Remote Sensing for Hydrological Management
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2026 | Viewed by 1684
Special Issue Editors
Interests: water resources; climate change; agriculture; hydrology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent advancements in remote sensing technologies, such as the European Space Agency's Sentinel series and NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission, have significantly improved our capacity to monitor the Earth's water cycle from space. These innovations enable data collection across vast and often inaccessible areas, delivering high-resolution spatial and temporal information that is essential for effectively understanding and managing water resources. Thus, remote sensing can be used for hydrological management in the following ways: (1) the data can be used for monitoring and forecasting hydrological elements itself, and (2) the data can be used as input for hydrological models, as well as to calibrate and validate hydrological models in data-scarce regions. With this Special Issue, we aim to advance the field of hydrological management and underscore the importance of remote sensing as an indispensable tool for safeguarding water resources for future generations.
This Special Issue aims to leverage the potential of remote sensing technologies to study key hydrological parameters, including precipitation, soil moisture, evapotranspiration, snow cover, water quality, and water quantity. Traditional hydrological monitoring methods, such as ground-based measurements, often fall short in terms of spatial coverage and frequency, limiting their effectiveness in addressing the complex challenges of contemporary water management. This Special Issue is crucial for enhancing hydrological models, improving water availability forecasts, assessing droughts and floods, monitoring water quality, and ultimately developing robust and informed water resource management strategies.
This Special Issue invites manuscripts that explore the pivotal role of remote sensing in hydrological management. We seek contributions on a range of topics, including the role of remote sensing in enhancing hydrological monitoring and prediction, monitoring hydrological extremes, evaluating water quality, and managing hydrology and water resources. The Special Issue will also include studies on evaluating remote sensing products under hydrological models and improving hydrological model predictions by calibrating and validating the models using remote sensing products. Submissions on other relevant thematic areas that leverage remote sensing technologies for improved hydrological management are also welcome.
Dr. Ram Ray
Dr. Gebrekidan Tefera
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- remote sensing
- hydrological monitoring
- hydrological extremes
- hydrological models
- soil moisture
- water quality
- water management
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