Plateau mountainous areas occupy about one fifth of the Earth’s surface, they are home to approximately one tenth of the global population, and provide goods and services to about half of humanity. Plateau mountain environments are essential to the survival of the global ecosystem. Many of them are experiencing degradation in terms of accelerated soil erosion, landslides, and rapid loss of habitat and genetic diversity. Compared with other landscapes, plateau mountainous areas are increasingly threatened by climate warming, posing a threat to future water security, biodiversity, and sustainable development. For example, climate warming poses an increased threat of natural hazards from the mountain cryosphere, such as glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs), avalanches, slope failures, debris flows, or a combination of one or more hazards in a cascading chain. Other degradations also greatly threaten the plentiful ecosystem services provided by plateau mountainous areas. Given the significance of the mountain eco-environment, it is imperative to be able to track its rapid change, with the goal of being able to develop predictive capacity. Hence, proper management of mountain resources and socio-economic development of the people deserves immediate action.
This Research Topic aims to collect the current development of remote sensing applications for the monitoring of plateau mountainous areas. Remote sensing has advanced rapidly in recent years, both in the physical hardware of the sensors and in the algorithms or methodologies used to subsequently process the data. However, the challenges associated with imaging areas of high relief are great, due to the strong topographic effect, frequent cloud over, terrain shadowing, and limited ground observation. Meanwhile, the highly dynamic environment of mountain area further brocks the application of remote sensing for mountain areas.
Topics can include but are not limited to:
• Mountain Hazards Remote Sensing Identification and Monitoring Techniques;
• Quantitative Remote Sensing Retrieval and Modeling in Plateau Mountain Areas;
• Remote Sensing Applications in Plateau Lakes;
• Application of Remote Sensing in High-altitude Agriculture.
Keywords:
Plateau Mountain Areas, Remote Sensing Applications, Mountain disaster and hazards monitoring, Plateau Lakes, High-altitude Agriculture
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
Plateau mountainous areas occupy about one fifth of the Earth’s surface, they are home to approximately one tenth of the global population, and provide goods and services to about half of humanity. Plateau mountain environments are essential to the survival of the global ecosystem. Many of them are experiencing degradation in terms of accelerated soil erosion, landslides, and rapid loss of habitat and genetic diversity. Compared with other landscapes, plateau mountainous areas are increasingly threatened by climate warming, posing a threat to future water security, biodiversity, and sustainable development. For example, climate warming poses an increased threat of natural hazards from the mountain cryosphere, such as glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs), avalanches, slope failures, debris flows, or a combination of one or more hazards in a cascading chain. Other degradations also greatly threaten the plentiful ecosystem services provided by plateau mountainous areas. Given the significance of the mountain eco-environment, it is imperative to be able to track its rapid change, with the goal of being able to develop predictive capacity. Hence, proper management of mountain resources and socio-economic development of the people deserves immediate action.
This Research Topic aims to collect the current development of remote sensing applications for the monitoring of plateau mountainous areas. Remote sensing has advanced rapidly in recent years, both in the physical hardware of the sensors and in the algorithms or methodologies used to subsequently process the data. However, the challenges associated with imaging areas of high relief are great, due to the strong topographic effect, frequent cloud over, terrain shadowing, and limited ground observation. Meanwhile, the highly dynamic environment of mountain area further brocks the application of remote sensing for mountain areas.
Topics can include but are not limited to:
• Mountain Hazards Remote Sensing Identification and Monitoring Techniques;
• Quantitative Remote Sensing Retrieval and Modeling in Plateau Mountain Areas;
• Remote Sensing Applications in Plateau Lakes;
• Application of Remote Sensing in High-altitude Agriculture.
Keywords:
Plateau Mountain Areas, Remote Sensing Applications, Mountain disaster and hazards monitoring, Plateau Lakes, High-altitude Agriculture
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.