Remote Sensing in Support of Environmental Governance
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 4176
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
over the last half-century, remote sensing has proven to be a valuable source of information with special regard to the environment monitoring. Several governments financed the Earth Observation (EO) research (e.g. the EU COPERNICUS program) to setup sophisticated network of satellites and ground-based remote sensing systems aiming to collect information leading to a more complete ‘Earth knowledge’. In the last decades, the scientific community exploited these networks to development of science and the provision of operational services. National and international authorities pursued EO because of its capability to provide synoptically repeated information over large areas (including unreachable areas).
The added value of the remote sensing inspection is nowadays becoming strictly mandatory because of the need of governments to tackle against the increasing anthropic pressure which is threating several environmental ecosystems. In this framework, governments are requiring innovative tools aiming decision maker to deploy effective political ecology and environmental policy actions that advocates sustainability. Indeed, by taking into account of the insights offered by satellite EO decision-makers on environmental policies can adopt tailored strategies to deal with these new challenges including those related to the climate change.
This special issue seeks to collect manuscripts focused in remote sensing applications supporting the environmental governance in several thematic areas including, among others, air, biodiversity, oceans and coasts, land and soil management, water consumption and food production optimization.
Dr. Fulvio Capodici
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- remote sensing
- sustainability
- resources conservation
- environmental monitoring and assessment
- environmental policy
- pollution
- resilience
- environmental compliance
- climate change
