Special Issue "Remote Sensing Applications on Environment Resource and Natural Hazards"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Mohamed Elhag
E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Department of Hydrology and Water Resources Management, Faculty of Meteorology, Environment & Arid Land Agriculture, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
Interests: remote sensing applications in water resources management; GIS applications in natural resources management; geo-information in natural hazards
Prof. Dr. Changping Huang
E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Interests: hyperspectral remote sensing; remote retrieval of vegetation fluorescence; smart agriculture.
Dr. Silvena Boteva Boteva
E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Faculty of Biology, Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria
Interests: application of remote sensing methods in environmental studies
Dr. Georgios Eleftheriou
E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Institute of Oceanography, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, 19013 Anavyssos, Greece
Interests: applications of environmental radioactivity in geosciences and oceanography; soil radon monitoring for seismic hazard; submarine groundwater discharges estimation via in-situ gamma-spectrometry; study of sedimentary processes via radiotracers; monte carlo simulations of radionuclides' detectors; marine radiomodelling and radioecology

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue focuses on the application of remote sensing methods for the assessment and management of environmental resources and natural hazards.

Environment resources are an important prerequisite for the development of the economy at local and global levels. The increasing world population leads to increasing demand for resources and, hence, they become scarce since most of them are not renewable. Irrational exploitation of environmental resources can lead to social, economic, and environmental disturbances. In this regard, natural hazards also represent a significant element of the environmental processes. On the other hand, they can be a threat both for humans and to environmental resource availability. Problems related to environmental resources and natural hazards will continue to increase with processes such as economic development, overexploitation of resources, urbanization, and overpopulation. In recent years, remote sensing has been widely used due to the large amount of data generated globally from an increasing number of sensors and the ability to analyze areas that are located in remote places. Due to their higher accuracies, remote sensing methods can be used for the identification and assessment of natural resources that will lead to the proper management of the latter and improving the environmental conditions. When applied to natural hazard processes, these remote methods could be appropriate for risk assessment and the subsequent development of early warning systems.

Prof. Dr. Mohamed Elhag
Prof. Dr. Changping Huang
Dr. Silvena Boteva Boteva
Dr. Georgios Eleftheriou
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • environmental management
  • hyperspectral remote sensing in natural hazards
  • optical and microwave remote sensing applications

Published Papers (1 paper)

Order results
Result details
Select all
Export citation of selected articles as:

Research

Article
Volumetric Quantification of Flash Flood Using Microwave Data on a Watershed Scale in Arid Environments, Saudi Arabia
Sustainability 2021, 13(8), 4115; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084115 - 07 Apr 2021
Cited by 1 | Viewed by 532
Abstract
Actual flood mapping and quantification in an area provide valuable information for the stakeholder to prevent future losses. This study presents the actual flash flood quantification in Al-Lith Watershed, Saudi Arabia. The study is divided into two steps: first is actual flood mapping [...] Read more.
Actual flood mapping and quantification in an area provide valuable information for the stakeholder to prevent future losses. This study presents the actual flash flood quantification in Al-Lith Watershed, Saudi Arabia. The study is divided into two steps: first is actual flood mapping using remote sensing data, and the second is the flood volume calculation. Two Sentinel-1 images are processed to map the actual flood, i.e., image from 25 May 2018 (dry condition), and 24 November 2018 (peak flood condition). SNAP software is used for the flood mapping step. During SNAP processing, selecting the backscatter data representing the actual flood in an arid region is challenging. The dB range value from 7.23–14.22 is believed to represent the flood. In GIS software, the flood map result is converted into polygon to define the flood boundary. The flood boundary that is overlaid with Digital Elevation Map (DEM) is filled with the same elevation value. The Focal Statistics neighborhood method with three iterations is used to generate the flood surface elevation inside the flood boundary. The raster contains depth information is derived by subtraction of the flood surface elevation with DEM. Several steps are carried out to minimize the overcalculation outside the flood boundary. The flood volume can be derived by the multiplication of flood depth points with each cell size area. The flash flood volume in Al-Lith Watershed on 24 November 2018 is 155,507,439 m3. Validity checks are performed by comparing it with other studies, and the result shows that the number is reliable. Full article
Show Figures

Figure 1

Back to TopTop