Editorial

摘要

Globally, large-scale environmental sensing and sensor network applications play a critical role in environmental resource management. Measuring and forecasting the effect of environmental resource use, recycling, and recovery allows for meeting the goals in sustainable development. This knowledge, along with information technology, can integrally support decision-making in both public and private sectors. The development and application of interlinked real-time or near-real-time sensing technologies and environmental informatics can enable smart development of our spatial decision support system to improve resource efficiency and environmental outcomes. Precise data processing, information retrieval, and forecasting can optimise our resources management ranging from local to regional, and to national decision-making processes. The spectrum may include, but is not limited to, environmental resources management, energy extraction, pollution prevention and control, remediation, design for the environment, sustainable development, etc. It is the aim of this special issue to present such multidisciplinary studies, which demonstrate some of the successes in the field. This special issue therefore collects seven papers to explore several challenges both in the atmospheric and terrestrial environments.