Digital Earth and Remote Sensing for Land Management

Dear Colleagues,

A digital representation of the Earth’s surface is a crucial tool in land management. Remote sensing techniques, in many cases integrated with ground-based data, allow the monitoring of the ground surface with different details, resolutions, and accuracies. These data can be used in the analysis of land use/land cover pattern modifications, urban morphology changes, land surface deformation monitoring, etc.

The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and/or review papers) to give insights into land management using a digital representation of the Earth’s surface obtained from, but not limited to, remote sensing data. Digital Elevation Models, orthophotomaps, InSAR time-series, GNSS measurements, and various types of information and data (e.g. photogrammetry with optical and/or thermal cameras, LiDAR, multi-beam bathymetry, etc.) acquired from different platforms (e.g. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), as well as Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) or also Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs)), helicopters and airplanes) can be processed and analysed by means of GIS tools in the field of land management.

This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes by using digital Earth data and land remote sensing techniques:

• Land management;
• Land deformation monitoring;
• Land use and/or land cover changes;
• Urban and urban–rural morphology modifications.

Papers discussing theoretical models, the results obtained from land monitoring activities, and the evolution in space and time of the digital Earth’s surface and processes are also welcome. We particularly encourage the submission of manuscripts presenting new and/or innovative applications of remote sensing techniques for the monitoring and quantification of land surface deformation, land use/land cover changes, and urban area modifications.

We look forward to receiving your original research articles and/or reviews.

Dr. Massimo Fabris
Prof. Dr. Djamil Al-Halbouni
Guest Editors

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• digital earth
• satellite imagery
• InSAR
• digital elevation models (DEM)
• land monitoring
• land use
• land cover
• urban morphology
• GIS tools