Remote Sensing for Global Wetland Mapping: Toward the Sustainable Development Goals
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2027 | Viewed by 29
Special Issue Editor
Interests: satellite; remote sensing; aquatic ecology; wetland
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wetlands are highly dynamic ecosystems that provide critical services for biodiversity, carbon storage, water regulation, and climate resilience. Yet they are increasingly threatened by climate change, sea-level rise, hydrological alteration, and land-use pressures. Advances in satellite and airborne remote sensing now offer unprecedented opportunities to monitor wetland extent, structure, function, and change across multiple spatial and temporal scales.
This Special Issue invites high-quality contributions that use remote sensing, spatial modelling, machine learning, and field-based ecological data to advance wetland science and management. We welcome studies on coastal wetland vulnerability, wetland phenology, habitat quality, biodiversity modelling, explainable machine learning, multi-sensor data fusion, blue carbon, ecosystem services, restoration monitoring, and adaptive management.
We particularly encourage interdisciplinary studies that move beyond mapping to provide new ecological understanding, robust methodological advances, and actionable insights for wetland conservation in a changing climate:
- Coastal Wetland Vulnerability and Dynamics
- Explainable Machine Learning (xAI) in Wetland Ecological Modelling
- Habitat Quality, Landscape Context, and Surrounding Land Use
- Species Distribution, Biodiversity, and Metacommunity Structure
- Dense Time-Series Analysis for Wetland Phenology and Hydrological Dynamics
- Multi-Scale Monitoring and Data Fusion
- Blue Carbon, Biogeochemistry, and Ecosystem Services
- Restoration, Conservation, and Adaptive Management
Dr. Wen Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- coastal wetland vulnerability
- habitat quality
- biodiversity modelling
- multi-sensor data fusion
- blue carbon
- ecosystem services
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