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Best Paper Award

The Remote Sensing Best Paper Award is granted annually to highlight publications of high quality, scientific significance, and extensive influence. The evaluation committee members choose 10 articles of exceptional quality that were published in the journal the previous year and announce them online by the end of June.

The Prize:
– Seven research articles and three reviews will be selected.
– The seven winning authors of research articles will receive CHF 500; the three winning authors of reviews will receive CHF 800. Each reviewer will receive a certificate and a voucher covering our Article Processing Charge (valid for one year).

Note on Winner Announcement Date

Thank you for your continuous support. We regret to inform you that the deadline for announcing the winner of the 2022 Best Paper Award has been postponed until the end of October.

The Editorial Office would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

 
Remote Sensing Best Paper Award
 

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Remote Sensing will be eligible (both regular and Special Issue submissions).

Selection Criteria

– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citations and downloads.

 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

20 pages, 10108 KiB  
Article
Transformer Neural Network for Weed and Crop Classification of High Resolution UAV Images
by Reenul Reedha, Eric Dericquebourg, Raphael Canals and Adel Hafiane
Remote Sens. 2022, 14(3), 592; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14030592 - 26 Jan 2022
19 pages, 23245 KiB  
Article
A First Assessment of Canopy Cover Loss in Germany’s Forests after the 2018–2020 Drought Years
by Frank Thonfeld, Ursula Gessner, Stefanie Holzwarth, Jennifer Kriese, Emmanuel da Ponte, Juliane Huth and Claudia Kuenzer
Remote Sens. 2022, 14(3), 562; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14030562 - 25 Jan 2022
22 pages, 20708 KiB  
Article
Underwater Image Restoration via Contrastive Learning and a Real-World Dataset
by Junlin Han, Mehrdad Shoeiby, Tim Malthus, Elizabeth Botha, Janet Anstee, Saeed Anwar, Ran Wei, Mohammad Ali Armin, Hongdong Li and Lars Petersson
Remote Sens. 2022, 14(17), 4297; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14174297 - 31 Aug 2022
18 pages, 2993 KiB  
Article
Self-Supervised Assisted Semi-Supervised Residual Network for Hyperspectral Image Classification
by Liangliang Song, Zhixi Feng, Shuyuan Yang, Xinyu Zhang and Licheng Jiao
Remote Sens. 2022, 14(13), 2997; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14132997 - 23 Jun 2022
19 pages, 5228 KiB  
Article
Use of the Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 Satellites for Water Quality Monitoring: An Early Warning Tool in the Mar Menor Coastal Lagoon
by Isabel Caballero, Mar Roca, Juan Santos-Echeandía, Patricia Bernárdez and Gabriel Navarro
Remote Sens. 2022, 14(12), 2744; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14122744 - 7 Jun 2022
39 pages, 3351 KiB  
Review
UAVs for Science in Antarctica
by Pedro Pina and Gonçalo Vieira
Remote Sens. 2022, 14(7), 1610; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14071610 - 28 Mar 2022
30 pages, 7825 KiB  
Review
A Review of Synthetic-Aperture Radar Image Formation Algorithms and Implementations: A Computational Perspective
by Helena Cruz, Mário Véstias, José Monteiro, Horácio Neto and Rui Policarpo Duarte
Remote Sens. 2022, 14(5), 1258; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14051258 - 4 Mar 2022
18 pages, 37044 KiB  
Article
Global Mangrove Watch: Updated 2010 Mangrove Forest Extent (v2.5)
by Pete Bunting, Ake Rosenqvist, Lammert Hilarides, Richard M. Lucas and Nathan Thomas
Remote Sens. 2022, 14(4), 1034; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14041034 - 21 Feb 2022
19 pages, 4867 KiB  
Article
Global 10 m Land Use Land Cover Datasets: A Comparison of Dynamic World, World Cover and Esri Land Cover
by Zander S. Venter, David N. Barton, Tirthankar Chakraborty, Trond Simensen and Geethen Singh
Remote Sens. 2022, 14(16), 4101; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14164101 - 21 Aug 2022

Award Committee

Dr. Prasad Thenkabail Chairman
U.S. Geological Survey
Dr. Magaly Koch
Boston University
Prof. Timo Balz
Wuhan University
Dr. Alexander Kokhanovsky

Winner

21 pages, 3393 KiB  
Article
A Machine Learning-Based Approach for Surface Soil Moisture Estimations with Google Earth Engine
by Felix Greifeneder, Claudia Notarnicola and Wolfgang Wagner
Remote Sens. 2021, 13(11), 2099; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13112099 - 27 May 2021
21 pages, 10895 KiB  
Article
Estimating Canopy Density Parameters Time-Series for Winter Wheat Using UAS Mounted LiDAR
by Jordan Steven Bates, Carsten Montzka, Marius Schmidt and François Jonard
Remote Sens. 2021, 13(4), 710; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13040710 - 15 Feb 2021
21 pages, 13778 KiB  
Article
Spatial-Spectral Transformer for Hyperspectral Image Classification
by Xin He, Yushi Chen and Zhouhan Lin
Remote Sens. 2021, 13(3), 498; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13030498 - 30 Jan 2021
19 pages, 39618 KiB  
Article
Leveraging TLS as a Calibration and Validation Tool for MLS and ULS Mapping of Savanna Structure and Biomass at Landscape-Scales
by Shaun R. Levick, Tim Whiteside, David A. Loewensteiner, Mitchel Rudge and Renee Bartolo
Remote Sens. 2021, 13(2), 257; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13020257 - 13 Jan 2021
24 pages, 7428 KiB  
Article
Applying RGB- and Thermal-Based Vegetation Indices from UAVs for High-Throughput Field Phenotyping of Drought Tolerance in Forage Grasses
by Tom De Swaef, Wouter H. Maes, Jonas Aper, Joost Baert, Mathias Cougnon, Dirk Reheul, Kathy Steppe, Isabel Roldán-Ruiz and Peter Lootens
Remote Sens. 2021, 13(1), 147; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13010147 - 5 Jan 2021
31 pages, 11753 KiB  
Article
Mapping Daily Evapotranspiration at Field Scale Using the Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 Dataset, with Sharpened VIIRS as a Sentinel-2 Thermal Proxy
by Jie Xue, Martha C. Anderson, Feng Gao, Christopher Hain, Yun Yang, Kyle R. Knipper, William P. Kustas and Yang Yang
Remote Sens. 2021, 13(17), 3420; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13173420 - 28 Aug 2021
29 pages, 18427 KiB  
Article
Machine Learning Classification of Mediterranean Forest Habitats in Google Earth Engine Based on Seasonal Sentinel-2 Time-Series and Input Image Composition Optimisation
by Salvatore Praticò, Francesco Solano, Salvatore Di Fazio and Giuseppe Modica
Remote Sens. 2021, 13(4), 586; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13040586 - 7 Feb 2021
41 pages, 18279 KiB  
Review
SAR Ship Detection Dataset (SSDD): Official Release and Comprehensive Data Analysis
by Tianwen Zhang, Xiaoling Zhang, Jianwei Li, Xiaowo Xu, Baoyou Wang, Xu Zhan, Yanqin Xu, Xiao Ke, Tianjiao Zeng, Hao Su, Israr Ahmad, Dece Pan, Chang Liu, Yue Zhou, Jun Shi and Shunjun Wei
Remote Sens. 2021, 13(18), 3690; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13183690 - 15 Sep 2021
13 pages, 411 KiB  
Review
UAVs for Vegetation Monitoring: Overview and Recent Scientific Contributions
by Ana I. de Castro, Yeyin Shi, Joe Mari Maja and Jose M. Peña
Remote Sens. 2021, 13(11), 2139; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13112139 - 29 May 2021
54 pages, 7153 KiB  
Review
A Review of GPR Application on Transport Infrastructures: Troubleshooting and Best Practices
by Mercedes Solla, Vega Pérez-Gracia and Simona Fontul
Remote Sens. 2021, 13(4), 672; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13040672 - 13 Feb 2021

Winner

23 pages, 2636 KiB  
Article
A Spatial-Temporal Attention-Based Method and a New Dataset for Remote Sensing Image Change Detection
by Hao Chen and Zhenwei Shi
Remote Sens. 2020, 12(10), 1662; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12101662 - 22 May 2020
29 pages, 6546 KiB  
Article
LiCSBAS: An Open-Source InSAR Time Series Analysis Package Integrated with the LiCSAR Automated Sentinel-1 InSAR Processor
by Yu Morishita, Milan Lazecky, Tim J. Wright, Jonathan R. Weiss, John R. Elliott and Andy Hooper
Remote Sens. 2020, 12(3), 424; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12030424 - 28 Jan 2020
23 pages, 27978 KiB  
Article
Mapping Landslides on EO Data: Performance of Deep Learning Models vs. Traditional Machine Learning Models
by Nikhil Prakash, Andrea Manconi and Simon Loew
Remote Sens. 2020, 12(3), 346; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12030346 - 21 Jan 2020
35 pages, 4708 KiB  
Review
Change Detection Based on Artificial Intelligence: State-of-the-Art and Challenges
by Wenzhong Shi, Min Zhang, Rui Zhang, Shanxiong Chen and Zhao Zhan
Remote Sens. 2020, 12(10), 1688; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12101688 - 25 May 2020
35 pages, 1734 KiB  
Review
Current Practices in UAS-based Environmental Monitoring
by Goran Tmušić, Salvatore Manfreda, Helge Aasen, Mike R. James, Gil Gonçalves, Eyal Ben-Dor, Anna Brook, Maria Polinova, Jose Juan Arranz, János Mészáros, Ruodan Zhuang, Kasper Johansen, Yoann Malbeteau, Isabel Pedroso de Lima, Corine Davids, Sorin Herban and Matthew F. McCabe
Remote Sens. 2020, 12(6), 1001; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12061001 - 20 Mar 2020

Award Committee

Dr. Jón Atli Benediktsson Chairman

Winner

29 pages, 17064 KiB  
Article
UAV-Based High Resolution Thermal Imaging for Vegetation Monitoring, and Plant Phenotyping Using ICI 8640 P, FLIR Vue Pro R 640, and thermoMap Cameras
by Vasit Sagan, Maitiniyazi Maimaitijiang, Paheding Sidike, Kevin Eblimit, Kyle T. Peterson, Sean Hartling, Flavio Esposito, Kapil Khanal, Maria Newcomb, Duke Pauli, Rick Ward, Felix Fritschi, Nadia Shakoor and Todd Mockler
Remote Sens. 2019, 11(3), 330; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11030330 - 7 Feb 2019
26 pages, 28982 KiB  
Article
An Integrated View of Greenland Ice Sheet Mass Changes Based on Models and Satellite Observations
by Ruth Mottram, Sebastian B. Simonsen, Synne Høyer Svendsen, Valentina R. Barletta, Louise Sandberg Sørensen, Thomas Nagler, Jan Wuite, Andreas Groh, Martin Horwath, Job Rosier, Anne Solgaard, Christine S. Hvidberg and Rene Forsberg
Remote Sens. 2019, 11(12), 1407; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11121407 - 13 Jun 2019
21 pages, 8791 KiB  
Article
Evaluation of Different Machine Learning Methods and Deep-Learning Convolutional Neural Networks for Landslide Detection
by Omid Ghorbanzadeh, Thomas Blaschke, Khalil Gholamnia, Sansar Raj Meena, Dirk Tiede and Jagannath Aryal
Remote Sens. 2019, 11(2), 196; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11020196 - 20 Jan 2019
41 pages, 6009 KiB  
Review
Satellite Remote Sensing of Precipitation and the Terrestrial Water Cycle in a Changing Climate
by Vincenzo Levizzani and Elsa Cattani
Remote Sens. 2019, 11(19), 2301; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11192301 - 2 Oct 2019
29 pages, 6410 KiB  
Review
A Review on Deep Learning Techniques for 3D Sensed Data Classification
by David Griffiths and Jan Boehm
Remote Sens. 2019, 11(12), 1499; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11121499 - 25 Jun 2019

Award Committee

Dr. Jón Atli Benediktsson Chairman

Winner

1061 KiB  
Article
Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Remote Sensing and Scientific Research: Classification and Considerations of Use
by Adam C. Watts, Vincent G. Ambrosia and Everett A. Hinkley
Remote Sens. 2012, 4(6), 1671-1692; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs4061671 - 8 Jun 2012
2362 KiB  
Article
A Non-Stationary 1981–2012 AVHRR NDVI3g Time Series
by Jorge E. Pinzon and Compton J. Tucker
Remote Sens. 2014, 6(8), 6929-6960; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs6086929 - 25 Jul 2014
1285 KiB  
Article
An International Comparison of Individual Tree Detection and Extraction Using Airborne Laser Scanning
by Harri Kaartinen, Juha Hyyppä, Xiaowei Yu, Mikko Vastaranta, Hannu Hyyppä, Antero Kukko, Markus Holopainen, Christian Heipke, Manuela Hirschmugl, Felix Morsdorf, Erik Næsset, Juho Pitkänen, Sorin Popescu, Svein Solberg, Bernd Michael Wolf and Jee-Cheng Wu
Remote Sens. 2012, 4(4), 950-974; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs4040950 - 30 Mar 2012
1479 KiB  
Article
Global Data Sets of Vegetation Leaf Area Index (LAI)3g and Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR)3g Derived from Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies (GIMMS) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI3g) for the Period 1981 to 2011
by Zaichun Zhu, Jian Bi, Yaozhong Pan, Sangram Ganguly, Alessandro Anav, Liang Xu, Arindam Samanta, Shilong Piao, Ramakrishna R. Nemani and Ranga B. Myneni
Remote Sens. 2013, 5(2), 927-948; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs5020927 - 22 Feb 2013
1863 KiB  
Article
Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI) Technique for Landslide Characterization and Monitoring
by Veronica Tofani, Federico Raspini, Filippo Catani and Nicola Casagli
Remote Sens. 2013, 5(3), 1045-1065; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs5031045 - 1 Mar 2013
2647 KiB  
Review
A Review of the Application of Optical and Radar Remote Sensing Data Fusion to Land Use Mapping and Monitoring
by Neha Joshi, Matthias Baumann, Andrea Ehammer, Rasmus Fensholt, Kenneth Grogan, Patrick Hostert, Martin Rudbeck Jepsen, Tobias Kuemmerle, Patrick Meyfroidt, Edward T. A. Mitchard, Johannes Reiche, Casey M. Ryan and Björn Waske
Remote Sens. 2016, 8(1), 70; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8010070 - 16 Jan 2016
7471 KiB  
Review
Remote Sensing of Coral Reefs for Monitoring and Management: A Review
by John D. Hedley, Chris M. Roelfsema, Iliana Chollett, Alastair R. Harborne, Scott F. Heron, Scarla Weeks, William J. Skirving, Alan E. Strong, C. Mark Eakin, Tyler R. L. Christensen, Victor Ticzon, Sonia Bejarano and Peter J. Mumby
Remote Sens. 2016, 8(2), 118; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8020118 - 6 Feb 2016
6042 KiB  
Review
The EnMAP Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy Mission for Earth Observation
by Luis Guanter, Hermann Kaufmann, Karl Segl, Saskia Foerster, Christian Rogass, Sabine Chabrillat, Theres Kuester, André Hollstein, Godela Rossner, Christian Chlebek, Christoph Straif, Sebastian Fischer, Stefanie Schrader, Tobias Storch, Uta Heiden, Andreas Mueller, Martin Bachmann, Helmut Mühle, Rupert Müller, Martin Habermeyer, Andreas Ohndorf, Joachim Hill, Henning Buddenbaum, Patrick Hostert, Sebastian Van der Linden, Pedro J. Leitão, Andreas Rabe, Roland Doerffer, Hajo Krasemann, Hongyan Xi, Wolfram Mauser, Tobias Hank, Matthias Locherer, Michael Rast, Karl Staenz and Bernhard Sangadd Show full author list remove Hide full author list
Remote Sens. 2015, 7(7), 8830-8857; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs70708830 - 13 Jul 2015
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