Deep Learning Meets Remote Sensing for Earth Observation and Monitoring (Second Edition)

Dear Colleagues,

After the resounding success of our first edition, we are happy to announce the second edition of our Special Issue.

Remote sensing technologies have enabled researchers to understand, analyze and monitor different activities on Earth from afar. With the current technological advances, such as satellites, drones, etc., significant amounts of data (in the form of high-resolution images) can be easily acquired. This opens up new paradigms and research directions for the remote sensing community that offer different applications in diverse fields, for example, smart agriculture, traffic monitoring, disaster management, and urban planning. For Earth’s monitoring, visual pattern recognition is a pre-processing step. Automated recognition of different patterns by employing computer vision and deep learning techniques will provide crucial information for monitoring changes across the Earth’s surface. Deep learning techniques have achieved tremendous success in object classification, detection, and segmentation tasks in natural images; however, these models face challenges in identifying patterns in remote sensing images due to complex backgrounds, arbitrary views, and large variations in object sizes.

This Special Issue invites authors to submit their original articles regarding the design and development of novel deep learning models to identify different visual patterns to support Earth monitoring. In addition, we would like to invite the submission of research related to remote sensing-based disaster assessment and management support systems. Lastly, we welcome comprehensive review articles that focus on analyzing the performances of state-of-the-art deep learning models in remote sensing imagery.

Submissions may cover a wide range of topics, including the following:

• Deep learning models for the monitoring of Earth;
• Deep learning models for the monitoring of crops using remote sensing data;
• Flood segmentation and natural hazards prediction;
• Road and building footprint extraction for urban growth and planning;
• Remote sensing for smart farming for sustainable agriculture.

Dr. Sultan Daud Khan
Dr. Habib Ullah
Dr. Mohib Ullah
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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