Recent Advances in Water and Wetland Studies with Remote Sensing Techniques
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2023) | Viewed by 6620
Special Issue Editors
Interests: water mapping and change analysis; wetland mapping and change analysis; land use and land cover change
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Water and wetland ecosystems not only provide valuable water resources that all lives depend on but also serve as home to various precious animal and plant species. However, water and wetlands security is threatened by natural drivers and anthropogenic factors. Climate change and global warming have altered the patterns of precipitation and evaporation, changing water availability and causing severe droughts and floods. The increase in the global population has expedited the exploitation of wetlands for crop cultivation and urban expansion. Multisource remote sensing data (e.g., optical, SAR, and Lidar) and various approaches (e.g., machine learning, deep learning, and cloud computing) were used to map the extent of water and wetlands, analyze their changes, and evaluate water and wetlands security.
This Special Issue aims at studies covering different uses of remote sensing data and techniques in water and wetlands sciences. The potential topics include but are not limited to:
- Novel uses of various remote sensing data (e.g., UAV, Sentinel, Landsat, SAR, Lidar, GRACE) in water and wetland studies;
- Novel applications of advanced approaches (e.g., big data, machine learning, deep learning, and cloud computing) in water and wetland studies;
- Water and wetland mapping, change analysis, and security evaluation
- Droughts, floods, ground water depletion, wetland reclamation, etc.
Dr. Zhenhua Zou
Dr. Xin Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wetland security
- wetland mapping and change analysis
- water security
- water mapping and change analysis
- droughts and floods
- land cover/change
- multisource remote sensing
- synthetic aperture radar
- machine learning and deep learning
- google earth engine
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