New Insights in Remote Sensing of Snow and Glaciers
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Biogeosciences Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 April 2025 | Viewed by 10538
Special Issue Editors
Interests: remote sensing; snow cover; reflectance; hyperspectral sensor; artificial intelligence
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: remote Sensing of snow cover; snow; ice optical properties
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Advancing remote sensing methods for snow and glaciers are required to improve the capabilities of observing the rapidly changing Earth system. The transition to Digital Earth concept requires novel knowledge and capabilities aimed at describing processes occurring in the cryosphere. The dynamics of snow-covered and glaciated areas, in terms of spatial distribution and time evolution, is a key component of surface processes occurring at different latitudes, with special reference to polar regions.
The combination between different platforms (satellite, seaborne, airborne, and ground-based), different spatial and time scales, as well as different sensors (optical, microwave, etc.) is the ideal strategy for observing the cryosphere. New technologies are an additional critical issue, and the collection of outcomes provided by observing programs, novel sensors or platforms is a high-impact tool. Data value is therefore a critical concept, since the transition from observations and measurements to data products and services is the best strategy for sharing knowledge between communities and for transferring constraints to policy makers.
The scope of this Special Issue is to collect research articles focused on, but not limited to, applications of remote-sensing data/techniques combined with other approaches to better monitor and/or understand processes occurring on snow-covered and glaciated areas, in different environmental frameworks. Manuscripts using novel approaches based on data integration and on multimission products are particularly welcome.
Dr. Roberto Salzano
Dr. Rosamaria Salvatori
Prof. Dr. Angelika Humbert
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- snow cover
- glaciers
- optical remote sensing
- radar remote sensing
- data integration
- novel methodologies
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