Remote Sensing Approaches to Groundwater Resource Assessment and Sustainable Management

Dear Colleagues,

Groundwater is an essential freshwater resource worldwide and plays an important role in resilience development. Sustainable groundwater resource use relies on understanding water storage and balance in an aquifer system. Many studies have recognized that the different types of near-surface water interactions and human activities can considerably influence the water balance of an aquifer system. An imbalance in the water budget of an aquifer might lead to local- or regional-scale groundwater-induced environmental problems. Traditional approaches to assessing groundwater resources and the associated environmental issues are restricted to limited point observations. In recent years, remote sensing has become an efficient technique for quantifying near-surface water interactions and the relevant environmental impacts.

Remote sensing applications in groundwater-relevant studies remain challenging and cover various technical and scientific disciplines. These challenges include sensors, data fusion, data validation, models, and investigations relevant to groundwater resource exploration, management, and associated groundwater-induced hazards, and environmental and ecological impacts. In this Special Issue, we encourage submissions that address advanced remote sensing and the associated analytical technologies to monitor, predict, and manage groundwater-relevant environmental issues. The submissions are expected to provide the community with the most recent advancements in all aspects of remote sensing technologies and applications, including but not limited to, the following:

• Monitoring and management of groundwater resources;
• Quantification of groundwater recharge and discharge;
• Assessment of near-surface water interactions;
• Evaluation of groundwater use and human activities;
• Development of groundwater potential maps;
• Monitoring of groundwater storage and water balance;
• Quantification of near-surface water interactions by using integrated machine learning models and remote sensing data;
• Development of vulnerability maps for water quality;
• Fusion of remote sensing data for high-resolution environmental monitoring;
• Land subsidence monitoring;
• Groundwater and geohazards;
• Groundwater-relevant ecological and environmental impacts;
• Other topics on the applications of remote sensing technologies to groundwater resource assessment and management strategies.

Prof. Dr. Chuen-Fa Ni
Prof. Dr. Takang Yeh
Guest Editors

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