Innovative Applications of GIS, Remote Sensing and Data Analysis in Sustainable Environmental Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability in Geographic Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 22 April 2027 | Viewed by 88
Special Issue Editors
Interests: forest remote sensing; carbon cycle
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Interests: forest remote sensing; responses of forest to climate change and human activities
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to highlight innovative applications of geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, and data analysis for advancing evidence-based, quantitative, and operational sustainable environmental management globally. The primary focus is to integrate multi-source geo-spatial observations and intelligent analytical methods to monitor, model, and assess terrestrial ecosystems under intensifying climate change and human activity pressures. The scope spans advanced remote sensing information extraction, high-resolution spatial-temporal modeling, dynamic ecosystem monitoring, carbon sink quantification, and data-driven decision support systems for ecological protection, climate adaptation, and low-carbon development. Particular emphasis is placed on terrestrial ecosystems, such as forest, grassland or agriculture-related structure retrieval, carbon sink estimation, disturbance detection, and ecosystem responses to climate variability and human activities.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to bridge the gap between methodological innovation in geospatial science and practical implementation in sustainability governance. This Special Issue strongly advances sustainability science by supporting the quantification, measurement, and monitoring of sustainability targets. It provides new models, tools, datasets, and case studies to improve forest and grassland carbon sink quantification, enhance understanding of ecosystem responses to climate change, and support science-informed environmental policies and management practices. By linking technical advances to real-world sustainability challenges, the issue strengthens the scientific basis for ecological conservation, climate change mitigation, carbon neutrality strategies, and the achievement of global sustainable development goals.
This Special Issue calls for papers that present original research on the following broad topics (please note that this is not an exhaustive list):
- Multi-source remote sensing extraction and dynamic monitoring of ecosystem parameters
- Quantitative estimation and spatiotemporal simulation of terrestrial ecosystem carbon sinks using remote sensing and GIS
- Responses of terrestrial vegetation to climate change and human activities based on geospatial big data
- Intelligent data analysis and AI-related methods for sustainable environmental monitoring and assessment
- GIS-based spatial modeling, decision support systems, and policy evaluation for ecological conservation
- Remote sensing of ecosystem disturbance, restoration dynamics, and ecological environment impact assessment
- Integrated observation and analysis systems for carbon neutrality, low-carbon development, and sustainability governance
- Scalable tools, open datasets, and reproducible workflows for sustainable environmental management
Prof. Dr. Xiguang Yang
Prof. Dr. Ying Yu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- GIS
- remote sensing
- sustainable environmental management
- terrestrial ecosystem carbon sink
- climate change response
- ecosystem monitoring
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