Applications of Remote Sensing in Coastal Areas

Dear Colleagues,

Coastal areas are remarkable regions with high spatiotemporal variability. Many domains are affected by their physical and biological processes, from tourism to biodiversity and productivity. Coastal ecosystems perform several critical ecosystem services and functions such as water oxygenation and nutrients provision, seafloor and beaches stabilization (as sediment is controlled and trapped within the rhizomes of the seagrass meadows), carbon burial, and areas for nursery and refuge of several commercial and endemic species. Knowledge of the spatial distribution of marine habitats is prerequisite information for the conservation and sustainable use of the marine resources.

Remote sensing from UAVs to spaceborne sensors offers a unique opportunity to measure, analyze, quantify, map, and explore the processes on the coastal areas at high temporal frequencies. This Special Issue on “Application of Remote Sensing in Coastal Areas” is specifically aimed at addressing successful applications from local to regional scale in coastal environments, related to ecosystem productivity, biodiversity, and sea lever rise.  Authors are encouraged to submit articles on, but not limited to, the following subjects:

• Coastal biodiversity—benthic habitats (seagrass, corals, and algae)
• Ocean properties (ocean color products, and algorithms)
• Coastal erosion (detection, trends)
• Marine litters
• Monitoring oil spills, ships, and illegal activities
• Coastal geomorphology and change
• Turbidity in coastal waters
• Monitoring changes in river discharge
• Wind/wave extraction in coastal environments
• Observations of air–sea interaction and intensity changes
• Damage assessment in coastal areas using remote sensing
• Monitoring of sea ice
• Coastal urbanization
• Dredging activities
• Decision-making using remote sensing in costal environments

Dr. Konstantinos Topouzelis
Dr. Apostolos Papakonstantinou
Dr. Suman Singha
Dr. XiaoMing Li
Dr. Dimitris Poursanidis
Guest Editors

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