New Insights in Remote Sensing of Land Use

Dear Colleagues,

The use of remote sensing (RS) technologies for mapping, monitoring and assessing the land use (LU) and its changes (LUC) has become widespread in the recent years. In fact, thanks to the capability of the RS systems to collect systematically and repetitively data, accurate information of the Earth’s cover has been acquired at various spatial, spectral and temporal resolutions at global scale.

Moreover, thanks to the current policies (i.e., Full, Open and Free data access) of Earth-Observing imagery access (e.g., EC ESA Sentinel imagery) and the free access to different EO data catalogues (e.g., U.S. Geological Survey-Landsat), the huge amount of the free available satellite data has accelerated the development of innovative approaches aimed to better evaluate LU/LUC. On the other hand, continuous technological improvements and the increasing computational capacities of the cloud-based systems (e.g., Google Earth Engine and Copernicus DIAS) have started new challenges not only in the RS community.

For this Special Issue, we welcome research papers focusing on:

• Use of optical and radar RS data for LU mapping/monitoring;
• Long-term and multi-temporal LU/LUC assessment by means of RS technologies (UAV, aerial, satellite, LiDAR) and/or their integration and combination;
• RS applications for LUC in the urban, agriculture and natural areas;
• Development of new tools and models for evaluating LU/LUC that can support regional and local policies/actions devoted to natural hazard risk reduction;
• Insight on LU trends and their impact on the climate changes;

Review papers on the use of RS technologies in the field of LU/LUC are also welcome.

Dr. Nicola Genzano
Dr. Maria Lanfredi
Dr. Giuseppe Mazzeo
Prof. Dr. Ramesh P. Singh
Guest Editors

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