Advances in Cropland Abandonment Monitoring
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land – Observation and Monitoring".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 3424
Special Issue Editors
Interests: land use/land cover; wetland; cropland; urban forestry; climate change; carbon storage
Interests: land use/land cover; remote sensing; climate change; forest; carbon storage
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cropland is the foundation and guarantee for the survival of all human beings, and it is the cornerstone for the stability of the country. However, reductions in rural populations during urbanization and industrialization often results in the marginalization of cropland in marginal areas, which leads to large-scale abandonment of marginal land. Large-scale cropland abandonment is closely related to food security, and it also has an impact on biodiversity, soil quality, carbon cycle and the ecological environment. Currently, cropland abandonment has become one of the important directions of LUCC (Land Use and Land Cover Change) research. Therefore, it is of great importance to carry out accurate monitoring of abandoned arable land in order to accurately grasp information on the quantity and spatial distribution of abandoned arable land, as well as to explore its driving factors for arable land conservation strategies. This Special Issue focuses on new technologies for monitoring and identifying cropland abandonment, the spatial distribution and spatiotemporal evolution of cropland abandonment, and the analysis of ecological and environmental changes brought about by cropland abandonment and its driving mechanisms.
This Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following topics of interest:
- Global and regional cropland abandonment monitoring;
- Remote sensing and modeling of the cropland abandonment;
- Land use/land cover change;
- Environmental changes due to cropland abandonment;
- Spatiotemporal evolution of cropland and driving mechanisms.
Dr. Meng Zhang
Prof. Dr. Hui Lin
Dr. Jianbo Tan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cropland abandonment
- land use/land cover change
- spatiotemporal evolution
- environmental change
- driving mechanism
- remote sensing
- modeling
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