Remote Sensing and Geospatial Approaches for Landscape Ecology
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecological Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2021) | Viewed by 14264
Special Issue Editor
Interests: landscape ecology; remote sensing, ecosystem services mapping; ecological disturbances; land use change impacts
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Landscape ecology focuses on the analysis of spatial patterns to investigate how altered landscapes affect ecological processes. Remote sensing technologies provide fundamental tools and data to this scientific discipline, largely due to the strong spatial component of its analyses. Optical and radar remote sensing imagery supply key information to map spatially explicit variables that can be processed and analyzed using different geospatial approaches. This strong link is gaining importance in applied ecological research, due to expanding global environmental change processes, such as biodiversity loss and land use change.
This open access Special Issue invites research papers describing cutting-edge research on the application of remote sensing technologies from any platform (satellite, aircraft, drones, etc.) to the study of landscape ecology problems. Possible topics include, but are not restricted to: mapping of landscape processes under change dynamics, methods for monitoring ecosystem processes, effects of scale on monitoring landscape properties, novel remote sensing data, and approaches for socio-ecological landscape assessment. Research that integrates active with passive remote sensing approaches is also relevant.
Prof. Nicola Clerici
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Landscape structure
- Land-Cover/Land-Use Change
- Landscape assessment
- Fragmentation
- Connectivity
- Environmental Monitoring
- Deforestation
- Biodiversity mapping
- Environmental Change
- Land degradation
- Scale
- Geospatial approaches
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