From Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Nitin Kumar Tripathinitingis@gmail.com

Volume 15, Issue Number 3 contains papers related to air quality PM 2.5, coastal water quality, forestry, machine intelligence for driving behavior, RTK-GNSS, Google Earth engine for cropland, urban land modeling, and mountain range policy and management. I am sure all the readers will get something of their research interest. I will attract the attention of young student researchers to make best use of rich data and tools available on Google Earth Engine and develop new tools to monitor our environment and agriculture for food security and relate it to climate change impacts. Mobile data has become a vital source of analyzing the human behavior. A very interesting paper on finding driving behavior is included in this issue which may give more thoughts on how it can help improving the traffic conditions which are becoming increasingly clogged in mega cities. The paper on policy and management of mountain rangelands is a bit different but really useful for decision makers. I am sure RTK and multi-GNSS research will boom in the future as it will find deep embedded applications from human healthcare, tracking, precision agritech and finally into robotics.

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully accomplished the second mission to Moon on September 7, 2019 by placing orbiter of Chandrayan-2 in the polar orbit of the Moon where it will be active for next 7.5 years and provide useful remote sensing images-optical, thermal and micro-wave. This mission aims to study lunar topography, mineralogy, elemental abundance, the lunar exosphere, and signatures of hydroxyl and water ice. The Orbiter will provide the data for 3D lunar surface. The onboard radar will also map the surface while studying the water ice in the south polar region and thickness of the lunar regolith on the surface. This mission has instilled the remote sensing community with an entirely new interesting mission to take a quantum jump from earth remote sensing towards planetary remote sensing. Best wishes to young generation remote sensing scientists. A whole new cosmos is going to be explored in coming century.

I would like to thank all the authors whose papers are published in this issue for their excellent research and also to the reviewers for their constant efforts on reviewing the manuscripts and helping to maintain novelty and authenticity of the new findings. We will start new section in International Journal of Geoinformatics related to new books and also new innovative projects. Please feel free to contribute regarding these. Suggestions are solicited from Associate Members for developing special issues and also for their interest to join the Editorial Board of International Journal of Geoinformatics starting March 2020.