Advanced Lidar Remote Sensing for Atmosphere, Vegetation, and Ocean Observations

Dear Colleagues,

It is a great pleasure to present this Special Issue, titled “Advanced Lidar Remote Sensing for Atmosphere, Vegetation, and Ocean Observations”, of the journal Remote Sensing.

As an advanced technology, lidar has attracted increasing interest as a topic of research in recent years. With the development of lidar hardware, the science and technology of lidar remote sensing is rapidly developing, with substantial output of meaningful scientific achievements. Given the wide applications of lidar remote sensing in the fields of atmosphere, vegetation, ocean, and surveying and mapping, the development of lidar remote sensing has ushered in great opportunities and challenges. As a result, the main goal of this Special Issue is to summarize achievements in the development of lidar remote sensing especially satellite lidars, discuss and look forward to the future directions of development, and promote the rapid applications of lidar remote sensing in different fields.

This Special Issue is particularly encouraging submissions on the methods and applications of advanced lidar remote sensing for retrieving atmosphere parameters, monitoring environmental quality, estimating vegetation status from leaf and canopy, obtaining ocean dynamics and even bathymetry, etc. Related advanced hardware designs for ground-based, airborne, and space-based lidar sensors are also of interest, including but not limited to the photon-counting lidar (PCL), high-spectral-resolution lidar (HSRL), etc. In summary, this Special Issue invites submissions exploring cutting-edge research and recent advances in the fields of lidar remote sensing. Both theoretical and experimental studies are welcome, as are comprehensive review and survey papers.

Dr. Boming Liu
Dr. Zhiyu Zhang
Dr. Hui Zhou
Dr. Xin Ma
Dr. Yue Ma
Guest Editors

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• lidar remote sensing
• aerosol and clouds
• boundary layer
• leaf and canopy
• lidar bathymetry
• photon-counting lidar
• high-spectral-resolution lidar