Dear colleagues,

Global warming is one of the major challenges we are currently facing. It manifests itself in numerous ways, ranging from dramatic consequences in natural and man-made environments to less obvious or even unrecognized environmental changes. By studying surveys of the Earth’s surface and landforms we can detect changes that in some circumstances result from global warming. Monitoring and surveying landforms are possible methods to understand these changes. Often there is also a need for more frequent surveys in order to detect even the smallest changes with higher measurement precision and accuracy. This is facilitated by the constant evolution of technology. In addition, details of the techniques should be taken into account and discussed as these could uncover changes that otherwise would have not been considered. Therefore, and because mountain regions are more sensitive to the effects of global warming than other environments, we are looking for contributions that indicate changes in mountain environments.

With this Special Issue, we aim to raise awareness of changing environments through scientific contributions that examine and discuss landforms in mountain ranges, such as rock glaciers and glaciers. We also want to examine changes less obviously linked to global warming that could potentially be related to an overall change in environmental conditions and may result in natural hazards, such as landslides. In sum, we encourage contributions delivering tailored solutions that demonstrate that remote sensing techniques are the best methods to determine the actual impacts of global warming, which could be the basis for behavioral change.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Sulzer
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Viktor Kaufmann
Dr. Gernot Seier
Guest Editors

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• Monitoring and change detection of landforms in mountain regions, e.g., rock glaciers, glaciers, etc
• Natural hazards in mountain regions
• (Structure-from-Motion) photogrammetry and techniques of image analysis
• Terrestrial, UAS-based, airborne, and satellite-based surveys
• Accuracy assessment