Sustainable Environmental Protection: Climate Change and Ecological Remote Sensing
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (17 October 2023) | Viewed by 322
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Remote sensing is the process of gathering data and knowledge about a phenomenon or a region without coming into direct contact with it (as opposed to in-situ observation). Using propagating signals (e.g., electromagnetic radiation), remote sensing technologies, which can be satellite- or aircraft-based, can identify and categorize objects and features of the Earth’s systems. Today, drones are also being used more frequently, which makes it possible to capture high-resolution data quickly for real-time monitoring.
Remote sensing has been employed in recent decades to better comprehend the climate system and its changes. This allows for the monitoring of the Earth's surface, oceans, and atmosphere at various spatiotemporal scales, allowing for the observation of the climate system as well as the investigation of climate-related processes or long- and short-term occurrences, such as trends in sea-level change, deforestation, El Nino, etc. Moreover, it is advantageous for gathering information and data in hazardous or inaccessible locations (such as during fire events or impervious areas). Natural resource management, the administration of agricultural practices, disaster risk management (such as forest fires, storms, or floods), post-disaster damage detection, the monitoring of land cover and its changes over time, forest management, water resource management, the evaluation of carbon emission, the improvement of climate projections, meteorological reanalysis, etc., are some examples of applications of ecological remote sensing that are related to climate change.
In this Special Issue on “Sustainable Environmental Protection: Climate Change and Ecological Remote Sensing,” we are soliciting research papers that demonstrate the development of new models and methods (physical/mathematical/computational), data analysis, data products, and/or research observations in the area of climate change and ecological remote sensing studies. The range of topics includes but is not limited to:
- novel remote sensing technologies;
- climate change;
- climate projections;
- meteorological reanalysis;
- carbon emission;
- air pollution;
- natural resources;
- water resources;
- agricultural practices;
- sea-level change;
- ice and snow cover;
- land cover changes;
- droughts effects;
- disaster management (storm, flood, forest fire, etc.).
Dr. Zeyar Aung
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- remote sensing
- climate change
- environmental protection
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