Geodetic and Remote Sensing Observations in Tibet, Xinjiang and Siberia for Climate and Environment Change Studies

Dear Colleagues,

We are very pleased to invite you to submit your latest research results to this Special Issue on “Geodetic and Remote Sensing Observations in Tibet, Xinjiang, and Siberia for Climate Change Studies” of the open access journal, Remote Sensing. This is the second in the series of Special Issues launched by the journal to use geodetic and remote sensing observations to study issues related to climate and environmental changes in the region covering Tibet, Xinjiang, and Siberia (TibXS). Manifestations of these changes in this region are fast glacier melts, abnormal lake level changes, steady rises of temperature, and disrupted rain patterns, among other phenomena. These changes can be detected by sensors such as satellite altimeter, GPS, GRACE and InSAR. This Special Issue welcomes papers dealing with data collection, processing, and interpretation that can lead to detecting climate and environment-related changes in Tibet, Xinjiang, and Siberia. In particular, we encourage submissions of the papers presented in the meeting “The 10th International Workshop on TibXS (Multi-Observations and Interpretations of Tibet, Xinjiang and Siberia)”, held on 10–14 August 2019, in Lugu Lake, Sichuan, China (http://main.sgg.whu.edu.cn/tibxs/tibxs2019/tibxs2019.html). Papers with novel ideas, case studies, and new scientific findings derived from multi-datasets are encouraged. Subjects dealing with time series analysis related to gravity field, climate, and environmental changes are also acceptable. Researchers working on the following subjects can contribute to this SI:

• Hydrological change over river basins, lake level variation, vertical deformation, mountain glacier change, and atmospheric circulation of the Tibetan Plateau;
• Geopotential and orthometric height determinations and unification of world height datum systems;
• Long-term monitoring of surface processes from satellite altimeters such as ICESat, TOPEX, Jason-1, -2, and 32, ERS-1, -2, and ENVISAT and Sentinel series;
• Results of satellite and terrestrial-based gravimetric observations;
• Results of GNSS observations, GNSS meteorology, and ionosphere;
• Regional hydrology, vertical displacement, glacier change, lake level change, and their interpretations from altimeter, GPS, monthly GRACE fields, and gravimeters;
• Geophysical interpretations and consequences of gravity, GNSS, satellite altimetry, and seismic observations;
• SAR and LiDAR detections of surface deformation, especially over TibXS;
• Crust structure and density refinement especially in the region TibXS using multi-datasets;
• Earth rotation effects related to TibXS;
• Temporal gravity fields, mass migration, and strain/stress fields;
• Time and frequency applications in geoscience.

Prof. Wenbin Shen
Prof. Cheinway Hwang
Prof. Xiaoli Ding
Prof. Hao Ding
Dr. Yuanjin Pan
Guest Editors

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