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Remote Sensing of Islands

A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 22747

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Artur Gil

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Guest Editor
Researcher at the Azorean Biodiversity Group – cE3c & IVAR, University of the Azores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal
Interests: remote sensing of islands; spatial planning in islands; development of remote sensing-based environmental indicators for policy support; assessment and monitoring

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Islands face several developmental obstacles as well as serious environmental issues with relevant socioeconomic impacts, such as climate change, environmental degradation, land-use change, coastal erosion, and loss of biodiversity, among others. All these circumstances make decision support in islands especially challenging in scientific, technical, and political terms. These issues require attention from public policies based on the most reliable scientific information, the most effective participatory approaches, and the most advanced technologies, including novel and cost-effective remote sensing-based approaches, strategies, and applications for supporting Sustainable Development Goals in islands.

Articles to appear in this Special Issue on “Remote Sensing of Islands” aim at fostering novel and cost-effective remote sensing-based approaches, strategies, and applications for supporting the achievement of UN Sustainable Development Goals in islands. These articles are not restricted to any specific geographical range and shall highlight the influence of “islandness” in the targeted topics, in order to contribute to designing and implementing better, specific, and cost-effective remote sensing-based decision support on islands’ spatial (marine, coastal or terrestrial) planning, assessment, monitoring, and management. Submitted manuscripts should describe original approaches within the overall theme of novel and cost-effective remote sensing-based approaches, strategies, and applications for supporting Sustainable Development Goals in islands, including but not restricted to:

- Remote sensing-based applications for mapping, characterizing, assessing, and monitoring terrestrial, coastal, and/or marine ecosystems in islands or archipelagos;

- Remote sensing-based support of land, coastal, and marine planning and management policies and tools in islands or archipelagos;

- Remote sensing-based ecosystem-based management (EBM) in islands or archipelagos;

- Remote sensing-based environmental impact assessment (EIA) in islands or archipelagos;

- Remote sensing-based integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) in islands or archipelagos;

- Remote sensing-based marine spatial planning (MSP) in islands or archipelagos;

- Remote sensing-based participatory spatial planning in islands or archipelagos;

- Remote sensing-based citizen science initiatives in islands or archipelagos;

- Remote sensing-based spatial planning for change mitigation and adaptation in islands or archipelagos;

- Remote sensing-based approaches and strategies for supporting the achievement of UN Sustainable Development Goals in islands or archipelagos.

For further information, contact Special Issue guest editor Artur Gil ([email protected]).

Dr. Artur Gil
Guest Editor

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Remote Sensing is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Islands
  • Remote sensing of the environment
  • Spatial planning
  • UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Environmental assessment and monitoring
  • Forest mapping and inventorying
  • Land-use/land-cover mapping and change detection
  • Water bodies monitoring
  • Agriculture production and monitoring
  • Natural hazards and civil protection
  • Ecosystem-based management (EBM)
  • Environmental impact assessment (EIA)
  • Coastal monitoring and integrated coastal zone management (ICZM)
  • Marine spatial planning (MSP)
  • Citizen science

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Satellite-Based Monitoring of Primary Production in a Mediterranean Islet Post Black Rat Eradication
by Miguel Ibañez-Álvarez, Pol Farràs Santasusana, Juan Antonio Calleja, Carlos Rouco, Matthew Brolly, Niall G. Burnside, Elena Baraza, Jordi Bartolomé and Emmanuel Serrano
Remote Sens. 2022, 14(1), 101; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14010101 - 26 Dec 2021
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Invasive rodents have a detrimental impact on terrestrial ecosystem functioning, this is often exacerbated on small islands. Rat eradication campaigns are often used to deal with this environmental perturbation given their classification as invasive species. Studies assessing the effects of rodent control at [...] Read more.
Invasive rodents have a detrimental impact on terrestrial ecosystem functioning, this is often exacerbated on small islands. Rat eradication campaigns are often used to deal with this environmental perturbation given their classification as invasive species. Studies assessing the effects of rodent control at ecosystem scale are scarce and thus little is known about the subsequent functional response of vegetation subsequent to rat control. In this work, we use remote sensing to assess the effects of black rat (Rattus rattus) eradication on Mediterranean vegetation productivity in the Sa Dragonera Islet, Mallorca (Spain). Rats feed on seeds, sprouts, and leaves of woody vegetation and hence we expect primary production to increase nine years after the rodenticide campaign. The Break Detection approach for additive season and trend (BFAST method) was adopted to examine changes in vegetation density before and after the eradication campaign in Sa Dragonera Islet (Balearic Islands), using a temporal series of monthly NDVI data extracted from Landsat imagery. The same temporal trends were examined for a control zone where no rat eradication took place, in order to control for weather-driven changes. The results of this study revealed changes across the 21-year monthly NDVI time series. However, the dates, magnitude, and trend of these changes could not be explicitly attributed to the action of rats, when compared to the historical changes on the islet and the changes found to co-occur within the control zone. These finding could, perhaps, be explained by the high resilience of Mediterranean shrubs to browsing including that of rat invasion. However, the results from the study appear to show that rat damage on specific plant species, with little contribution to global NDVI values, would be overshadowed by the effects of broader environmental factors in this remote sensing approach. The results suggest that the current passive restoration scheme imposed following eradication is not sufficient for effective ecosystem restoration. Full article
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Testing Side-Scan Sonar and Multibeam Echosounder to Study Black Coral Gardens: A Case Study from Macaronesia
by Karolina Czechowska, Peter Feldens, Fernando Tuya, Marcial Cosme de Esteban, Fernando Espino, Ricardo Haroun, Mischa Schönke and Francisco Otero-Ferrer
Remote Sens. 2020, 12(19), 3244; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12193244 - 6 Oct 2020
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Black corals (order Antipatharia) are important components of mesophotic and deep-water marine communities, but due to their inaccessibility, there is limited knowledge about the basic aspects of their distribution and ecology. The aim of this study was to test methodologies to map and [...] Read more.
Black corals (order Antipatharia) are important components of mesophotic and deep-water marine communities, but due to their inaccessibility, there is limited knowledge about the basic aspects of their distribution and ecology. The aim of this study was to test methodologies to map and study colonies of a branched antipatharian species, Antipathella wollastoni, in the Canary Islands (Spain). Acoustic tools, side-scan sonar (SSS), and a multibeam echosounder (MBES), coupled with ground-truthing video surveys, were used to determine the habitat characteristics of Antipathella wollastoni. Below 40 m depth, colonies of increasing height (up to 1.3 m) and abundance (up to 10 colonies/m2) were observed, particularly on steep and current-facing slopes on rocky substrates. However, coral presence was not directly imaged on backscatter mosaics and bathymetric data. To improve this situation, promising initial attempts of detecting Antipathella wollastoni by utilizing the MBES water column scatter in an interval for 0.75 m to 1 m above the seafloor are reported. Full article
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Characteristics of Coastline Changes on Southeast Asia Islands from 2000 to 2015
by Yuxin Zhang and Xiyong Hou
Remote Sens. 2020, 12(3), 519; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12030519 - 5 Feb 2020
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The future of islands has been the subject of international concern, scientific debate and media interest in the last decade. As a result of global warming and sea level rise, increasingly more research and speculations about the morphology and positions of island coastlines [...] Read more.
The future of islands has been the subject of international concern, scientific debate and media interest in the last decade. As a result of global warming and sea level rise, increasingly more research and speculations about the morphology and positions of island coastlines have been produced. However, some assumptions are not well documented due to the lack of large-scale research and data support. This paper contributes to filling this gap by extracting and assessing coastline changes on Southeast Asian islands overall during 2000–2015 based on Landsat remote sensing images. The results are as follows: ① the coastline, defined by the mean high water line (MHWL), of Southeast Asia remained relatively stable but showed considerable variability in space, especially in estuaries, bays and straits. ② A total of 9035 islands were extracted, among which approximately 10% of islands witnessed locational changes in coastlines, resulting in net reductions of nearly 86 km2 in area and 50,000 km in centroid displacement. Additionally, the coastline length increased by 532 km from 2000 (148,508 km) to 2015 (149,040 km). Natural coastlines decreased by 2503 km, while artificial coastlines increased by 3035 km. Among the total coastlines, 11% changed: 5% exhibited deposition, while 6% experienced retreat. ③ The temporal and spatial changes in coastlines were the result of interactions between natural processes and human activities. Climatic and environmental changes had wide impacts, while human activities caused more dramatic local changes. In addition, the sizes, shapes and landforms of the islands played significant roles in coastline changes. ④ Coastal erosion and expansion often coexisted in dynamic equilibrium under the influence of coastal hydrodynamics, such as cyclical tides and near-shore sediment transport. Our findings reveal spatial–temporal variations in island coastlines in Southeast Asia from 2000–2015 and provide critical information for the current study of islands. This work has great significance for the study of global climate change impacts and the integrated management of island coastal zones. Full article
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