Application of Remote Sensing in Climate-Friendly Land Use Mapping
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 27 November 2025 | Viewed by 26
Special Issue Editors
Interests: remote sensing; time-series analysis; image classification; artificial intelligence; geoinformatics; applied GIS; urban ecology
Interests: urban climatology; urban-scale climate modelling; GIS applications in urban climate; satellite image processing; urban ecology; spatial analysis; LCZ mapping using RS data
Interests: analysis of land cover and landscape pattern change using remote sensing methods; landscape pattern as a landscape ecological indicator by GIScience; investigation of geographic factors influencing the spread of invasive species with GIS and satellite images; analysis of the relationship between drouth and adaptation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Land use and land cover (LULC) changes significantly impact climate systems, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, and altered carbon cycles. Unsustainable land practices—such as deforestation, urban sprawl, and intensive agriculture—exacerbate climate change, while climate-friendly land management (e.g., afforestation, regenerative farming, and urban greening) can mitigate its effects. Climate change mitigation and sustainable land management are critical challenges. Remote sensing has become a fundamental tool for monitoring these changes, providing data to guide climate-smart land use policies.
This Special Issue aims to explore innovative remote sensing applications; highlight advances in remote sensing techniques for sustainable land use mapping; show climate-friendly land management using satellite, UAV, SAR, and LiDAR data; discuss artificial intelligence and machine learning methods for analyzing land classification and land use changes; and address challenges in integrating remote sensing with climate-related policies.
We invite original research, reviews, and case studies on topics including (but not limited to) the following:
- High-resolution land use/land cover (LULC) mapping;
- Machine learning and deep learning for land use classification;
- Soil carbon monitoring;
- Urban climate adaptation and mitigation;
- Urban green infrastructure (parks, urban forests, and green roofs) mapping;
- Detection of deforestation, afforestation, and reforestation;
- Precision agriculture for sustainable farming;
- Wetland and peatland monitoring for GHG emission reduction;
- Remote sensing for climate policy and SDG monitoring.
Dr. László Mucsi
Dr. Tamás Gál
Dr. Péter Szilassi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- remote sensing
- climate-friendly
- land use mapping
- soil carbon
- urban green infrastructure
- forestry
- sustainable farming
- wetland and peatland
- SDG monitoring
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