Remote Sensing

State of the Art of Geomagnetic/Electromagnetic Satellites: Science and Applications (Second Edition)

edited by

Xuemin Zhang

,

Chieh-Hung Chen

, Yongxin Gao and

Katsumi Hattori

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 91 | Submission Open

Keywords: electromagnetic satellite; geomagnetic field disturbances; ionospheric perturbations; space weather; natural hazards; lithosphere– atmosphere– ionosphere coupling model; artificial intelligence technology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration)

Crop Biophysical Parameters Retrieval Using Remote Sensing Data (Second Edition)

edited by

Jiangang Liu

,

Bo Li

and

Zhenjiang Zhou

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 51 | Submission Open

Keywords: crop biophysical parameters; optical remote sensing; active remote sensing; multisource data integration; radiative transfer model; deep learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)

BDS/GNSS for Earth Observation: Part II

edited by

Shuanggen Jin

,

Gino Dardanelli

and

Mariusz Specht

submission deadline 1 Feb 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 14919 | Submission Open

Keywords: GNSS; NRTK; PPP; geodesy; geohazards; GNSS meteorology; GNSS ionosphere; GNSS-reflectometry; GNSS small satellite; GNSS for autonomous space navigation; GNSS to precision farming (PF); GNSS interference detection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering Remote Sensing)

Forest Biomass/Carbon Monitoring towards Carbon Neutrality

edited by

Zhen Zhen

,

Tao Liu

and

Lin Cao

submission deadline 1 Feb 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 14649 | Submission Open

Keywords: AGB; AGC; carbon neutral; carbon flux; artificial intelligence; carbon source/sink; deep learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Remote Sensing)

New Advancements in the Field of Remote Sensing in Land Surface Processes

edited by

Massimo Menenti

and Jiyue Zhu

submission deadline 1 Feb 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 11522 | Submission Open

Keywords: multispectral; hyperspectral; and LiDAR sensors; active and passive microwave sensors; space-borne; airborne; and UAV platforms; proximal sensing; robotic manned and unmanned systems; data processing techniques; big data; decision support system; AI; machine learning; downscaling and upscaling techniques

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Remote Sensing Applications in Ocean Observation (Third Edition)

edited by

Chung-Ru Ho

submission deadline 1 Feb 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2017 | Submission Open

Keywords: ocean remote sensing; internal waves; eddies; oil spills; algal blooms; sea ices; rogue waves; upwelling; bathymetry; air-sea interaction; marine debris; AI in ocean remote sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)

Multi-platform Collaboration for City 3D Modelling: Photogrammetric and Remote Sensing Satellite, Aerial, Terrestrial, and UAV Data

edited by

Przemysław Klapa

,

Massimiliano Pepe

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Pelagia Gawronek

and Peter Kyseľ

submission deadline 1 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 389 | Submission Open

Keywords: 3D modelling; smart cities; integration of geospatial data; UAV; laser scanning (SLS; ALS; MLS; TLS); photogrammetry and remote sensing; land management; land surveying; civil engineering; multi-dimensional cartography

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Remote Sensing)

Remote Sensing: 15th Anniversary

edited by

Prasad S. Thenkabail

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 29 articles | Viewed by 31421 | Submission Open

State-of-the-Art in Land Cover Classification and Mapping

edited by

Jingxiong Zhang

and

Won-Ho Nam

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 26654 | Submission Open

Keywords: classification; mapping; classification systems; land cover; remote-sensing images; scale; resolution; semantics; spectral– spatial– temporal features; phenology; pattern analysis; machine learning; rule bases; accuracy metrics and assessment; uncertainty; confusion matrix; mixed pixels; sampling; reference samples; image interpretation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)

LEO-Augmented PNT Service

edited by

Kan Wang

,

Ahmed El-Mowafy

and

Xuhai Yang

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 20181 | Submission Open

Keywords: Low Earth orbit (LEO); Precise orbit determination (POD); Time and frequency transfer; Positioning; Navigation; Integrity monitoring; Quality control; Signal processing; Sensor calibration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration)

Near Real-Time (NRT) Agriculture Monitoring

edited by

Liang Sun

,

Feng Gao

,

Wenbin Wu

and Peng Yang

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 17346 | Submission Open

Keywords: near real-time (NRT); early crop mapping; crop stress; crop phenology; yield prediction; soil monitoring; data fusion; time-series analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)

Space-Air-Ground-Ocean Integrated Sensing and Information Transmission

edited by

Jianmin Yang

, Lu Ma, Yiping Duan,

Andrea Nascetti

, Qin Lu and Gang Qiao

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 16 articles | Viewed by 14477 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep-space and deep-sea sensing; underwater wireless communication and networks; underwater positioning; polar and ocean exploration; environmental remote sensing; forest and vegetation remote sensing; agriculture remote sensing; lidar and 3D visual perception

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Applications of Satellite Altimetry in Ocean Observation

edited by

Antonio Sánchez-Román

,

Bàrbara Barceló-Llull

and

Juan M. Sayol

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 12225 | Submission Open

Keywords: radar altimetry; ocean circulation; sea level variability; mesoscale and sub-mesoscale features; large-scale processes; sea surface currents; coastal ocean monitoring; in situ observations; ocean waves; new altimeters

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)

SoOP-Reflectometry or GNSS-Reflectometry: Theory and Applications

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submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 9378 | Submission Open

Keywords: global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs); GNSS reflectometry; signal of opportunity reflectometry; ocean surface; land surface; scattering models

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Aerial Remote Sensing System for Agriculture

edited by

Giuseppe Rossi

,

Gabriel Araújo e Silva Ferraz

,

Leonardo Conti

and

Diego Bedin Marin

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7817 | Submission Open

Keywords: unmanned aerial systems (UAS); remote sensing; precision agriculture; digital agriculture; ultra-high spatial resolution; hyperspectral images; multispectral images; RGB images; vegetation indices; machine and deep learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)

Air-Sea Interaction and Climate Variability in the Ocean: Observations and Modeling Based on Remote Sensing Techniques

edited by

Yuhong Zhang

,

Xiaomei Liao

and

Vladimir N. Kudryavtsev

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 7258 | Submission Open

Keywords: air-sea interactions; climate variability; oceanic dynamics; small- and meso-scale processes; remote sensing observations; high-resolution modeling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)

Advanced Array Signal Processing for Target Imaging and Detection (Second Edition)

edited by

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, Wei Guo,

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submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 6628 | Submission Open

Keywords: radar and sonar array signal processing; waveform and frequency diversity; interference; clutter and noise suppression; aerial/ground/marine/underwater target illumination; target resolution enhancement

(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering Remote Sensing)

Innovative UAV Applications

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submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6237 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAV; measurement; data transfer; image evaluation; image processing; multispectral imaging; sensing techniques

(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering Remote Sensing)

Advances in Deep Fusion of Multi-Source Remote Sensing Images

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submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5937 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-source image fusion; image augmentation; representation learning; image classification; change detection; anomaly detection; object detection; light-weight network; denoising; deblurring; super-resolution

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)

Remote Sensing Cross-Modal Research: Algorithms and Practices

edited by

Xiangtao Zheng

, Xiumei Chen and

Jinchang Ren

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5760 | Submission Open

Keywords: cross-modal representation learning; cross-modal detection and identification; cross-modal conversion and retrieval; cross-modal knowledge reasoning; cross-modal image generation; cross-modal collaborative learning; remote sensing cross-modal application; domain adaptation; transfer learning; cross-modal consistency feature representation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)

New Advances in Remote Sensing Techniques Applied in Surface and Underground Mine Operations

edited by

Kamran Esmaeili

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5144 | Submission Open

Keywords: open-pit mining; underground mining; mapping; mine process monitoring; operational efficiency; mine safety; mine environmental monitoring

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)

Applications of SAR for Environment Observation Analysis

edited by

Vahid Akbari

,

Nizar Bouhlel

,

Alireza Tabatabaeenejad

and

Esra Erten

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5117 | Submission Open

Keywords: synthetic aperture radar; earth observation; machine (deep) learning; image processing; statistical signal processing; environmental monitoring; radar polarimetry; radar interferometry; multivariate statistical analysis; big data analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Remote Sensing of Solar Radiation Absorbed by Land Surfaces

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submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5035 | Submission Open

Keywords: land surface albedo; incoming solar radiation; aerosols; clouds; BRDF; photovoltaic; radiative forcing; validation; climate change/mitigation; earth radiation budget; applications of radiation products

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

The Applications of Remote Sensing, Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Frozen Ground Regions

edited by Xiaoqing Peng,

Dongliang Luo

,

Raul-David Șerban

, Lingcao Huang and Yonghong Yi

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3273 | Submission Open

Keywords: frozen ground; permafrost; remote sensing; machining learning; deep learning; InSAR; carbon

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)

Remote Sensing for Groundwater Hydrology

edited by Zofia Rzepecka,

Monika Birylo

and Olga Barron

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2501 | Submission Open

Keywords: groundwater; GRACE; GLDAS; water storage; methods of groundwater monitoring; water cycle and balance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Remote Sensing Approaches to Groundwater Resource Assessment and Sustainable Management

edited by

Chuen-Fa Ni

and

Takang Yeh

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2470 | Submission Open

Keywords: groundwater resources; groundwater exploration; resilience development; groundwater management; groundwater recharge; water quality; machine learning; data fusion; data validation; modeling; land subsidence; vulnerability map; geohazards

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)

Monitoring Sea Ice Loss with Remote Sensing Techniques

edited by Kohei Cho and Josefino Comiso

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2289 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; glaciology; sea ice; ice sheet; microwave radiometer; optical sensor; SAR

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Monitoring Vegetation Response Based on Remote Sensing and Climate Data (Second Edition)

edited by

Rui Yao

and

Mario Cunha

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2204 | Submission Open

Keywords: vegetation cover; vegetation phenology; vegetation productivity; crop yield; NDVI/EVI/LAI; climate change; human activity detection/monitoring

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)

Satellite Navigation and Signal Processing (Second Edition)

edited by

Mieczysław Bakuła

and

Krzysztof Naus

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1718 | Submission Open

Keywords: GNSS systems; SBAS systems; aircraft/UAV navigation systems; marine navigation systems; land navigation systems; multi-GNSS-integrated navigation systems; GNSS algorithms; GNSS signal processing; multi-GNSS applications; real-time kinematics; smartphone GNSS surveying and navigation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering Remote Sensing)

Planetary Exploration Using Remote Sensing—Volume II

edited by

Pingping Lu

,

Jungrack Kim

, Niutao Liu and

Jiaqi Chen

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1597 | Submission Open

Keywords: solid planets/satellites; topographic survey; subsurface mapping; extraterrestrial SAR and LIDAR; giant planets; hyper/multi spectral sensing of planetary mineral; planetary geodesy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering Remote Sensing)

Advances in Remote Sensing for Regional Soil Moisture Monitoring

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submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1560 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; soil moisture; water resources management; regional scale; hydrological processes; data integration and interpretation; multi-sensor remote sensing observations

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)

Advances in Pedestrian Positioning and Navigation Based on Ultra-Wideband Technology

edited by

Vincenzo Di Pietra

and

Paolo Dabove

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 939 | Submission Open

Keywords: ultra-wideband (UWB); android; smartphone; indoor positioning and tracking; multisensor integration and fusion; PNT; GNSS; cooperative positioning; seamless navigation; ubiquitous positioning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Advances in Remote Sensing for Crop Monitoring and Food Security

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submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 707 | Submission Open

Keywords: crop monitoring; land use change; high-resolution imagery; precision agriculture; phenology; growth stages; vegetation indices; crop stress detection; yield models; machine learning algorithms

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)

Advances in Synthetic Aperture Radar Data Processing and Application (Second Edition)

edited by

Hui Bi

, Daiyin Zhu and Jingjing Zhang

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 532 | Submission Open

Keywords: synthetic aperture radar (SAR); SAR data processing; 3D/4D SAR imaging; ISAR imaging; moving target imaging; SAR applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Observation Data)

Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Analog Sites with Applications to Deep Space Exploration

edited by

Long Xiao

and

Roberto Orosei

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 167 | Submission Open

Keywords: planetary geology; planetary geomorphology; Mars; The Moon; terrestrial planets; remote sensing; space exploration; planetary radar; Analog sites

(This special issue belongs to the Section Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration)

Recent Advances in Sea Ice Research Using Satellite Data (Second Edition)

edited by

Linlin Xu

, Xinwei Chen,

Qingyun Yan

and

Juha Karvonen

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 106 | Submission Open

Keywords: sea ice cover; satellite observations; AI-based Methods; sea ice parameters; remote sensing techniques; computer vision; deep learning; SAR; image segmentation/classification

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)

Advanced Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing Technologies for Early Warning and Disaster Management

edited by

Weilian Li

, Yao Sun and Nina Merkle

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 75 | Submission Open

Keywords: geoinformatics; remote sensing; disaster management; early warning; resilience and environment sustainability; GeoAI

(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering Remote Sensing)

Application of Remote Sensing Images for Monitoring Crops

edited by

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, Xiaoping Wang,

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submission deadline 17 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 337 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; crop monitoring; new and innovative applications; novel mechanisms and data-driven methods; data from new platforms and sensors

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)

Next-Generation Gravity Mission

edited by

Thomas Gruber

and

Jean-Michel Lemoine

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9395 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite gravimetry; mission design; orbit design; gravity field space sensors; innovative space ranging devices; gravity field modelling; simulations; mass distribution; mass transport in earth system; earth science applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration)

Comprehensive Analysis Based on Observation, Remote Sensing, and Numerical Models to Understand the Meteorological Environment in Arid Areas and Their Surrounding Areas

edited by Yonghong Zhang,

, Donglian Sun,

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and

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 5726 | Submission Open

Keywords: land– atmosphere interactions; regional climate change and extreme weather; atmospheric physics and atmospheric environment; arid areas and drought; dust aerosols; greenhouse gases

(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)

Remote Sensing for Geology and Mapping (Second Edition)

edited by

Chao Chen

,

Tao Chen

and

Yanni Dong

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 493 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; machine learning; deep learning; remote sensing; object detection; segmentation; agriculture environment; classifications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)

Deep Learning Innovations in Remote Sensing

edited by

Zhe Wang

,

Chao Fan

,

Sanaz Salati

,

Marshall (Xiaogang) Ma

,

Xiang Que

and

Hui Wang

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 397 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; GeoAI; deep learning; machine learning; GAN; LLM; SAM; and generative AI; image processing and pattern recognition; artificial intelligence; GIS; geostatistics; spatial modeling

(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)

Applications of Multi-scale Remote Sensing and GIS Technology to Study Terrestrial Ecosystems (Second Edition)

edited by

Jiahua Zhang

and

Fengmei Yao

submission deadline 25 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 37 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-scale remote sensing; GIS; terrestrial ecosystems; environmental dynamics; evolution and degradation; carbon; water cycles; climate change; natural disasters; land-use change

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing and Geo-Spatial Science)

Marine Ecology and Biodiversity by Remote Sensing Technology

edited by Laura Martín-García and

Manuel Arbelo

submission deadline 26 Feb 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3971 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine and coastal habitats; habitat mapping; remote sensing; distribution models; marine biodiversity; coastal biodiversity; marine management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Using Remote Sensing Satellites to Explore the Electromagnetic Environment and Natural Hazard Disturbances in Space

edited by Sergey Smirnov,

Angelo De Santis

and

Zeren Zhima

submission deadline 26 Feb 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3234 | Submission Open

Keywords: electromagnetism satellite; infrared/hyperspectral remote sensing; GNSS technology; the electromagnetic environment; natural hazards monitoring

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Artificial Intelligence Remote Sensing for Earth Observation

edited by Haokui Zhang,

Jie Feng

, Xizhe Xue and

Chen Ding

submission deadline 26 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 174 | Submission Open

Keywords: image super-resolution; image segmentation; image classification; multimodal fusion; language– image contrastive learning; visual language model

(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)

Quantitative Remote Sensing and Its Applications in Agriculture and Vegetation

edited by

Zhijun Zhen

,

Shengbo Chen

, Tiangang Yin and

Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry

submission deadline 26 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 160 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantitative remote sensing; radiation directionality observing and modelling; radiative transfer and radiation budget; bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF); directional anisotropy; angular anisotropy; retrieval of plant biochemical parameters; precision agriculture

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)

Trends and Prospects in Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Images Processing and Analysis

edited by

Qiang Zhang

and

Kui Jiang

submission deadline 26 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 142 | Submission Open

Keywords: hyperspectral image; object detection; deep learning; image processing; classification; anomaly detection; super-resolution; denoising; fusion; unmixing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)

Remote Sensing for Hydrological Management

edited by

Ram L. Ray

and

Gebrekidan Tefera

submission deadline 26 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 114 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; hydrological monitoring; hydrological extremes; hydrological models; soil moisture; water quality; water management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Remote Sensing for Monitoring Water and Carbon Cycles

edited by

Dong Liu

, Fang Cao and Shujie Yu

submission deadline 26 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 103 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; water quality; water volume; carbon cycle; total suspended matter; Chlorophyll; dissolved organic carbon; particulate organic carbon; water color; global change

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

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