Advanced Modelling in Water Resources Using GIS and Remote Sensing Techniques

Dear Colleagues,

Remote sensing data play an important role in the hydrological scientific community, mainly for overcoming and compensating for the limitations of observed data at regional and global scales. Currently, remotely-sensed data are being used in many applications related to water resources, such as rainfall, soil moisture, evapotranspiration, drought risk, water runoff-erosion modelling, groundwater, landslide, surface water inventory, and snowmelt runoff forecasts. The research in water resources using remotely-sensed data also has a great deal of relevance for studies related to climate change and global habitability. In this Special Issue, advanced techniques for estimation and modelling using GIS and remote sensing data in water resources will be presented.

Priority studies about novel techniques for quantifying and analyzing spatial distributions with the use of new products obtained by remote sensing or automated techniques, to improve the spatial knowledge of phenomena related to the hydrological cycle, are welcome. Combining geographical data from multiple spatial, spectral and thematic scales to quantify changes and their spatial patterns are also among our priorities. Issues related to spatial error distributions, as well as the detection of false changes through time, are of particular interest.

Papers showing novel and/or relevant techniques to study water resources management or some interesting applications in all subfields of the hydrological sciences will be considered. Well-prepared review papers are also welcomed.

Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to:

• Droughts and Water availability
• Evapotranspiration estimation and Hydrologic modeling
• Land use predicting
• Snow cover and glacial lands
• Water resources management
• Groundwater mapping
• 3D mapping, Drone and high resolution images
• Classifications and applications using Drone images

Dr. Richarde Marques da Silva
Dr. Celso Augusto Guimarães Santos
Dr. Victor Hugo Coelho Rabelo
Guest Editors

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