Remote Sensing

State-of-the-Art in Land Cover Classification and Mapping

edited by

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submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 12 articles | Viewed by 38903 | Submission Open

Keywords: classification; mapping; classification systems; land cover; remote-sensing images; scale; resolution; semantics; spectral– spatial– temporal features; phenology; pattern analysis; machine learning; rule bases; accuracy metrics and assessment; uncertainty; confusion matrix; mixed pixels; sampling; reference samples; image interpretation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)

LEO-Augmented PNT Service

edited by

Kan Wang

,

Ahmed El-Mowafy

and

Xuhai Yang

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 12 articles | Viewed by 30766 | Submission Open

Keywords: Low Earth orbit (LEO); Precise orbit determination (POD); Time and frequency transfer; Positioning; Navigation; Integrity monitoring; Quality control; Signal processing; Sensor calibration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration)

Near Real-Time (NRT) Agriculture Monitoring

edited by

Liang Sun

,

Feng Gao

,

Wenbin Wu

and Peng Yang

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 21489 | Submission Open

Keywords: near real-time (NRT); early crop mapping; crop stress; crop phenology; yield prediction; soil monitoring; data fusion; time-series analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)

Towards Biodiversity Conservation: Remote Sensing Applications in Ecological Modeling

edited by

Grant Hamilton

and Evangeline Corcoran

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 20181 | Submission Open

Keywords: biodiversity; conservation; remote sensing; ecological modeling; species distribution modeling; spatial ecology; mapping and monitoring; population analysis; threatened species; invasive species

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecological Remote Sensing)

Remote Sensing and Ecosystem Modeling for Nature-Based Solutions

edited by

Lei Ma

and

Aolin Jia

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 16225 | Submission Open

Keywords: nature based solutions; remote sensing observations; afforestation; reforestation; deforestation; carbon; water and energy fluxes; carbon sequestration potential; empirical or process-based modeling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Remote Sensing of Coastal Waters, Land Use/Cover, Lakes, Rivers and Watersheds III

edited by

Jiayi Pan

,

Bo Huang

,

Hongsheng Zhang

and Adam T. Devlin

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 15779 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing of coastal waters and zones; remote sensing data fusion technology; land cover/use; remote sensing of lakes; rivers; and watersheds; remote sensing and GIS technology; marine remote sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Advanced Machine Learning Models for Remote Sensing Applications and Data Analysis—Recent Developments

edited by Ahmed Shaharyar Khwaja and

Filippo Biondi

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 13658 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; quantum machine learning; optical data; imaging radar data; multispectral and hyperspectral data; environment monitoring and prediction; calamity prediction and detection; agriculture monitoring and prediction; post-calamity evaluation; time-series for structural monitoring; transfer learning and one-shot learning; semi-supervised learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)

Remote Sensing Cross-Modal Research: Algorithms and Practices

edited by

Xiangtao Zheng

, Xiumei Chen and

Jinchang Ren

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 13409 | Submission Open

Keywords: cross-modal representation learning; cross-modal detection and identification; cross-modal conversion and retrieval; cross-modal knowledge reasoning; cross-modal image generation; cross-modal collaborative learning; remote sensing cross-modal application; domain adaptation; transfer learning; cross-modal consistency feature representation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)

Air-Sea Interaction and Climate Variability in the Ocean: Observations and Modeling Based on Remote Sensing Techniques

edited by

Yuhong Zhang

,

Xiaomei Liao

and

Vladimir N. Kudryavtsev

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 12998 | Submission Open

Keywords: air-sea interactions; climate variability; oceanic dynamics; small- and meso-scale processes; remote sensing observations; high-resolution modeling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)

Advances in the Application of Spaceborne and UAS-Borne Radar Remote Sensing

edited by

Neda Rojhani

,

George Shaker

,

Massimiliano Pieraccini

and

Amir Hosein Oveis

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 12536 | Submission Open

Keywords: radar technology; space-based radar technology; planetary mapping radar; remote sensing applications; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); disaster management applications; advanced signal processing; space exploration; radar technology in earth sciences

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)

Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing II

edited by

Chunlei Huo

,

Zhiqiang Zhou

, Lurui Xia and

Samia Ainouz

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 12047 | Submission Open

Keywords: pattern recognition; deep learning; remote sensing; image processing; artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)

Artificial Intelligence-Based Sensor Data Processing for Remote Sensing

edited by

Seongwook Lee

and Byung-Kwan Kim

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 11021 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; artificial intelligence/deep learning; sensors (e.g.; camera; lidar; radar); sensor fusion; signal/image processing; target detection and tracking; target recognition and classification; image segmentation

(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)

Processes and Effects of Atmospheric and Ionospheric Dynamics Based on Remote Sensing Observations

edited by

Yun Gong

,

Guozhu Li

and Maosheng He

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 10237 | Submission Open

Keywords: gravity/tidal/planetary waves; ionospheric irregularities; solar activity; geomagnetic storms; atmosphere– ionosphere coupling; remote sensing techniques

(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)

New Advances in Remote Sensing Techniques Applied in Surface and Underground Mine Operations

edited by

Kamran Esmaeili

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9442 | Submission Open

Keywords: open-pit mining; underground mining; mapping; mine process monitoring; operational efficiency; mine safety; mine environmental monitoring

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)

Remote Sensing of Solar Radiation Absorbed by Land Surfaces

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submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9292 | Submission Open

Keywords: land surface albedo; incoming solar radiation; aerosols; clouds; BRDF; photovoltaic; radiative forcing; validation; climate change/mitigation; earth radiation budget; applications of radiation products

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Remote Sensing of Coastal Environment and Evolution: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities

edited by

Chengyi Zhao

,

Jianting Zhu

, Wen Dai and

Konstantinos Topouzelis

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7284 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal observation; UAV techniques; coastal erosion; coastal & beach dynamics; coastal space management solutions; coastal evolution; coastal dynamics; shoreline changes; sediment dynamics; coastal land cover; coastal and offshore topography mapping

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)

Monitoring Vegetation Response Based on Remote Sensing and Climate Data (Second Edition)

edited by

Rui Yao

and

Mario Cunha

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6757 | Submission Open

Keywords: vegetation cover; vegetation phenology; vegetation productivity; crop yield; NDVI/EVI/LAI; climate change; human activity detection/monitoring

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)

Object Detection and Information Extraction Based on Remote Sensing Imagery (Second Edition)

edited by

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, Gong Cheng and

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6609 | Submission Open

Keywords: object detection of remote sensing images; object detection and tracking of remote sensing videos; few/zero-shot learning; multi-source data fusion; weakly supervised learning; semantic segmentation; remote sensing image classification

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)

New Tools or Trends for Large-Scale Mapping and 3D Modelling (Second Edition)

edited by

Tarig Ali

,

Jorge Delgado García

and

Fayez Tarsha Kurdi

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6427 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; topographic mapping; mobile mapping; data acquisition; sensors; LiDAR; UAVs (drone); feature extraction; 3D modelling; machine learning; data classification; forests modelling; digital twins; city information modelling (CIM); building information modelling (BIM); land information modelling (LAM); tree information modelling (TIM); processing quality

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Remote Sensing for Groundwater Hydrology

edited by Zofia Rzepecka,

Monika Birylo

and Olga Barron

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6424 | Submission Open

Keywords: groundwater; GRACE; GLDAS; water storage; methods of groundwater monitoring; water cycle and balance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Microwave Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture II

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submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5159 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil moisture; active microwave remote sensing; passive microwave remote sensing; product validation and error analysis; retrieval algorithms; downscaling/upscaling methods; spatiotemporal fusion techniques; GNSS-R; data assimilation; eco-hydrological applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)

Advancements in AI-Based Remote Sensing Object Detection

edited by

Yu Oishi

and Daniele Pannone

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4409 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; image recognition; change detection; object detection; tracking; monitoring; new sensors; algorithms; applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)

Advances in Remote Sensing for Regional Soil Moisture Monitoring

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submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3963 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; soil moisture; water resources management; regional scale; hydrological processes; data integration and interpretation; multi-sensor remote sensing observations

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)

Quantitative Remote Sensing for Vegetation Phenology and Regional Landscape Patterns

edited by Ke Huang,

Jiaxing Zu

, Ning Chen and Xiaowei Tong

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3408 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; vegetation dynamic; climate change; landscape pattern; cross-scale; vegetation phenology applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)

Monitoring and Modelling of Geological Disasters Based on InSAR Observations: 3rd Edition

edited by

Chisheng Wang

,

Bochen Zhang

,

Chuanhua Zhu

and Bin Zhang

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3381 | Submission Open

Keywords: InSAR; geological disaster; disaster monitoring; disaster modeling and interpretation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)

Advanced Satellite Earth Observing Technologies for Weather and Climate Resilience

edited by

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and Longjiang Li

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2717 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite Earth observations; GNSS atmospheric monitoring; International GNSS Service data and products; severe weather forecasting; climate risks assessment; environmental monitoring; numerical weather prediction model; artificial intelligence (AI)-empowered climate model; GNSS tropospheric tomography; miscellaneous advanced methodologies and applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)

New Insights from Wind Remote Sensing

edited by Stefano Letizia, Peter Brugger, Matteo Puccioni and Sonia Wharton

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2246 | Submission Open

Keywords: wind lidars; wind radars; satellite imaging of wind fields; virtual remote sensing; uncertainty quantification of remote sensing; wind resource assessment; thermodynamic profiling for wind energy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)

Advances in Pedestrian Positioning and Navigation Based on Ultra-Wideband Technology

edited by

Vincenzo Di Pietra

and

Paolo Dabove

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2225 | Submission Open

Keywords: ultra-wideband (UWB); android; smartphone; indoor positioning and tracking; multisensor integration and fusion; PNT; GNSS; cooperative positioning; seamless navigation; ubiquitous positioning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Crop Biophysical Parameters Retrieval Using Remote Sensing Data (Second Edition)

edited by

Jiangang Liu

,

Bo Li

and

Zhenjiang Zhou

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1390 | Submission Open

Keywords: crop biophysical parameters; optical remote sensing; active remote sensing; multisource data integration; radiative transfer model; deep learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)

Remote Sensing Applications in Natural Hazards and Sustainable Development

edited by

Yaohui Liu

, Bo Yu and

Fangbin Liu

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1348 | Submission Open

Keywords: natural hazards; risk; sustainable development goals; resilience; flood; earthquake; geology; landslide; ecology; fire; sustainably

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

3D Reconstruction in Cultural Heritage Conservation Through Range-Based and Image-Based Techniques

edited by

Domenica Costantino

and

Vincenzo Saverio Alfio

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1337 | Submission Open

Keywords: range and imaged-based techniques; three-dimensional (3D) datasets; 3D modelling; BIM; FEM; digital twin; cultural heritage; G.I.S.; big data

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Remote Sensing)

Deep Learning for Multi-Source Remote Sensing Image Interpretation: Exploring, Rethinking, and Limiting Breakthroughs

edited by

Xin Zhang

, Xueyao Hu, Yang Li,

Fernando José Aguilar

and

Muhammad Yasir

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 549 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-source remote sensing image processing; remote sensing image generation; multimodal remote sensing image interpretation model; target characteristic analysis; radar signal processing; new task dataset and benchmark for remote sensing image interpretation

(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)

Using Atmospheric Components as Tracers for Optical Remote Sensing in Different Height Regions

edited by Guotao Yang and Zelong Wang

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 123 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical remote sensing; lidar; airglow; metal layer; atmosphere detection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)

Machine Learning at the Object: Fine-Grained Extraction and Analysis in Remote Sensing

edited by

Yongyang Xu

, Zhong Xie, Sheng Hu and

Anna Hu

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3651 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; machine learning; remote sensing applications; classification; segmentation; remote sensing interpretation; pattern recognition; height extraction; object detection; land use and land cover; vision transformer model; multi-source remote sensing data

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)

New Image Processing Theories and Methods in Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

edited by

Yuxiang Zhang

, Meng Xu,

Yulei Wang

and

Mingming Xu

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1633 | Submission Open

Keywords: rectification; denoising; restoration; and enhancement; feature selection and extraction; super-resolution; clustering; unmixing; and image fusion; classification; target detection; change detection; segmentation; and scene recognition; deep learning algorithms designed for hyperspectral remote sensing image processing; application of hyperspectral remote sensing image processing results; opportunities and challenges in hyperspectral remote sensing image processing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)

Advances in Remote Sensing and AI for Monitoring and Mitigating Land Subsidence and Secondary Geohazards

edited by Jing Wang,

Sen Du

,

Joaquín Menéndez

and Xiwei Fan

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 637 | Submission Open

Keywords: land subsidence; InSAR; GNSS deformation monitoring; 3D deformation analysis; machine learning/deep learning; subsidence modeling; GPS optical image urban monitoring

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)

Selected Papers from the XXI Brazilian Remote Sensing Symposium—SBSR 2025

edited by

Luiz E. O. C. Aragao

,

Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro

,

Marcos Adami

and Lubia Vinhas

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 293 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban area; agriculture; forestry; land use and land cover; geoinformatics; radar; lidar; hyperspectral; time series; water

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Cutting-Edge PolSAR Imaging Applications and Techniques

edited by Dapeng Tao,

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submission deadline 25 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 231 | Submission Open

Keywords: multitemporal SAR/PolSAR; polarimetric target decomposition; change detection; PolInSAR; deep learning for PolSAR image; land coverage mapping and classification

(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Observation Data)

Space-Photogrammetry for High-Precision Measurement by Multi-Sensor Data Fusion

edited by Rujin Zhao,

Zhenming Peng

and

Xiong Xu

submission deadline 28 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1963 | Submission Open

Keywords: space target; high-precision measurement; remote sensing; information fusion; space photogrammetry; spectral measurement

LiDAR Technology for Autonomous Navigation and Mapping

edited by

Yiqing Yao

and

Johnson Ihyeh Agbinya

submission deadline 28 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 334 | Submission Open

Keywords: LiDAR odometry; simultaneous localization and mapping; obstacle detection and avoidance; 3D mapping; multi-sensor fusion; autonomous vehicles

(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering Remote Sensing)

Forest Disturbance Monitoring with Optical Satellite Imagery

edited by Antoine Masse and

Nikolay S. Strigul

submission deadline 28 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 206 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest disturbance; optical remote sensing; forest degradation; forest monitoring multi-source data fusion; data calibration and validation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Remote Sensing)

Advances in High-Resolution Crop Mapping at Large Spatial Scales

edited by

Lingbo Yang

and Pengliang Wei

submission deadline 28 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 107 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-resolution crop mapping; remote sensing for agriculture; large-scale crop monitoring; multi-source satellite data; crop classification; machine learning in agriculture; temporal dynamics of crops; agricultural change detection; precision agriculture; remote sensing applications in food security

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)

Local-Scale Remote Sensing for Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation

edited by

Jesper Erenskjold Moeslund

submission deadline 29 Aug 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 13102 | Submission Open

Keywords: biodiversity; ecology; local scale; remote sensing; conservation; restoration; laser scanning; satellite sensors; drones

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Challenges and New Advances for Human-Climate Interactions in Cities Using Remote Sensing

edited by

Hajime Seya

and

Hasi Bagan

submission deadline 29 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 10904 | Submission Open

Keywords: Thermal environment; Urban growth; Local climate zone; Urban systems design; Urban carbon management; Disaster resilience; Land cover mapping; Image fusion; Machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Remote Sensing)

Applications of SAR for Environment Observation Analysis

edited by

Vahid Akbari

,

Nizar Bouhlel

,

Alireza Tabatabaeenejad

and

Esra Erten

submission deadline 29 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9021 | Submission Open

Keywords: synthetic aperture radar; earth observation; machine (deep) learning; image processing; statistical signal processing; environmental monitoring; radar polarimetry; radar interferometry; multivariate statistical analysis; big data analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Machine Learning for Spatiotemporal Remote Sensing Data (2nd Edition)

edited by

Lianfa Li

,

Xiaomei Yang

,

Yong Ge

and

Nikolaos L. Tsakiridis

submission deadline 29 Aug 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4586 | Submission Open

Keywords: spatiotemporal modeling; spatiotemporal dependency; spatiotemporal prediction; spatiotemporal fusion; forecast; machine learning; deep learning; regression; classification; remote sensing; forecast

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Remote Sensing for Soil Properties and Plant Ecosystems

edited by

Jarosław Zawadzki

submission deadline 29 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2827 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil properties; plant ecosystems; soil spectroscopy; soil monitoring; soil mapping; deep learning; multisensoral analysis; soil moisture; plant stress detection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biogeosciences Remote Sensing)

Coastal and Marine Monitoring and Restoration Mapping Using UAS and Remote Sensing Systems

edited by

Niall Burnside

,

Jonathan Dale

and Matthew Brolly

submission deadline 29 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2522 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAVs; remote sensing; blue carbon; coastal vegetated systems; saltmarsh; seagrass; kelp; marine mammals; birds

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)

Electromagnetic Modeling of Geophysical Prospecting in Remote Sensing

edited by

Guoqiang Xue

,

Xiaolei Tu

and Hongzhu Cai

submission deadline 29 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 868 | Submission Open

Keywords: electromagnetic modeling; geophysical prospecting; remote sensing; machine learning in geophysics; electromagnetic wave propagation; subsurface exploration; mineral exploration; groundwater detection; environmental monitoring; inversion methods; data integration; computational geophysics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)

Application of Remote Sensing in Snow and Ice Monitoring

edited by Qian Yang,

Xiaohua Hao

, Yanli Zhang and Yuwen Pang

submission deadline 29 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 602 | Submission Open

Keywords: snow cover; lake ice; ice dynamics; sea ice; climate change; multi-sensor and multi-source data; change detection; remote sensing applications; resources assessment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)

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