Special Issue "Monitoring of Water Eutrophication"
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.
Special Issue Editor
Interests: soil and water pollution; water supply; green infrastructures; remote sensing; machine learning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Marine and inland water eutrophication is an environmental problem of major concern due to its ecological and socioeconomic impact throughout the world. It compromises ecosystem health and functions, diminishes aquatic biodiversity, and threatens water and food supply. Eutrophication originates from the inflow of an excess of nutrients into the receiving waters, and the origin of those nutrients is mainly associated with human activities.
Eutrophication is a complex spatial–temporal process, and much effort is required to properly assess and predict the evolution of water quality and the development of threats such as harmful algae blooms (HABs). Additionally, the impact of climate change on marine and inland water biogeochemistry is a major scientific concern that makes difficult the proper modeling of water eutrophication.
This Special Issue will focus on state-of-the-art methods and techniques for the efficient and accurate monitoring of eutrophication processes, both in marine and inland waters. It welcomes contributions dedicated to any aspect of eutrophication monitoring. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
- novel in-situ sensors and monitoring networks;
- multitemporal remote sensing of water quality and HABs;
- advances in eutrophication process modeling;
- application of machine learning for data analysis and fusion; and
- case studies of successful or unsuccessful control of nutrients in aquatic ecosystems, showing the reasons for success or failure.
Both original research papers and review papers are welcome.
Dr. Ignacio Melendez-Pastor
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- eutrophication
- water quality
- nutrients
- climate change
- HAB
- monitoring networks
- remote sensing
- modelling
- machine learning