Assessment of Wetland Ecosystem Vulnerability and Resilience Using Remote Sensing
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecological Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 November 2025 | Viewed by 59
Special Issue Editors
Interests: remote sensing in wetlands; remote sensing in ecology; land use and land cover change
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Interests: remote sensing in coastal wetlands; sustainable coastal zones
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Interests: coastal wetland ecosystem monitoring based on remote sensing; coastal carbon sink mapping and accounting; island ecogeography; integrated coastal management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wetlands, among Earth's most ecologically valuable ecosystems, play an indispensable role in supporting biodiversity, regulating the climate, and purifying water. However, in the context of accelerating global climate change and escalating human disturbances, these ecosystems face unprecedented degradation risks, with their vulnerability becoming increasingly evident. Concurrently, ecological resilience—the ability of wetlands to maintain essential functions and recover to a stable state following disturbances—has become a central theme in academic research. Scientifically assessing wetland vulnerability and resilience using remote sensing technologies at multiple scales to inform targeted conservation and restoration strategies represents a critical challenge for achieving sustainable wetland management.
This Special Issue highlights recent advances at the forefront of wetland ecosystem vulnerability and resilience assessment using remote sensing. Potential topics span a broad spectrum, from remote sensing-based approaches to assessing wetland vulnerability across multiple spatial scales (e.g., landscape, watershed, and global) to adaptive management strategies for wetlands facing the combined pressures of climate change and human activities. Manuscripts that feature innovative applications of emerging technologies, such as remote sensing, ecological modeling, and big data analytics, in evaluating wetland ecosystem vulnerability and resilience are especially encouraged. Suggested article themes include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Wetland monitoring using multi-source remote sensing data;
- Wetland vulnerability mapping;
- Hydrological connectivity assessment of wetlands;
- Resilience indicator development;
- Climate adaptation;
- Ecological service valuation;
- Threshold detection methods;
- Landscape pattern;
- Carbon dynamics;
- Recovery potential;
- Anthropogenic disturbance evaluation;
- Soil health indicators;
- Flood;
- Microbial resilience factors;
- Restoration prioritization models.
Dr. Xinxin Wang
Dr. Yongchao Liu
Dr. Yuan Chi
Dr. Xuege Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wetland vulnerability
- ecosystem resilience
- remote sensing
- hydrological dynamics
- biodiversity thresholds
- adaptive management
- big data
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