Remote Sensing Application for Promoting Ecosystem Services and Land Degradation Management in Mid-Latitude Ecotone (MLE)

Dear Colleagues,

The Mid-Latitude Ecotone (MLE) is an ecological transition zone around 30°–60° N degrees along with East Asia, Central Asia, and Europe. This region has various environmental changes and societal pressures, such as climate change issues, deforestation by plantation, and urbanization with a growing population. Furthermore, these problems lead the land degradation and deforestation as well as severe loss of ecosystem services in forests, grassland, and wetlands. Thus, knowing the previous and current ecological status using remote sensing is important to develop a proper management policy. With the growing awareness of the above environmental problems in the MLE, sharing knowledge among this region where there is different capacity and application of remote sensing is becoming important. Furthermore, various United Nations initiatives, such as System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA), Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN), and the Paris Agreement, have also encouraged implementing remote sensing to solve and assess environmental problems.

This Remote Sensing Special Issue aims to promote the application of remote sensing research in MLE focusing on ecosystem services and land degradation management. Many MEL countries have different remote sensing capacity, so this Special Issue focuses on both interesting regional-scale assessment and global-scale approaches that address current issues in this region. Authors are invited to submit papers, particularly on:

• Monitoring land cover and land use changes using various spatiotemporal data in the MLE;
• Assessing and monitoring ecosystems (forests, grasslands, wetlands, agriculture, deserts, etc);
• Monitoring ecosystem functions, ecosystem services, land degradation in the MLE;
• Land accounts system and land degradation neutrality using remote sensing;
• Desertification, deforestation, restoration, urbanization, and landscape management issues;
• Methods and approaches to manage the ecosystem services and land degradation.

Dr. Cholho Song
Prof. Dr. Chul-Hee Lim
Prof. Dr. Woo-Kyun Lee
Prof. Dr. Jay Sagin
Dr. Hadi
Guest Editors

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