Remote Sensing in Forest Hydrology
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 December 2019) | Viewed by 9814
Special Issue Editor
Interests: catchment hydrology; remote sensing; uncertainty estimation; soil-plant-atmosphere interactions; hydrological modelling
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Dear Colleagues,
Forest hydrology investigates hydrological processes in forest-dominated ecosystems. This includes the transport and storage of water, snow and water vapour in the soil-plant-atmosphere system, and addresses the complex interaction between the forest vegetation and the abiotic system, e.g. root water uptake that is controlled by atmospheric conditions and photosynthetic activity of the plants. In order to understand and predict energy-driven processes, such as evapotranspiration or snow melt, some knowledge of the radiation and energy balances of a forest catchment is required. Forest hydrology also studies the quality of water and the mobilization and transport of chemical substances within the soil, stream or plant, and requires an understanding of forest/plant physiological and ecological processes.
While those processes and interactions can be well-studied using sophisticated instrumentations at the plot scale, remote sensing technologies are urgently required when processes are monitored, or when forested catchments are managed at larger scales.
We invite submissions of outstanding articles to this Special Issue that will advance the current knowledge of any these processes, states and interaction in forested catchments. Remote sensing techniques may range from optical, thermal, to microwave systems, as well as LIDAR and ultra-sonic instruments, and can be satellite, aircraft, drone or ground based.
Prof. Dr. Karsten SchulzGuest Editor
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Keywords
- Forest Hydrology
- Remote Sensing
- Thermal Remote Sensing
- Evapotranspiration
- Interception
- Transpiration
- Infiltration
- Runoff
- Water Balance
- Snow
- Snow Cover
- Energy Balance
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