Remote Sensors in Polar Regions Land Surface Monitoring
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 6220
Special Issue Editors
Interests: polar ecosystems; Svalbard; extreme rainfall; Poland; GIS; remote sensing; geostatistics; spatial modeling
2. Institute of Geoecology and Geoinformation, Adam Mickiewicz University, B. Krygowski 10 st., 61-712 Poznań, Poland
Interests: glacial geomorphology; glaciology; permafrost; polar environments; climate change; GIS; UAV
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The snow is melting, the ice is crumbling, and the polar desert is turning green. During the life of one generation, the polar regions have changed beyond recognition. Science must identify these phenomena, explain their genesis, mechanism of their functioning and course, and their impact on the entire planet’s system. Unfortunately, these areas are still very inaccessible. Conducting research in their areas is still a big logistic challenge and associated with substantial additional costs. The extent and spatial diversity of polar areas also make it very difficult to create syntheses combining the results of research on various environmental components at different time and space scales. However, as in the case of weather forecasts, the so-called "quiet revolution" has been underway for some time in polar research. This quiet revolution is the result of continuous accumulation of knowledge and technical progress rather than groundbreaking, one-off discoveries. One of the foundations of this revolution is the extensive use and progress in remote sensing.
Dear colleagues, we believe that the time has come to sum up the next stage in polar research using remote sensing technologies. We invite you to publish your own results and review studies on various aspects of the structure and functioning of the polar zones on the lands of both hemispheres based on remote sensing data. However, the following topics will be preferred:
- Long-term monitoring instead of one-off “snapshots” of the state;
- Analysis of the relationship of many environmental components in terms of systems instead of studies on individual components (only glaciers, vegetation, permafrost, coasts, lakes, etc.);
- Comparative analyses: one area–different sensors, one sensor–many areas;
- Using remote sensing data in modeling land polar systems;
- Calibration and validation of polar remote sensing data and processing of large data sets;
- New sensors and operational services.
Prof. Dr. Alfred Stach
Prof. Dr. Grzegorz Rachlewicz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Polar zone
- Remote sensing
- Land surface monitoring
- Polar ecosystems
- Ice and snow cover
- Permafrost and periglacial processes
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