Remote Sensing for Climate Change Studies

Dear Colleagues,

Climate Change and its impacts on the environment is a current key topic of interest and discussion. Remote Sensing technology has the capacity to offer much to this field of research. Remote Sensing allows for the capture of images over large areas at a fraction of the cost and time and on a regular basis. A multitude of satellites provide global coverage at fine scales, with coverage as well as spatial and spectral resolutions improving with each launch. Such information can be used for climate monitoring and change detection studies, ranging from local to global extents. Some sensors have been launched recently and so have provided imagery for only a few decades. However, other systems have been recording data for many more years and so provide excellent opportunities to investigate long-term changes. As an example, the Vanguard-2 satellite has been recording solar irradiance and cloud reflection since its launch in 1959. Such data has become crucial for detecting longer-term changes in climate change studies.

This Special Issue calls for innovative methods and applications of Remote Sensing for climate-change-related studies. The range of topics includes but is not limited to:

• glacial retreat;
• changes in long-term snow cover;
• land use changes and impacts on climate;
• impacts of climate change on food production;
• declining forest cover due to climate change;
• declining forest cover and how it can affect climate through greenhouse gas (GHG) sequestration;
• conversion of peatlands;
• climate change impacts and temporal monitoring;
• crop monitoring;
• climate change impacting natural hazards;
• coastal erosion analysis and prediction;
• changes in mass wasting and mass movements;
• multi-temporal high-resolution satellite images;
• drought monitoring and assessment;
• impact of climate change on natural resources;
• soil carbon sequestration; and
• climate impact on ecosystem services.

Professor Lalit Kumar
Prof. Onisimo Mutanga
Prof. Biswajeet Pradhan
Guest Editors

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