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Guest-edited Special Issues and their published works across plant ecology, remote sensing, artificial intelligence, urban resilience, and multimodal land monitoring.

5Guest-edited Special Issues
42Published works listed
3Scientific journals

Guest editorships

Special Issues

5 roles
2026 Completed Special Issue

Plant Communities: Identification, Monitoring and Evaluation of Temporal Dynamics

Guest Editor · Ecologies

Submission deadline: 30 April 2026 · 16 published works listed

Plant-community identification, classification, restoration, biodiversity, remote sensing, and long-term ecological dynamics.

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2026 Open Special Issue

Advancing Land Monitoring Through Synergistic Harmonization of Optical, Radar and Lidar Satellite Technologies: 2nd Edition

Guest Editor · Sensors

Submission deadline: 30 September 2026 · 1 published work listed

A second edition focused on reproducible optical–SAR–LiDAR fusion, cross-sensor harmonization, uncertainty, and operational land products.

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2025 Completed Special Issue

Advancing Land Monitoring through Synergistic Harmonization of Optical, Radar and Lidar Satellite Technologies

Guest Editor · Sensors

Closed: 31 July 2025 · 21 published works listed

Twenty contributed research/review papers plus the Guest Editor’s editorial on multimodal land monitoring.

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2025 Completed Special Issue

AI-Enhanced 4D Geospatial Monitoring for Healthy and Resilient Cities

Guest Editor · Applied Sciences

Submission deadline: 20 September 2025 · 3 published works listed

AI, extended reality, geospatial time series, BIM/GIS integration, hydrology, aerosols, and resilient urban planning.

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2024 Completed Special Issue

Ecological Applications of Remote Sensing and Machine/Deep Learning Techniques

Guest Editor · Applied Sciences

Closed: 20 June 2024 · 1 published work listed

Remote sensing and machine/deep learning for ecological mapping, monitoring, biomass, land-cover change, and post-disaster assessment.

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Ecologies · Guest-edited collection

Plant Communities: Identification, Monitoring and Evaluation of Temporal Dynamics

16 works

Submission deadline: 30 April 2026

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2026 Research Article

Endemic Cyclamen purpurascens Subsp. immaculatum: Linking Habitat Conditions to PSII Efficiency and Reproductive Output

Peter Turis; Alena Sliacka Konôpková; Daniel Kurjak

Ecologies 2026, 7(2), 53 · Published 9 June 2026

DOI: 10.3390/ecologies7020053
2026 Research Article

Functional Trait Coordination Among Dominant Tree Species in the Amazonia–Cerrado Transition Zone

Wendell V. de Carvalho; Claire Fortunel; Cristini da S. M. Fonseca; André F. C. Silva; Grazielle S. Teodoro; Thaisa S. Michelan; Ely S. C. Gurgel

Ecologies 2026, 7(2), 49 · Published 30 May 2026

DOI: 10.3390/ecologies7020049
2026 Research Article

Interactive Effects of Resting Time and Seed-Based Restoration on Community Development and Successional Trajectories in High-Andean Grasslands Degraded by Lepidium meyenii Cultivation

Richard Peñaloza; Deyvis Cano; Rocio Damian; Walter Terrel; Humberto Bonilla; Raul Yaranga

Ecologies 2026, 7(2), 42 · Published 12 May 2026

DOI: 10.3390/ecologies7020042
2026 Research Article

Remote-Sensing Carbon Stock Dynamics and Carbon-Market Valuation in Ecuador’s Churute Mangrove Ecological Reserve (2015–2021)

Diego Portalanza; Emily Valle; Manuel Cepeda; Liliam Garzón; Juan Carlos Guevara; Diego Arcos; Carlos Ortega; José Ricardo Macías-Barberán

Ecologies 2026, 7(1), 23 · Published 20 February 2026

DOI: 10.3390/ecologies7010023
2026 Research Article

Tracking Rangeland Degradation from Prosopis juliflora Invasion in Kenya: A Multi-Source Approach Combining Remote Sensing, Machine Learning, and Citizen Science

Fredah Cherotich; Diba Galgallo; Ram Dhulipala; Anthony Whitbread; Ambica Paliwal

Ecologies 2026, 7(1), 20 · Published 13 February 2026

DOI: 10.3390/ecologies7010020
2026 Research Article

Effect of Chemical Management on Weed Diversity and Community Structure in Soybean–Corn Succession in Brazil’s Triângulo Mineiro Region

Júlia Resende Oliveira Silva; Décio Karam; Kassio Ferreira Mendes

Ecologies 2026, 7(1), 12 · Published 26 January 2026

DOI: 10.3390/ecologies7010012
2025 Research Article

Vegetative Growth Analysis of Schoenoplectus californicus (Totora): Dynamics and Physiological Mechanisms in High-Altitude Andean Lakes

Galo Pabón-Garcés; Lucía Vásquez-Hernández; Gladys Yaguana-Jiménez; Patricia Aguirre-Mejía

Ecologies 2025, 6(4), 71 · Published 30 October 2025

DOI: 10.3390/ecologies6040071
2025 Research Article

Restoring High Mountain Sphagnum Communities in the Central Pyrenees

Eulàlia Pladevall-Izard; Aaron Pérez-Haase; Empar Carrillo; Nil Escolà; Josep M. Ninot

Ecologies 2025, 6(4), 67 · Published 7 October 2025

DOI: 10.3390/ecologies6040067
2025 Communication

Absence of Evidence or Evidence of Absence? Concurrent Decline in the Host Plant Onobrychis alba and the Butterfly Polyommatus orphicus in a Montane Habitat of Northern Greece

Angelos Tsikas; Charalampia Charalampidou

Ecologies 2025, 6(3), 62 · Published 9 September 2025

DOI: 10.3390/ecologies6030062
2025 Research Article

The Diversity Indices of Culturable Bacteria from the Rhizosphere of Pennisetum clandestinum and Pseudelephantopus spicatus in Urban Soil

Jorge L. Gallego; Ana M. Agudelo; Clara M. Morales; Andrea Tamayo-Londoño; Juliana Soler-Arango; Irina P. Tirado-Ballestas; Alejandro Arango-Correa

Ecologies 2025, 6(3), 49 · Published 1 July 2025

DOI: 10.3390/ecologies6030049
2025 Research Article

The Floristic Composition and Phytoecological Characterization of Plant Communities in the M’Goun Geopark, High Atlas, Morocco

Aboubakre Outourakhte; Youssef Gharnit; Abdelaziz Moujane; Khalid El Haddany; Aziz Hasib; Abdelali Boulli

Ecologies 2025, 6(2), 29 · Published 1 April 2025

DOI: 10.3390/ecologies6020029
2024 Research Article

Response of Herbaceous and Woody Plant Species in Southern Portugal to Cope Oak Decline Associated to Phytophthora cinnamomi

Ana Cristina Moreira; Manuela Rodriguez-Romero; Joana Neno; Abel Rodrigues; Isabel Calha

Ecologies 2024, 5(3), 432–454 · Published 28 August 2024

DOI: 10.3390/ecologies5030027
2024 Research Article

How Do Nitrogen Deposition, Mowing, and Deer Grazing Drive Vegetation Changes on Dune Heaths?

Mathias Emil Kaae; Fenjuan Hu; Jesper Leth Bak; Morten Tune Strandberg; Christian Frølund Damgaard

Ecologies 2024, 5(1), 116–131 · Published 27 February 2024

DOI: 10.3390/ecologies5010008
2024 Research Article

The Restoration of Degraded Landscapes along the Urban–Rural Gradient of Lubumbashi City (Democratic Republic of the Congo) by Acacia auriculiformis Plantations: Their Spatial Dynamics and Impact on Plant Diversity

Yannick Useni Sikuzani; Héritier Khoji Muteya; Jonas Yona Mleci; Médard Mpanda Mukenza; François Malaisse; Jan Bogaert

Ecologies 2024, 5(1), 25–41 · Published 14 January 2024

DOI: 10.3390/ecologies5010002
2023 Research Article

Seed Source for Restoration: Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium (Michx.) Nash) and the Carolina Sandhills

Elizabeth Johnson; Althea Hotaling Hagan; Patrick Hiesl

Ecologies 2023, 4(2), 344–354 · Published 26 May 2023

DOI: 10.3390/ecologies4020022
2022 Research Article

The Effects of Roundup™ on Benthic Microbial Assemblages

Shannon P. Weatherley; Hannah K. Laird; Caitlyn M. Gatley-Montross; Sarah B. Whorley

Ecologies 2022, 3(4), 557–569 · Published 24 November 2022

DOI: 10.3390/ecologies3040041

Sensors · Guest-edited collection

Advancing Land Monitoring Through Synergistic Harmonization of Optical, Radar and Lidar Satellite Technologies: 2nd Edition

1 work

Submission deadline: 30 September 2026

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2026 Research Article

Vegetation Health Indicators of Groundwater Discharge: Integration of Sentinel-2 Remote Sensing and Meteorological Time Series in the Northern Apennines (Italy)

Murad Abuzarov; Stefano Segadelli; Duccio Rocchini; Marco Cantonati; Alessandro Gargini

Sensors 2026, 26(5), 1464 · Published 26 February 2026

DOI: 10.3390/s26051464

Sensors · Guest-edited collection

Advancing Land Monitoring through Synergistic Harmonization of Optical, Radar and Lidar Satellite Technologies

21 works

Closed: 31 July 2025

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2025 Editorial

Advancing Land Monitoring Through Synergistic Harmonization of Optical, Radar and Lidar Satellite Technologies

Ram C. Sharma

Sensors 2025, 25(19), 5980 · Published 26 September 2025

DOI: 10.3390/s25195980
2025 Research Article

Spectral Demodulation of Mixed-Linewidth FBG Sensor Networks Using Cloud-Based Deep Learning for Land Monitoring

Michael Augustine Arockiyadoss; Cheng-Kai Yao; Pei-Chung Liu; Pradeep Kumar; Siva Kumar Nagi; Amare Mulatie Dehnaw; Peng-Chun Peng

Sensors 2025, 25(18), 5627 · Published 9 September 2025

DOI: 10.3390/s25185627
2025 Review

Prediction of Soil Properties Using Vis-NIR Spectroscopy Combined with Machine Learning: A Review

Su Kyeong Shin; Seung Jun Lee; Jin Hee Park

Sensors 2025, 25(16), 5045 · Published 14 August 2025

DOI: 10.3390/s25165045
2025 Review

Deep Learning-Based Fusion of Optical, Radar, and LiDAR Data for Advancing Land Monitoring

Yizhe Li; Xinqing Xiao

Sensors 2025, 25(16), 4991 · Published 12 August 2025

DOI: 10.3390/s25164991
2025 Research Article

Analysis of Doline Microtopography in Karst Mountainous Terrain Using UAV LiDAR: A Case Study of ‘Gulneomjae’ in Mungyeong City, South Korea

Juneseok Kim; Ilyoung Hong

Sensors 2025, 25(14), 4350 · Published 11 July 2025

DOI: 10.3390/s25144350
2025 Review

From ADAS to Material-Informed Inspection: Review of Hyperspectral Imaging Applications on Mobile Ground Robots

Daniil Valme; Anton Rassõlkin; Dhanushka C. Liyanage

Sensors 2025, 25(8), 2346 · Published 8 April 2025

DOI: 10.3390/s25082346
2025 Research Article

Land Cover Classification Model Using Multispectral Satellite Images Based on a Deep Learning Synergistic Semantic Segmentation Network

Abdorreza Alavi Gharahbagh; Vahid Hajihashemi; José J. M. Machado; João Manuel R. S. Tavares

Sensors 2025, 25(7), 1988 · Published 22 March 2025

DOI: 10.3390/s25071988
2025 Research Article

Spatial–Temporal Dynamics of Vegetation Indices in Response to Drought Across Two Traditional Olive Orchard Regions in the Iberian Peninsula

Nazaret Crespo; Luís Pádua; Paula Paredes; Francisco J. Rebollo; Francisco J. Moral; João A. Santos; Helder Fraga

Sensors 2025, 25(6), 1894 · Published 18 March 2025

DOI: 10.3390/s25061894
2025 Research Article

DVF-NET: Bi-Temporal Remote Sensing Image Registration Network Based on Displacement Vector Field Fusion

Mingliang Xue; Yiming Zhang; Shucai Jia; Chong Cao; Lin Feng; Wanquan Liu

Sensors 2025, 25(5), 1380 · Published 24 February 2025

DOI: 10.3390/s25051380
2025 Review

Constrained Pulse Radar Waveform Design Based on Optimization Theory

Jianwei Wu; Jiawei Zhang; Yifan Chen

Sensors 2025, 25(4), 1203 · Published 16 February 2025

DOI: 10.3390/s25041203
2025 Research Article

From Data to Insights: Modeling Urban Land Surface Temperature Using Geospatial Analysis and Interpretable Machine Learning

Nhat-Duc Hoang; Van-Duc Tran; Thanh-Canh Huynh

Sensors 2025, 25(4), 1169 · Published 14 February 2025

DOI: 10.3390/s25041169
2025 Research Article

A Systematic Study of Popular Software Packages and AI/ML Models for Calibrating In Situ Air Quality Data: An Example with Purple Air Sensors

Seren Smith; Theodore Trefonides; Anusha Srirenganathan Malarvizhi; Shyra LaGarde; Jiakang Liu; Xiaoguo Jia; Zifu Wang; Jacob Cain; Thomas Huang; Mohammad Pourhomayoun; Grace Llewellyn; Wai Phyo; Sina Hasheminassab; Joe Roberts; Kevin Marlis; Daniel Q. Duffy; Chaowei Yang

Sensors 2025, 25(4), 1028 · Published 9 February 2025

DOI: 10.3390/s25041028
2025 Research Article

A Short-Term Traffic Flow Prediction Method Based on Personalized Lightweight Federated Learning

Guowen Dai; Jinjun Tang

Sensors 2025, 25(3), 967 · Published 6 February 2025

DOI: 10.3390/s25030967
2025 Research Article

Spatial Characterization of Woody Species Diversity in Tropical Savannas Using GEDI and Optical Data

Franciel Eduardo Rex; Carlos Alberto Silva; Eben North Broadbent; Ana Paula Dalla Corte; Rodrigo Leite; Andrew Hudak; Caio Hamamura; Hooman Latifi; Jingfeng Xiao; Jeff W. Atkins; Cibele Amaral; Ernandes Macedo da Cunha Neto; Adrian Cardil; Angelica M. Almeyda Zambrano; Veraldo Liesenberg; Jingjing Liang; Danilo Roberti Alves De Almeida; Carine Klauberg

Sensors 2025, 25(2), 308 · Published 7 January 2025

DOI: 10.3390/s25020308
2024 Research Article

Supervised Deep Learning for Detecting and Locating Passive Seismic Events Recorded with DAS: A Case Study

Emad Al-Hemyari; Olivia Collet; Konstantin Tertyshnikov; Roman Pevzner

Sensors 2024, 24(21), 6978 · Published 30 October 2024

DOI: 10.3390/s24216978
2024 Research Article

LLMDiff: Diffusion Model Using Frozen LLM Transformers for Precipitation Nowcasting

Lei She; Chenghong Zhang; Xin Man; Jie Shao

Sensors 2024, 24(18), 6049 · Published 19 September 2024

DOI: 10.3390/s24186049
2024 Research Article

A Deep-Learning-Based Algorithm for Landslide Detection over Wide Areas Using InSAR Images Considering Topographic Features

Ning Li; Guangcai Feng; Yinggang Zhao; Zhiqiang Xiong; Lijia He; Xiuhua Wang; Wenxin Wang; Qi An

Sensors 2024, 24(14), 4583 · Published 15 July 2024

DOI: 10.3390/s24144583
2024 Research Article

Mangrove Species Classification from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Hyperspectral Images Using Object-Oriented Methods Based on Feature Combination and Optimization

Fankai Ye; Baoping Zhou

Sensors 2024, 24(13), 4108 · Published 24 June 2024

DOI: 10.3390/s24134108
2024 Research Article

Subsidence Characteristics in North Anhui Coal Mining Areas Using Space–Air–Ground Collaborative Observations

Li’ao Quan; Shuanggen Jin; Jianxin Zhang; Junyun Chen; Junjun He

Sensors 2024, 24(12), 3869 · Published 14 June 2024

DOI: 10.3390/s24123869
2024 Review

Bibliometric Analysis of Weather Radar Research from 1945 to 2024: Formations, Developments, and Trends

Yin Liu

Sensors 2024, 24(11), 3531 · Published 30 May 2024

DOI: 10.3390/s24113531
2024 Research Article

Enhancing Wetland Mapping: Integrating Sentinel-1/2, GEDI Data, and Google Earth Engine

Hamid Jafarzadeh; Masoud Mahdianpari; Eric W. Gill; Fariba Mohammadimanesh

Sensors 2024, 24(5), 1651 · Published 3 March 2024

DOI: 10.3390/s24051651

Applied Sciences · Guest-edited collection

AI-Enhanced 4D Geospatial Monitoring for Healthy and Resilient Cities

3 works

Submission deadline: 20 September 2025

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2025 Research Article

An Immersive Hydroinformatics Framework with Extended Reality for Enhanced Visualization and Simulation of Hydrologic Data

Uditha Herath Mudiyanselage; Eveline Landes Gonzalez; Yusuf Sermet; Ibrahim Demir

Applied Sciences 2025, 15(10), 5278 · Published 9 May 2025

DOI: 10.3390/app15105278
2024 Research Article

Random Forest Spatial-Temporal and State Space Models to Assess the Impact of Bushfire-Induced Aerosol Events on Ozone Depletion in Australia

Irene Hudson; Phillip Pedro-Suvorov; Servet Kocak

Applied Sciences 2024, 14(21), 9825 · Published 28 October 2024

DOI: 10.3390/app14219825
2024 Research Article

Innovative System for BIM/GIS Integration in the Context of Urban Sustainability

Vincenzo Barrile; Fabio La Foresta; Salvatore Calcagno; Emanuela Genovese

Applied Sciences 2024, 14(19), 8704 · Published 26 September 2024

DOI: 10.3390/app14198704

Applied Sciences · Guest-edited collection

Ecological Applications of Remote Sensing and Machine/Deep Learning Techniques

1 work

Closed: 20 June 2024

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2022 Communication

Countrywide Mapping of Plant Ecological Communities with 101 Legends including Land Cover Types for the First Time at 10 m Resolution through Convolutional Learning of Satellite Images

Ram C. Sharma

Applied Sciences 2022, 12(14), 7125 · Published 14 July 2022

DOI: 10.3390/app12147125