Advances in Remote Sensing Technologies for Carbon Emissions Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Atmospheric Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 September 2026 | Viewed by 111
Special Issue Editors
Interests: monitoring and analysis of carbon emissions and carbon sinks; LiDAR; greenhouse gas emission
Interests: carbon remote sensing
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Interests: ecological remote sensing; aerosol radiation; land surface numerical model (CLM) and its biogeochemical cycle
Interests: research of carbon fluxes cycling in coastal regions such as Chesapeake Bay using FTIR Solar Absorption Spectrometer and CO2 Raman Lidar; developing a novel Quantum Lidar system for precision and ultrafast wind measurements; atmospheric dynamics and chemistry; air quality including research of sea-land dynamics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Anthropogenic carbon emissions are the main driver of climate change and a key focus of global carbon neutrality efforts. Reliable and spatially resolved emissions data are essential for improving our understanding of the carbon cycle and for supporting monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) frameworks. Yet substantial uncertainties remain in current emission inventories, especially at urban and facility scales. These uncertainties arise from limitations in activity data, spatial allocation methods, and independent verification capacity.
In recent years, advances in remote sensing have significantly improved our ability to detect and quantify carbon emissions across different spatial scales. Satellite observations, airborne measurements, and ground-based systems now provide increasingly detailed atmospheric information. Combined with atmospheric transport modeling and inversion techniques, these observations help bridge the gap between bottom-up inventories and top-down atmospheric constraints.
This Special Issue aims to promote methodological and technological progress in remote sensing-based carbon emissions monitoring. It also welcomes studies that contribute to more transparent and scientifically robust MRV approaches.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Remote sensing technologies for greenhouse gas monitoring across satellite, airborne, lidar, and ground-based platforms;
- Multi-source data fusion and cross-platform validation for emissions quantification;
- Retrieval algorithms, inversion methods, and atmospheric transport modeling constrained by remote sensing observations;
- Development and refinement of carbon emission inventories;
- Methodological frameworks supporting emission reporting and verification at facility, urban, and regional scales.
Dr. Zhen Zhang
Dr. Ge Han
Dr. Xiaolu Ling
Dr. Jia Su
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- carbon emission and counting
- carbon cycle
- remote sensing
- greenhouse gas
- anthropogenic carbon emissions
- multi-source data fusion
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