Remotely-Sensed Evapotranspiration and Soil Moisture: What Lies Ahead?
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 November 2020) | Viewed by 2869
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Interests: terrestrial and atmospheric remote sensing data; terrestrial water and carbon cycles; air pollution (NOX, ozone, aerosols); allergenic pollen; chemistry transport models
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Dear Colleagues,
An increased anthropogenic demand for water for satisfying the manifold of agricultural, industrial, and recreational activities in combination with the increased awareness for climate and the environment prompts the further development of monitoring and modeling of water flow between the surface and the lower atmosphere both in space as well as in time. The rich history of remote sensing measurements from space, air, and ground has shown a lot of potential to estimate and monitor soil moisture and evapotranspiration. Combined with the 20th anniversary in 2020 since the launch of this journal, Sensors, this may foster the discussion on the maturity and advancement of our current knowledge on monitoring and modeling the water loss from the earth’s surface with attention to the lessons that we have learned or have failed to learn.
To celebrate 20 years of Sensors, this Special Issue requests papers presenting strategies, methodologies or approaches leading to an enhanced knowledge of soil moisture and evapotranspiration and its inevitable uncertainties in space and time derived from remote sensing observations of all kind. This Special Issue aims to bring together scientific papers on remote sensing techniques, products, and model development and applications leading to strategies with a higher impact on the stability and sustainability of the Earth’s water management, for the benefit of humanity and its next generations.
This Special Issue solicits papers focusing on the following topics on this non-exhaustive list on deriving evapotranspiration and soil moisture from remote sensing observations:
- Novel approaches for estimating remotely-sensed soil moisture and/or evapotranspiration;
- Water balance models integrating remote sensing (RS) observations;
- Position papers on water demand for next generation;
- Review papers: lessons learned from remote sensing;
- Uncertainty analysis on remotely-sensed evapotranspiration and soil moisture products;
- Passive and thermal optical RS for soil and plant water fluxes;
- Passive and active microwave RS;
- Other remote sensors (smart dust) applications;
- Automated imagery processing to produce evapotranspiration and soil moisture maps;
- The effect of soil moisture and/or evapotranspiration on climate;
- The impact of plant water limitation in agriculture, irrigation, and drainage;
- Water availability effects on vegetation growth, sun-induced fluorescence, carbon sequestration, allergic pollen production, surface ozone damage, and public health (asthma, rhinitis);
- Strategies for making available water at the right time at the right place;
- Other applications.
Dr. Willem W. Verstraeten
Guest Editor
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