Environmental Changes, Ecosystem Health and Driving Mechanisms in Watersheds

Dear Colleagues,

Changes in the watershed environment may have profound effects on the living space of human beings. In the context of global changes, the watershed has experienced a series of environmental problems in the past, such as grass turnover, sanding increase and retreat, lake level fluctuation, water quality change and salinization phenomenon serious. Therefore, it is especially necessary to reveal the change patterns and explore the development mechanisms for the above phenomena. In recent years, remote sensing(RS) is providing an effective data source for monitoring environmental changes at the watershed or even global scale. By introducing new technologies, methods, and experiments, RS can provide high spatial and temporal resolution dynamic measurements of basin-scale environmental changes. This Topic aims to explore the latest advances in remote sensing and GIS in environmental changes in watersheds and their driving mechanisms. Topic focuses on surface water monitoring (e.g., water storage, water quality, water level, hydrodynamics, or flooding), soil environmental monitoring (e.g., salinity, heavy metals, drought, or soil nitrogen and phosphorus elements), agricultural crops, and land use change. The manuscript should also be considered in terms of high spatial and temporal resolution monitoring, and requires a sufficient number of field observations to calibrate the model and control its prediction accuracy.

Prof. Dr. Fei Zhang
Dr. Xiaoping Wang
Dr. Changjiang Liu
Dr. Juan Wang
Dr. Xiangming Tang
Topic Editors