Remote Sensing for Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2018)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: greenhouse gas exchange between the terrestrial biosphere and the atmosphere; ecosystem and carbon cycle modelling of the land biosphere; tree growth dynamics and plant resource allocation (tropical and boreal); eddy covariance fluxes in peatlands; climate and land cover change in Africa
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Significant progress has been made in the development of coherent global remote sensing (RS) based data sets, spanning multiple years to multiple decades, as well as tools to analyze these, e.g., Google Earth Engine and SEPAL. There are now longer-term data sets with a sufficiently high temporal and spatial resolution to address Biosphere–Atmosphere Interactions on local to global scales. These data sets can portray a range of biospheric and atmospheric states, e.g., greenness, chlorophyll content, aboveground biomass, soil water and column CO2 concentration. Some data sets also processes, e.g., active fires. The challenge is to infer process dynamics from the changes in the states over time to eventually determine how the processes depend on the environment.
More innovative research is required to exploit time series RS data for the development of process descriptions and understanding, potentially by using the RS data in a modelling framework. Of particular importance is the development of understanding that spans a range of ecosystems or a larger spatial scale in order to explore process responses to a wider range of environmental conditions. This does include marine or aquatic systems.
This Special Issue seeks to synthesize and advance our current approaches for the exploitation of RS time series to enhance the understanding of process in Biosphere–Atmosphere Interactions across multiple sites and on regional to continental scales. All types of original research contributions will be considered.
Dr. Jörg Kaduk
Dr. Kirsten Barrett
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Vegetation remote sensing
- Time series analysis
- Phenology
- Photosynthesis
- Plant productivity
- Vegetation fires
- Ecosystem dynamics
- Carbon and water exchange
