Remote Sensing in Monitoring Coastal and Inland Waters

Dear Colleagues,

Water resources are crucial for human use, especially in coastal and inland water bodies. These also provide important and diverse habitats and ecosystem services, support high levels of biodiversity, and are critical components of global carbon and nutrient cycles. However, like many other ecosystems, coastal and inland waters are threatened by the synergistic effects of multiple, co-occurring environmental pressures, including nutrient enrichment and other forms of organic and inorganic pollution, climate change, acidification, the establishment and spread of invasive species, and the diversion or extraction of upstream source waters. Their importance, as well as their sensitivity to and capacity to reflect climate and environmental changes, has garnered increasing attention over recent years. Assessing and monitoring coastal and inland waters is crucial to understanding and disentangling the effects of environmental change on freshwater ecosystems and estimating ocean carbon cycles.

Whereas conventional monitoring approaches tend to be limited in terms of spatial coverage and temporal frequency, remote sensing has the potential to provide an invaluable complementary source of data at the local to global scales. In particular, satellite remote sensing, which is often used in open ocean observation, has played an increasingly significant role in coastal and inland water monitoring.

The objective of this Special Issue is to publish novel methods and views using satellite remote sensing techniques, including optical remote sensing, satellite gravity, and satellite altimetry, in the field of coastal and inland waters. We seek to discuss the issues related to water—such as storage distribution and temporal variation, water quality, and water depth—from different perspectives using various remote sensing data, especially new satellite data, such as the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission. Topics including new algorithms, findings, explanations, and performance of the new data to monitor coastal and inland waters are all within the scope of this section. We also invite papers on new technology or missions for monitoring coastal and inland waters.

This special issue seeks relevant methods of coastal and inland water environmental monitoring, including but not limited to simulations, algorithms, instruments, and applications.

• Monitoring coastal levels, quality,and variation;
• Monitoring inland water levels, quality, and discharge;
• Explanation and prediction of coastal and inland water variation;
• Inversion or mapping of coastal and inland water bathymetry;
• New technology for monitoring coastal and inland water.

Prof. Dr. Xiaoyun Wan
Dr. Qun Liu
Dr. Salem Morsy
Dr. Yongjun Jia
Guest Editors

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