Landscape Ecology in Remote Sensing
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecological Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2023) | Viewed by 56394
Special Issue Editors
Interests: remote sensing; imaging spectroscopy; coupled human and natural systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Among numerous definitions, landscape ecology can be summarized as the study of interactions between landscape patterns and various ecological processes, such as energy flux, material flow, and species distribution. Traditional airborne and spaceborne remote sensing imagery have been extensively involved with studies in landscape ecology. High spatial resolution aerial photography and moderate to coarse resolution satellite imagery, including those collected by Landsat, Sentinel and MODIS, provide spatial information of ecological processes and input for statistical analysis and computer simulations. In addition to traditional data, the notable progress of new platforms, such as unmanned airborne vehicles (UAV), and emerging techniques, including light detection and ranging (LiDAR), as well as high-fidelity imaging spectroscopy, has enabled novel perspectives, approaches and results in landscape ecology research. This Special Issue aims to summarize the applications of traditional remote sensing, meanwhile deepening the knowledge of emerging platforms and techniques in the studies of landscape ecology. We encourage the submission of manuscripts that address the following, but are not limited to, topics in understanding landscape patterns, ecological processes, and their interactions:
- Aboveground biomass estimation
- Biodiversity investigation
- Species habitat and distribution mapping
- Landscape pattern mapping, analysis, and implications
- Application of LiDAR, imaging spectroscopy and other emerging techniques
Dr. Jie Dai
Prof. Dr. Li An
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- landscape ecology
- remote sensing
- biomass
- biodiversity
- species distribution
- land pattern
- LiDAR
- imaging spectroscopy
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