Remote Sensing of Inland Waters and Their Catchments
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Remote Sensing".
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Interests: remote sensing of deep and shallow water; monitoring of shallow benthis coverage; coupling of earth observation data and modelling approaches; time series nalysis and sensor fusion
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Interests: water quality of lakes and reservoirs; eutrophication and algal blooms; reservoir operation; water quality management; modelling of lake ecosystems; climate change
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This issue should address two interwoven and inseparable complex issues, i.e., land-use intensity in catchments and water quality and ecosystem health in the associated aquatic ecosystems.
Changing land use and intensity, human pressures or the stages involved in growing food are defined as the extent of land that is used. Clearance and homogenization of land and vegetation, the planting of trees, the drainage of wetlands or the sealing of surfaces, the implementation of organic fertilisers, the (in)direct application of pesticides, fungicides, human waste, such as pharmaceuticals or contamination with plastics, oils, salts or waste heat.
Land use intensity is also an indicator of the degree of land development in an area, and reflects the effects and environmental impacts generated by that development. Land-use intensity in catchment areas has a substantial effect on aquatic ecosystems. There are only a handful of indicators that measure land-use intensity and no indicators for understanding their complex interactions with water quality and ecosystem state.
Good water quality and sufficient water quantity are necessary for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals for human and ecosystem health, food security and water security. Therefore, it is of major concern that water pollution has worsened since the 1990s in the majority of inland waters and rivers in all regions of the world. It is imperative that actions to protect and restore water quality are linked to the efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Post 2015 Development Agenda. Eutrophication of inland waters, essentially driven by nutrient pollution from urban areas or agriculture, is a world-wide problem leading to deteriorating water quality, harmful algal blooms, and severe problems in drinking water production. Severe pathogen pollution already affects around one third of all river stretches in Latin America, Africa and Asia. In addition to the health risks from contaminated drinking water, many people are also at risk of disease by using polluted surface waters for bathing, cleaning clothes and for other household activities. The number of rural people at risk in this way may extend to hundreds of millions globally.
It is therefore the goal of this Special Issue to record water quality and ecosystem health using remote sensing and its methodological requirements and approaches, as well as investigating critical terrestrial parameters in the catchment using remote sensing and in situ measurements.
To compile existing research using remote sensing techniques in the field of water body/catchment mapping, we would like to invite you to submit articles on recent research with respect to the following topics:
- Exploring the relationships between bio-optical properties and biogeochemical parameters of inland water systems
- New developments in assessment and monitoring of water quality and status indicators of inland waters (trophic state, harmful algal blooms) using remote sensing
- Linking remote sensing of inland waters with water resources management and modelling
- Linkage RS and in situ data
- Linkage air and space-borne RS and wireless sensor networks
- Standardization of water RS monitoring
- Assessment of catchment characteristics using remote sensing in the context of water quality and aquatic ecosystem research
- Remote sensing for quantifying land use change and intensity in catchments
- Modelling the interactions of land-surface structures in catchments, land-use change/intensity, water quality and aquatic ecosystem health
- Semantic Web for linkage catchment management and water remote sensing informations
Privat Dozent Dr. Angela Lausch
Dr. Jan Bumberger
Prof. Dr. Natascha Oppelt
Dr. Karsten Rinke
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Water quality
- Bio-optical modelling
- Atmospheric correction
- Optical complexity
- In-situ–RS coupling
- Validation and Calibration strategies
- Land-use-intensity
- Catchment structure and management
- Aquatic wireless sensor networks
- Standardization
- Semantic web in water and catchment cycle
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