Guest editorial of the special issue “remote sensing in water management and hydrology”

Abstract

This special issue starts with an article on high seismicity detection, namely “Fluid-Induced High Seismicity in Songliao Basin of China,” co-authored by Sheng et al. (2020). The authors attempt to assess and review the activity of fluid-induced high seismicity in Songliao Basin of China using the existing data and latest research findings. The authors clearly find the relationship between high seismicity and highpressure water injection of oil exploration. The second article is “Numerical Simulation of Temperature Field and Temperature Stress of Thermal Jet for Water Measurement,” by G. Wang et al. (2020) proposes a numerical simulation approach for water measurement. They present a new and innovative model of thermal jet drilling with significant field application. In the article, “Modeling and molecular simulation of natural gas hydrate stabilizers,” L. Wang et al. (2020) proposes natural gas hydrate and lecithin. The findings observed from the simulation indicate that hydrates disassociate more slowly. The fourth article “The diversity of birds in typical urban lake-wetlands and its response to the landscape heterogeneity in the buffer zone based on GIS and field investigation in Daqing, China,” by T. T. Chen et al. (2020) analyses the key factors that affect the diversity of lake-wetland bird using GIS techniques and field investigations. The findings obtained from this study indicate that there were inter-species in habitat parameters, which adversely affect the distribution of birds. Thus, any imbalance in the environment can indirectly disrupt the hydrological cycle. The fifth paper “Research on desert water management and desert control” by Zhiyong Wang (2020), proposes a qualitative research on desert water management and desert control. It explores new and innovative material technologies on water management and explores the characteristics of the desert water science materials in an appropriate way. In the sixth paper “Research on Mesoscale Eddy Tracking Algorithm of Kalman Filtering Under Density Clustering on Time Scale” the authors J.-T. Li and Liang (2020) proposes a tracking algorithm based on density clustering time-scale and mesoscale. The experiments are carried out using the datasets obtained from south china sea and it better reveals the life course of mesoscale eddy in comparison to the existing techniques. In the article “Prediction architecture of deep learning assisted short long-term neural network for advanced traffic critical prediction system using remote sensing data,” W. Wang et al. (2020) proposes a Neural Convolutional Network (NCN) based approach to predict network-wide broad traffic speed with higher accuracy. The simulation results suggest this model to be the most accurate and offer stable prediction facilities. The eighth article is entitled as “Effectiveness evaluation of the coupled LIDs from the watershed scale based on remote sensing image processing and SWMM simulation” authored by Y. Chen et al. (2020) validates the effectiveness of coupled LIDs system for the watershed scale. The major contribution of this work is three-fold and then it is validated based on remote sensing assisted image processing and SWMM simulation. The next article is “Blasting Excavation and Stability Control Technology for Ultra-high Steep Rock Slope of Hydropower Engineering in China: A Review” and it is coauthored by Deng and Chen (2020). This work reviews blasting excavation and stability control technology relating to Chinese hydro-power engineering slope. The results are evaluated using real-time case studies and it is found to be satisfactory. The tenth article in this special section is entitled as “Dynamic Boundary of Floating Platform and Its Influence on the Deepwater Testing Tube” and it is presented by Yufa He et al. (2020). The author investigates permitted limits of various floating drilling platforms. The formulas used for this calculations are constructed using nonlinear dynamic response characteristics and methodologies. In simple terms, this work offers a dynamic theoretic model to study longitudinal-transverse coupled vibrations. In the article “Evaluation of Human Activity Intensity in Geological Environment Problems of Jinan City,” the authors Kai Peng et al. (2020), analyses human activity intensity through the determination of classical standard index. The weights of the evaluation index are attained using objective evaluation method. Consequently, the next article is “Analysis of the Relationships between the Thermophysical Properties of Rocks in the Dandong Area of China” by W. Zhu et al. (2020) The authors explore the relativity between water and the thermophysical properties of rocks. From the observation, it is concluded that there is a rise in thermal conductivity with the increase in water content. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING 2021, VOL. 54, NO. S2, 1–5 https://doi.org/10.1080/22797254.2021.1892335