Societal Applications of Remote Sensing Data

Dear Colleagues,

Satellite remote sensing plays a key role in earth observation. The spatial and temporal coverage provided by various satellite remote sensing platforms has made it possible to study various aspects of natural and anthropogenic factors affecting societal wellbeing from local to global scale. Examples include but are not limited to monitoring patterns and trends in atmospheric phenomena, air pollution, wildfires, land surface phenology, thermal environments in urban areas, environmental hazards, change in mountain glacier and sea-ice, resource exploitation and their direct impact on ecosystem balance, as well as human health. In order to reveal the underlying trends and patterns provided by “big data” earth observations, statistical and machine learning tools have been extensively used in recent years for a variety of Earth Science applications. These data-based methods not only allow us to objectively build mitigation strategies at the policy level to improve the wellbeing of the society but also have global significance. In this Special Issue, we welcome papers that cover a wide range of interdisciplinary subjects involving societal application of remote sensing earth observation. We encourage the submission of studies that use an integrated approach of combining satellite data, ground-based remote sensing data (for example, LIDAR, sun photometers), and numerical modeling (e.g., atmospheric simulations).

Dr. Nabin Malakar
Dr. Maheswar Rupakheti
Dr. Prajjwal Panday
Guest Editors

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