Monitoring Coastal and Marine Environments Based on Remote Sensing Data

Dear Colleagues,

Coastal and nearshore marine environments are essential ecosystems that provide critical resources and support numerous human activities. Moreover, coastal areas are the planet’s most dynamic and rapidly evolving systems and are highly vulnerable to human-induced and natural changes such as pollution, habitat loss, and climate change. Coastal erosion, flood risks, increased landslide occurrence, and wetland loss are expected to intensify in the coming decades, posing severe threats to inhabited areas and environmental assets. These environments are characterized by substantial spatial and temporal variability because of their position at the interface between sea and emerging lands. In these highly variable and dynamic environments, valid and repeatable monitoring methodologies are essential to identify the effects of climate change and reduce natural systems’ vulnerability to human impacts. Remote sensing has been proven to be a powerful tool for monitoring coastal and marine environments, providing large-scale, repetitive, and accurate data on various environmental variables. Thanks to the advances in sensors and platforms, the capability to obtain high-resolution temporal and spatial data has been considerably increased, allowing precise observations of modifications and impacts on coastal and nearshore marine environments.

This Special Issue will highlight the recent advances in remote sensing techniques for monitoring coastal and marine environments and integrating multi-source datasets and data, as well as cutting-edge processing techniques.

The Special Issue welcomes original research articles and reviews papers on the following topics:

• High-resolution innovative sensors and platforms to monitor coastal and nearshore marine environments.
• Machine learning techniques, artificial intelligence, and image analysis algorithms to map multitemporal changes along coastal areas.
• Multisource data integration for geomorphic seamless analyses of the coastal zones.
• Monitoring and estimating the anthropogenic coastal impacts at multiple scales.

Dr. Luca Fallati
Dr. Alessandra Savini
Dr. Gema Casal
Guest Editors

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