State-of-the-Art Remote Sensing in South America

Dear Colleagues,

South America is a geo-diverse continent, home of several terrestrial biodiversity hot spots, and freshwater reservoirs with rich fishery biodiversity and vegetation varying from high-density tropical rainforest to grasslands. South American ecosystems are vulnerable to extreme climate change events, which can dramatically affect the forest, grasslands, surface water, glaciers, land productivity, and human wellbeing. Land use is another driver that modifies land cover on this continent. The interaction of land-use change with climate change on the land cover is not well understood in South America. The combined effect of climate change and land-use drivers can accelerate ecosystem tipping points, unlocking carbon from soil and vegetation to the atmosphere, altering the hydrological cycle, and lowering Net Primary Productive of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems of this continent. Remote sensing has been vital to characterize land cover, land-use change, and climate change interactions in ecosystems of South America. In this Special Issue, we invite contributions that characterize the state-of-art of environmental remote sensing to further advance in the understanding of climate and land-use drivers on land cover. We invite submissions on the following topics:

• Time-series analysis of ecosystem change.
• Land cover/land use mapping.
• Early signs of ecosystem tipping points.
• Integrating long-term field and remotely sensed data.
• Climate change impact on ecosystem services.
• Interaction of climate and land use.
• Cloud computing, deep learning and machine learning applications.
• Multi-sensor integration for building long-term time-series.
• Incorporation of remote sensing information on planning and policy making.
• Future trends and gaps in remote sensing science in South America.
  

Dr. Carlos Souza Jr.
Dr. Laerte Ferreira
Dr. Washington Rocha
Dr. Ane Alencar
Mg. Santiago Banchero
Guest Editors

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