Remote Sensing Applications for Enhancing Wildfire Management and Ecosystem Multifunctionality

Dear Colleagues,

Wildfires represent a critical challenge for ecosystem multifunctionality worldwide, exerting profound impacts on biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human livelihoods. In recent years, the frequency and intensity of wildfires have escalated, exacerbated by factors such as climate change, land-use practices, and human activities. Amidst these challenges, the integration of remote sensing technologies and wildfire management has emerged as a promising approach to enhance preparedness, response, and recovery efforts.

By leveraging data from satellites, aircraft, and ground-based sensors, remote sensing offers an unparalleled ability to provide critical insights into fires’ behavior, extent, and severity, empowering stakeholders with accurate information for effective pre- and post-wildfire management; mitigating risks; and protecting vulnerable ecosystems, their functions, and services.

This Special Issue calls for manuscripts addressing new applications and developments in remote sensing for a deeper understanding of the interactions between wildfires, ecosystems, and society and to identify actionable strategies for enhancing wildfire management and ecosystem resilience and multifunctionality. The specific topics of interests include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Remote sensing-based decision support systems for wildfire management.
• Fuel structure and composition.
• Fire and biotic and abiotic interactions at the landscape scale.
• Fire-induced changes in ecosystem functioning and services.
• Machine and deep learning approaches for wildfire remote sensing.
• Wildfire classification.
• Fire risk assessment.
• Remote sensing analyses for post-fire assessment and recovery.
• Fire emissions and their effects on health and climate.

Dr. Paula García Llamas
Dr. Angela Taboada
Guest Editors

Esther Peña Molina
Guest Editor Assistant

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 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

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.

• wildfire
• fire management
• remote sensing
• ecosystem functioning
• fire products
• fire risk
• ecosystem services