CH4Rice Project: Assessment of Methane Emission from Rice Paddies and Water Management Using Remote Sensing Technology
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Engineering Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 5368
Special Issue Editors
Interests: image data analysis; SAR data analysis; agricultural research
Interests: remote sensing; forest; agriculture; carbon cycle
Interests: earth observation satellite remote sensing; geoinformatics; environmental monitoring; spatio-temporal image processing; agriculture; public health
Interests: remote sensing of disasters and environment; wetland ecosystems; blue/green/black/brown carbon studies; socio-economic impact assessment with night-time light; flood/drought and cropland monitoring; global air pollutant emission inventory study
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Dear Colleagues,
Methane (CH4) is a powerful greenhouse gas and methane emissions from rice paddies are estimated to make up approximately 8% of total global anthropogenic methane emissions. Reducing methane emissions could make an effective contribution to rapid climate change mitigation on the decadal timescale. Methane emissions from rice paddies can be reduced by methods such as Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD).
The CH4Rice project was approved during the Asia Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum (APRSAF)-28 in Hanoi, Vietnam, in November 2022. It has two main aims: contributing to climate change mitigation and promoting sustainable agriculture. The project seeks to achieve these goals by encouraging the adoption of AWD and other water-saving irrigation techniques.
CH4Rice seeks to integrate satellite and in situ data and other field observations to develop methodologies which allow the monitoring of water levels in many rice paddies across wide areas and at scale. It is hoped that these methodologies will ultimately underpin improved water management practice and work towards the realization of reduced methane emissions and the resulting generation of carbon credits that can be applied in national Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) systems.
This Special Issue for the CH4Rice project aims to present articles that focus primarily on assessing methane emissions from rice paddy fields and water management using remote sensing and AI/ML. This Special Issue welcomes articles concerning novel approaches or case studies in the study of remote sensing. Topics can be related, but not limited, to the following:
- Water level change detection in paddy fields using remote sensing technology; - Polarimetric SAR change detection of water level;
- Hyperspectral or MSS remote sensing change detection of water level and rice crop growth or biomass;
- Adversarial and/or IoT learning with field survey for change detection of water level or rice crop growth or biomass;
- Explainable AI for change detection of water level with GHG emission assessment.
Dr. Shinichi Sobue
Dr. Thuy Le Toan
Dr. Kei Oyoshi
Prof. Dr. Wataru Takeuchi
Guest Editors
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As stated above, the central purpose of this Special Issue is to present research from the “CH4Rice project”. Given this purpose, the Guest Editors’ contribution to this Special Issue may be greater than standard Special Issues published by MDPI. Further details on MDPI's Special Issue guidelines can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/special_issues_guidelines. The Editorial Office and Editor-in-Chief of Remote Sensing has approved this and MDPI’s standard manuscript editorial processing procedure (https://www.mdpi.com/editorial_process) will be applied to all submissions. As per our standard procedure, Guest Editors are excluded from participating in the editorial process for their submission and/or for submissions from persons with whom a potential conflict of interest may exist. More details on MDPI’s Conflict of Interest policy for reviewers and editors can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/ethics#_bookmark22.
Keywords
- methane emission
- water level
- water management
- polarimetric SAR change detection
- remote sensing
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