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A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2023 | Viewed by 3107
Special Issue Editors
Interests: water quality of lakes and reservoirs; eutrophication and algal blooms; reservoir operation; water quality management; modelling of lake ecosystems; climate change
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Interests: GIS; remote sensing; landscape planning; environment; spatial data infrastructures
Interests: remote sensing; underwater optics; lakes; cyanobacteria
Interests: satellite remote sensing; coastal and inland waters; water quality
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The focus of this Special Issue is on remote sensing approaches dedicated to freshwater ecosystems and inland water quality. There are already numerous studies available at the case study level and the opportunities and potential offered by remote sensing are well communicated towards the scientific community. However, maximizing the potential for reliable and large-scale application of remote sensing techniques within broader governmental and scientific surface water monitoring programmes demands going beyond case studies and simple reproduction of observations. More comprehensive application and evaluation of remote sensing techniques is required in order to demonstrate transferability of methods, document their validity in real-world-applications and showcase the integration of operational remote sensing products into water quality models and management programmes. An important aspect in this context is to go beyond a simple assessment of the current state of a given aquatic ecosystem but also to derive key features of its dynamics with respect to intra- and inter-annual time-scales, further understand drivers of water quality phenomena, and implications for water resource management and decision-making. Finally, contributions that improve our mechanistic understanding of ecosystem functioning by linking sensor signals to in situ variables and aquatic ecosystem dynamics as well as innovations in sensor development or indicator variables are highly welcome.
This Special Issue therefore targets (non-exclusively) the following major research challenges:
- Analysis of large data sets and assessment of transferability of methods in space and time
- National, continental or global scale analysis of water quality and its dynamics
- Operationalisation of remote sensing products and their integration into classical monitoring programmes.
- Integration and assimilation of satellite data into models of freshwater ecosystem dynamics
- Combining aquatic and terrestrial remote sensing products for analysing catchment-water-interactions
- Exploiting remote sensing for studying ecosystem dynamics at high spatial and temporal resolution
- Feasibility of the new sensing platforms (UAVs) for water quality monitoring solutions
- New methods for generating water quality variables or higher-level ecosystem indicators from satellite data
Dr. Karsten Rinke
Dr. Shushanik Asmaryan
Dr. Peter Hunter
Dr. Caren Binding
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 submissions that pass pre-check are 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 2500 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
- Aquatic ecosystems
- Inland waters
- Eutrophication
- Water quality
- Global scale
- Operational water quality monitoring keyword
- Remote-sensing-based indicators
- Land-water-interactions
- Ecosystem dynamics
- Integrating models and remote sensing