Remote Sensing of Islands

Dear Colleagues,

Islands face several developmental obstacles as well as serious environmental issues with relevant socioeconomic impacts, such as climate change, environmental degradation, land-use change, coastal erosion, and loss of biodiversity, among others. All these circumstances make decision support in islands especially challenging in scientific, technical, and political terms. These issues require attention from public policies based on the most reliable scientific information, the most effective participatory approaches, and the most advanced technologies, including novel and cost-effective remote sensing-based approaches, strategies, and applications for supporting Sustainable Development Goals in islands.

Articles to appear in this Special Issue on “Remote Sensing of Islands” aim at fostering novel and cost-effective remote sensing-based approaches, strategies, and applications for supporting the achievement of UN Sustainable Development Goals in islands. These articles are not restricted to any specific geographical range and shall highlight the influence of “islandness” in the targeted topics, in order to contribute to designing and implementing better, specific, and cost-effective remote sensing-based decision support on islands’ spatial (marine, coastal or terrestrial) planning, assessment, monitoring, and management. Submitted manuscripts should describe original approaches within the overall theme of novel and cost-effective remote sensing-based approaches, strategies, and applications for supporting Sustainable Development Goals in islands, including but not restricted to:

- Remote sensing-based applications for mapping, characterizing, assessing, and monitoring terrestrial, coastal, and/or marine ecosystems in islands or archipelagos;

- Remote sensing-based support of land, coastal, and marine planning and management policies and tools in islands or archipelagos;

- Remote sensing-based ecosystem-based management (EBM) in islands or archipelagos;

- Remote sensing-based environmental impact assessment (EIA) in islands or archipelagos;

- Remote sensing-based integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) in islands or archipelagos;

- Remote sensing-based marine spatial planning (MSP) in islands or archipelagos;

- Remote sensing-based participatory spatial planning in islands or archipelagos;

- Remote sensing-based citizen science initiatives in islands or archipelagos;

- Remote sensing-based spatial planning for change mitigation and adaptation in islands or archipelagos;

- Remote sensing-based approaches and strategies for supporting the achievement of UN Sustainable Development Goals in islands or archipelagos.

For further information, contact Special Issue guest editor Artur Gil (artur.jf.gil@uac.pt).

Dr. Artur Gil
Guest Editor

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-blind 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.