Remote Sensing of Floods: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities

Dear Colleagues,

Remote sensing has been used for mapping and monitoring floods for many years. Studying floods is considered as one of the most common and useful applications of remote sensing. With their respective advantages and limitations, optical and microwave remote sensing techniques have been used to study floods in different parts of the world. Their advantages and limitations depend on the physiography, land use and land cover, and climate of the areas studied, and the specific characteristics of the remote sensing systems and sensors used. The recent progress in remote sensing technology, computing, and machine learning algorithms has provided tremendous opportunities to minimize the previously encountered challenges in mapping and monitoring floods. However, these advancements and scopes are not properly researched and documented. Therefore, this Special Issue of Remote Sensing aims to invite original research and review articles on the progress, challenges, and opportunities in remote sensing of floods. The potential topics are as follows:

• Mapping and monitoring floods using multi-sensor remote sensing;
• Mapping and monitoring floods using sensor fusion;
• Mapping flood dynamics using remote sensing;
• Application of microwave and optical remote sensing for studying riverine flooding;
• Application of microwave and optical remote sensing for studying coastal flooding;
• Application of remote sensing for studying flash flooding;
• Machine learning/deep learning in remote sensing of floods;
• Remote sensing of floods using moderate and high-resolution imagery;
• Remote sensing of floods using aerial/air-born/UAV imagery;
• Integration of remote sensing with hydrodynamic models for flood simulation and prediction.

Dr. A. K. M. Azad Hossain
Dr. Taufique Mahmood
Guest Editors

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