The environmental stress from unsustainable socioeconomic development is one of the major growing concerns for the Earth’s ecosystem. There are many factors are responsible for this such as population growth, climate variability, urbanization, pollution and industrialization. In order to address this issue, Governments worldwide very much interested in the assessment and possible controls for sustainable environment. Remote sensing provides a cost-effective solution to the mapping and analysis of ecological and environmental interactions and their impact on the Earth’s surface and its changes over time which further allows the effective decision-making at various temporal and spatial scales to bridge gaps among disciplines and achieve sustainable development. Therefore, the focus of this Special issue (SI) is on the recent advances in the algorithms and applications of remote sensing in sustainable environment. Inviting research papers for a Special issue on recent advances in remote sensing for a sustainable environment can highlight the most recent research and trends in the field, bring together a collection of high-quality research papers, stimulate discussion and collaboration within the research community, increase the visibility and impact of ongoing research, and support the journal’s mission and goals.
This Special issue welcomes research or review manuscripts on all aspects related to the following topics (but not limited):
Urban environment
Pollution risk assessments and controls
Marine and coastal biodiversity and ecosystems
Agriculture and functional traits
Water resources vulnerability
Natural disaster management
Climate change and its impact
Crop yield forecasting and crop phenology analysis
New satellite sensor for environmental monitoring
Water quality and pollutant concentrations
Forest fire monitoring and management
Land productivity and vegetation trend analysis
Land use/land cover change
Machine learning and deep learning for environmental applications