Advances in Geospatial Techniques on Ecosystem Monitoring
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecology Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2023) | Viewed by 15350
Special Issue Editors
Interests: 3D modelling of remote sensing in all spectrum; including visual; NIR; thermal; lidar; microwave; remote sensing of forests
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Interests: remote sensing; aerosol retrieval; cloud/cloud shadow detection; atmospheric correction
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Geospatial techniques play an important role in supporting effective monitoring in various ecosystems, including but not limited to forests, agriculture, grassland, wetland, deserts, and oceans. In recent years, from ground to space, from visible to microwave, extensive remote sensing observation capacities and spatial analysis techniques have been rapidly developed in different fields. The advances of these geospatial techniques have changed the ecosystem monitoring mode. However, there are still gaps between ecosystem end users and technique providers, or even between observers and analysts. The information and its accuracy extracted from geospatial techniques are still not perfect to satisfy the needs of ecosystem monitoring. Further development is required to improve the accuracy and reliability of mensuration and the attributes estimated from these new technologies. New application areas are waiting to be discovered.
This Special Issue will feature multidisciplinary research to advance our understanding of recent developments in geospatial techniques on various ecosystem monitoring. This includes research on the development and implementation of new theories, methods, and practice in different ecosystems. Our aim is to gather high-quality research on new insights that inform how to better observe, analyze, manage, and improve geospatial techniques and ultimately provide solutions for different ecosystem groups
Dr. Huaguo Huang
Dr. Lin Sun
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- UAV
- remote sensing
- GIS
- spatial analysis
- ecosystem
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