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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

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Dr. Karsten Rinke

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Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Department of Lake Research, Brückstrasse 3a, 39114 Magdeburg, Germany
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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Dr. Shushanik Asmaryan

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Center for Ecological-Noosphere Studies NAS Republic of Armenia, Abovyan 68, 0025 Yerevan, Armenia
Interests: GIS; remote sensing; landscape planning; environment; spatial data infrastructures

Dr. Peter Hunter

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Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, UK
Interests: remote sensing; underwater optics; lakes; cyanobacteria

Dr. Caren Binding

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Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada Centre for Inland Waters, 867 Lakeshore Rd., Burlington, ON L7S 1A1, Canada
Interests: satellite remote sensing; coastal and inland waters; water quality

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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
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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

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Water Quality Grade Identification for Lakes in Middle Reaches of Yangtze River Using Landsat-8 Data with Deep Neural Networks (DNN) Model

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Remote Sens. 2022, 14(24), 6238; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14246238 - 09 Dec 2022

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Water quality grade is an intuitive element for people to understand the condition of water quality. However, in situ water quality grade measurements are often labor intensive, which makes measurement over large areas very costly and laborious. In recent years, numerous studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of remote sensing techniques in monitoring water quality. In order to automatically extract the water quality information, machine learning technologies have been widely applied in remote sensing data interoperation. In this study, Landsat-8 data and deep neural networks (DNN) were employed to identify the water quality grades of lakes in two cities, Wuhan and Huangshi, in the middle reach of the Yangtze River, central China. Additionally, linear support vector machine (L-SVM), random forest (RF), decision tree (DT), and multi-layer perceptron (MLP) were selected as comparative methods. The experimental results showed that DNN achieved the most promising performance compared to the other approaches. For the lakes in Wuhan, DNN gave water quality results with overall accuracy (OA) of 93.37% and Kappa of 0.9028. For the lakes in Huangshi, OA and kappa given by DNN were 96.39% and 0.951, respectively. The results show that the use of remote sensing images for water quality grade monitoring is effective. In the future, our method can be used for water quality monitoring of lakes in large areas at a low cost. Full article

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Supervised Classifications of Optical Water Types in Spanish Inland Waters

Marcela Pereira-Sandoval

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Remote Sens. 2022, 14(21), 5568; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14215568 - 04 Nov 2022

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Remote sensing of lake water quality assumes there is no universal method or algorithm that can be applied in a general way on all inland waters, which usually have different in-water components affecting their optical properties. Depending on the place and time of year, the lake dynamics, and the particular components of the water, non-tailor-designed algorithms can lead to large errors or lags in the quantification of the water quality parameters, such as the suspended mineral sediments, dissolved organic matter, and chlorophyll-a concentration. Selecting the most suitable algorithm for each type of water is not a simple matter. One way to make selecting the most suitable water quality algorithm easier on each occasion is by knowing ahead of time the type of water being handled. This approach is used, for instance, in the Lake Water Quality production chain of the Copernicus Global Land Service. The objective of this work is to determine which supervised classification approach might give the most accurate results. We use a dataset of manually labeled pixels on lakes and reservoirs in Eastern Spain. High-resolution images from the Multispectral Instrument sensor on board the ESA Sentinel-2 satellite, atmospherically corrected with the Case 2 Regional Coast Colour algorithm, are used as the basis for extracting the pixels for the dataset. Three families of different supervised classifiers have been implemented and compared: the K-nearest neighbor, decision trees, and support vector machine. Based on the results, the most appropriate for our study area is the random forest classifier, which was selected and applied on a series of images to derive the temporal series of the optical water types per lake. An evaluation of the results is presented, and an analysis is made using expert knowledge. Full article

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WaterMaskAnalyzer (WMA)—A User-Friendly Tool to Analyze and Visualize Temporal Dynamics of Inland Water Body Extents

Stephan Buettig

Marie Lins

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Sebastian Goihl

Remote Sens. 2022, 14(18), 4485; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14184485 - 08 Sep 2022

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Freely available satellite imagery from the EU Copernicus program can record water surfaces precisely and at high temporal resolution. This paper provides the development status of the open-source demo software “WaterMaskAnalyzer” (WMA) for the determination of water body extents. The application allows simple to use on-demand monitoring of inland water dynamics by the Otsu-thresholding algorithm that automatically classifies water bodies. The tool can answer various hydrological issues related to disaster and water management, nature conservation, or water body monitoring. The first results from investigations of the Sentinel-1 time series in VH polarization show high accuracies with R² = 0.824 compared to in situ measurements for the Quitzdorf reservoir in Saxony, Germany. Small or indented-shaped water bodies, as well as those with forested riparian zones, such as the Cranzahl (VH: R² = 0.102 and VV: R² = 0.251) and Klingenberg reservoirs (VH: R² = 0.091 and VV: R² = 0.146), only achieve a low R² for VV and VH polarization but receive equally low RMSEs of 0.045 km² (Cranzahl) and 0.077 km² (Klingenberg). By separating out outliers and using correction factors, fast improvements in the accuracies can be expected. For future improvements, alternate classification methods and diverse new ground-truth data lead us to expect the next big step in development. Full article

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