Special Issue "Remote Sensing of Ecosystems"
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecological Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 56885
Special Issue Editors
Interests: remote sensing methodologies and applications in agriculture, water resources, and ecosystems
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Interests: plant biodiversity estimation by LiDAR and hyperspectral data; vegetation structural and ecological variable retrieval and modeling
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Interests: forest aboveground biomass and dynamic changes monitoring based on LiDAR and time series remote sensing data
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The remote sensing of ecosystems mainly focuses on the identification of types of ecosystems and their patterns, the monitoring of ecosystem functions, ecosystem services assessment, and the analysis of ecosystem processes by remote-sensing-based methods. The new generation of satellites and sensors provide additional earth observation data sources for ecosystem monitoring. However, the ability to identify ecosystem types still needs to be improved, and efforts need to be placed on intelligent information extraction (in the Big Data era). For ecosystem function monitoring, it is necessary to fully exploit the hidden features of remote sensing data and develop new indicators that are easy to process and reflect the functional characteristics of ecosystems. In addition, advanced models are needed to better assess ecosystem services by analyzing the implicit processes and performance of ecosystems. Combination with cloud platforms is a future trend in remote sensing for ecosystem analysis. This will provide opportunities for public participation in ecological protection, and will provide more data support for the assessment of the ecological effects of key national projects.
This Special Issue aims to publish original research that specifically addresses innovative techniques and methodologies for modelling, mapping, and detecting ecosystem status or evaluating ecosystem services and functions from local to global scales. We invite a wide range of contributions with multidisciplinary research about the following topics (not an exhaustive list):
- Land cover/land change detection;
- Ecological parameters and ecosystem functions;
- Ecosystem service assessment;
- Assessment of the ecological effects of key national projects;
- Ecosystem observation instruments and platforms;
- Ecosystem ground observation networks;
- Big data of ecosystems;
- Ecological cloud;
- Remote sensing of biodiversity;
- Remote sensing of forest ecosystems;
- Remote sensing of grassland ecosystems;
- Remote sensing of agricultural ecosystems;
- Remote sensing of wetland ecosystems;
- Remote sensing of urban ecosystems;
- Remote sensing of desert ecosystems;
- Remote sensing of marine ecosystems.
The contributors of this Special Issue are mainly (but not exclusively) from the 1st Academic Symposium on Remote Sensing of Ecosystems, 25–28 November 2021 (it has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the specific time will be notified later), Shenzhen, China. Website: http://www.ecowatch2021.com/
Prof. Dr. Bingfang Wu
Prof. Dr. Yuan Zeng
Dr. Dan Zhao
Guest Editors
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