Remote Sensing in Coastal Zone Monitoring and Management—How Can Remote Sensing Challenge the Broad Spectrum of Temporal and Spatial Scales in Coastal Zone Dynamic?

Dear Colleagues,

Coastal zones are sensitive areas responding at various scales (events to long-term trends) where the monitoring and management of physico-chemical, biological, morphological processes, and fluxes are highly challenging. They are directly affected by anthropization (urbanization, industrialization, agri- and aquaculture) and climate change (e.g., river discharges, waves, sea-level rise). Coastal waters only represent 15% of the global ocean, but concentrate 90% of commercial fisheries, contribute to 25% of global biological productivity, and represent 80% of the marine biodiversity, while being associated with an intensive tourism-related economy.

The monitoring and management of coastal zones requires past, present, and future observations adapted to quite diverse and dynamic environments. To complement field measurements, the use of remote sensing data provides useful information to map the hydromorphological (freshwater discharge, currents, shoreline evolution), physico-chemical (water transparency, temperature, salinity, oxygen, nutrients, and pollutants), and biological (habitats, phytoplankton blooms) properties of the coastal zones.

This Special Issue will highlight how remote sensing can tackle the monitoring of nearshore dynamics thanks to recent progress made in terms of sensors’ radiometric, spatial, and temporal resolutions, together with new data processing methods, products, and applications.

We are inviting submissions including, but not limited to:

• high spatial and high temporal resolution remote sensing observations,
• atmospheric correction in optically complex waters,
• synergetic use of multi-mission remote sensing datasets,
• techniques for assessing change in the coastal zone,
• dredging activities,
• mangrove systems,
• coastal geomorphology and change,
• turbidity evolution in coastal waters,
• monitoring changes in river discharge,
• beach morphology evolution,
• mapping submerged aquatic vegetation,
• change dynamic in coastal marshes,
• coastal urbanization trends.

Dr. David Doxaran
Dr. Javier Bustamante
Dr. Ana Ines Dogliotti
Dr. Tim J Malthus
Dr. Nadia Senechal
Guest Editors

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