Remotely Sensed in National Land Cover Mapping and Monitoring

Dear Colleagues,

Land cover change is a significant contributor to environmental change. Land cover data provide vital information to resource managers for the planning and decision-making processes by enabling them to better understand both the current and past landscape reality. It is a fact that the land cover dataset is highly useful for national and international reporting. However, in the past, different national agencies have conducted land cover mapping using different methodologies and datasets. Sometimes, even a time-consuming manual digitization process has been used. These disparate land cover datasets are not suitable to analyze the changes over time due to different classification schema, methodology, and input datasets used to generate the land cover products. Therefore, these countries are now working on harmonized and standardized robust land cover mapping and monitoring systems for operational use at the national, state, and transboundary scales.

We invite authors addressing land cover environmental issues at the national scale to participate in this exceptional edition of “Remotely Sensed in National Land Cover Mapping and Monitoring”, a Special Issue for the journal Remote Sensing.

Prof. Dr. Farrukh Chishtie
Dr. Rishiraj Dutta
Guest Editors

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• satellite image classification
• land cover mapping
• land cover change detection
• remote sensing application in REDD MRV process
• land cover mapping for the Environmental–Economic Accounting (SEEA)
• land cover mapping for the SDG goal
• land cover mapping for the erosion and sedimentation assessment
• land use and land cover (LULC)
• satellite image (Landsat, Sentinel)
• GIS