Remote Sensing for Environment and Disaster

Dear Colleagues,

It is with great pleasure that we invite your submissions to the Special Issue of MDPI Remote Sensing, “Remote Sensing of Environment and Disaster”. This Special Issue focuses on solution-oriented remote sensing research and science to address environmental and disaster-related issues.

Over the past decade, several advances in remote sensing have taken places in terms of sensors, processing algorithms and platforms, availability of open data and analysis of ready data, time-series analysis, and others. Optical and radar imagery is being actively adopted to analyze environment changes and disaster mitigation response. All those contributions of remote sensing have culminated in several environmental decisions among governments and nations. Suggestions for solving issues related to accurate assessment of disasters and appropriate adaptation are particularly crucial for making a sustainable society. To do so, remote sensing imagery and techniques should consider interactions between science and social impacts (e.g., agricultural practice, deforestation, urbanization, heat islands, and so on). The time is ripe for developing methodologies for measuring and evaluating the impact of human activities on environmental changes in urban, agricultural, and forested areas with the aim of addressing United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. These application-based studies are being carried out under international collaborations and operationalized in both developed and developing countries. Thus, we are looking to invite remote sensing application-oriented research in but not limited to the following themes:

• Sustainable Development Goals
• Assessment of disaster
• Environmental vulnerability
• Land use changes
• Social impact
• Urbanization
• Human health

Dr. Wataru Takeuchi
Dr. Haemi Park
Dr. Prakhar Misra
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

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.