Cloud-Based Earth Observations (EO) Applications for Coastal Zone Management
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Ocean Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 569
Special Issue Editors
Interests: remote sensing; coastal processes; coastal risk & hazards
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Coastal zones are home to over half of the world’s population, are major centers of economic activities, and represent some of the most fragile habitats on the planet. Climate change threatens coastal areas, which are already stressed by human activity, pollution, invasive species, and storms. Sea level rise could erode and inundate coastal ecosystems and eliminate wetlands. Warmer and more acidic oceans are likely to disrupt coastal and marine ecosystems. To prevent, mitigate, or adapt to these impacts, coastal zone management requires information about the changes in coastal environments at different temporal and spatial scales. Over the last decade, satellite data have become available in increasing quantities, high frequency resolutions, and at very low to no cost. New cloud-based platforms, such as Google Earth Engine, enable the creation of web-accessible big-data manipulation platforms, which offer scientists and application developers the means to access and use earth observation (EO) data in a quick and cost-effective way. This makes earth observation applications more attractive for addressing coastal zone management challenges. Earth observation provides data cost-effectively and more quickly than conventional methods, delivering wide-area surveillance as well as pin-pointing targeted locations for monitoring specific processes or hazards. In this Special Issue, contributions from a variety of topics (open to submissions from all areas) related to cloud-based EO applied solutions for coastal zone management are welcome, ranging from coastal erosion and inundation risk assessment, oil spill tracking, toxic algae bloom monitoring, wetland coastal squeeze processes, coral bleaching, and glacial monitoring.
Dr. Luis Pedro Almeida
Dr. Paula Gomes da Silva
Guest Editors
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