustainable development. In this regard, this Special Issue of Current Advances in Remote Sensing for Arid Land Ecology and Environment Change Monitoring and Risk Assessment encourages the submission of review and research papers exploring remote sensing data, products, techniques, monitoring, and assessment of the arid and semiarid land environment and predictions of future climate change risks. In particular, topics that fall within the following themes (but not limited to them) are welcomed:

• Big remote sensing data for arid and semiarid lands;
• Advanced machine learning techniques for land use/cover (LUCC);
• Vegetation, water and wetland dynamics;
• Disaster monitoring and evaluation (e.g., drought, flood, sand and dust storms);
• Environment and climate change;
• Land surface phenology;
• Vegetation and soil parameter retrieval.

Dr. Alim Samat
Prof. Dr. Anming Bao
Dr. Jingjie Wang
Prof. Dr. Zhi Li
Dr. Xuemei Li
Dr. Ali Darvishi Boloorani
Dr. Mukhiddin Juliev
Guest Editors

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