Antarctic Remote Sensing Applications

Dear Colleagues,

The remote and inhospitable Antarctica is one of the last frontiers on Earth. Due to limited human presence and mobility, Antarctica has been and is investigated through data acquired by remotely operated sensors deployed on the field or mounted on aerial or space platforms.

Several changes have occurred and are underway in Antarctica, mostly driven by climate change but also by tectonics, volcanism, and erosion, causing the adaptation of the Antarctic biota’s occupation and mobility, and of human presence. Such changes may be detected through sensors, methods, techniques, and remote sensing data.

Thus, research based on data from sensors such as multiband, synthetic aperture radio detection and ranging (SAR), and laser detection and ranging (LiDAR) multiplatform imagery, including photogrammetric flights and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), satellite gravity gradiometers and global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), is customary for Antarctica.

Research papers focused on Antarctica that analyze data acquired by remotely operated sensors within the scope of Remote Sensing are welcome to this Special Issue, in particular:

• Antarctic climate change effects on icesheet and permafrost state and evolution;
• Antarctic landform formation by tectonics, volcanism, and erosion;
• Antarctic biota occupation and mobility;
• Antarctic past and recent human presence.

Prof. Dr. Gonçalo Prates
Prof. Dr. Manuel Berrocoso Domínguez
Guest Editors

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