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Special issue "Ecohydrological Remote Sensing"

The water cycle is under major pressure due to the impacts of climate change, higher frequency and more intense extreme hydrological events, e.g., droughts. All water managers and governments need to put in place practical and real mitigation and adaptation measures to try and negate such impacts.

The water cycle is under major pressure due to the impacts of climate change, higher frequency and more intense extreme hydrological events, e.g., droughts. All water managers and governments need to put in place practical and real mitigation and adaptation measures to try and negate such impacts. In many cases the precise impact on ecosystems remains largely unknown, partly due to knowledge gaps on the joint regulation of water management, carbon fluxes as well as different temporal scales between the various processes at play.
Advancing the use of remote sensing to assess the factors controlling ecosystem responses to hydro-climatic conditions at different spatial and temporal scales is essential. The development of real-time monitoring systems of ecohydrological variables like evapotranspiration, gross primary productivity, net ecosystem exchange, or crop yields can help to inform policy decisions and conduct national and international action, especially in regions with scarce ground observations.
The aim of this Special Issue is to investigate functional relationships between hydrology and ecology at multiple spatial and temporal scales using data from land and atmosphere remote-sensing missions to advance the ecohydrological monitoring of terrestrial ecosystems.
Papers should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. The deadline for submissions is 31st December 2019. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for release on www.mdpi.com