Feature Paper Special Issue on Ecological Remote Sensing

Dear Colleagues,

Remote sensing has become a fundamental tool for investigating Earth ecological patterns and processes at different spatial and temporal scales.

Ecological theory has been applied to remote sensing data to monitor species dispersal and diversity over space and time. Ecosystem-based models have also been developed to monitor, at a high temporal resolution, Earth surface changes over large areas. The need for high temporal resolution to study global and local changes is directly related to the use of techniques other than field-based monitoring. Consequently, remote sensing is critical for ecosystems monitoring.

Remote sensing and ecosystems monitoring challenges include (i) scale issues, (ii) data gathering and analysis, and (iii) software development.

The aim of this Special Issue, under the Ecological Remote Sensing Section of Remote Sensing, is to provide robust papers on new ideas involving the use of remote sensing for ecological studies.

Manuscripts for this important Special Issue of Remote Sensing will be accepted by the Editorial Office, the Guest Editors, and editorial board members by invitation only.

Procedure

• All submissions will be rigorously reviewed according to the Remote Sensing journal guidelines.
• Manuscripts that are not suitable for this Special Issue will be notified immediately after consultation with the editorial board members. Authors of these manuscripts are invited to consider submitting to the Ecological Remote Sensing Section or any other section of Remote Sensing as a regular paper. Other manuscripts will be forwarded for review.
• Manuscripts that are not selected as feature papers will be notified after the first round of reviews. The selection will be based on the review. Authors of those manuscripts that are not selected for the Special Issue may decide to revise and submit as a regular paper in the Ecological Remote Sensing Section of the Remote Sensing Please note that authors of these manuscripts need to shoulder the publication fees.
• Other manuscripts will be sent for a second round of reviews. However, this does not necessarily mean that a manuscript under the second round of reviews will be published as a feature paper. We will still seek comments and suggestions from reviewers.

Please contact Traey Wu (traey.wu@mdpi.com), the section managing editor, if you have any questions.

Dr. Valerio Amici
Dr. Margarita Mulero-Pazmany
Dr. Marco Malavasi
Dr. Vitezslav Moudry
Dr. Gaia Vaglio Laurin
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Remote Sensing is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.