Monitoring Wetland Changes and Processes Using Remote Sensing Technologies

Dear Colleagues,

Coastal wetlands are among the most valuable and productive ecosystems in the world, providing a wide range of goods and services, including habitat and nursery for many animals, protection against storms, carbon storage, and water purification. However, despite their multiple benefits, the extent and condition of wetlands are declining globally, due to growing threats posed by human activities and climate changes.

A variety of remote sensing methods and sensors has provided evidence of being efficient approaches when it comes to detecting wetland condition, changes, and functions in almost inaccessible coastal regions. Moreover, mapping products derived from remote sensed sensors are crucial to assisting wetland management. However, despite the important advances in these, the remote sensing of coastal wetlands still requires improvement to address existent knowledge gaps related to the spectral, spatial, and temporal resolution of remote observations.

This Special Issue will highlight the latest developments in the remote sensing of coastal wetlands. Contributions are encouraged in topics including, but not limited to:

• Salt marsh and mangrove extent, condition, or functioning;
• Shoreline change detection;
• Wetland change detection;
• Wetland condition changes;
• Coastal wetland hazards;
• Coastal squeeze of wetland ecosystems;
• Blue carbon quantification;
• Wetland pressure detection.

Dr. Carina Lurdes Lopes
Dr. Renato Mendes
Dr. Luis Pedro Almeida
Prof. Dr. João Miguel Dias
Guest Editors

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