Topical Collection on "Monitoring of Land Use/Cover Change Utilizing Remote Sensing Technology"
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 March 2026
Collection Editors
International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals, China
Email: zhangxiao@radi.ac.cn
The University of Hong Kong, China
Email: xdchenrs@hku.hk
New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Email: wencc@nyu.edu
Topical Collection Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the past six decades, about 1/3 of the Earth's land area has been affected by the land use and land cover (LULC) change. Rapid urbanization, agricultural expansion, and industrialization have dominated most of the major changes in land use and land cover patterns, resulting in habitat fragmentation, deforestation, water pollution, and biodiversity loss. To this end, the mitigation potential of land use activities, including those related to forests, water, and agriculture, has been recognized as essential in meeting climate targets under the Paris Agreement, making land use a central component of many international policy debates. Therefore, accurately monitoring changes in LULC and understanding their impacts on regional sustainable development is of paramount importance in formulating effective strategies for integrated land management. Nowadays, thanks to its wide range and repeatable observation characteristics, remote sensing has become a powerful tool for land cover monitoring. In this context, the integration of remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial modeling techniques has emerged as a powerful tool for monitoring and assessing LULC dynamics and their impacts on regional sustainable development. The application of these advanced technologies facilitates the generation of spatially explicit and temporally dynamic information on LULC patterns, allowing for a comprehensive analysis of the drivers, processes and consequences of LULC change.
The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) on the monitoring of changes in LULC and the assessment of their impacts related to sustainable development in the region.
Relevant themes include, but are not limited to:
- LULC change monitoring;
- Spatio-temporal data mining, data fusion, modeling and analysis of LULC change;
- The driving forces and mechanisms of LULC change;
- LULC changes and associated impacts on the environment.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Collection Editor(s)
Keywords:
- land use/ land cover
- urban green space
- change detection
- remote sensing
- sustainable development
- geographic information systems
- environment