Application of Satellite Remote Sensing in Water Quality Monitoring

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue focuses on the use of remote sensing as a tool for assessing the quality of the aquatic environment. The classical methodology allows the quality of several variables, such as water transparency, nutrients and photosynthetic pigments, to be determined after sampling and analytical campaigns. This requires time and availability for field work and frequent sampling in order to determine the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of the study site. Remote sensing allows us to obtain equations that relate the quality variables to the optical properties of water using empiral methods and to other results that are not directly related to these optical properties using machine learning methods; however, this can affect the water quality. This Special Issue welcomes the submission of papers that reflect studies on suspended matter, organic matter, eutrophication, massive algal growths, floating invasive plants and other topics of interest for applied research.

The Special Issue will accept theoretical papers describing new methodologies or empirical applications, case studies and experimental results that are related to freshwater, coastal or marine aquatic ecosystems. In particular, we welcome studies that consider lakes, lagoons, reservoirs, estuaries and transitional waters.

We invite researchers to submit manuscripts that enable us to advance our understanding of the utilization of Satellite Remote Sensing in the monitoring of water quality. The scope of this Special Issue covers all aspects of the physics and ecology relevant to this field.

Prof. Dr. Juan Miguel Soria
Dr. José Antonio Domínguez-Gómez
Guest Editors

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