Monitoring and Mapping Inland and Coastal Water Dynamics Based on Landsat Data
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecological Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 March 2024) | Viewed by 1576
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydrology; remote sensing; hydrological models; floods/droughts; inland water dynamics
Interests: remote sensing; inland waters; coastal waters
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Dear Colleagues,
Monitoring and mapping inland water dynamics via remote sensing techniques provide critical support for hydrology, ecology, and climate change studies. Among the ever-increasing number of earth observation satellite platforms, the NASA/USGS Landsat program, first launched in 1972, stands out as providing the longest continuous space-based measurements with spectral, spatial, and temporal scales that are well suited to observe patterns, cycles, changes, and trends in a variety of natural and built environments, including inland and coastal waters. Marking the Landsat program’s 50th year anniversary, this Special Issue aims to archive a collection of original research articles and comprehensive reviews focusing on the utility of the Landsat program in monitoring and mapping inland and coastal water dynamics, with a specific focus on, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Dynamics of water quantity and quality in coastal environments, lakes, rivers, and reservoirs at regional and global scales, and their relationships to anthropogenic and climatic drivers;
- Dynamics of algal biomass, organic and inorganic suspended solids, and colored dissolved organic matter in inland and coastal waters;
- Analysis of long-term trends focusing on the impact of land use/landcover change and climate change;
- Use of Landsat data in cloud computing platforms such as Google Earth Engine, Amazon Web Services, etc.;
- Utility of machine and deep learning algorithms;
- Correction and fusion techniques to increase information content;
- Challenges and limitations in spectral, spatial, and temporal coverage of Landsat platforms;
- Comparison of Landsat dataset with other earth observation missions;
- Bathymetric mapping of shallow waters.
Dr. Koray K. Yilmaz
Dr. Milad Niroumand-Jadidi
Dr. Belén Martí-Cardona
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Landsat
- inland and coastal waters
- water extent
- water quality
- bathymetry
- environmental impact assessment
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