Remote Sensing for Modeling and Understanding Land-Atmosphere Interaction Processes
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2025
Special Issue Editors
Interests: land-atmosphere interactions; hydroclimatology; global change; extreme climate; drought; remote sensing; machine learning
Interests: extreme climate change; land surface process simulation; climate effects of urbanization; hydrometeorological
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Land–atmosphere interactions play a crucial role in shaping hydroclimatic patterns and ecosystems through the exchange of energy, water, and carbon between land surface and the atmosphere. They also influence the occurrence and severity of extreme disasters. These interactions are complex and encompass a range of physical and biological processes, including soil moisture, evapotranspiration, runoff, snow cover, vegetation, etc. Understanding and accurately modeling them is key for climate prediction, natural resources management, and addressing environmental challenges. Remote sensing has become an invaluable tool to monitor these processes, offering insights across various spatial and temporal scales. With the advances in remote sensing techniques, modelling methods, and data analytics, there is an unprecedented opportunity to refine our models and deepen our understanding of land–atmosphere interactions.
This Special Issue aims to bring together the latest advances in remote sensing techniques and their application to the modeling of land–atmosphere interactions. It will provide a comprehensive overview of how remote sensing enhances our understanding of these interactions and improve predictive models for climate, hydrology, and environmental sciences. This topic is closely aligned with the journal's scope, which focuses on innovative remote sensing techniques and their integration into environmental and geospatial sciences. By presenting cutting-edge research in this area, this Special Issue will contribute to advancing both theoretical knowledge and practical applications related to land–atmosphere interactions.
We invite contributions from a variety of disciplines, including geography, climatology, hydrology, ecosystem, and disaster management, all related to remote sensing and land–atmosphere interactions. The suggested themes include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Land-atmosphere interactions;
- Soil moisture dynamics;
- Vegetation ecosystems;
- Evapotranspiration processes;
- Land use/land cover change;
- Land-atmosphere heat exchange;
- Carbon cycle and carbon emission monitoring;
- Climate change and weather prediction;
- Monitoring and early warning of extreme events;
- Improvement or validation of land surface model.
Dr. Ren Wang
Prof. Dr. Dagang Wang
Dr. Wenbin Zhu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- remote sensing
- land-atmosphere interaction
- evapotranspiration
- soil moisture
- vegetation ecosystem
- land use/land cover change
- land surface model
- hydrological modeling
- machine learning
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