Remote Sensing for Coastal and Aquatic Ecosystems’ Monitoring and Biodiversity Management
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecological Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 September 2022) | Viewed by 43257
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Interests: remote sensing of environment; wetlands; land cover/land use dynamics; image classification and mapping; sensor fusion; natural risk of coastal areas
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Interests: imaging spectroscopy; thermal remote sensing; LiDAR; sensor fusion; spectral mixture analysis; remote sensing of wildfire; trace gas mapping; urban remote sensing; change identification; plant species mapping; vegetation drought response
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Environmental management and the preservation of biodiversity are widely considered a priority in the context of accelerating global changes affecting the physical and biological resources of our planet. This Special Issue of the journal will focus on “Coastal and Aquatic Ecosystems”. The coastal region is a transition area between terrestrial and marine ecosystems. This transition area is now considered an important component of the biosphere, both in terms of ecosystems’ diversity and in the provision of resources and services. Moreover, the coastal region is home to a significant number of distinct biological communities, including coral reefs, mangroves, salt meadows and wetlands, phanerogam meadows, and kelp forests, estuarine assemblages or coastal lagoons, forests, and grasslands. The diversity of coastal ecosystems is directly threatened by human activity. It is estimated that 60% of the world’s population lives on or near the coast, and the pressures that economic development exerts on the coastal environment are particularly high. Coastal ecosystems are undergoing permanent changes in production rates, organism abundance, and community structure.
Achieving sustainable coastal zone management poses particularly significant challenges as the pressures of a growing human population, multiple development pressures, pollution from land-based sources, and unsustainable exploitation of natural resources are particularly felt on many of the world’s coasts. Remote sensing meets this challenge by offering a wide range of standard products on environmental coastal condition, thanks in particular to various state-of-the-art sensors. The development of innovative methods based on the integration of multi-source, multi-resolution, and multi-temporal images offers promising prospects for considering the different scales of ecosystems. Consequently, the products derived from remote sensing contribute to the development of temporal and spatial indicators for better knowledge and management of coastal and aquatic ecosystems. This Special Issue calls for submissions that report original environmental research using satellite data processing—optical or radar—addressing coastal and aquatic ecosystem monitoring at different spatial and temporal scales.
Most of the papers published in this special issue were presented at the international conference EUCOMARE-2022 in the framework of the European Jean Monnet Chair European Spatial Studies of Sea and Coastal zones with the support of the ERASMUS+ Programme of the European Union.
Dr. Simona Niculescu
Dr. Junshi Xia
Dr. Dar Roberts
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- remote sensing
- coastal and aquatic ecosystems
- biodiversity management
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