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Remote Sensing in Geomatics and Environmental Sciences

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sensing".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2023) | Viewed by 2299

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Edile e dell’ Architettura (DICEA), Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, 60131 Ancona, Italy
Interests: geomatics; GIS; remote sensing; photogrammetry; surveying; mapping; HBIM
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Dear Colleagues,

Remote sensing techniques have proven to be very useful in environmental monitoring and environmental management. The field of geomatics offers various tools and methods that are capable of capturing and understanding the environment in land surface at different scales, i.e., geometric shapes, quantitative analysis, the enrichment of semantic knowledge, the application of different technologies, and multi-scale management.

This Special Issue aims to collect research articles that propose innovative solutions on the use of remote sensing for the following (including but not limited to) application domains:

  • GIS data collection and storage;
  • geomatic data processing;
  • analysis and management/monitoring;
  • multi image spherical photogrammetry;
  • GIS and (H)BIM;
  • remote sensing solutions;
  • geospatial applications;
  • precision farming;
  • change detection;
  • land cover/land use;
  • risks and hazards;
  • topographic survey;
  • UAV surveying;
  • laser scanner;
  • SLAM.

Prof. Dr. Eva Savina Malinverni
Dr. Roberto Pierdicca
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • geomatics
  • remote sensing
  • mapping
  • environmental
  • risks
  • GIS
  • ML

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A High-Precision Remote Sensing Identification Method for Land Desertification Based on ENVINet5
by Jingyi Yang, Qinjun Wang, Dingkun Chang, Wentao Xu and Boqi Yuan
Sensors 2023, 23(22), 9173; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/s23229173 - 14 Nov 2023
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Land desertification is one of the serious ecological and environmental problems facing mankind today, which threatens the survival and development of human society. China is one of the countries with the most serious land desertification problems in the world. Therefore, it is of [...] Read more.
Land desertification is one of the serious ecological and environmental problems facing mankind today, which threatens the survival and development of human society. China is one of the countries with the most serious land desertification problems in the world. Therefore, it is of great theoretical value and practical significance to carry out accurate identification and monitoring of land desertification and its influencing factors in ecologically fragile areas of China. This is conducive to curbing land desertification and ensuring regional ecological security. Minqin County, Gansu Province, located in northwestern China, is one of the most serious areas of land desertification, which is also one of the four sandstorm sources in China. Based on ENVINet5, this paper constructs a high-precision land desertification identification method with an accuracy of 93.71%, which analyzes the trend and reasons of land desertification in this area, provides suggestions for disaster prevention in Minqin County. and provides a reference for other similar areas to make corresponding desertification control policies. Full article
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Multi-Source Soil Moisture Data Fusion Based on Spherical Cap Harmonic Analysis and Helmert Variance Component Estimation in the Western U.S.
by Hao Chen, Peng Chen, Rong Wang, Liangcai Qiu, Fucai Tang and Mingzhu Xiong
Sensors 2023, 23(19), 8019; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/s23198019 - 22 Sep 2023
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Soil moisture (SM) is a vital climate variable in the interaction process between the Earth’s atmosphere and land. However, global soil moisture products from various satellite missions and land surface models are affected by inherently discontinuous observations and coarse spatial resolution, which limits [...] Read more.
Soil moisture (SM) is a vital climate variable in the interaction process between the Earth’s atmosphere and land. However, global soil moisture products from various satellite missions and land surface models are affected by inherently discontinuous observations and coarse spatial resolution, which limits their application at fine spatial scales. To address this problem, this paper integrates three diverse types of datasets from in situ, satellites, and models through Spherical cap harmonic analysis (SCHA) and Helmert variance component estimation (HVCE) to produce 1 km of spatio-temporally continuous SM products with high accuracy. First, this paper eliminates the bias between different datasets and in situ sites and resamples the datasets before data fusion. Then, multi-source SM data fusion is performed based on the SCHA and HVCE methods. Finally, this paper evaluates the fused products from three aspects, including the performance of representative sites under different climate types, the overall performance of validation sites, and the comparison with other products. The results show that the fused products have better performance than other SM products. In the representative sites, the minimal correlation coefficient (R) of the fused products is above 0.85, and the largest root mean square error (RMSE) is below 0.040 m3 m−3. For all validation sites, the R and RMSE of the fused products are 0.889 and 0.036 m3 m−3, respectively, while the R for other products is below 0.75 and the RMSE is above 0.06 m3 m−3. In comparison to other SM products, the fused products exhibit superior performance, generally align more closely with in situ measurements, and possess the ability to accurately and finely capture the spatial and temporal variability of surface SM. Full article
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