Remote Sensing for Monitoring Natural Hazards and Impact of Climate Change
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2020) | Viewed by 4735
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are glad to announce a special issue of Remote Sensing, focussing on “Monitoring Natural Hazards and Impact of Climate Change”. This is a highly relevant topic for the current time when we are seeing an ever-increasing number of different natural hazards, threatening human life and property. According to an estimate by NOAA (https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions/) of all billion-dollar disasters affecting the US since 1980, almost 50% of the total loss and 52% of total events, has been incurred in the last decade alone. Globally, the numbers are even more staggering, with one study (Leaning and Guha-Sapir, The New England Journal of Medicine) estimating that the number of natural disasters between 2000 to 2009 was three times more compared to that between 1980 to 1989, 80% of which was caused by climate-related events.
It is becoming increasingly clear that climate change has a large role to play in this. Increased greenhouse gas emissions and rising temperatures have multiple ramifications in terms of increased drought events and more severe storms and cyclones. Human-induced pollutants such as black carbon, aerosols, etc can drastically alter the global radiation balance resulting in changing monsoon cycles and increased risk of cataclysmic flood events. The consequences are many and perilous. Hence, there is a need to document recent advances made in better monitoring of different natural hazards and demonstrate the clear impact of climate change. We hope to get your support in compiling this special issue and making a key contribution in this regard.
Dr. Sudipta Sarkar
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- natural hazards
- climate change
- interannual-variability
- monitoring
- anthropogenic impact
- long-term trends
