Lightning, Wildfire and Remote Sensing Research
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 September 2025 | Viewed by 31
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to offer this Special Issue on lightning, wildfire and remote sensing. The increase in wildfires around the world over the last few decades makes this topic especially pertinent; however, our remote sensing capabilities, from fixed sensors to satellites, have improved as well. A number of international journals focus on fire; even more focus on remote sensing, but the combination should produce a collection of papers with strong synergy between them that will serve as a good anchor for those who wish to survey this active subfield.
It is nearly impossible to study either lightning or wildfires on a large scale without remote sensing, and new advances in the use of remote sensing for the detection and monitoring of lightning-induced wildfires are eagerly sought after for this Special Issue. We also plan a sample of studies that survey all techniques currently in use in the field.
While it is desirable for the papers submitted to this Special Issue to include all three topics, it is not necessary as long as the work represents an advance that would be of use to the study of the missing topic. For example, a remote sensing study that improves the localization of fire ignition points would be useful in relating large fires to the lightning flashes that started them, and we would ask the authors to make such connections apparent if submitting to this Special Issue.
We are looking for initial submission dates by September, and would appreciate advance notice of possible submissions to guide our outreach efforts.
Dr. Brian Vant-Hull
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- wildfire
- lightning
- remote sensing
- fire ignition
- fire detection
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