Remote Sensing History of Land Surface Change
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 4750
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The word economy derives from the Greek word oikonomos, meaning house rules. The oikonomia, the managers of the house, were perhaps more committed to shaping the boundary conditions for people to live their lives, than they were committed to having an edge over the world. Today, we experience shocks to the current world order that necessitate contemplating the merits and costs that industrialization brought to us. In his Principles of Scientific Management (1911), Frederick Winslow Taylor proposed a divide of the work force into workers and managers. The workers had to work efficiently, and the managers were to streamline their work flows. With productivity now at an all-time high, natural resources are rapidly depleting or have become polluted, with there being no clear political lead as to what can be changed or done to counter the dire situation humanity finds itself in. Where Taylor’s efficiency applies to production, it bears little to no attention for the natural resources spent or wasted.
Remote sensing has frequently been used in a technocratic frame supposedly enabling governments to acquire actionable insight. However, changes to the geopolitical order in the last few years have rather exposed the relativity of governmental power in stewarding our planet for its best interest and have exposed our need for a new economy. With satellite data repositories extending 20 or even 40 years’ worth of global coverage, depending on make and model, we have a significant body of historical data available to us for introspection. This Special Issue invites remote sensing researchers to expose their efforts on compiling regional to global time series of land surface change. Contributions may focus on optical or radar remote sensing in urban or rural areas, with a particular interest in longer temporal coverages, in the order of decades. The focus of this issue lies primarily on describing historical change rather than recommending a course of action.
Dr. Martin van Leeuwen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Land surface change
- Time series
- Remote sensing
- Forestry
- Economy
- Natural resources
- History
- Introspection
