Advances in Remote Sensing on the Sustainable Development of the Global Environment

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable development issues are a very important part of the global environment. Among these issues, the core problem is global climate change, which has a huge impact on humans and the environment. As a modern observation technique, remote sensing technology plays an important role in contributing to global challenges, including climate change, security, pollution, sustainable development and health. Global terrestrial and marine ecosystems have been widely acknowledged as carbon pools and contribute to mitigating global warming, and thus it is very important to clarify the contribution and responses of global terrestrial and marine ecosystems to climate change. As an indicator of global warming, the polar regions can amplify the effects of climate change. Polar sea ice is one of the most sensitive indicators denoting the current remarkable global climate changes. Understanding the mechanisms, due to either local feedback or remote controls, driving polar sea ice changes with sophisticated model tools and advanced remote sensing observations is of great necessity.

This Special Issue on “Advances in Remote Sensing on the Sustainable Development of the Global Environment” will mainly focus on the theories and methods of global terrestrial and marine ecosystem service evaluation, biodiversity monitoring, and so on; technologies for monitoring carbon sinks in terrestrial and marine ecosystems and their responses to climate change; and methods of polar sea ice estimation, its effect on sea-level rise and its responses to climate change.  This Special Issue calls for papers that present original research on the following broad topics:

(1) Quantitative remote sensing for terrestrial and marine ecosystems: new theories, algorithms, applications, and so on;

(2) Carbon-cycle modeling of the global ecosystem and its impacts on climate change by using remote sensing;

(3) Polar remote sensing: sea ice estimation and its responses to climate change.

Dr. Ying Yu
Dr. Xiguang Yang
Dr. Haibo Bi
Dr. Liwen Yan
Guest Editors

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