Remote Sensing for Wetland Ecosystem Mapping, Monitoring, and Sustainable Management
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecological Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2027
Editors
Interests: wetland remote sensing; mangrove forest mapping; coastal wetland dynamics; biomass/carbon; hyperspectral and AI methods
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Interests: hyperspectral remote sensing; data fusion; objective extraction; deep learning; machine learning; artificial intelligence
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Interests: remote sensing image processing; artificial intelligence; deep learning; urban ecological environment monitoring; surface water extraction and geospatial data analysis
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Interests: wetland ecosystem remote sensing; vegetation dynamics; wetland plant community mapping; land surface change monitoring; peatland carbon and ecological restoration assessment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wetland ecosystems—including coastal wetlands, peatlands, floodplain wetlands, lakeside marshes, and constructed wetlands—provide essential services for biodiversity conservation, shoreline protection, hydrological regulation, carbon sequestration, and climate-change mitigation. However, wetland ecosystems are increasingly affected by land reclamation, aquaculture and urban expansion, altered hydrological connectivity, biological invasion, pollution, sea-level rise, and extreme climate events. Accurate, timely, and multi-scale wetland information is therefore essential for understanding wetland dynamics and supporting conservation, restoration, and sustainable management.
This Special Issue aims to bring together recent advances in remote sensing methods, data products, and applications for wetland ecosystem monitoring and assessment. It is closely aligned with the scope of Remote Sensing by emphasizing multi-platform Earth observation, multi-source data fusion, intelligent image interpretation, time-series analysis, and quantitative retrieval of wetland ecological and biophysical parameters. Contributions that integrate remote sensing with geomatics and GIScience, particularly geospatial data integration, spatial analysis and modeling, and the assessment of spatial data quality, accuracy, and uncertainty, are also encouraged.
We welcome original research articles, review papers, and short communications addressing, but not limited to, wetland mapping and change detection; mangrove, salt-marsh, tidal-flat, peatland, and floodplain monitoring; wetland vegetation structure, species composition, biodiversity, functional traits, biomass, and carbon storage retrieval; hydrological connectivity, inundation dynamics and ecohydrological processes; wetland degradation, restoration, resilience, and conservation effectiveness assessment; optical, SAR, LiDAR, hyperspectral, UAV, and high-resolution satellite data applications; AI, deep learning, foundation models, cloud computing, and digital-twin approaches for wetland remote sensing; and applications for climate adaptation, blue carbon assessment, habitat quality evaluation, disaster risk reduction, and policy-oriented wetland management.
Dr. Rong Zhang
Dr. Yuanchao Su
Dr. Yang Chen
Dr. Yongxing Ren
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wetland remote sensing
- ecosystem mapping and monitoring
- wetland conservation, restoration and sustainable management
- biodiversity and functional traits
- artificial intelligence and deep learning
- biomass and carbon storage
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