The Application of Remote Sensing for Environmental Planning and Management

Dear Colleagues,

Remote sensing is efficient in monitoring landscapes vital to the conservation of natural resources, ecosystems, land use and landcover changes, environmental contamination, and degradation. Change detection using satellite, aerial and drone imagery, Geographic Information Systems, spectral reflectance, and various other techniques is a means to address environmental management effectively over large areas without creating further disturbance. This is especially important in today’s changing world given the increased pressures from urbanization, and industrialization through land use conversion, natural and anthropogenic disturbance, and global climate change.

Advances in in situ sensor systems to capture spatial measurements across time provide an important step forward to correlate with frequent satellite-based observations to develop landscape-level models. Remote sensing has the potential to provide an important source of information for quantifying and mapping dynamic terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem services and hydrological processes. Remote sensing data products are being successfully integrated with various in situ observations to monitor environmental changes by ecologists, land managers, conservation groups, and scientists for effective monitoring and conservation of various natural resources.

This Special Issue invites manuscripts on the application of remote sensing for environmental management and planning as pertinent to applications to soil, plant, water, and air. We expect each paper to incorporate the current state of knowledge, summarize existing environmental issues and limitations, and provide new insights for future research and development in the field of environmental remote sensing. Topics for this Special Issue include but are not limited to:

• Ecosystem assessment and monitoring
• Land use/cover changes
• Water resources assessment
• Wetland and coastal dynamics
• Geohazards and land subsidence
• Time series analysis
• New sensor/platform applications
• Environmental and public health applications
• Assessment of terrestrial ecosystems
• Biotic and abiotic plant stress
• Precision agriculture

Dr. Maruthi Sridhar Balaji Bhaskar
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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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 2700 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.