Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometers and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Visible/Infrared Imaging Radiometers are the backbones for remote sensing of the Earth on all observing platforms, including satellite, aircraft, drones, ground based, and underwater, for both day and night observations. These radiometers typically cover the spectral range from 0.3 to 2.5 um in the visible/near infrared, and 3–13um in the thermal infrared. Spatial resolutions range from a few centimeters to a few kilometers. The observations are used for a large number of applications, including, but not limited to, imagery of the Earth, landuse/landcover change, urban and regional development, vegetation health for agriculture and food production, land surface type, albedo, and temperature, sea ice and snow characterization, aerosols and air quality, cloud properties, sea surface temperature, ocean color and water quality, active fire, polar wind, nightlights from human settlement, air glows, aurora, lunar reflection, climate change, as well as monitoring of endangered species. For many quantitative applications, imaging radiometers need to be calibrated and the data products validated.

With the proliferation of smallsat, cubesat, and drones in recent years, we expect significant growth in the use of visible/infrared imaging radiometers for remote sensing in the next decades, which complement the large volume of data produced by legacy remote sensing systems. The exponential growth in data volume will undoubtedly further stimulate applications, shaping up Big Data analytics and technologies, and opens new opportunities.

This Special Issue of Remote Sensing aims at exploring recent results in the development, deployment, data acquisition, analysis, applications, exploration, and utilization of visible/infrared imaging radiometers, data, algorithms, and products for Earth observations. Studies, using data from all platforms, are encouraged to contribute to this collection. We welcome submissions of original manuscripts of latest research results. Review contributions are also welcome.

Dr. Changyong Cao
Collection Editor

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