Remote Sensing of Floods: 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: 15 January 2026 | Viewed by 1977
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Interests: multispectral hyperspectral and microwave remote sensing; GIS, spatial analysis, and numerical modelling; water quality; floods; urban growth; urban heat island impact; environmental sustainability; landslides; soil moisture; climate change
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Interests: environmental hydraulics and computational hydraulics, with special emphasis on the modeling of hydrodynamics, water quality, chemical and oil spills, sediment transport, and environmental risk analysis for lakes, rivers, and coastal waters; integration of remote sensing with hydrodynamic models
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Interests: remote sensing; hydrology; water quality
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Remote sensing has been used for mapping and monitoring floods for many years. Studying floods is considered one of the most common and useful applications of remote sensing. With their respective advantages and limitations, optical and microwave remote sensing techniques have been used to study floods in different parts of the world. Their advantages and limitations depend on the physiographies, land use and land cover types, and climates of the areas studied, as well as the specific characteristics of the remote sensing systems and sensors used. The recent progress in remote sensing technology, computing, and machine learning algorithms has provided tremendous opportunities to minimize the previously encountered challenges in mapping and monitoring floods. However, these advancements and topics have not been properly researched and documented. Therefore, the first volume of this Special Issue of Remote Sensing was published to present original research and review articles on the progress, challenges, and opportunities related to the remote sensing of floods. With the success of the first volume of this important Special Issue, we are excited to request more original research and review articles discussing the progress, challenges, and opportunities related to the remote sensing of floods to publish in the second volume.
Potential topics include the following:
- Mapping, monitoring, and modeling floods using multi-sensor remote sensing methods;
- Mapping, monitoring, and modeling floods using sensor fusion;
- Mapping and modeling flood dynamics using remote sensing;
- Application of SAR, LIDAR, and multispectral remote sensing for studying riverine and coastal flooding;
- Application of remote sensing for studying flash flooding;
- Machine learning/deep learning in the remote sensing of floods;
- Remote sensing of floods using moderate and high-resolution imagery;
- Remote sensing of floods using aerial/air-born/UAV imagery;
- Integration of remote sensing with hydrodynamic models for flood simulation and prediction.
Dr. Azad Hossain
Dr. Xiaobo Chao
Dr. Taufique Mahmood
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- floods
- flood monitoring
- flood impact
- flood damage
- remote Sensing
- progress, challenges, and opportunities
- inland flooding
- urban flooding
- flash flooding
- coastal flooding
- optical remote sensing
- RADAR remote sensing
- hyperspectral remote sensing
- spatial resolution
- high/moderate/low spatial resolution
- temporal resolution
- high/moderate/low temporal resolution
- space-borne remote sensing
- air-borne remote sensing
- drone/UAV
- synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
- light detection and ranging (LIDAR)
- unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
- rainfall and runoff
- hydrology
- geospatial technology
- spatial analysis
- numerical model
- hydrodynamic model
- spatial decision support systems (SDSS)
- watershed model
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