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We are delighted to share with you 10 reprints of Special Issues published in 2024 in Land (ISSN: 2073-445X). They were selected by the Land Editorial Office, each with 10 or more articles published. You can read more reprints of the Special Issues published by Land here.

	“Historical Landscape Evolution” Edited by Bellotti Piero and Alessia Pica ISBN978-3-0365-9909-0 (Hardback); ISBN978-3-0365-9910-6 (PDF) https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-0365-9910-6 Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/books/reprint/8553-historical-landscape-evolution
	“Feature Papers for Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning” Edited by Chuanrong Zhang ISBN978-3-7258-0083-4 (Hardback); ISBN978-3-7258-0084-1 (PDF) https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-7258-0084-1 Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/books/reprint/8664-feature-papers-for-land-innovations-data-and-machine-learning
	“Grassland Ecosystem Services: Research Advances and Future Directions for Sustainability” Edited by Michael Vrahnakis, Yannis (Ioannis) Kazoglou and Manuel Pulido Fernádez ISBN978-3-7258-0077-3 (Hardback); ISBN978-3-7258-0078-0 (PDF) https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-7258-0078-0 Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/books/reprint/8668-grassland-ecosystem-services-research-advances-and-future-directions-for-sustainability
	“Spatial Planning and Land-Use Management” Edited by Eduardo Gomes, Eduarda Marques da Costa and Patrícia Abrantes ISBN978-3-7258-0140-4 (Hardback); ISBN978-3-7258-0139-8 (PDF) https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-7258-0139-8 Available online: https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-7258-0139-8
	“Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Use and Perception of Urban Green Space” Edited by Francesca Ugolini and David Pearlmutter ISBN978-3-7258-0095-7 (Hardback); ISBN978-3-7258-0096-4 (PDF) https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-7258-0096-4 Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/books/reprint/8795-effects-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-the-use-and-perception-of-urban-green-space
	“Regional Sustainable Development of Yangtze River Delta, China” Edited by Sun Wei, Zhaoyuan Yu, Kun Yu, Weiyang Zhang and Jiawei Wu ISBN978-3-7258-0099-5 (Hardback); ISBN978-3-7258-0100-8 (PDF) https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-7258-0100-8 Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/books/reprint/8826-regional-sustainable-development-of-yangtze-river-delta-china
	“Landscape Governance in the Age of Social Media” Edited by Cecilia Arnaiz Schmitz, Nicolas Marine and María Fe Schmitz; ISBN978-3-7258-0141-1 (Hardback); ISBN978-3-7258-0142-8 (PDF) https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-7258-0142-8 Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/books/reprint/8836-landscape-governance-in-the-age-of-social-media
	“Innovative Research Approaches & Practices towards Sustainable Land Management, Preservation & Restoration” Edited by Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos, Andreas Tsatsaris, Nikolaos Stathopoulos, Demetrios E. Tsesmelis, Nilanchal Patel and Xiao Huang ISBN978-3-7258-0339-2 (Hardback); ISBN978-3-7258-0340-8 (PDF) https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-7258-0340-8 Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/books/reprint/8857-innovative-research-approaches-practices-towards-sustainable-land-management-preservation
	“Agricultural Land Use and Rural Development” Edited by Xueru Zhang, Yaqun Liu and Xingyuan Xiao ISBN978-3-7258-0577-8 (Hardback); ISBN978-3-7258-0578-5 (PDF) https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-7258-0578-5 Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/books/reprint/8955-agricultural-land-use-and-rural-development
	“Eco-Sensitive Areas: Ecosystem Services, Protected Lands, and Current Challenges” Edited by Shicheng Li, Chuanzhun Sun, Qi Zhang, Basanta Paudel and Lanhui Li ISBN978-3-7258-0557-0 (Hardback); ISBN978-3-7258-0558-7 (PDF) https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-7258-0558-7 Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/books/reprint/8956-eco-sensitive-areas-ecosystem-services-protected-lands-and-current-challenges

It is our honor to present the most highly cited papers published by Land (ISSN: 2073-445X) in 2022. We would like to acknowledge the hardworking individuals and teams whose work inspires fellow researchers and influences the field of drone science. We invite you to read the outstanding works listed below:

1. “Forecasting Urban Land Use Change Based on Cellular Automata and the PLUS Model”
by Linfeng Xu, Xuan Liu, De Tong, Zhixin Liu, Lirong Yin and Wenfeng Zheng
Land 2022, 11(5), 652; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11050652
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/5/652

2. “Managing Land Carrying Capacity: Key to Achieving Sustainable Production Systems for Food Security”
by Xiukang Wang
Land 2022, 11(4), 484; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11040484
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/4/484

3. “Spatiotemporal Variation in Land Use Land Cover in the Response to Local Climate Change Using Multispectral Remote Sensing Data”
by Sajjad Hussain, Linlin Lu, Muhammad Mubeen, Wajid Nasim, Shankar Karuppannan, Shah Fahad, Aqil Tariq, B. G. Mousa, Faisal Mumtaz and Muhammad Aslam
Land 2022, 11(5), 595; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11050595
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/5/595

4. “Impact of Power on Uneven Development: Evaluating Built-Up Area Changes in Chengdu Based on NPP-VIIRS Images (2015–2019)”
by Long Liu, Zhichao Li, Xinyi Fu, Xuan Liu, Zehao Li and Wenfeng Zheng
Land 2022, 11(4), 489; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11040489
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/4/489

5. “Spatiotemporal Change Analysis and Prediction of Future Land Use and Land Cover Changes Using QGIS MOLUSCE Plugin and Remote Sensing Big Data: A Case Study of Linyi, China”
by Rizwan Muhammad, Wenyin Zhang, Zaheer Abbas, Feng Guo and Luc Gwiazdzinski
Land 2022, 11(3), 419; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11030419
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/3/419

6. “Combining MSPA-MCR Model to Evaluate the Ecological Network in Wuhan, China”
by Chunguang Hu, Ziyi Wang, Yu Wang, Dongqi Sun and Jingxiang Zhang
Land 2022, 11(2), 213; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11020213
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/2/213

7. “Factors Affecting Wetland Loss: A Review”
by Gastón Antonio Ballut-Dajud, Luis Carlos Sandoval Herazo, Gregorio Fernández-Lambert, José Luis Marín-Muñiz, María Cristina López Méndez and Erick Arturo Betanzo-Torres
Land 2022, 11(3), 434; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11030434
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/3/434

8. “The Effect of Land Use and Land Cover Changes on Flood Occurrence in Teunom Watershed, Aceh Jaya”
by Sugianto Sugianto, Anwar Deli, Edy Miswar, Muhammad Rusdi and Muhammad Irham
Land 2022, 11(8), 1271; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11081271
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/8/1271

9. “A Review on the Overall Optimization of Production–Living–Ecological Space: Theoretical Basis and Conceptual Framework”
by by Gang Lin, Dong Jiang, Jingying Fu and Yi Zhao
Land 2022, 11(3), 345; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11030345
Available online: https://mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/3/345

10. “How Land Finance Drives Urban Expansion under Fiscal Pressure: Evidence from Chinese Cities”
by De Tong, Jun Chu, Qing Han and Xuan Liu
Land 2022, 11(2), 253; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11020253
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/2/253

We are delighted to announce that Issue 1, Volume 14 of Land (ISSN: 2073-445X), was released in January 2025. The following is a list of partial articles which we believe will be of interest to you.

Cover Story:

Section: “Land Systems and Global Change”
1. “Tool Used to Assess Co-Benefits of Nature-Based Solutions in Urban Ecosystems for Human Wellbeing: Second Validation via Measurement Application”
by Karmele Herranz-Pascual, Paula Anchustegui, Carolina Cantergiani and Ioseba Iraurgi
Land 2025, 14(1), 203; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14010203
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/1/203

Section: “Landscape Ecology”
2. “Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Ecosystem-Scale CO2 Flux Measurements”
by Jeffrey Uyekawa, John Leland, Darby Bergl, Yujie Liu, Andrew D. Richardson and Benjamin Lucas
Land 2025, 14(1), 124; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14010124
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/1/124

Section: “Land, Soil and Water”
3. “Assessment of Soil Organic Matter and Its Microbial Role in Selected Locations in the South Bohemia Region (Czech Republic)”
by David Kabelka, Petr Konvalina, Marek Kopecký, Eva Klenotová and Jaroslav Šíma
Land 2025, 14(1), 183; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14010183
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/1/183

Section: “Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues”
4. “Territorial Brands for Rural Development Strategies in Protected Natural Spaces: A Social Demand Analysis”
by José A. Albaladejo-García, Gonzalo Martínez-García and José M. Martínez-Paz
Land 2025, 14(1), 39; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14010039
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/1/39

Section: “Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions”
5. “Measuring Accessibility of Green Spaces for the Health and Wellbeing of Inhabitants of the Milan Metropolitan Area”
by Maria Chiara Pastore, Claudia Ida Maria Parenti and Corinna Patetta
Land 2025, 14(1), 97; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14010097
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/1/97

Section: “Land–Climate Interactions”
6. “Analysis of Climate Change Effects on Precipitation and Temperature Trends in Spain”
by Blanca Arellano, Qianhui Zheng and Josep Roca
Land 2025, 14(1), 85; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14010085
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/1/85

Section: “Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing”
7. “Habitat Distributions and Abundance of Four Wild Herbivores on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau: A Review”
by Tian Qiao, Chiwei Xiao, Zhiming Feng and Junzhi Ye
Land 2025, 14(1), 23; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14010023
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/1/23

Section: “Land Environmental and Policy Impact Assessment”
8. ”Sustainable Economic Growth and Land Management: A Case Study on the Role of Tax Legislation in Emerging Markets”
by Edith Pilar Quispe-Espinoza, Sonia Luz Barzola-Inga, Carlos Antonio Adauto-Justo, Carlos Samuel Borja-Mucha, Fabricio Miguel Moreno-Menéndez, Fredi Paul Gutiérrez-Meza, Jefrin Marlon Silva-Murillo and Vicente González-Prida
Land 2025, 14(1), 30; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14010030
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/1/30

Section: “Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning”
9. “A Novel Rapeseed Mapping Framework Integrating Image Fusion, Automated Sample Generation, and Deep Learning in Southwest China”
by Ruolan Jiang, Xingyin Duan, Song Liao, Ziyi Tang and Hao Li
Land 2025, 14(1), 200; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14010200
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/1/200

Section: “Water, Energy, Land and Food (WELF) Nexus”
10. “Spatial and Temporal Distribution and Influencing Factors of “Water-Energy-Food-Ecology” System Resilience”
by Yaofeng Yang, Yajuan Chen and Xiuqing Li
Land 2025, 14(1), 8; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14010008
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/1/8

Section: “Land – Observation and Monitoring”
11. “Determining Dominant Factors of Vegetation Change with Machine Learning and Multisource Data in the Ganjiang River Basin, China”
by Zhiming Xia, Kaitao Liao, Liping Guo, Bin Wang, Hongsheng Huang, Xiulong Chen, Xiangmin Fang, Kuiling Zu, Zhijun Luo, Faxing Shen et al.
Land 2025, 14(1), 76; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14010076
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/1/76

Section: “Land Planning and Landscape Architecture”
12. “Transformation of Settlement Structures in Europe: Trends, Challenges, and Reform Approaches”
by Jiří Dušek
Land 2025, 14(1), 167; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14010167
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/1/167

Section: “General”
13. “A Review: Potential of Earth Observation (EO) for Mapping Small-Scale Agriculture and Cropping Systems in West Africa”
by Niklas Heiss, Jonas Meier, Ursula Gessner and Claudia Kuenzer
Land 2025, 14(1), 171; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14010171
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/1/171

1. “Land Degradation, Overland Flow, Soil Erosion, and Nutrient Loss in the Eastern Himalayas, India”
by Prabuddh Kumar Mishra, Aman Rai, Kamal Abdelrahman, Suresh Chand Rai and Anuj Tiwari
Land 2022, 11(2), 179; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11020179
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/2/179

2. “Urban Heritage Conservation and Modern Urban Development from the Perspective of the Historic Urban Landscape Approach: A Case Study of Suzhou”
by Jun Jiang, Tiancheng Zhou, Yirui Han and Konomi Ikebe
Land 2022, 11(8), 1251; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11081251
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/8/1251

3. “Role of Cultural Tendency and Involvement in Heritage Tourism Experience: Developing a Cultural Tourism Tendency–Involvement–Experience (TIE) Model”
by Li Xu, Jie Zhang and Zhenghu Nie
Land 2022, 11(3), 370; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11030370
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/3/370

4. “An Overview of Fractal Geometry Applied to Urban Planning”
by Fatemeh Jahanmiri and Dawn Cassandra Parker
Land 2022, 11(4), 475; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11040475
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/4/475

5. “Desertification in Spain: A Sound Diagnosis without Solutions and New Scenarios”
by Jaime Martínez-Valderrama, Gabriel del Barrio, María E. Sanjuán, Emilio Guirado and Fernando T. Maestre
Land 2022, 11(2), 272; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11020272
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/2/272

6. “A Methodical Framework for Sustainable Architectural Design: Housing Practice in the Middle East”
by Nagham Yahya and Badiossadat Hassanpour
Land 2022, 11(7), 1019; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11071019
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/7/1019

7. “The Dysfunctional Rental Market in Portugal: A Policy Review”
by Luís Mendes
Land 2022, 11(4), 566; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11040566
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/4/566

8. “Using Land to Promote Refugee Self-Reliance in Uganda”
by Timothy Berke and Larissa Larsen
Land 2022, 11(3), 410; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11030410
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/3/410

9. “Importance of Land in SDG Policy Instruments: A Study of ASEAN Developing Countries”
by Raghu Dharmapuri Tirumala and Piyush Tiwari
Land 2022, 11(2), 218; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11020218
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/2/218

10. “Land Use and Land Cover Mapping in the Era of Big Data”
by Chuanrong Zhang and Xinba Li
Land 2022, 11(10), 1692; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11101692
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/10/1692

1. “Wetland Construction, Restoration, and Integration: A Comparative Review”
by Douglas J. Spieles
Land 2022, 11(4), 554; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11040554
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/4/554

2. “Managing Land Carrying Capacity: Key to Achieving Sustainable Production Systems for Food Security”
by Xiukang Wang
Land 2022, 11(4), 484; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11040484
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/4/484

3. “Driving Forces behind Land Use and Land Cover Change: A Systematic and Bibliometric Review”
by Andrew Allan, Ali Soltani, Mohammad Hamed Abdi and Melika Zarei
Land 2022, 11(8), 1222; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11081222
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/8/1222

4. “Family Farming as a Key Element of the Multifunctional and Territorialized Agrifood Systems as Witnessed in the South Pacific Region of Costa Rica”
by Frank González, Yazmín León and Nieves López-Estébanez
Land 2022, 11(3), 447; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11030447
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/3/447

5. “Spatiotemporal Variation in Land Use Land Cover in the Response to Local Climate Change Using Multispectral Remote Sensing Data”
by Sajjad Hussain, Linlin Lu, Muhammad Mubeen, Wajid Nasim, Shankar Karuppannan, Shah Fahad, Aqil Tariq, B. G. Mousa, Faisal Mumtaz and Muhammad Aslam
Land 2022, 11(5), 595; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11050595
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/5/595

6. “The Interaction between Urban and Rural Areas: An Updated Paradigmatic, Methodological and Bibliographic Review”
by Carmen Delgado-Viñas and María-Luisa Gómez-Moreno
Land 2022, 11(8), 1298; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11081298
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/8/1298

7. “Role of Crop-Protection Technologies in Sustainable Agricultural Productivity and Management”
by Stavros Kalogiannidis, Dimitrios Kalfas, Fotios Chatzitheodoridis and Olympia Papaevangelou
Land 2022, 11(10), 1680; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11101680
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/10/1680

8. “NDVI Threshold-Based Urban Green Space Mapping from Sentinel-2A at the Local Governmental Area (LGA) Level of Victoria, Australia”
by Jagannath Aryal, Chiranjibi Sitaula and Sunil Aryal
Land 2022, 11(3), 351; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11030351
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/3/351

9. “The Urban Future: Relating Garden City Ideas to the Climate Emergency”
by Anastasia Nikologianni and Peter J. Larkham
Land 2022, 11(2), 147; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11020147
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/2/147

10. “History of Seoul’s Parks and Green Space Policies: Focusing on Policy Changes in Urban Development”
by Jeonghee Choi and Gunwoo Kim
Land 2022, 11(4), 474; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11040474
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/4/474

1. “Factors Affecting Wetland Loss: A Review”
by Gastón Antonio Ballut-Dajud, Luis Carlos Sandoval Herazo, Gregorio Fernández-Lambert, José Luis Marín-Muñiz, María Cristina López Méndez and Erick Arturo Betanzo-Torres
Land 2022, 11(3), 434; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11030434
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/3/434

2. “Global Trends in Urban Agriculture Research: A Pathway toward Urban Resilience and Sustainability”
by Dan Yan, Litao Liu, Xiaojie Liu and Ming Zhang
Land 2022, 11(1), 117; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11010117
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/1/117

3. “Mapping Agricultural Lands: From Conventional to Regenerative”
by Luke Bergmann, Luis Fernando Chaves, Carolyn R. Betz, Serena Stein, Brian Wiedenfeld, Ann Wolf and Robert G. Wallace
Land 2022, 11(3), 437; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11030437
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/3/437

4. “Informal Street Vending: A Systematic Review”
by Nastaran Peimani and Hesam Kamalipour
Land 2022, 11(6), 829; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11060829
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/6/829

5. “Tropical Forest Landscape Restoration in Indonesia: A Review”
by Yonky Indrajaya, Tri Wira Yuwati, Sri Lestari, Bondan Winarno, Budi Hadi Narendra, Hunggul Yudono Setio Hadi Nugroho, Dony Rachmanadi, Pratiwi, Maman Turjaman, Rahardyan Nugroho Adi et al.
Land 2022, 11(3), 328; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11030328
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/3/328

6. “Land Is Life: Indigenous Relationships to Territory and Navigating Settler Colonial Property Regimes in Canada”
by Clifford Atleo and Jonathan Boron
Land 2022, 11(5), 609; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11050609
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/5/609

7. “The Effect of Land Use and Land Cover Changes on Flood Occurrence in Teunom Watershed, Aceh Jaya”
by Sugianto Sugianto, Anwar Deli, Edy Miswar, Muhammad Rusdi and Muhammad Irham
Land 2022, 11(8), 1271; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11081271
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/8/1271

8. “The Research Development of Hedonic Price Model-Based Real Estate Appraisal in the Era of Big Data”
by Cankun Wei, Meichen Fu, Li Wang, Hanbing Yang, Feng Tang and Yuqing Xiong
Land 2022, 11(3), 334; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11030334
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/3/334

9. “Gold Mining in the Amazon Region of Ecuador: History and a Review of Its Socio-Environmental Impacts”
by Carlos Mestanza-Ramón, Jefferson Cuenca-Cumbicus, Giovanni D’Orio, Jeniffer Flores-Toala, Susana Segovia-Cáceres, Amanda Bonilla-Bonilla and Salvatore Straface
Land 2022, 11(2), 221; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11020221
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/2/221

10. “Deforestation in Continental Ecuador with a Focus on Protected Areas”
by Janina Kleemann, Camilo Zamora, Alexandra Belen Villacis-Chiluisa, Pablo Cuenca, Hongmi Koo, Jin Kyoung Noh, Christine Fürst and Michael Thiel
Land 2022, 11(2), 268; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11020268
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/2/268

1. “Impacts of Extension Contact on the Adoption of Formulated Fertilizers and Farm Performance among Large-Scale Farms in Rural China”
by Zengwei Xu, Jing Li and Jiliang Ma
Land 2022, 11(11), 1974; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11111974
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/11/1974

2. “Landscapes of Mobility and Movement in North-West Arabia: A Remote Sensing Study of the Neom Impact Zone”
by Michael Fradley and Sarah Gyngell
Land 2022, 11(11), 1941; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11111941
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/11/1941

3. “Research Progress and Conceptual Insights on Drought Impacts and Responses among Smallholder Farmers in South Africa: A Review”
by Sheunesu Ruwanza, Gladman Thondhlana and Menelisi Falayi
Land 2022, 11(2), 159; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11020159
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/2/159

4. “Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Farmers and Their Responses: A Study of Three Farming Systems in Kerala, South India”
by Anamika Menon and Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt
Land 2022, 11(1), 144; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11010144
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/1/144

5. “Housing Price Prediction Using Machine Learning Algorithms in COVID-19 Times”
by Raul-Tomas Mora-Garcia, Maria-Francisca Cespedes-Lopez and V. Raul Perez-Sanchez
Land 2022, 11(11), 2100; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11112100
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/11/2100

6. “Spatiotemporal Change Analysis and Prediction of Future Land Use and Land Cover Changes Using QGIS MOLUSCE Plugin and Remote Sensing Big Data: A Case Study of Linyi, China”
by Rizwan Muhammad, Wenyin Zhang, Zaheer Abbas, Feng Guo and Luc Gwiazdzinski
Land 2022, 11(3), 419; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11030419
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/3/419

7. “Intangible Cultural Heritage in Tourism: Research Review and Investigation of Future Agenda”
by Qihang Qiu, Yifan Zuo and Mu Zhang
Land 2022, 11(1), 139; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11010139
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/1/139

8. “The Historical Development of Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment”
by Jan Vymazal
Land 2022, 11(2), 174; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11020174
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/2/174

9. “Soil-Improving Cropping Systems for Sustainable and Profitable Farming in Europe”
by Rudi Hessel, Guido Wyseure, Ioanna S. Panagea, Abdallah Alaoui, Mark S. Reed, Hedwig van Delden, Melanie Muro, Jane Mills, Oene Oenema, Francisco Areal et al.
Land 2022, 11(6), 780; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11060780
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/6/780

Soil moisture plays a crucial role in the exchange of water and energy within the soil–plant–atmosphere system. Its significance is acknowledged across a spectrum of environmental disciplines, encompassing meteorology, hydrology, agriculture, and climate change studies. Consequently, the precise monitoring and estimation of the spatial and temporal fluctuations in soil moisture are of particular importance.

Remote sensing technologies have revolutionized our ability to monitor soil moisture dynamics at a regional scale. Satellite-based remote sensing offers a global-scale perspective with continuous spatiotemporal resolution, making it a cornerstone for soil moisture estimation. During the last few decades, significant progress has been made in estimating soil moisture from remote sensing data. Advancements in both active and passive remote sensing technologies, satellite remote sensing, drone technologies, and data assimilation methods have enabled us to obtain soil moisture estimations at different spatial scales from meters to tens of kilometers, in addition to temporal resolutions from hours to daily.

However, obtaining reliable soil moisture information at the required spatiotemporal resolution and along soil depth with a high level of accuracy is still challenging, especially due to highly variable soil moisture behavior on its spatiotemporal domains and its complex relationships with forcing factors such as vegetation, soil texture, topography, and meteorology. The retrieval of soil moisture remains challenging due to limited satellite observations, the high correlation between different polarizations, angles, and channels, and the uncertainties in radiative transfer models and ancillary datasets.

As part of this webinar, it is our great honor to invite Prof. Dr. Arnon Karnieli to discuss soil moisture retrieval from remote sensing data. He will discuss the OPTRAM model and its applications in worldwide rangelands. Prof. Dr. Maofang Gao will discuss soil moisture retrieval from L-band SAR data.

Title: EO&GEO Series: Soil Moisture Retrieval from Remote Sensing Data
Date: 12 February 2025
Time: 8:00 a.m. CET | 3:00 p.m. CST Asia | 9:00 a.m. EET
More information: https://sciforum.net/event/Topics-31

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Program:

Webinar Chair and Speakers:

• Prof. Dr. Maofang Gao, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China;
• Prof. Dr. Arnon Karnieli, The Remote Sensing Laboratory, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boker, Israel.
  

Relevant Special Issues:
“Root-Zone Soil Moisture Retrieval and Applications from Remote Sensing Measurements”
Guest Editors: Dr. David Fairbairn, Dr. Bertrand Bonan and Dr. Luca Brocca
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025

“Salinity Monitoring and Modelling at Different Scales: 2nd Edition”
Guest Editors: Dr. Maria da Conceição Gonçalves, Dr. Mohammad Farzamian and Dr. Tiago Brito Ramos
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025

World Wetlands Day is celebrated each year on 2 February to raise awareness about wetlands. This day also marks the anniversary of the Convention on Wetlands, which was adopted as an international treaty in 1971.

Nearly 90% of the world’s wetlands have been degraded since the 1700s, and we are losing wetlands three times faster than forests. Yet, wetlands are critically important ecosystems that contribute to biodiversity, climate mitigation and adaptation, freshwater availability, world economies and more.

“Protecting Wetlands for Our Common Future” is the theme for World Wetlands Day 2025.

“Extracting Wetlands in Coastal Louisiana from the Operational VIIRS and GOES-R Flood Products”
by Tianshu Yang, Donglian Sun, Sanmei Li, Satya Kalluri, Lihang Zhou, Sean Helfrich, Meng Yuan, Qingyuan Zhang, William Straka, Viviana Maggioni and Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm
Remote Sens. 2024, 16(20), 3769; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16203769

“Random Forest Classifier Algorithm of Geographic Resources Analysis Support System Geographic Information System for Satellite Image Processing: Case Study of Bight of Sofala, Mozambique”
by Polina Lemenkova
Coasts 2024, 4(1), 127-149; https://doi.org/10.3390/coasts4010008

“Evaluation of Remote Sensing Products for Wetland Mapping in the Irtysh River Basin”
by Kaiyue Luo, Alim Samat, Jilili Abuduwaili and Wenbo Li
Geosciences 2024, 14(1), 14; https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences14010014

“Monitoring of Coastal Dunes and Lagoons: Important Ecosystems to Safeguard”
by Carmine Massarelli, Claudia Campanale and Vito Felice Uricchio
Environments 2023, 10(12), 211; https://doi.org/10.3390/environments10120211

“Monitoring the Kotychi Lagoon in Western Peloponnese, Greece, Using Remote Sensing Techniques and Environmental Assessment”
by Dionysios N. Apostolopoulos, Dionysios Giannikopoulos, Alexis Ramfos, Sara Faulwetter, Dionisios Panagiotaras, Konstantinos G. Nikolakopoulos and Pavlos Avramidis
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2023, 11(2), 411; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse11020411

Special Issues:

“Monitoring and Simulation of Wetland Ecological Processes (Second Edition)”	“Remote Sensing for Mapping and Monitoring Wetlands and Their Ecosystems”

“Birds as Cultural Ambassadors: Bridging Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity Conservation in Wetland Planning”
by Michela Ingaramo, Anna Rita Bernadette Cammerino, Vincenzo Rizzi, Maurizio Gioiosa and Massimo Monteleone
Sustainability 2024, 16(23), 10286; https://doi.org/10.3390/su162310286

“Three Decades of Inundation Dynamics in an Australian Dryland Wetland: An Eco-Hydrological Perspective”
by Indishe P. Senanayake, In-Young Yeo and George A. Kuczera
Remote Sens. 2024, 16(17), 3310; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16173310

“Impacts of Freshwater Sources on Salinity Structure in a Large, Shallow Estuary”
by Mohamed Z. Moustafa, Zhen-Gang Ji and John Hamrick
Environments 2024, 11(4), 72; https://doi.org/10.3390/environments11040072

“Priming of Soil Organic Carbon Decomposition Induced by Exogenous Organic Carbon Input Depends on Vegetation and Soil Depth in Coastal Salt Marshes”
by Yaru Zhang, Xue Li, Baohua Xie, Xiaojie Wang, Mingliang Zhao, Guangxuan Han, Yongjin Chen and Weimin Song
Soil Syst. 2024, 8(1), 34; https://doi.org/10.3390/soilsystems8010034

“Forest Fuel Bed Variation in Tropical Coastal Freshwater Forested Wetlands Disturbed by Fire”
by Romeo de Jesús Barrios-Calderón, Dulce Infante Mata, José Germán Flores Garnica and Jony R. Torres
Forests 2024, 15(1), 158; https://doi.org/10.3390/f15010158

“Horizontal Rates of Wetland Migration Appear Unlikely to Keep Pace with Shoreline Transgression under Conditions of 21st Century Accelerating Sea Level Rise along the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern USA”
by Randall W. Parkinson
Coasts 2024, 4(1), 213-225; https://doi.org/10.3390/coasts4010012

“Ecological Basis of Ecosystem Services and Management of Wetlands Dominated by Common Reed (Phragmites australis): European Perspective”
by Hana Čížková, Tomáš Kučera, Brigitte Poulin and Jan Květ
Diversity 2023, 15(5), 629; https://doi.org/10.3390/d15050629

“Examining the Hydro-Climatic Drivers of Lagoon Breaching and Healing in a Deltaic Barrier”
by Juan Felipe Gómez, Eva Kwoll, Ian J. Walker and Andrés F. Orejarena
Geosciences 2023, 13(4), 118; https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences13040118

“Scientific Evidence for the Effectiveness of Mangrove Forests in Reducing Floods and Associated Hazards in Coastal Areas”
by Christopher Ihinegbu, Stefan Mönnich and Thecla Akukwe
Climate 2023, 11(4), 79; https://doi.org/10.3390/cli11040079

“Dynamic Modeling of the Trophic Status of an Urban Tropical Wetland under ENSO Conditions”
by Leidy Gisselle García-León, Julio Eduardo Beltrán-Vargas and Carlos Alfonso Zafra-Mejía
Climate 2023, 11(3), 61; https://doi.org/10.3390/cli11030061

“Characterization of Phosphate Compounds along a Catena from Arable and Wetland Soil to Sediments in a Baltic Sea lagoon”
by Julia Prüter, Rhena Schumann, Wantana Klysubun and Peter Leinweber
Soil Syst. 2023, 7(1), 15; https://doi.org/10.3390/soilsystems7010015

“A Study of the Influence of Environmental Factors on Water–Heat Exchange Process in Alpine Wetlands”
by Yan Xie, Jun Wen, Yulin Zhang, Jinlei Chen and Xianyu Yang
Atmosphere 2023, 14(12), 1802; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14121802

“Conservation and Restoration of Mangroves in Response to Invasion of Spartina alterniflora Based on the MaxEnt Model: A Case Study in China”
by Lina Cui, Uta Berger, Minmin Cao, Yaqi Zhang, Junming He, Lianghao Pan and Jiang Jiang
Forests 2023, 14(6), 1220; https://doi.org/10.3390/f14061220

Special Issues:

“Wetland Conservation and Ecological Restoration”	“Effect of Mangrove Ecosystems on Coastal Ecology and Climate Change”

“Water CO₂ Emission Monitoring in a Romanian Peri-Urban Wetland to Enhance GHG Reporting”
by György Deák, Natalia Enache, Lucian Laslo, Monica Matei, Madalina Georgiana Boboc and Cristina Ileana Covaliu Mierla
Atmosphere 2024, 15(11), 1345; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos15111345

“Surface Water (SW) and Shallow Groundwater (SGW) Nutrient Concentrations in Riparian Wetlands of a Mixed Land-Use Catchment”
by Bidisha Faruque Abesh, James T. Anderson and Jason A. Hubbart
Land 2024, 13(4), 409; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13040409

“Success Factors and Challenges: Implications of Real Options Valuation of Constructed Wetlands as Nature-Based Solutions for Wastewater Treatment”
by Casper Boongaling Agaton and Patricia Marie Caparas Guila
Resources 2024, 13(1), 11; https://doi.org/10.3390/resources13010011

“Evaluation of Phosphate and E. coli Attenuation in a Natural Wetland Receiving Drainage from an Urbanized Catchment”
by Charles Humphrey, Jarrod Underwood, Guy Iverson, Randall Etheridge, Mike O’Driscoll and Avian White
Hydrology 2024, 11(6), 74; https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology11060074

“Quantifying the Nitrogen-Removal Performance of a Constructed Wetland Dominated by Diffuse Agricultural Groundwater Inflows Using a Linked Catchment–Wetland Model”
by Linh Hoang, James P. S. Sukias, Valerio Montemezzani and Chris C. Tanner
Water 2023, 15(9), 1689; https://doi.org/10.3390/w15091689

“Assessing the Zooplankton Metacommunity (Branchiopoda and Copepoda) from Mediterranean Wetlands in Agricultural Landscapes”
by Juan Diego Gilbert, Francisco J. Márquez and Francisco Guerrero
Diversity 2023, 15(3), 362; https://doi.org/10.3390/d15030362

“A Connectivity Approach to Agricultural Diffuse Pollution in Tropical Montane Catchments Dominated by Swidden Landscapes”
by Luc Sandevoir, Laurent Lespez and Candide Lissak
Land 2023, 12(4), 784; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12040784

“Habitat Mapping and Spatiotemporal Overlap of the Amazon River Dolphin, Fishers, and Tourism in the Central Region of the Brazilian Amazon”
by Cadi Y. Fung, Brad G. Peter and Cynthia S. Simmons
Conservation 2023, 3(4), 523-542; https://doi.org/10.3390/conservation3040034

Special Issues:

“Impacts of Climate Change and Human Activities on Wetland Hydrology”	“Methods and Practices for the Sustainable Management of Lake and River Hydrological Systems”