Remote Sensing for Global Good: Solutions for Human, Environmental, and Climate Challenges

Global environmental, societal, and climate change challenges are intensifying, creating an urgent need for innovative approaches to understand and mitigate the impact of these issues for sustainable development. Integrating remote sensing technologies with interdisciplinary research amplifies their potential for addressing these challenges. This integration fosters collaboration across fields such as ecology, geography, environmental management, public health, and the social sciences, leading to holistic solutions for social good. This Research Topic aims to showcase interdisciplinary research that leverages remote sensing for global good in line with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, addressing critical challenges such as biodiversity loss, natural hazards, land use changes, public health issues, and human-environment interactions.

The goal of this Research Topic is to bridge the gap between cutting-edge remote sensing research and its societal applications for the greater good under pressing socio-environmental challenges. It aims to engage a broad audience, including researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. Through its contributions, the Research Topic aspires to highlight the transformative power of remote sensing in addressing critical global issues and create pathways for integrating research outcomes into actionable solutions for social good.

We welcome submissions of original research articles, reviews, and case studies demonstrating novel/innovative remote sensing applications for societal benefit. This special issue encourages the contributors to focus on, but is not limited to, the following themes:

• Natural hazards, disaster management, early warning systems, monitoring and post-disaster recovery efforts to support the successful implementation of climate risk assessment.

• Investigating the impacts of land use alterations on environmental sustainability and climate change.

• Exploring the role of geospatial techniques in tracking disease outbreaks and environmental health risks and supporting healthcare delivery in under-served areas.

• Technological advancements and innovations in sensors, data processing, and analytical methods that enhance sustainability.

• Enhancing understanding about optimal human-environment interaction and reduced human-animal conflict under climate change scenarios

• Biodiversity monitoring, species distribution modelling, and inform conservation strategies to increase resilience.

Keywords: remote sensing, climate change, sustainable development goals, socioeconomic development, biodiversity loss, human system

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.