Political instability due to drastic shocks such as armed conflicts is prevalent in the world, and can strongly affect society and environment. Monitoring land cover and land use change (LCLUC) amid the conflicts is vital for providing humanitarian aids for food security and post-conflict planning. The recent proliferation of very-high resolution, high frequency, and multi-modal remote sensing data sets from public and private sectors has opened new opportunities in land change monitoring in the conflicted area, where remote sensing is often the only means for information collection. This special issue calls for the latest research on understanding the impacts of LCLUC caused by armed conflicts and political instability. We welcome papers that focusing on changes in agriculture, forest, grassland, urban environments, as well as population displacement in the regions that experienced armed conflicts and political instability. Papers on conflict-induced LCLUC with a direct or indirect link to climate change are also welcome.

Guest editors:

Dr. He Yin

Kent State University, USA

hyin3@kent.edu 

Dr. Xiao-Peng Song

University of Maryland, College Park, USA

xpsong@umd.edu 

Manuscript submission information:

When submitting your manuscript please select the article type “VSI:LCLUC in Conflicted Area”. Please submit your manuscript before the submission deadline (31-May-2024).

Please note that all articles will be open access with free of article publishing charge (APC).

All submissions deemed suitable to be sent for peer review will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Once your manuscript is accepted, it will go into production, and will be simultaneously published in the current regular issue and pulled into the online Special Issue. Articles from this Special Issue will appear in different regular issues of the journal, though they will be clearly marked and branded as Special Issue articles.

Please ensure you read the Guide for Authors before writing your manuscript. The Guide for Authors and the link to submit your manuscript is available on the Journal’s homepage (https://www.elsevier.com/journals/science-of-remote-sensing/2666-0172/guide-for-authors).

Keywords:

Land Use Change; Armed Conflicts; Warfare; Agriculture; Food Security; Population Displacement; Forest; Urban; Land Systems; Satellite

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