Remote Sensing: A Themed Issue in Honor of Professor John R. Jensen

Dear Colleagues,

Professor John R. Jensen is a Carolina Distinguished Professor emeritus in the Department of Geography at the University of South Carolina. He has made significant contributions to the field of remote sensing and GIScience in the geographical environmental biophysical and urban sciences through his research publications, leadership, and undergraduate and graduate teaching.  He taught hundreds of undergraduate students and mentored 62 Masters and 35 PhD graduate students to completion in the Department of Geography at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Jensen’s remote sensing and GIScience research focused on: a) remote sensing of wetland biophysical characteristics and water quality assessment; b) the development of algorithms to classify rural and urban-suburban land cover; c) the extraction of change information using improved change detection algorithms and d) the development of remote sensing and GIS-assisted decision support systems.  He received funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) National Science Foundation the Department of Energy National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) The Nature Conservancy and other agencies to support his research. He has published more than 140 articles in refereed journals and has received numerous best scientific and practical paper awards. He was the editor of the journal GIScience & Remote Sensing from 2004–2013 and served on several other journal editorial boards.

Professor Jensen is well known as the author of two widely used remote-sensing and digital image processing textbooks:  Remote Sensing of the Environment (2^nd Ed.; 2007) and Introductory Digital Image Processing: A Remote Sensing Perspective (3^rd Ed. 2005; 4^th Ed. in press) that ushered in a new era of remote sensing education at numerous universities around the world. In 2013 he co-authored Introductory Geographic Information Systems with his son Dr. Ryan Jensen.

Dr. Jensen was Chairman of the Remote Sensing Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) in its formative years. He received the AAG “Lifetime Achievement Honor” for his work in remote sensing and GIScience in 2009. The Remote Sensing Specialty Group of the AAG initiated the “John R. Jensen Distinguished Lecture Series” in 2017 to honor the contribution of Professor Jensen.

Remote Sensing invites scientists to submit original contributions to “Remote Sensing: A Themed Issue in honor of Professor John R. Jensen” and join us to collectively congratulating him for his outstanding accomplishments.

Prof. Changshan Wu
Prof. Cuizhen Wang
Guest Editors

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