Ecogeomorphological Research Using Satellite Images
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021) | Viewed by 2000
Special Issue Editor
Interests: hydrology; remote sensing; machine learning; geoinformatics; spatio-temporal statistics; land cover classification; geographic information system
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The use of remote sensing to obtain layers of interest to solve ecogeomorphological theoretical and applied problems is an interesting field of study to develop. Water cycle estimates are needed to assess water resources, to characterize the complexity of the cycle, to study habitat availability of different species, and to understand local and global responses to climate change. Estimation of rainfall, soil moisture, actual and potential evapotranspiration, the detection of inundated areas, and also the assessment of erosion risk are important topics involved. Land cover is a key feature to understand all these processes and has been one of the key topics in remote sensing along the last decades. Among the techniques used to improve land cover classification, machine learning techniques, textural information, ancillary variables, mainly terrain features, have been tested. The integration of satellite images from different sources and resolutions with other ancillary information as weather radar, LIDAR, DEMs and derived layers or observations from weather stations is needed. The management of such different information sources is a challenge by itself. Geographic Information Science is the use of data science techniques adapted to manage spatial information is one of the challenges to tackle. The use of predictive models, based on classical statistics or on machine learning algorithms that are at the same time accurate and scientifically sound is another important challenge.
Prof. Dr. Francisco Alonso-Sarría
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Water cycle
- Land cover
- Geographic information science
- Machine learning
