Remote Sensing Applications in Land Cover Changes and Associated Environmental Effects: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities (Second Edition)
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 27
Special Issue Editors
Interests: land use and land cover; remote sensing; land resource management
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Interests: land cover change; human activity; climate change; remote sensing
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Interests: land cover mapping; satellite image processing; spatial analysis
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: land cover change; human activity; climate change; remote sensing ecology and evolution
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Interests: land use; environmental management; remote sensing; ecosystem services
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Land use and land cover change is a continuous and dynamic process, intrinsically linked to shifts in population, climate, and socio-economic development. Currently, nearly 80% of the Earth's land surface has been transformed by direct human activity, profoundly affecting land–atmosphere interactions, biodiversity, hydrological cycles, the carbon balance, and, ultimately, human well-being. Against the backdrop of climate change and intensified human activities, the patterns and drivers of land cover change are growing increasingly complex. This underscores the urgent need for comprehensive research on land use and land cover change across global, regional, and local scales, as well as their far-reaching environmental impacts.
Satellite remote sensing has emerged as a pivotal technology for monitoring land use and land cover changes at multiple scales and for uncovering the underlying mechanisms that drive these changes. Nevertheless, despite significant advances, critical knowledge gaps and methodological challenges remain in remote sensing-based research and analysis.
This Special Issue of Remote Sensing, entitled “Remote Sensing Applications in Land Cover Changes and Associated Environmental Effects: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities (Second Edition),” seeks to collate the latest research advances in remote sensing technologies and analytical approaches for investigating land use and land cover change. We invite contributions that employ state-of-the-art remote sensing techniques, including machine learning and other artificial intelligence methods, to elucidate the impacts of human activities and climate change. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Land cover changes in forests, grasslands, urban areas, croplands, and wetlands;
- Vegetation degradation, greening, and their underlying drivers;
- Multisource data fusion for enhanced land cover change analysis;
- Impacts of urbanization on the environment and climate;
- Effects of human activities and climate change on land cover;
- Application of artificial intelligence in land use and land cover change analysis.
Prof. Dr. Mingjun Ding
Dr. Lanhui Li
Dr. Linshan Liu
Dr. Haiyan Zhang
Dr. Shoubao Geng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- land use/cover changes
- remote sensing
- climate change
- human activities
- machine learning
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