Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing Applications for the Current Needs for Environmental Management and Protection
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Earth Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 5375
Special Issue Editors
Interests: land cover mapping; natural resource monitoring and analysis
Interests: ecological modelling; simulation and optimization of ecological networks; quantification and assessment of landscape structure and landscape change; ecological indicators; environmental impact assessment; spatial statistics; remote sensing applications
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Dear Colleagues,
The intensified use of natural resources and increasing degree of urbanization are predicted to be the main factors to profoundly change the earth’s environment in the 21st century. To better understand current environmental issues, we need the support of methods and tools developed in the discipline of geoinformatics and remote sensing technology, which have been widely used in environmental and earth sciences for data collection, image fusion and processing, spatial modeling and analysis, and the visualization of research results. This Special Issue focuses on the theories, methodologies, and applications of geoinformatics and remote sensing regarding a broad range of topics, including, but not limited to, the following aspects:
- Multisource image classification and information extraction;
- Fusing temporal data for change detection in land use/cover mapping and updating;
- Landscape structure analysis and monitoring;
- Spatial analysis and visualization of three-dimensional real scenes;
- Decision support tools for spatial conservation and restoration;
- Big data analysis for supporting spatial planning;
- Mapping and assessment of ecosystem services (e.g., carbon sink quantification).
Dr. Liang Zhai
Dr. Wei Hou
Dr. Marco Neubert
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- geoinformatics
- remote sensing
- spatial analysis
- visualization
- decision support
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