Earth Observation of Glacier and Snow Cover Mapping in Cold Regions
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 201
Special Issue Editors
Interests: remote sensing information processing and applications; quality improvement of remote sensing images; data fusion; regional and global environmental changes
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Glaciers and snow cover are core components of the Earth's cryosphere and key indicators for monitoring climate change, especially in cold regions. Their unique high reflectivity can reflect solar radiation, thereby regulating the energy balance of the surface and significantly affecting global and regional climate patterns. In addition, ice and snow regions are important freshwater resource reservoirs and play a crucial role in global water supply, especially for areas that mainly rely on meltwater supply. However, due to global warming, ice and snow coverage is rapidly diminishing, potentially leading to sea-level rise and severe impacts on regional water supply. The reductions in glacier size and snow cover may also increase the instability of the climate system, leading to more frequent and intense extreme climate events. With the rapid development of remote sensing technology and continuous progress in artificial intelligence and algorithms, we can now monitor and analyse changes in ice and snow more accurately and efficiently.
This Special aims to showcase recent research and progress in the application of Earth observation technologies for mapping and monitoring glaciers and snow cover in cold regions. Topics may cover anything from the basic estimation of glacial and snow variables to more comprehensive aims and scales. Therefore, multisource data fusion, multiscale methods, or studies focused on cryosphere monitoring are welcome.
Articles may address, but are not limited, to the following topics:
- Dynamic remote sensing monitoring of glaciers, snow cover and ice sheets;
- Analysis of spatiotemporal changes in glaciers, snow cover and ice sheets;
- Research on the relationship between the hydrological cycle and ice and snow;
- Extreme climate monitoring;
- Cryosphere;
- Differences in ice and snow between the North and South Poles;
- The impacts of climate change on glaciers, snow cover and ice sheets;
- Applications of machine learning and deep learning in the cryosphere.
Prof. Dr. Qing Cheng
Dr. Yan Huang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- glacier
- snow cover
- ice sheet
- remote sensing
- cryosphere
- climate change
