Application of Remote Sensing to the Monitoring of Land Cover and Water Environment—2nd Edition
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Resources and Sustainable Utilization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 35
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Interests: remote sensing image processing and interpretation; remote sensing of environment; synthetic aperture radar; target detection on remote sensing images; image denoising; deep learning; computer vision
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Interests: SAR image processing; 3D mapping; cadastre
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Interests: super-resolution mapping; spatio-temporal fusion of remote sensing images; deep learning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mountains, fields, rivers, lakes, and oceans are the “life community” in which human beings share wealth and woe. Monitoring and evaluating the environmental issues related to the above elements is crucial for the scientific formulation of regional development strategies and is also a fundamental requirement for the concept of sustainable development.
Traditional research is primarily conducted through field surveys and in situ sampling, which can provide in-depth, detailed, and supportive data; however, it is time-consuming and has certain limitations for comprehensive research on large sea areas. The remote sensing technique, which is capable of capturing large-scale images of the Earth, is an effective tool for environmental monitoring and assessment.
The development of environmental remote sensing is changing quickly in terms of application areas and technical methods. Papers addressing these topics are invited for this Special Issue, especially those that combine a high academic standard with a practical focus on providing monitoring solutions for land cover and the water environment based on remote sensing technology.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
(1) Reviews on remote sensing applications to land cover and water environment monitoring;
(2) Understanding the land-cover dynamics in urban and rural areas with high-resolution remote sensing images;
(3) Developing remote sensing methods for monitoring the environmental conditions of water;
(4) Identification, assessment, and response of disasters associated with land and water (e.g., earthquake, earth surface subsidence, red tide);
(5) Evaluation of ecological risks in coastal or marine areas (e.g., oil spill pollution, loss of mangroves).
Dr. Xiaoshuang Ma
Dr. Chen Wang
Dr. Zhixiang Yin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- land cover monitoring
- environmental monitoring
- environmental remote sensing
- remote sensing of water quality
- geological hazard monitoring
- natural disaster
- coast and marine
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