Application of Remote Sensing in Landscape Ecology
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecological Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 25
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Interests: spatial analysis; landscape ecology; conservation; geoinformatics for human-environment interface; multivariate analysis; environmental modelling; sustainable natural resource management; forestry
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Dear Colleagues,
Human/environmental interface, interlace and transition trajectories are monitored in multiple modes; selectively sensed, spatially specific, and informatically innovative. Today’s technologies offer opportunities for supportive sensing from simple to sophisticated linking in layers. Aquatic aspects trigger transmitters tripping terrestrial transponders. Trailcams take digital data from particular perspectives for planned procurement. Sound sensors store bird calls, as well as insect and frog signature sounds. Radio tracking follows animal activities. Drones show streams, bird nests, tree tops, sample sites, etc. Ground-based lidar detects densities of understories. UAVs extend the modality of drones to sophisticated stabilized sensors. Manned aircraft acquire aerial photography, lidar, radar and allied active and passive products. Satellite surveillance shows temporal trends. Spatial data systems ingest and statistically integrate sensing system signals for informational insights. Present purview spans such scenarios.
Landscapes are superstructure spatial systems of subsystems as functional frameworks with a temporal template. Natural systems self-structure in triggered transitions. Humans interpose infrastructure, either at an interface or interlaced; and eventually interphased in disturbance dynamics. A mixture of sensing systems and surveys show influx and feedback, as the subject matter of this special edition.
A lengthy career of interdisciplinary research, teaching, and outreach underlie this undertaking starting when remote sensing was synonymous with aerial photography and landscapes were subjectively scenic. Four monographs mark my evolution of interest in landscape ecology from different points of perspective and technological trajectories. They converge in terms of creating cognizance of rippling repercussions and resonance of change regarding biological, hydrological, and epidemiological effects. Sensing sources have expanded exponentially, with adaptive informatics being both boon and bane. Scopes of scaling should be synergistic, else it is easy to miss the trees for the forests and reasons versus randomness.
The aim of this issue is to show how remote sensing systems supplement each other and ensure that depth of detail does not purge prevailing patterns in ecosystem elements of localized landscapes with trends in time. This suggests a blend of condition contexts and mixed methodological modalities.
Prof. Dr. Wayne Myers
Dr. Douglas A. Miller
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- remote sensing
- landscape ecology
- image analysis
- environmental indicators
- lidar
- radar
- ecosystem services
- spatial analysis
- machine learning
- drones
- multispectral
- digital elevation model
- UAV
- satellite imagery
- radiotracking
- digital sound recording
- landscape fragmentation
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