Announcements

It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Prof. Dr. Ruiliang Pu, Associate Editor of Geosciences and Editorial Board Member of Remote Sensing, in August 2023.

He was a professor at the School of Geosciences at the University of South Florida (USF), specializing in remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), and ecology. Prof. Dr. Pu was born in Wuxi, China. He received an M.Sc. (1985) from Nanjing Forestry University (NFU), China, and earned a Ph.D. (Cartography and Geographic Information System, 2000) conducted at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Upon receiving his Ph.D., Prof. Pu continued his research at UC Berkeley until 2005, before joining the faculty at USF in 2006.

Prof. Dr. Pu was a pioneer in the fields of remote sensing, GIS, and spatial statistics with applications in natural hazard monitoring and biophysical and biochemical parameters extraction. Throughout his academic career, Prof. Dr. Pu published more than 100 journal articles and book chapters in English and more than 26 journal articles and books in Chinese. He was a highly published and widely cited author and scholar. Prof. Dr. Pu was awarded science and technology prizes three times by the Chinese Government between 1986 and 1991 in recognition of his excellent research achievements.

His death is a significant loss to the academic community, as well as to everyone close to him. Our thoughts are with his family, friends, and colleagues as we offer our profound condolences.

MDPI’s Remote Sensing (ISSN: 2072-4292) is proud to establish media partnership cooperation with OCEANS 2023!

Date: 25–28 September 2023
Venue: Mississippi Coast Coliseum & Convention Center, Biloxi, USA

OCEANS is an annual event for global marine technologists, engineers, students, government officials, lawyers, and advocates. At OCEANS 2023 Gulf Coast, industry thought leaders gather for four days to highlight relevant topics and current trends while creating a community of learners and influencers who consistently advance research, practices, and policies for the marine field.

OCEANS 2023 highlights operational oceanography, which is pivotal to the missions of these organizations and others along the Gulf Coast—where research is integrated into missions to make them more efficient or accurate and less dangerous or time-intensive. As such, we have added an Operational Oceanography technical track, along with nine others, to reflect the wide range of activity in the Gulf of Mexico and along the coast.

OCEANS 2023 will offer a high-traffic exhibit hall, training based on the identified needs of students and young professionals, lively plenaries and town halls, and technical demonstrations. In addition, our committee is using this opportunity to engage with the local community through a Beach Trash Art Contest and an Outreach Challenge for k-12 and community college students.

We hope you will join us for OCEANS 2023 in Biloxi and learn more about the exciting missions, programs, projects, and opportunities in the Gulf Coast region.

For more information, please visit the following link: https://gulfcoast23.oceansconference.org/.

MDPI will be attending the AGU Fall Meeting 2023, which will be held from 11 to 15 December 2023 in San Francisco, CA, USA.

For more than 100 years, AGU has been opening science—opening pathways to discovery, opening greater awareness to address climate change, opening greater collaborations that lead to solutions and opening the fields and professions of science to a whole new age of justice, equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging.

2023 might be the official year of Open Science, but we also see it as an opportunity to affirm AGU’s overarching values and beliefs. It is a message for all of us to carry as we come together to share, inspire, collaborate, engage and most of all rededicate ourselves as a united community grounded in wide open science.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Air;
• Atmosphere;
• Climate;
• Drones;
• Earth;
• Fire;
• Forests;
• Geomatics;
• Geosciences;
• Hydrology;
• IJERPH;
• Land;
• Meteorology;
• Minerals;
• Remote Sensing;
• Sustainability;
• Water;
• World.

If you are planning to attend this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth #1424 and start a conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following website: https://www.agu.org/fall-meeting.

MDPI is committed to supporting the academic community, nurturing talent and advancing science. Awards are an important part of the research landscape and play a vital role in helping academics gain recognition, especially young researchers as they embark on new research avenues.

In 2022, our journals presented a total number of 394 Awards, including Travel Awards, Young Investigator Awards, Best PhD Thesis Awards, Best Paper Awards, and Outstanding Reviewer Awards, with several winners announced for some of the awards. The total prize sum amounted to just under 580,000 Swiss francs (CHF), or approximately 650,000 US dollars. Overall, more than 720 scholars were awarded.

The majority of the awards were dedicated to young researchers in relatively early stages of their careers. This encompassed 66 of the afore-mentioned Travel Awards, 60 Young Investigator Awards, supporting research projects and conference attendance, as well as 51 Best PhD Thesis Awards. Additionally, 113 Best Paper Awards were given by our journals. The selection committees were entrusted with identifying the most impactful and novel research and review articles published in their journal within a given year.

MDPI will continue its support and recognition for the academic community moving forward, sponsoring new awards across disciplines. To learn more about all the awardees and their research projects in your field of study, please visit the following pages:

To explore more MDPI awards, please click here.

MDPI will be attending the 13th International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN 2023), held in Nuremberg, Germany, from 25 to 28 September 2023.

IPIN 2023 is organized by the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS with the support of researchers from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences. The conference will be held on-site at Fraunhofer IIS in Nuremberg. Join the 300 expected industrial and academic experts in computer science, electronics and surveying to address this challenge. Discuss, in person, scientific and industrial matters and witness state-of-the-art systems and methods, including the uniquely challenging IPIN competition. During this conference, MDPI will welcome researchers from different backgrounds to visit and share their latest views as well as research with us.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Sensors;
• Electronics;
• Drones;
• Remote Sensing;
• Applied Sciences;
• ASI.

If you are attending this conference, please stop by our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following link: http://www.ipin-conference.org/2023/index.html.

MDPI’s Best PhD Thesis Awards are presented to recognize the young scholars who are deemed to have completed the most outstanding PhD thesis in their field of research and to encourage them to continue their outstanding work and make further contributions to their field.

We would like to warmly congratulate the winners of the 2022 Best PhD Thesis Awards and wish them success with their future research endeavors.

Atmosphere:

• “Variability of Ocean Dynamics and Associated Mechanisms Over the Tropical Indian Ocean”
  by Sartaj Khan, Harbin Engineering University, China

Energies:

• “Nanofluid Impingement Jet Heat Transfer”
  by Javad Mohammadpour, Macquarie University, Australia

Minerals:

• “Abiotic Sedimentary Dolomite Formation: from Nano- to Macro-Scale”
  by Yihang Fang, Washington University, USA

Toxics:

• “Effects of Rare Earth Elements on Aquatic Organisms under a Changing Environment”
  by Catia Figueiredo, CIIMAR—Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, Portugal

Water:

• “Green-Gray Coupled Runoff Control Infrastructure Adaptive Multi-Objective Optimization Method”
  by Zijing Liu, Tsinghua University, China

About MDPI Awards:

In order to reward the academic community, especially young researchers and enhance communication among scientists, MDPI journals regularly offer various awards to researchers in specific fields. These awards, serving as a source of inspiration and recognition, help raise the influence of talented individuals who have been credited with outstanding achievements and are making a significant contribution to the advancement of their fields.

To explore more MDPI awards, please click here.

The purpose of our Best Paper Awards is to promote and recognize the most impactful contributions published within MDPI journals.

The editors of each journal carefully selected reviews and research papers through a rigorous judging process based on criteria such as the scientific merit, overall impact, and the quality of presentation of the papers published in the journal.

We are honored to present the winners for the year 2022 in environmental and earth sciences, who were selected amongst the extensive competition, and congratulate the authors for their outstanding scientific publications.

Atmosphere:

• “Covid-19 Airborne Transmission and Its Prevention: Waiting for Evidence or Applying the Precautionary Principle?”
  by Annalaura Carducci, Ileana Federigi and Marco Verani
  Atmosphere 2020, 11(7), 710; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11070710

• “The Heat Health Warning System in Germany—Application and Warnings for 2005 to 2019”
  by Andreas Matzarakis, Gudrun Laschewski and Stefan Muthers
  Atmosphere 2020, 11(2), 170; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11020170

• “Temporal Hydrological Drought Index Forecasting for New South Wales, Australia Using Machine Learning Approaches”
  by Abhirup Dikshit, Biswajeet Pradhan and Abdullah M. Alamri
  Atmosphere 2020, 11(6), 585; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11060585

Clean Technologies:

• “Lignocellulosic Biomass Mild Alkaline Fractionation and Resulting Extract Purification Processes: Conditions, Yields, and Purities”
  by Vincent Oriez, Jérôme Peydecastaing and Pierre-Yves Pontalier
  Clean Technol. 2020, 2(1), 91-115; https://doi.org/10.3390/cleantechnol2010007

• “Environmental and Economic Evaluation of Fuel Choices for Short Sea Shipping”
  by Kirsi Spoof-Tuomi and Seppo Niemi
  Clean Technol. 2020, 2(1), 34-52; https://doi.org/10.3390/cleantechnol2010004

Energies:

• “Analyzing Similarities between the European Union Countries in Terms of the Structure and Volume of Energy Production from Renewable Energy Sources”
  by Jarosław Brodny and Magdalena Tutak
  Energies 2020, 13(4), 913; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13040913

• “High Reynold’s Number Turbulent Model for Micro-Channel Cold Plate Using Reverse Engineering Approach for Water-Cooled Battery in Electric Vehicles”
  by Satyam Panchal, Krishna Gudlanarva, Manh-Kien Tran, Roydon Fraser and Michael Fowler
  Energies 2020, 13(7), 1638; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13071638
• “Investigation of Inorganic Phase Change Material for a Semi-Transparent Photovoltaic (STPV) Module”
  by Alagar Karthick, Muthu Manokar Athikesavan, Manoj Kumar Pasupathi, Nallapaneni Manoj Kumar, Shauhrat S. Chopra and Aritra Ghosh
  Energies 2020, 13(14), 3582; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13143582

• “Considerations on Potentials, Greenhouse Gas, and Energy Performance of Biofuels Based on Forest Residues for Heavy-Duty Road Transport in Sweden”
  by Shveta Soam and Pål Börjesson
  Energies 2020, 13(24), 6701; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13246701

• “Characterization of Hybrid-nano/Paraffin Organic Phase Change Material for Thermal Energy Storage Applications in Solar Thermal Systems”
  by Manoj Kumar Pasupathi, Karthick Alagar, Michael Joseph Stalin P, Matheswaran M. M and Ghosh Aritra
  Energies 2020, 13(19), 5079; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13195079

• “Snapshot of Photovoltaics—February 2020”
  by Arnulf Jäger-Waldau
  Energies 2020, 13(4), 930; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13040930

• “The Importance of Renewable Energy Sources in Poland’s Energy Mix”
  by Renata Marks-Bielska, Stanisław Bielski, Katarzyna Pik and Krystyna Kurowska
  Energies 2020, 13(18), 4624; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13184624

• “Infectious Diseases, Market Uncertainty and Oil Market Volatility”
  by Elie Bouri, Riza Demirer, Rangan Gupta and Christian Pierdzioch
  Energies 2020, 13(16), 4090; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13164090

• “Cost of Equity of Coal-Fired Power Generation Projects in Poland: Its Importance for the Management of Decision-Making Process”
  by Piotr W. Saługa, Katarzyna Szczepańska-Woszczyna, Radosław Miśkiewicz and Mateusz Chłąd
  Energies 2020, 13(18), 4833; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13184833

• “Internet of Things (IoT) and the Energy Sector”
  by Naser Hossein Motlagh, Mahsa Mohammadrezaei, Julian Hunt and Behnam Zakeri
  Energies 2020, 13(2), 494; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13020494

• “A Review on Thermoelectric Generators: Progress and Applications”
  by Mohamed Amine Zoui, Saïd Bentouba, John G. Stocholm and Mahmoud Bourouis
  Energies 2020, 13(14), 3606; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13143606

• “Contributions and Risks of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Building Smarter Cities: Insights from a Systematic Review of the Literature”
  by Tan Yigitcanlar, Kevin C. Desouza, Luke Butler and Farnoosh Roozkhosh
  Energies 2020, 13(6), 1473; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13061473

• “Possibilities and Challenges for the Inclusion of the Electric Vehicle (EV) to Reduce the Carbon Footprint in the Transport Sector: A Review”
  by Aritra Ghosh
  Energies 2020, 13(10), 2602; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13102602

• “Energy and Climate Policy—An Evaluation of Global Climate Change Expenditure 2011–2018”
  by Coilín ÓhAiseadha, Gerré Quinn, Ronan Connolly, Michael Connolly and Willie Soon
  Energies 2020, 13(18), 4839; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13184839
• “A Review of The Methanol Economy: The Fuel Cell Route”
  by Samuel Simon Araya, Vincenzo Liso, Xiaoti Cui, Na Li, Jimin Zhu, Simon Lennart Sahlin, Søren Højgaard Jensen, Mads Pagh Nielsen and Søren Knudsen Kær
  Energies 2020, 13(3), 596; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13030596

Environments:

• “Microplastic Contamination in Freshwater Environments: A Review, Focusing on Interactions with Sediments and Benthic Organisms”
  by Arianna Bellasi, Gilberto Binda, Andrea Pozzi, Silvia Galafassi, Pietro Volta and Roberta Bettinetti
  Environments 2020, 7(4), 30; https://doi.org/10.3390/environments7040030

• “Biogas Production from Food Residues—The Role of Trace Metals and Co-Digestion with Primary Sludge”
  by Moshe Habagil, Alexander Keucken and Ilona Sárvári Horváth
  Environments 2020, 7(6), 42; https://doi.org/10.3390/environments7060042

Forests:

• “Coastal Pine-Oak Glacial Refugia in the Mediterranean Basin: A Biogeographic Approach Based on Charcoal Analysis and Spatial Modelling”
  by Gaetano Di Pasquale, Antonio Saracino, Luciano Bosso, Danilo Russo, Adriana Moroni, Giuliano Bonanomi and Emilia Allevato
  Forests 2020, 11(6), 673; https://doi.org/10.3390/f11060673

• “A Survey in Natural Forest Ecosystems of Vietnam Reveals High Diversity of both New and Described Phytophthora Taxa including ramorum”
  by Thomas Jung, Bruno Scanu, Clive M. Brasier, Joan Webber, Ivan Milenković, Tamara Corcobado, Michal Tomšovský, Matěj Pánek, József Bakonyi, Cristiana Maia et al.
  Forests 2020, 11(1), 93; https://doi.org/10.3390/f11010093

• “Living in Drylands: Functional Adaptations of Trees and Shrubs to Cope with High Temperatures and Water Scarcity”
  by José Javier Peguero-Pina, Alberto Vilagrosa, David Alonso-Forn, Juan Pedro Ferrio, Domingo Sancho-Knapik and Eustaquio Gil-Pelegrín
  Forests 2020, 11(10), 1028; https://doi.org/10.3390/f11101028

• “Advances and Promises of Epigenetics for Forest Trees”
  by Joana Amaral, Zoé Ribeyre, Julien Vigneaud, Mamadou Dia Sow, Régis Fichot, Christian Messier, Gloria Pinto, Philippe Nolet and Stéphane Maury
  Forests 2020, 11(9), 976; https://doi.org/10.3390/f11090976

IJGI:

• “Cartographic Vandalism in the Era of Location-Based Games—The Case of OpenStreetMap and Pokémon GO”
  by Levente Juhász, Tessio Novack, Hartwig H. Hochmair and Sen Qiao
  ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2020, 9(4), 197; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9040197

Minerals:

• “A Comprehensive Review of Rare Earth Elements Recovery from Coal-Related Materials”
  by Wencai Zhang, Aaron Noble, Xinbo Yang and Rick Honaker
  Minerals 2020, 10(5), 451; https://doi.org/10.3390/min10050451
• “SEM-Based Automated Mineralogy and Its Application in Geo- and Material Sciences”
  by Bernhard Schulz, Dirk Sandmann and Sabine Gilbricht
  Minerals 2020, 10(11), 1004; https://doi.org/10.3390/min10111004

• “Characteristics of Precipitation of Rare Earth Elements with Various Precipitants”
  by Kenneth N. Han
  Minerals 2020, 10(2), 178; https://doi.org/10.3390/min10020178

• “Lithium-Rich Claystone in the McDermitt Caldera, Nevada, USA: Geologic, Mineralogical, and Geochemical Characteristics and Possible Origin”
  by Stephen B. Castor and Christopher D. Henry
  Minerals 2020, 10(1), 68; https://doi.org/10.3390/min10010068

• “Using Complementary Methods of Synchrotron Radiation Powder Diffraction and Pair Distribution Function to Refine Crystal Structures with High Quality Parameters—A Review”
  by Seungyeol Lee and Huifang Xu
  Minerals 2020, 10(2), 124; https://doi.org/10.3390/min10020124

Quaternary:

• “Erosive Response of Non-Glaciated Pyrenean Headwater Catchments to the Last Major Climate Transition and Establishing Interglacial Conditions”
  by Kurt Martin Stange, Ivar Midtkandal, Johan Petter Nystuen, Andrew Murray, Reza Sohbati, Warren Thompson, Cornelia Spiegel and Hans-Joachim Kuss
  Quaternary 2019, 2(2), 17; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat2020017

• “Last Interglacial Climate in Northern Sweden—Insights from a Speleothem Record”
  by Martin Finné, Sakari Salonen, Norbert Frank, Karin F. Helmens, Andrea Schröder-Ritzrau, Michael Deininger and Steffen Holzkämper
  Quaternary 2019, 2(3), 29; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat2030029

• “Climatically Controlled River Terraces in Eastern Australia”
  by James S. Daley and Tim J. Cohen
  Quaternary 2018, 1(3), 23; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat1030023

• “Dropstones in Lacustrine Sediments as a Record of Snow Avalanches—A Validation of the Proxy by Combining Satellite Imagery and Varve Chronology at Kenai Lake (South-Central Alaska)”
  by Sien Thys, Maarten Van Daele, Nore Praet, Britta J. L. Jensen, Thomas Van Dyck, Peter J. Haeussler, Elke Vandekerkhove, Veerle Cnudde and Marc De Batist
  Quaternary 2019, 2(1), 11; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat2010011

• “From Climatic to Anthropogenic Drivers: A Multi-Proxy Reconstruction of Vegetation and Peatland Development in the French Jura Mountains”
  by Emilie Gauthier, Vincent E. J. Jassey, Edward A. D. Mitchell, Mariusz Lamentowicz, Richard Payne, Frédéric Delarue, Fatima Laggoun-Defarge, Daniel Gilbert and Hervé Richard
  Quaternary 2019, 2(4), 38; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat2040038

Remote Sensing:

• “Current Practices in UAS-based Environmental Monitoring”
  by Goran Tmušić, Salvatore Manfreda, Helge Aasen, Mike R. James, Gil Gonçalves, Eyal Ben-Dor, Anna Brook, Maria Polinova, Jose Juan Arranz, János Mészáros et al.
  Remote Sens. 2020, 12(6), 1001; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12061001

• “Change Detection Based on Artificial Intelligence: State-of-the-Art and Challenges”
  by Wenzhong Shi, Min Zhang, Rui Zhang, Shanxiong Chen and Zhao Zhan
  Remote Sens. 2020, 12(10), 1688; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12101688
• “A Spatial-Temporal Attention-Based Method and a New Dataset for Remote Sensing Image Change Detection”
  by Hao Chen and Zhenwei Shi
  Remote Sens. 2020, 12(10), 1662; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12101662

• “Mapping Landslides on EO Data: Performance of Deep Learning Models vs. Traditional Machine Learning Models”
  by Nikhil Prakash, Andrea Manconi and Simon Loew
  Remote Sens. 2020, 12(3), 346; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12030346

• “LiCSBAS: An Open-Source InSAR Time Series Analysis Package Integrated with the LiCSAR Automated Sentinel-1 InSAR Processor”
  by Yu Morishita, Milan Lazecky, Tim J. Wright, Jonathan R. Weiss, John R. Elliott and Andy Hooper
  Remote Sens. 2020, 12(3), 424; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12030424

Safety:

• “A Novel Method for Safety Analysis of Cyber-Physical Systems—Application to a Ship Exhaust Gas Scrubber System”
  by Victor Bolbot, Gerasimos Theotokatos, Evangelos Boulougouris, George Psarros and Rainer Hamann
  Safety 2020, 6(2), 26; https://doi.org/10.3390/safety6020026

• “Characteristics of Commuters’ Single-Bicycle Crashes in Insurance Data”
  by Roni Utriainen
  Safety 2020, 6(1), 13; https://doi.org/10.3390/safety6010013 

• “Effect of Road Markings and Traffic Signs Presence on Young Driver Stress Level, Eye Movement and Behaviour in Night-Time Conditions: A Driving Simulator Study”
  by Darko Babić, Dario Babić, Hrvoje Cajner, Ana Sruk and Mario Fiolić
  Safety 2020, 6(2), 24; https://doi.org/10.3390/safety6020024

Sustainability:

• “COVID-19 Could Leverage a Sustainable Built Environment”
  by Manuel Duarte Pinheiro and Nuno Cardoso Luís
  Sustainability 2020, 12(14), 5863; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12145863

• “Mapping the Sustainable Development Goals Relationships”
  by Luis Miguel Fonseca, José Pedro Domingues and Alina Mihaela Dima
  Sustainability 2020, 12(8), 3359; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12083359

• “The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Resilience of Sustainable Mobility in Sicily”
  by Tiziana Campisi, Socrates Basbas, Anastasios Skoufas, Nurten Akgün, Dario Ticali and Giovanni Tesoriere
  Sustainability 2020, 12(21), 8829; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12218829

• “Artificial Intelligence in the Agri-Food System: Rethinking Sustainable Business Models in the COVID-19 Scenario”
  by Assunta Di Vaio, Flavio Boccia, Loris Landriani and Rosa Palladino
  Sustainability 2020, 12(12), 4851; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12124851

Toxics:

• “Interaction of Environmental Pollutants with Microplastics: A Critical Review of Sorption Factors, Bioaccumulation and Ecotoxicological Effects”
  by Albert Menéndez-Pedriza and Joaquim Jaumot
  Toxics 2020, 8(2), 40; https://doi.org/10.3390/toxics8020040

• “Analysis of Cannabinoid-Containing Fluids in Illicit Vaping Cartridges Recovered from Pulmonary Injury Patients: Identification of Vitamin E Acetate as a Major Diluent”
  by Bryan Duffy, Lingyun Li, Shijun Lu, Lorie Durocher, Mark Dittmar, Emily Delaney-Baldwin, Deepika Panawennage, David LeMaster, Kristen Navarette and David Spink
  Toxics 2020, 8(1), 8; https://doi.org/10.3390/toxics8010008

Water:

• “Assessing the Benefits of Forested Riparian Zones: A Qualitative Index of Riparian Integrity Is Positively Associated with Ecological Status in European Streams”
  by Francis J. Burdon, Ellinor Ramberg, Jasmina Sargac, Marie Anne Eurie Forio, Nancy de Saeyer, Petra Thea Mutinova, Therese Fosholt Moe, Mihaela Oprina Pavelescu, Valentin Dinu, Constantin Cazacu et al.
  Water 2020, 12(4), 1178; https://doi.org/10.3390/w12041178

• “Worldwide Regulations and Guidelines for Agricultural Water Reuse: A Critical Review”
  by Farshid Shoushtarian and Masoud Negahban-Azar
  Water 2020, 12(4), 971; https://doi.org/10.3390/w12040971

• “Adsorption of Methylene Blue in Water onto Activated Carbon by Surfactant Modification”
  by Yu Kuang, Xiaoping Zhang and Shaoqi Zhou
  Water 2020, 12(2), 587; https://doi.org/10.3390/w12020587

• “Antimicrobials and Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria: A Risk to the Environment and to Public Health”
  by Liliana Serwecińska
  Water 2020, 12(12), 3313; https://doi.org/10.3390/w12123313

About MDPI Awards:

In order to reward the academic community, especially young researchers and enhance communication among scientists, MDPI journals regularly offer various awards to researchers in specific fields. These awards, serving as a source of inspiration and recognition, help raise the influence of talented individuals who have been credited with outstanding achievements and are making a significant contribution to the advancement of their fields.

To explore more MDPI awards, please click here.

MDPI’s Young Investigator Awards recognize promising junior researchers, acknowledge their contributions, and enhance communication among scientists. We are proud to present the winners for the year 2022 in environmental and earth sciences. The winners were selected by the journals’ Award Evaluation Committee.

We warmly congratulate the awarded young investigators for their outstanding contributions. MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.

Atmosphere:

• Jianhuai Ye, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Energies:

• Saeed Golestan, Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark

IJERPH:

• Michael Bertram, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

Minerals:

• Shaunna M. Morrison, Carnegie Institution for Science, USA

Remote Sensing:

• Danfeng Hong, Qingdao University, China

Sustainability:

• Xiaolei Yuan, Aalto University, Finland

Toxics:

• Minjian Chen, Nanjing Medical University, China

Water:

• Sergi Garcia-Segura, Arizona State University, USA

About MDPI Awards:

In order to reward the academic community, especially young researchers and enhance communication among scientists, MDPI journals regularly offer various awards to researchers in specific fields. These awards, serving as a source of inspiration and recognition, help raise the influence of talented individuals who have been credited with outstanding achievements and are making a significant contribution to the advancement of their fields.

To explore more MDPI awards, please click here.

We are proud to recognize the winners of MDPI’s 2022 Travel Awards in environmental and earth sciences for their outstanding presentations and to present them with the prize.

MDPI journals regularly offer travel awards to encourage junior scientists to present their latest research at academic conferences in specific fields, which helps to increase their influence.

The winners mentioned below were carefully selected by the journal editors based on an outline of their research and the work to be presented at an academic conference.

We would like to warmly congratulate the winners of the 2022 Travel Awards and wish them the greatest success with their future research endeavors.

Climate:

• Pavani Misra, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

Energies:

• Runxia Cai, North Carolina State University, USA
• Lukasz Niedzwiecki, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland

Environments:

• Michael Eze, ¹Macquarie University, Australia; ²University of Goettingen, Germany
• Murillo Vetroni Barros, Federal University of Technology—Paraná, Brazil

Fire:

• Ana Novo, University of Vigo, Spain

Forests:

• Eko Setio Wibowo, Kyungpook National University, Republic of Korea

Hydrology:

• Esmaiil Mokarighahroodi, Texas A&M University, USA

IJERPH:

• Roseane F. De Fátima Guimarães, Université de Montréal, Canada
• Phillips E. Obasohan, University of Sheffield, UK
• Katarina Baralić, University of Belgrade, Serbia
• Xianglong Xu, Monash University, Australia

IJGI:

• Jianwei Huang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
• Sevim Sezi Karayazi, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands

Land:

• Rocky Talchabhadel, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, USA
• Leah Renwick, University of Chile, Chile

Remote Sensing:

• Ana Novo, University of Vigo, Spain
• Renée Mie Fredensborg Hansen, ¹Technical University of Denmark; ²Norwegian University of Science and Technology (in collaboration with The University Centre in Svalbard), Norway

Resources:

• Aida Hosseinian, Oulu University, Finland

Sustainability:

• Morteza Nazari-Heris, Pennsylvania State University, USA
• Domenico Mazzeo, University of Calabria, Italy
• Yuan Chen, The University of Sydney, Australia
• Sonia Khadija Maïté Gueroun, Tecnologia e Inovação (ARDITI), Portugal
• Konstantina Tsigkou, University of Patras, Greece

Water:

• Sabolc Pap, University of the Highlands and Islands, UK
• Xuexiu Jia, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
• Angelos Alamanos, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland

About MDPI Awards:

In order to reward the academic community, especially young researchers and enhance communication among scientists, MDPI journals regularly offer various awards to researchers in specific fields. These awards, serving as a source of inspiration and recognition, help raise the influence of talented individuals who have been credited with outstanding achievements and are making a significant contribution to the advancement of their fields.

To explore more MDPI awards, please click here.

In order to acknowledge our reviewers, who so generously dedicate their time to reviewing papers and demonstrate diligence, professionalism, and timeliness when reviewing manuscripts, MDPI journals regularly offer outstanding reviewer awards to scholars who participate in the peer-review process.

We are proud to recognize the winners for the year 2022 in environmental and earth sciences for their outstanding contributions among the extensive competition by presenting them with an Outstanding Reviewer Award.

We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all the winners on their achievements. MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.

Atmosphere:

• Stanislav Juráň, Global Change Research Institute CAS, Czech Republic
• Sandro W. Lubis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), USA

Climate:

• Eliza Kalbarczyk, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland

Energies:

• Raffaele Carli, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
• Marcos Tostado-Véliz, University of Jaén, Spain
• Andrea Mariscotti, University of Genova, Italy
• Xuejun Qian, Morgan State University, USA
• Dominik Zimon, Rzeszow University of Technology, Poland

Forests:

• Petr Pyszko, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
• Narayan Bhusal, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
• Vasiliki Kamperidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Muhammad Adnan Akram, Lanzhou University, China

Fuels:

• Jelena T. Petrović, Institute for Technology of Nuclear and Other Mineral Raw Materials, Serbia

Geosciences:

• Martina Zucchi, University of Bari, Italy
• Theodore M. Present, California Institute of Technology, United States

IJERPH:

• Anuli Njoku, Southern Connecticut State University, USA
• Álvaro Francisco Lopes De Sousa, Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Portugal
• Carol Nash, University of Toronto, Canada
• Geovani Lopez-Ortiz, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
• Jorge Velázquez Saornil, Universidad Católica de Ávila, Spain
• Naser Alsharairi, Menzies Health Institute Qld- Griffith University, Australia
• Salvador Baena-Morales, University of Alicante, Spain
• Shirley Wyver, Macquarie University, Australia
• Akihiko Katayama, Shikoku Gakuin University, Japan
• Alessandro Sapienza, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC - CNR), Italy
• Alexandr Ceasovschih, “St. Spiridon” Emergency Hospital, Romania
• Alina Cernasev, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA
• Amelia Beata Staszowska, Lublin University of Technology, Poland
• Andreia Lima, Fernando Pessoa University, Portugal
• Anna Lipert, Medical University of Lodz, Poland
• Anson Kai Chun Chau, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
• Bianca Hanganu, “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Iasi, Romania
• Bocong Yuan, Sun Yat-sen University, China
• Chee-Seng Tan, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia
• Christine Manlai Kwan,The University of Hong Kong, China
• Cristina Mendoza-Holgado, University of Extremadura, Spain
• Denise Dillon, James Cook University, Singapore
• Hiroyuki Noda, Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
• Isaac Rampedi, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
• Jan Domaradzki, Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Poland
• Joel Nitzkin, JLN, MD Associates, L.L.C., USA
• Kyung-Hyun Suh, Sahmyook University, Republic of Korea
• Lorenzo Gianquintieri, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy
• Mariusz Duplaga, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Poland
• Matteo Riccò, Unità Operativa di Prevenzione e Sicurezza degli Ambienti di Lavoro, Italy
• Olga Czerwińska-Ledwig, University of Physical Education in Kraków, Poland
• Petra Marková, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
• Piyapong Janmaimool, Kochi University of Technology, Japan
• Rafał Gerymski, Opole University, Poland
• Rasa Jankauskiene, Lithuanian Sports University, Lithuania
• Ruben Lopez-Bueno, University of Zaragoza, Spain
• Siu Shing Man, City University of Hong Kong, China
• Tomasz Sobierajski, University of Warsaw, Poland
• Wang-Kin Oscar Chiu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
• Yang Wu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

IJGI:

• Fernando P. Fonseca, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
• Polina Lemenkova, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
• Alexandre B. Gonçalves, University of Lisbon, Portugal
• Marcin Kulawiak, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
• Dennis Edler, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Land:

• Concetta Cardillo, Center for Agricultural Policies and Bioeconomy, Italy
• Elisabetta Maria Venco, University of Pavia, Italy
• Małgorzata Dudzińska, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland

Resources:

• Lubomir Strba, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia

Solar:

• Naresh Duvva, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Sustainability:

• Aleksandra Jezierska-Thöle, Kazimierz Wielki University, Poland
• Piotr Borowski, Vistula University, Poland
• Elżbieta Szaruga, University of Szczecin, Poland
• Raffaele Carli, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
• Joana Costa, University of Szczecin, Portugal
• Silvia Puiu, University of Craiova, Romania
• Miguel Afonso Sellitto, School of Unisinos, Brazil
• Tiago F. A. C. Sigahi, University of São Paulo, Brazil
• Abdalwali Lutfi, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia
• Jarosław Uglis, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poland
• Ágnes Csiszárik-Kocsir, Óbuda University, Hungary
• Jianwan Ji, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, China
• Aldona Zawojska, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland
• Jianwei Qian, Hangzhou Normal University, China
• Ali Saleh Alshebami, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia
• José Belda-Medina, University of Alicante, Spain
• Ana Dias, University of Aveiro, Portugal
• Krzysztof Rząsa, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn Poland, Poland
• Andreea-Ionela Puiu, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
• Krzysztof Skrzypkowski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
• Andrés Velástegui-Montoya, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL), Ecuador
• Louis S. H. Lee, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Anita Silvana Ilak Peršurić, Institute of Agriculture and Tourism, Croatia
• Marek Gaworski, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland
• Brett Bligh, Lancaster University, UK
• Meike Rombach, Lincoln University, New Zealand
• Catarina Fernandes, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal
• Ming-Lang Tseng, Asia University, Taiwan
• Charitha Dias, Qatar University, Qatar
• Nicoleta Dospinescu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania
• Daniel Badulescu, University of Oradea, Romania
• Roman Trach, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland
• Darko Božanić, University of Defense in Belgrade, Serbia
• Romina D’Ascanio, Roma Tre University, Italy
• Donatella Privitera, University of Catania, Italy
• Sol García-Germán, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
• Eleonora Santos, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal
• Valentina Vasile, Romanian Academy, Romania
• Francis Boadu, Kumasi Technical University, Ghana
• Yir-Hueih Luh, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Toxics:

• Chris Douvris, New York Institute of Technology, USA

Water:

• Meysam Vadiati, University of California, USA
• Carmine Apollaro, University of Calabria (UniCAL), Italy
• Giacomo Medici, University of Guelph, Canada
• Katarzyna Pietrucha-Urbanik, Rzeszow University of Technology, Poland
• Dobrochna Ginter-Kramarczyk, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
• Vladimir Dvoretsky, Murmansk Marine Biological Institute, Russia
• Chengcheng Xia, University of Padova, Italy
• Aristeidis Kastridis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Majid Niazkar, University of Milan, Italy
• Yuliia Trach, Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie, Poland

About MDPI Awards:

In order to reward the academic community, especially young researchers, and enhance communication among scientists, MDPI journals regularly offer various awards to researchers in specific fields. These awards serve as a source of inspiration and recognition, and help promote the influence of talented individuals who have been credited with outstanding achievements and who are making a significant contributions to the advancement of their field.

To explore more MDPI awards, please click here.

With the first issue released in June 2023, five new MDPI journals disseminating multi-disciplinary science are due to launch, which will cover the subjects of medicine & pharmacology, biology and physical sciences.

The newly launched journals will be overseen by professional Editorial Board Members and Editors to ensure an accurate and rapid publication, rigorous peer review and broad visibility.

Please feel free to browse and discover more about the new journals below.

Journal	Founding Editor-in-Chief	Journal topics (selected)
	Prof. Dr. Jun Ma, Peking University, China| Editorial | view inaugural issue	growth and development; diet and nutrients; school health promotion policies and practices; child health and care; adolescent health and wellbeing | view journal scope | submit an article
	Prof. Dr. Bernd Rehm, Griffith University, Australia | Editorial | view inaugural issue	DNA and gene synthesis; synthetic transcription factors; protein engineering; viral engineering; metabolic engineering | view journal scope | submit an article
	Prof. Dr. Varsha Gandhi, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA | Editorial | view inaugural issue	lymphatics; cancers associated with lymphocytes and lymphoblasts; lymphatic tissues; lymphoma; lymphoid leukemia | view journal scope | submit an article
	Dr. Bradley Turner, University of Melbourne, Australia | Editorial | view inaugural issue	multiple sclerosis; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; primary lateral sclerosis; atherosclerosis; systemic sclerosis | view journal scope | submit an article
	Prof. Dr. Clemens Burda, Case Western Reserve University, USA | Editorial | view inaugural issue	Gamma ray, X-ray, and UV–Vis spectroscopies; NIR/mid-infrared/Raman spectroscopy; microwave and THz spectroscopy; high-resolution gas-phase atomic, molecular, and cluster spectroscopy; MS, NMR, and EPR spectroscopy | view journal scope | submit an article

We wish to thank everyone who has supported the development of open access publishing. You are welcome to submit an application to the New Journal Committee ([email protected]) if you would like to create more new journals.

MDPI will attend the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 20^th Annual Meeting (AOGS 2023) as an exhibitor. This meeting will be held in Suntec, Singapore, from 30 July to 4 August 2023.

The Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) Annual Meeting aims to promote geosciences and its application for the benefit of humanity, specifically in Asia and Oceania and with an overarching approach to global issues. The AOGS’s field is deeply involved in addressing hazard-related issues through improving our understanding of the genesis of hazards through scientific, social, and technical approaches.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Remote Sensing;
• Atmosphere;
• Land;
• Earth;
• Hydrology;
• Drones.

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to start a conversation with us at our booth #D16. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have.

For more information about the conference, please visit https://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2023/public.asp?page=home.asp.

The 2022 citation metrics have been released in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), and we’re pleased to announce the following results for MDPI journals:

We are thrilled to announce that 90% of our ranked MDPI journals, specifically 86 out of 96 (captured in the table below), are performing above average in Q1 or Q2. This year, Clarivate has expanded its Impact Factor (IF) awards to include journals in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), providing greater transparency for the full set of journals indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection. As a result, 111 of MDPI journals have received their first IF in 2023, with 37 journals surpassing an IF of 3.0. In total, 208 MDPI journals have been honored with an IF.

Clarivate explains that by "expanding the coverage but holding to highly selective standards, the [Impact Factor] is now a reliable indicator of trustworthiness, as well as a measure of scholarly impact, at the journal level."

Please visit our blog post where we discuss the release of the latest citation metrics with our Indexing Manager, Dr. Constanze Schelhorn, to find out what's different this time around and how to make use of different metrics available.

Note: The Journal of Personalized Medicine's Impact Factor was omitted in the original release and will be assigned separately. Please find the data on the journal webpage in due course.

Source: 2022 Journal Impact Factors, Journal Citation Reports ^TM (Clarivate, 2023)

A message from Prof. Rui Alexandre Castanho, the webinar chair:

Throughout the webinar, we will have the opportunity to hear from leading experts in their fields, engage in productive discussions, and participate in hands-on workshops and activities. We aim to foster new partnerships through collaboration and innovation, providing a platform where a range of ideas can be shared.

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have revolutionized remote sensing for land use and land cover (LULC) mapping and landscape analysis. The ability to capture high-resolution aerial imagery and create 3D landscape models has allowed for more accurate and detailed mapping of LULC patterns, changes, and trends over time.

Furthermore, using UAVs for citizen science initiatives has enabled communities to participate in monitoring and managing their local environments. This approach allows for a more collaborative and inclusive approach to environmental management and can help to build community awareness and engagement in environmental issues.

UAVs have also been used for mapping vegetation, soil erosion, and water quality monitoring. These applications have provided researchers and managers with new tools to better understand and manage natural resources. UAVs can collect data quickly and at a high resolution, allowing for more detailed analysis of small-scale features such as vegetation canopy cover, plant height, and soil erosion patterns.

Using UAVs for remote sensing and citizen science initiatives has opened up new opportunities for more efficient and effective environmental monitoring and management. As technology continues to improve, we can expect to see even more innovative applications of UAVs in environmental research and management.

At this webinar, we hope you will gain new insights, make valuable connections, and leave feeling inspired and motivated to drive positive change in your respective fields.

Date: 13 July 2023 at 5:00 p.m. CEST | 11:00 a.m. EDT | 11:00 p.m. CST Asia
Webinar ID: 870 9667 3555

Register now for free!

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information on how to join the webinar. Registrations with academic institutional email addresses will be prioritized.

Unable to attend? Register as normal to be notified when the recording is available to watch.

Webinar Chair and Keynote Speakers

• Rui Alexandre Castanho, Department of Management, WSB University, Dabrowa Górnicza, Poland;
• Ana Hernando, Departamento de Ingeniería y Gestión Forestal y Ambiental Department of Forestry and Environmental Engineering and Management, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain;
• Luís Quinta-Nova, Agrarian Higher School, Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal.

Relevant Topic:

“Advances in Earth Observation and Geosciences”
Edited by: Prof. Dr. Diego González-Aguilera and Dr. Pablo Rodríguez-Gonzálvez
Abstract submission deadline: 31 December 2023

Relevant Special Issues:

"Land-Use Planning in Borderlands and Ultra-Peripheral Regions"
Edited by: Dr. Rui Alexandre Castanho, Dr. José Manuel Naranjo Gómez, Prof. Dr. José Martín Gallardo, Dr. José Cabezas Fernández and Prof. Dr. Luís Quinta-Nova

"Planning Peripheral and Ultra-Peripheral Infrastructures"
Edited by: Prof. Dr. Rui Alexandre Castanho, Prof. Dr. Ana Vulevic, Prof. Dr. Gualter Couto and Prof. Dr. José Manuel Naranjo Gómez

"Sustainability in Tourism Activities and the Low-Density and Peripheral Territories"
Edited by: Prof. Dr. Rui Alexandre Castanho and Prof. Dr. Gualter Couto

"Remote Sensing Applications in Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF)"
Edited by: Dr. Ali Nadir Arslan, Prof. Dr. Katarzyna Dabrowska-Zielinska and Dr. Jose Manuel Álvarez-Martínez

"Resilient UAV Autonomy and Remote Sensing"
Edited by: Dr. Chi Chen, Dr. San Jiang, Dr. Xijiang Chen, Dr. Mao Tian, Dr. Jianping Li and Dr. Jian Zhou

"Advances on Land Cover/Land Use Ontologies for Innovative Production/Utilization of Land Information"
Edited by: Dr. Antonio Di Gregorio, Dr. Matieu Henry, Chris T. Hill, Prof. John Latham, Prof. Dr. Mohammed Abed Hossain, Dr. Khalid Mahmood and Dr. Foster Mensah

Relevant feature paper:

“The Land Use Mapping Techniques (Including the Areas Used by Pedestrians) Based on Low-Level Aerial Imagery”
by Maciej Smaczyński, Beata Medyńska-Gulij and Łukasz Halik
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2020, 9(12), 754; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9120754

MDPI is attending the Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2023 (JpGU 2023). The event will be held at the Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan, from 21 to 26 May 2023, and it is organized by the Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU). JpGU is an academic union that encompasses all the Earth and planetary science disciplines and related fields; additionally, it has been organizing annual meetings since 2005. JpGU 2023 will cover a wide range of Earth and planetary sciences, including space and planetary sciences, atmospheric and hydrospheric sciences, human geosciences, solid Earth sciences, and biogeosciences. The JpGU annual meeting provides participants with a good opportunity to become familiar with cutting-edge research and unique approaches to research objects within their own special field and beyond. Representatives of the following MDPI journals will be attending:

• Land;
• Remote Sensing;
• Minerals;
• Sustainability;
• Drones;
• Geographies;
• Climate;
• Geomatics;
• Geosciences;
• Water;
• Quaternary;
• Sensors;
• Earth.

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (#Pub05). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2023/.

On 11 May 2023, MDPI and the journals Remote Sensing, Drones, Land and IJGI organized the webinar Remote Sensing for Flood Risk and Hazard Management.

The introduction was held by the Chair of the webinar, Dr. Guy Schumann, who holds academic research positions at the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Bristol. He is also the Founder of RSS-Hydro, a European R&D company active in the areas of EO and computer modeling of water risks.

The first speaker to kick off this webinar was Dr. Laurence Hawker, who is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol, specializing in global flood models and Digital Elevation Model data. He develops flood simulations and advances global datasets to support our understanding of current and future flood risks. Dr Hawker’s presentation was entitled “Generating a 30m Global Terrain Map and using them in Global Flood Models”.

The second presentation entitled “Satellite Monitoring of River Discharge and Its Use in Hydrological Applications” was held by Dr. Angelica Tarpanelli. Her research activities mainly regard the development and implementation of algorithms for hydrological and hydraulic applications through the leveraging of satellite sensors data. She is currently a Senior Researcher at the National Research Council, Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection of (CNR-IRPI) in Perugia.

Dr. Patrick Matgen from the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) was the third speaker, and his presentation was entitled “The Sentinel-1 Global Flood Monitoring system of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service”. His personal research interests include the assimilation of remote sensing-derived observations into hydrodynamic models and the assessment of flood hazard and risk at a large scale.

The webinar ended with a Q&A and discussion, moderated by the Chair.

Please note that this webinar is associated with the Topic titled “Advances in Earth Observation and Geosciences”. The deadline is 31 December 2023.

You can watch the recorded webinar below:

Webinar Chair and Keynote Speakers:

• Dr. Guy Schumann, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; Research and Education Department, RSS-Hydro, Dudelange, Luxembourg;
• Dr. Laurence Hawker, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom;
• Dr. Angelica Tarpanelli, National Research Council, Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection of (CNR-IRPI), Italy;
• Dr. Patrick Matgen, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Esch-Belval Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.

On Tuesday, 25 April 2023, MDPI and the journals Remote Sensing, Drones, Land and IJGI organized the webinar entitled EO&GEO Series: New Milestones in Drones—from New Drones Designs to Real-Time and Artificial Intelligence Applications.

It is clear that drones have become an increasingly popular tool for mapping and surveying, with their ability to capture high-resolution and multi-sensor imagery. However, traditional mapping techniques often require significant time and effort to process the collected data before it can be used; therefore, real-time drone mapping offers a game-changing solution that is going to transform various application fields, such as emergency response or agriculture. 

Thanks to our recognized speakers, we had the opportunity to share with the audience novel insights into drone technology, from real-time mapping applications and novel drone designs to close to market vertical solutions in agriculture.

Please note that this webinar is associated with the Topic titled “Advances in Earth Observation and Geosciences”.  The deadline is 31 December 2023.

You can watch the recorded webinar here:

Webinar Chairs and Keynote Speakers:

• Dr. Diego González-Aguilera (Chair), Cartographic and Land Engineering Department, Higher Polytechnic School of Avila, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain;
• Pablo Rodríguez-Gonzálvez (Chair), Department of Mining Technology, Topography and Structures, University of León, Ponferrada, Spain;
• Dr. Francesco Nex, Earth Observation Science (ESO) Department, ITC Faculty, University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands;
• Katerina Margarita, Acceligence Hellas Ltd, Greece;
• Mr. Xavier Silva Garcia, Hemav Technology SL., Spain

MDPI will be attending the 2023 Science and Technology Annual Meeting of Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences, which will be held from 22 to 23 April 2023, in Nanchang, China. The theme of the annual meeting is “Develop green and low-carbon, build a beautiful China”.

The annual meeting has arranged for an opening ceremony and specially invited keynote speeches, subsession seminars, high-end forums, special sessions for young scientists, poster exchanges, environmental protection science and technology achievement exhibitions, special events, etc. A total of 1800 delegates are expected to attend. Four academicians and other well-known experts are expected to deliver keynote speeches on climate change, the prevention and control of atmospheric, water, and soil environmental pollution, and environmental management science as well as technology. The invited keynote speeches touch on fields such as achievements in transformation.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Sustainability;
• Toxics;
• Energies;
• Climate;
• Land;
• Minerals;
• Resources;
• Forests;
• Remote Sensing;
• Earth;
• Clean Technologies.
  

Date and time: 5 April 2023, 19:00–21:00 EDT/6 April 2023 8:00–10:00 JST
Webinar website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/events/16005
Webinar ID: 822 7632 9470
Webinar secretariat: [email protected]
Keywords: geohazards; flooding; tsunami; Earth observation; machine learning; building damage mapping
Register for free: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4116786725558/WN_Q_eR5ORFQEioyKi-HfEkSw
Relevant Special Issue: “Technological Advancements in Disaster Damage Assessment Using Earth Observation, Machine Learning, and Numerical Simulation”

Disaster science is a research discipline that plays a critical role in understanding the processes underlying geo-hazards, evaluating, modeling, and forecasting hazard risks, and designing, as well as implementing disaster risk management policies and programs. This webinar will provide a high-level overview of recent advances in disaster sciences, including new geospatial methodologies and applications. The speakers will discuss common challenges and opportunities for rapid mapping and assessment of hazard risks in a range of applications. The webinar Chair and Co-Chair will highlight the key achievements of this fast-developing discipline and introduce the speakers, who will present case studies to illustrate the use of Earth observation as well as machine learning techniques in disaster science. The webinar will be conducted in English.

Chair:

Co-Chair:

Speakers:

We are looking forward to your participation in our event.

Remote Sensing Editorial Office

Rapid scientific and technological advances have greatly improved the accuracy of weather forecasts and life-saving early warnings. Our weather, climate, and water cycle will be different in the future, since weather, climate, and hydrological services will help us tackle the associated challenges and seize the opportunities. The theme for the 2023 World Meteorological Day is “The Future of Weather, Climate, and Water across Generations”. Please find more theme-related journals and contents as follows.

To access more content about MDPI International Day Campaign Series activities, please click here.

• Meteorological Analysis of the 2021 Extreme Wildfires in Greece: Lessons Learned and Implications for Early Warning of the Potential for Pyroconvection
  Atmosphere 2022, 13, 475; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13030475

• Characterisation of Thunderstorms with Multiple Lightning Jumps
  Atmosphere 2022, 13, 171; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13020171

• Suitability Assessment of Weather Networks for Wind Data Measurements in the Athabasca Oil Sands Area
  Climate 2022, 10, 10; https://doi.org/10.3390/cli10020010

• 3D Structure of the Ras Al Hadd Oceanic Dipole
  Oceans 2022, 3, 268-288; https://doi.org/10.3390/oceans3030019

• Weather, Land and Crops in the Indus Village Model: A Simulation Framework for Crop Dynamics under Environmental Variability and Climate Change in the Indus Civilisation
  Quaternary 2022, 5, 25; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat5020025

• The Future of Climate Modelling: Weather Details, Macroweather Stochastics—Or Both?
  Meteorology 2022, 1, 414-449; https://doi.org/10.3390/meteorology1040027

MDPI World Meteorological Day Webinar 2023

23 Mar 2023, 17:00 (CET)

Free to register for the two sessions.

Recordings will be available on Sciforum shortly afterward.

As a leading open access publisher, MDPI provides scholars with a high-quality and rich academic exchange platform by continuously expanding into new and exciting research areas.

In December 2022, MDPI launched five new journals, covering multiple subjects such as life sciences, biology, medicine and pharmacology, social sciences and humanities. These new journals are being edited by established scholars across the world.

If you are interested in creating more open access journals with us to publish cutting-edge research, please send your journal proposal application to [email protected].

MDPI is pleased to announce that we now display the co-authors’ email addresses in addition to the corresponding author’s email address on the webpage of published papers, protected by Captcha. For more information about this change, please visit the journal’s instructions for authors page. 

We believe this change will facilitate academic discussions and advance our cause of open science and research. The corresponding authors are responsible for communicating with their co-authors and indicating in our system (https://susy.mdpi.com/) if co-authors would prefer for their email addresses not to be displayed.

Conference: 2023 AAG Annual Meeting
Date: 23–27 April 2023
Location: Denver, USA

MDPI will be attending the 2023 AAG Annual Meeting as an exhibitor, and we welcome researchers from different backgrounds to visit and share their latest ideas with us.

This conference is organized by the American Association of Geographers (AAG). The theme of the meeting is “Toward More Just Geographies”. At the meeting, specialists will share and discuss the latest in research and applications in geography, sustainability, and GIScience.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Remote Sensing (leading journal);
• Sustainability (leading journal);
• IJGI;
• Hydrology;
• Land;
• Water;
• Earth;
• Atmosphere;
• IJERPH;
• Fire;
• Oceans;
• GeoHazards;
• Coasts;
• Geomatics.

Remote Sensing (ISSN: 2072-4292, IF: 5.349) publishes regular research papers, reviews, technical notes and communications covering all aspects of remote sensing science, from sensor design and validation/calibration to its application in geosciences, environmental sciences, ecology, and civil engineering. The aim is to publish novel/improved methods/approaches and/or algorithms of remote sensing to benefit the community, open to everyone in need of them.

Sustainability (ISSN: 2071-1050, IF: 3.889) encourages experts to publish their experimental, computational and theoretical research on sustainability. This encompasses topics related to social sciences, natural and applied science and engineering, in order to enable the application and development of sustainability.

If you are planning to attend this conference, please do not hesitate to start an online conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following website: https://www.aag.org/events/aag2023/.

On 9 February 2023, Clarivate, a global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics, added the Preprint Citation Index to the Web of Science platform, streamlining the research process by allowing researchers to locate and link to preprints alongside other trusted content in the database.

The Preprint Citation Index will act as a bridge to connect cutting-edge preprints with peer-reviewed journal articles published within the Web of Science Core Collection. Alerts can be easily set to monitor new research across several repositories and authors will also be able to include preprints on their Web of Science Research Profile to more accurately display their various research outputs.

As of its launch, the Preprint Citation Index will provide nearly two million preprints from various repositories, including MDPI’s own Preprints.org.

MDPI's Preprints Platform – Preprints.org

To advance Open Science and the fast dissemination of research, MDPI offers researchers a free multidisciplinary preprint platform. Preprints.org accepts submissions from all research areas and offers authors high visibility, permanent archiving, article-level Metrics and immediately citable content by assigning a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to all preprints.

During submission to any MDPI journal, authors have the option to share their research as a preprint. After an initial screening, the manuscript is available online in 48 hours or less. Once online, preprints can be downloaded, shared, commented on, and cited, providing authors maximum visibility.

We invite you to join the ranks of the over 100k researchers using Preprints.org and share your research.

For more information, please visit Preprints.org.

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new initiative—the MDPI Special Issue Mentor Program.

This program will enable early career researchers (who must hold a Ph.D. in a related field) to experience editing a Special Issue in MDPI journals, under the mentorship of our experienced Editorial Board Members or other experienced scientists. The mentor program will provide an excellent opportunity for early career scientists to gain editorial experience, and to cultivate their ability to edit scientific research.

The mentee’s responsibilities include:

• Proposing a Special Issue title and assisting the mentor in preparing a summary (around 200–400 words) and 3–10 keywords describing the background, importance, and goal of the Issue;
• Writing a brief promotion plan for the Special Issue;
• Preparing a list of scholars who may be interested in the Issue and personally e-mailing invitations on behalf of Guest Editors;
• Writing an editorial for the online Special Issue together with the mentor.

The mentor’s responsibilities include:

• Conducting a final check before the Special Issue is published online;
• Performing editorial control of the Special Issue and quality control of the publications, both of which must be carried out in a timely manner;
• Providing suggestions to younger scholars if they have any doubts or concerns regarding submissions;
• Organizing video calls with young scholars and the Editorial Office regularly to discuss problems and improvement suggestions for the Special Issue;
• Making and submitting decisions regarding submissions with the assistance of mentees.

Certificates and awards:
After the Special Issue closes, the Editorial Office will provide official certificates for all the mentors and early career researchers.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your Special Issue proposal to the Editorial Office of a journal you choose, and we will discuss the process (i.e., mentor collaboration, Special Issue topic feasibility analysis, etc.) in further detail. The full list of MDPI journals is as follows: https://www.mdpi.com/about/journals.

In addition to the new Special Issue Mentor Program, we will continue to welcome all Special Issue proposals focusing on hot research topics.

MDPI has just become the first open access (OA) publisher to reach the milestone of one million articles published. That is one million articles freely available to all, to circulate and build upon! We are proud to share this special moment with the global scientific community.

This landmark has been reached thanks to the immeasurable support of more than 600,000 expert reviewers, 66,000 editorial board members and 6700 hard-working colleagues across MDPI’s global offices.

Within more than 25 years of publishing, our journals received 2.1 million manuscripts and generated 4.6 million peer review reports to get to one million papers published.

Reaching the milestone of one million articles published reinforces our mission to remove any existing barriers and to make scientific research accessible to all. Since its inception, MDPI’s goal has been to create reliable processes to make science open. This is a path towards facilitating the dissemination of novel insights in scientific communities.

Regular feedback from authors and reviewers shows that our service is greatly appreciated and needed. At the same time, the feedback helps us identify areas for further improvement.

As it stands, a significant share of published research findings remain closed access. More than half of the content published with the most well-known legacy publishers stays behind a paywall, and that is not including articles published in hybrid OA journals, or made available months or years after publication.

A new policy announced by the US administration in August 2022 requires that, as of January 2026, all US federally funded research be made freely and immediately available after publication. While the new policy does not mandate articles be published under an open access license, it is aligned with the open access movement in removing all barriers to research. Similarly, some of the most advanced research institutions in the world intend to have all funded research articles published in open access by 2025.

MDPI is proud to be the leading agent of the transition to open access.

"Thanks a Million" to all the contributors!

We are pleased to announce that the website of the MDPI Sustainability Foundation has been revamped! For the past couple of months, our UX UI team and front-end developers have been working hard to launch the website in time for the opening of the Sustainability Awards nominations.

The website is not the only thing that has had a remodeling. Indeed, the format of the Emerging Sustainability Leader Award (ESLA) has been updated. ESLA is now a competition open to individual researchers or start-ups founded by researchers under the age of 35. Nominee applications will go through 2 rounds of selection until the final 3 are decided. The finalists will then be invited to give pitch presentations during the Award Ceremony to win either first place (10,000 USD) or runner-up (2 x 5000 USD).

The World Sustainability Award, on the other hand, remains the same: a total prize money of 100,000 USD is up for grabs by senior individual researchers or groups of researchers from the international research community.

Nominations for both the World Sustainability Award and the Emerging Sustainability Leader award are now open! Check out our new website for more information on how to nominate.

The list of the World’s Top 2% Scientists in 2022 was released by scientists at Stanford on 10 October 2022 to recognize influential scholars around the world. According to the statistics, 220 Remote Sensing Editorial Board Members from different research fields have been selected for the list, which recognizes them for their high-quality research results and outstanding contributions in their fields of expertise.

For the details of the listed scholars, please see the full list below:

Congratulations to the scholars again!

Source: September 2022 data update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”: https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/4.

Recently, Clarivate™ revealed its 2022 list of Highly Cited Researchers™—individuals at universities, research institutes and commercial organizations.

The scientists who were selected into this year’s list of Highly Cited Researchers have published highly cited papers in the 11-year period from January 2011 to December 2021, with citation frequency in the top 1% of academic subjects and the same year of publication in the Web of Science™ database. Based on Web of Science Citation data, 6,938 researchers from across the globe who have demonstrated a disproportionate level of significant and broad influence in their chosen field or fields over the last decade have been awarded Highly Cited Researcher 2022 designations. The list is truly global, spanning 69 countries or regions and spread across a diverse range of research sciences and social sciences.

According to statistics, 27 members of the Editorial Board of Remote Sensing (ISSN: 2072-4292) have been selected into the list of Highly Cited Researchers of Clarivate in 2022. They are being recognized for their high-quality scientific research achievements and outstanding contributions to professional fields. The Remote Sensing journal office sincerely congratulates all elected Editorial Board Members and hopes that they continue to have an academically productive relationship with the journal.

Conference: The 13th China Satellite Navigation Conference
Date: 16–18 November 2022
Place: Beijing, China

Sensors (ISSN: 1424-8220) will be attending the 13th China Satellite Navigation Conference as an exhibitor. This meeting will take place from 16 to 18 November in Beijing, China.

The China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC) is an open academic exchange platform. It aims to strengthen academic innovation and promote the cooperation and exchange of satellite navigation systems, strengthen technological innovation and promote the engineering construction of satellite navigation systems, strengthen theoretical innovation and promote the progress of satellite navigation theories, and strengthen application innovation and promote the scientific development of satellite navigation industry. The conference has been successfully held for 12 years and has produced a large number of excellent results in academic, technical, theoretical, application, and talent aspects.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Sensors;
• Remote Sensing;
• Atmosphere;
• Aerospace;
• Technologies;
• Drones;
• Signals;
• Smart Cities;
• AI;
• Geomatics.

If you are planning to attend this conference, please do not hesitate to start an online conversation with us (booth #B18). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference and virtual booth, please visit the following website: https://www.beidou.org/annualmeeting.html.

We are pleased to invite you to read the Editor’s Choice Articles in Remote Sensing (ISSN: 2072-4292). The list of high-quality and interesting papers that were specifically recommended by our Editorial Board Members can be found at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/editors_choice. The paper list is as follows:

MDPI will be attending the 22nd William T. Pecora Memorial Remote Sensing Symposium (Pecora 22), held in Denver, Colorado, USA, from 23 to 27 October 2022. The booth will be available to visit from 25 to 27 October 2022.

The conference will be hosted by NASA and the USGS, with an overarching theme of Opening the Aperture to Innovation: Expanding Our Collective Understanding of a Changing Earth, which embraces both the innovations and discoveries that resulted from 50 years of Landsat Earth observations, and also current and future innovations in science and technology that are contributing to our ability to improve our understanding and better manage the Earth’s environment.

During this conference, MDPI (at booth #14) will welcome researchers from different backgrounds to visit and share their latest views and research with us.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Remote Sensing (leading journal);
• Land;
• Environments;
• Sustainability;
• Sensors;
• Water;
• Atmosphere;
• Soil Systems;
• Earth.

If you plan on attending this conference, feel free to stop by our booth at #14. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have.

For more information about the conference, please see the following link: https://pecora22.org/.

We are pleased to invite you to read the Editor’s Choice Articles in Remote Sensing (ISSN: 2072-4292). The list of high-quality and interesting papers that were specifically recommended by our Editorial Board Members can be found at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/editors_choice. The paper list is as follows: