Spatial Analysis and Land Use Planning for Sustainable Ecosystem

Dear Colleagues,

The sustainability of an ecosystem is a key prerequisite for human survival and development. With the development of science and technology, the ability of human beings to transform the ecosystem is becoming stronger than ever, and the  relationship between human beings and ecosystems has entered a new epoch. Human beings have conducted various disturbances and transformations on the ecosystem for various purposes, e.g., to obtain the necessary survival resources, develop the economy, develop industrialization and urbanization, improve the living environment, etc. Some behaviors of human beings affected by ecosystems are as follows: emiting a large volume of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases  into the atmosphere; changing the original land use/cover; felling of trees and large-scale planting of economic forests, triggering changes in the original ecological community; destroying wetlands and grassland, etc. These behaviors profoundly affect the earth's ecosystem and are changing our living environment. The sustainable ecosystem is facing major challenges. We sincerely invite you to participate in this Special Issue on “Spatial Analysis and Land Use Planning for Sustainable Ecosystem”. The involved topics include (but are not be limited to) the following:

• Terrestrial ecosystems and the net primary productivity of vegetation;
• Land surface/vegatation phenology dynamic monitoring;
• The impact of changing human activities on ecological ecosystems;
• Land use/cover imformation extracting based on remote sensing;
• Machine/deep learning algorithm for remote sensing applications;
• Land degradation and rehabilitation based on intelligent geo-computing;
• The cumulative impacts of human pressures on the land environment.

Prof. Dr. Xinchang Zhang
Dr. Ying Sun
Dr. Yongjian Ruan 
Guest Editors

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