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A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 June 2022.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: land change science; land use/cover change; land use modelling; statistical approaches; cadastre; environmental analysis; urban analysis
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Interests: blue-green infrastructure; ecological resilience; hydrological modeling; nature-based solutions; urban ecology; water-sensitive urban design (WSUD); xeriscaping
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Interests: land use/land cover change analysis; ecosystem service modeling and valuation; land resource conservation option; land ecology; ecosystem function, rehabilitation and restoration
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Land use/cover change stems from the multifaceted interaction of social, ecological, and geophysical processes. It is the leading cause of global environmental change. The technological, human, and biophysical factors (urbanization, agricultural expansion, population growth, deforestation), and other driving forces have been reported as the causes of the rapid land use/cover changes over the past few decades. It is essential to understand the land use/cover change and describe its drivers to provide effective support for land planning and water management regulation.
Authors are requested to submit papers on applying socioeconomic and environmental aspects to water rational management and land use/cover around the world. The integration of remote sensing, GIS, and modeling can provide valuable support for management and decision-making. Extreme weather and climate events that cause threats such as floods and droughts will become more frequent and intense in many regions. Adaptation and mitigation strategies need to be implemented at the local, regional, and national levels to anticipate the adverse effects of climate change and to prevent or minimize damage. Therefore, measures to adapt to the effects of climate change are of great importance and should be tailored to specific conditions using remote sensing and GIS techniques.
We will welcome contributions where various socioeconomic, environmental, and political aspects are combined with other factors and applied in various disciplines such as land/water management, land use/cover change, land surveying, environmental engineering, or landscape architecture.
The following list provides some examples of topics of interest to ensure the consistency of the papers in this Special Issue:
- Integration of socioeconomic and environmental aspects for water rational management and land use/cover;
- Best practices of rational land/water management—case studies from around the world;
- Impact of political decisions on land/water management and land use/cover;
- Effects of climate change in urban areas;
- Main problems that hinder rational land/water management in the world and propositions of relevant solutions;
- Remote sensing, GIS, or UAV data for mapping of land use/cover processes;
- Modeling and visualization of spatial land use/cover changes.
Papers incorporating novel and interesting techniques for studying these aspects and some interesting applications will be considered. Well-prepared review papers are also welcomed.
We invite all prospective authors to share their research.
Dr. Tomasz Noszczyk
Dr. Wiktor Halecki
Dr. Abreham Berta Aneseyee
Guest Editors
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 papers will be 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 2400 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.
Keywords
- Adaptation to climate change
- Spatiotemporal analysis
- Land change science
- Urban analysis
- Spatial modeling
- Spatial policy
- Land management
- Spatial analysis
- Water management
- Spatial planning
- Natural resources