Coastal and Marine Monitoring and Restoration Mapping Using UAS and Remote Sensing Systems
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Ocean Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 26 February 2025 | Viewed by 57
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Interests: geoinformatics; UAV and remote sensing for marine; landscape and habitat conservation and management
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Interests: Wetland restoration; coastal and estuarine management; intertidal morphology; unmanned aerial systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The development of new remote-sensing-based monitoring methods for marine restoration and management offers a bright future for our blue environment. Access to continually improving satellite-based remote sensing systems, coupled with the ongoing development of, and increased accessibility to, uncrewed aircraft systems (UASs), presents a breadth of new possibilities for environmental assessment and monitoring. Importantly, equipped with a range of sensor types, this potential is now being explored and exploited at scale in the coastal and marine environment.
Coastal and marine monitoring and restoration mapping using UASs and remote sensing systems constitute a rapidly developing field, which can either complement or replace more traditional survey methodologies. The rapid, repeatable, adaptable, and successful monitoring of management initiatives and approaches is now achievable through these technologies and offers significant opportunities to improve our ability to monitor and map coastal and marine restoration at scale.
This Special Issue will bring together a range of papers demonstrating the capacity of satellite-based remote sensing, uncrewed aircraft systems (UASs), and UAS-mounted sensors across a diverse range of coastal and marine monitoring and restoration mapping applications.
Suggested themes and article types for submissions:
- Refined techniques for mapping coastal vegetated ecosystems (blue carbon).
- Supporting restoration success with UASs.
- Improving sensors for the high-resolution analysis of coastal systems and processes.
Dr. Niall Burnside
Dr. Jonathan Dale
Dr. Matthew Brolly
Guest Editors
Dr. Alasdair O’Dell
Guest Editor Assistant
Scottish Association for Marine Science, Oban PA37 1QA, UK
E-Mail: [email protected]
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Keywords
- UAVs
- remote sensing
- blue carbon
- coastal vegetated systems
- saltmarsh
- seagrass
- kelp
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