Advanced Remote Sensing Techniques for Shallow Seafloor Mapping and Bathymetry
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Ocean Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2027
Editors
Interests: marine surveying; spaceborne laser processing; active and passive satellite remote sensing data collaborative bathymetric inversion
Interests: airborne LiDAR bathymetry data processing; marine surveying
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The near-shores and islands serve as the areas with the highest concentration of human activities. Their shallow-water geospatial data can provide an important basis for marine scientific research, marine engineering and marine military. Due to the characteristics of wide observation range, short revisit period, and low economic cost of remote sensing satellites, satellite-derived bathymetry (SDB) from spaceborne laser scanning, optical remote sensing imagery, and SAR imagery has become an important means of obtaining shallow-water geographic spatial data. Airborne bathymetric systems, with their higher spatial resolution, flexible mission planning, and stronger water penetration capabilities, play an irreplaceable complementary role in complex near-shore environments, around islands and reefs, and in areas where satellite data is limited, serving as an important means for achieving high-precision shallow-water bathymetric measurements. With advances in processing technologies such as deep learning and the acquisition of vast amounts of spaceborne- and airborne-based observation data, there is an urgent need to achieve breakthrough advanced technologies and methods based on spaceborne and airborne bathymetric systems in order to obtain higher-precision shallow-water bathymetric measurements.
This Special Issue aims to bring advanced techniques and methods for shallow water bathymetry and seafloor mapping using spaceborne laser/airborne laser/optical or SAR images. We invite you to contribute your latest research findings to this issue. Both original research articles and review papers will be accepted.
Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Spaceborne laser bathymetry processing;
- Active and passive satellite remote sensing data collaborative bathymetric inversion;
- Data Processing for Airborne Laser Bathymetry Systems;
- Water depth retrieval from optical remote sensing images;
- Shallow water depth inversion based on SAR image.
Dr. Zhipeng Dong
Dr. Wenxue Xu
Dr. Kai Guo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- marine surveying
- satellite derived bathymetry
- spaceborne laser bathymetry
- airborne laser bathymetry
- optical remote sensing satellite imagery
- SAR satellite imagery
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