Environmental and Geodetic Monitoring of the Tibetan Plateau

Dear Colleagues,

We are very pleased to invite you to submit your latest research results to this Special Issue (SI) “Environmental and Geodetic Monitoring of the Tibetan Plateau” of the open access journal, Remote Sensing. The environment in the Tibet, Xinjiang and Siberia (TibXS) region is susceptible to global climate change. Recent remote sensing and geodetic observations show that lakes, glaciers, rainfalls, temperatures and other climatic parameters have undergone changes beyond model predictions. The trends of these parameters can be altered by forcings that originate from local and remote sources. Reliable predictions of the trends can only rely on observations with sufficient resolutions in space and time. In recent decades, a large volume of remote sensing and geodetic data have been made available to the scientific community that allow for detecting environment changes in the TibXS region. Typical sensors include altimeter, GPS, GRACE and SAR. This Special Issue welcomes papers dealing with observation, processing and interpretation of the remote sensing data that lead to important identifications of changes in the environment in the TibXS region. Authors who study environmental changes in the TibXS region are encouraged to submit papers to this Special Issue. In particular, we encourage submissions of the papers presented in the meeting “The 9th International Workshop on TibXS (Multi-Observations and Interpretations of Tibet, Xinjiang and Siberia)”, held from August 6–10, 2018, in Zhangye, Gansu Province, China (http://main.sgg.whu.edu.cn/tibxs/tibxs2018/tibxs2018.html). We welcome submissions that present novel approaches, case studies and new scientific findings based on multi-datasets, including various satellite sensors, especially the GRACE and altimeter data. Results on applications of time and frequency in the Tibetan Plateau are also encouraged. Researchers working on the following subjects can contribute to this SI:

• Hydrological change over river basins, lake level variation, vertical deformation, mountain glacier change, 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. Dr. Guoqing Zhang
Guest Editors

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