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Editorial Foreword to the Special Issue on Advances in Remote Sensing of Mountain Surface Processes
Mountains play a crucial role in providing essential ecosystem services, including biodiversity conservation, regional climate regulation, and water resource preservation. Accurate and continuous monitoring of mountain surface processes is therefore vital for assessing environmental change and mitigating natural hazards. Remote sensing has emerged as a powerful tool for mountain research, yet the inherent complexity of these processes demands increasingly higher spatio-temporal resolution in observations. Against this backdrop, we launched the special issue “Advances in Remote Sensing of Mountain Surface Processes”. This initiative aims to systematically showcase cuttingedge research findings and innovative technologies from the global remote sensing community, specifically tailored to the complex terrain of mountainous environments. The special issue collects 13 articles and highlights a multidimensional exploration of mountain surface processes. The featured manuscripts cover a wide range of topics, spanning multi-source data fusion, methodological innovations, and diverse applications across various fields. This Editorial Foreword provides a comprehensive summary of theoretical advancements, methodological innovations, validation techniques, and practical applications of remote sensing in studying mountain surface processes. It also offers a thorough discussion of the challenges and future opportunities within this dynamic field.
期刊介绍:
The IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing addresses the growing field of applications in Earth observations and remote sensing, and also provides a venue for the rapidly expanding special issues that are being sponsored by the IEEE Geosciences and Remote Sensing Society. The journal draws upon the experience of the highly successful “IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing” and provide a complementary medium for the wide range of topics in applied earth observations. The ‘Applications’ areas encompasses the societal benefit areas of the Global Earth Observations Systems of Systems (GEOSS) program. Through deliberations over two years, ministers from 50 countries agreed to identify nine areas where Earth observation could positively impact the quality of life and health of their respective countries. Some of these are areas not traditionally addressed in the IEEE context. These include biodiversity, health and climate. Yet it is the skill sets of IEEE members, in areas such as observations, communications, computers, signal processing, standards and ocean engineering, that form the technical underpinnings of GEOSS. Thus, the Journal attracts a broad range of interests that serves both present members in new ways and expands the IEEE visibility into new areas.