Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence in Inland Waters Monitoring

Dear Colleagues,

Water is the main fundamental element for life. Aquatic ecosystems are under great pressure due to different natural and anthropogenic factors increasing water crises, including water shortage, water pollution, and other water-related issues. Because of this, the comprehensive monitoring of water status on a local, regional, and global scale is needed to provide efficient and sustainable management of water resources, which is critical to the targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Remote sensing technologies and conjunction with in situ data can be used to reflect the spatial distribution and dynamic changes in water quality and quantity. Owing to the high frequency of data acquisition, large-scale coverage and different types of sensors combined with artificial intelligence and cloud computing can be used to understand complex and interconnected changes in aquatic environments.

This Special Issue focuses on papers describing how to improve inland water monitoring in terms of accuracy, and frequency, and add user value to derived data from remote sensing. In particular, this issue was designed to highlight currently applied research using optical, thermal and radar satellite images, LiDAR and UAV data,  in situ instrumentation, GeoAI, deep and machine-learning algorithms, cloud computing, and big data processing application to better understand the current status and prevent feature degradation of water resources. Therefore, potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Water flow dynamic monitoring;
• Remote sensed monitoring of water quality parameters;
• Water surface level monitoring;
• GeoAI;
• Plastic pollution;
• Time-series analysis.

Prof. Dr. Miro Govedarica
Prof. Dr. Flor Álvarez-Taboada
Dr. Gordana Jakovljević
Guest Editors

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