Remote Sensing

Advancements in Autonomous UAVs for Infrastructure Inspection and Monitoring

edited by

and Samer Karam

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 87 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAV; UAS; and drones; big data; machine and deep learning; three-dimensional mapping; infrastructure; civil engineering; transportation

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

Advanced Satellite Earth Observing Technologies for Weather and Climate Resilience

edited by

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and Longjiang Li

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 85 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite Earth observations; GNSS atmospheric monitoring; International GNSS Service data and products; severe weather forecasting; climate risks assessment; environmental monitoring; numerical weather prediction model; artificial intelligence (AI)-empowered climate model; GNSS tropospheric tomography; miscellaneous advanced methodologies and applications

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

Microwave Remote Sensing for Object Detection 2nd Edition

edited by

Guangcai Sun

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 84 | Submission Open

Keywords: synthetic aperture radar (SAR); airborne and satellite systems; objection detection and recognition; machine learning; compressive sensing; deep neural network sand few sample learning; ground moving target indication (GMTI); change detection in SAR images; generative adversarial networks (GANs); ship detection and ship traffic

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

Application of Electromagnetic Scattering Models in Ocean Remote Sensing

edited by

Min Zhang

,

Weimin Huang

and Jinxing Li

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 75 | Submission Open

Keywords: electromagnetic scattering; radar cross sections; rough sea surface; radar echo; radar image; target detection; GNSS-R; information inversion

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

Space-Photogrammetry for High-Precision Measurement by Multi-Sensor Data Fusion

edited by Rujin Zhao,

Zhenming Peng

and

Xiong Xu

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 69 | Submission Open

Keywords: space target; high-precision measurement; remote sensing; information fusion; space photogrammetry; spectral measurement

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

Remote Sensing of Landmines and ERW Using Ground Penetrating Radar

edited by David J. Daniels,

Lorenzo Capineri

,

Frank Podd

and

Federico Lombardi

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 64 | Submission Open

Keywords: landmine detection; GPR antennas; handheld; vehicle mounted; UAV mounted; single; dual; and array GPR antennas

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

Vegetation Dynamics Revealed by Remote Sensing and Its Feedback to Regional and Global Climate (3rd Edition)

edited by

Xuejia Wang

,

Tinghai Ou

and

Wenxin Zhang

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 59 | Submission Open

Keywords: vegetation type; vegetation phenology; change detection; model simulation; response to climate change; feedback to climate change

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

Geodetic and Remote Sensing Observations in Tibet, Xinjiang and Siberia for Climate and Environment Change Studies (Second Edition)

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submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 59 | Submission Open

Keywords: Tibetan Plateau; Xinjiang; Siberia; geodetic observation; global environment change; time and frequency applications; Earth rotation effects; crust structure and density refinement

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

Remote Sensing in Natural Hazard Exploration and Impact Assessment

edited by

Aggelos Pallikarakis

,

Emmanouil Psomiadis

,

Georgios Deligiannakis

and

Michalis Diakakis

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 59 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest fires and erosion; pollution; climate changes; floods; earthquakes and active faults; liquefaction; pandemic situations; urban and coastal areas

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

Low Earth Orbit Enhanced GNSS: Opportunities and Challenges

edited by Ziang Zhang and

Kan Wang

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 51 | Submission Open

Keywords: navigation augmentation; integrity monitoring; GNSS anti-spoofing; global navigation satellite system; low orbit constellation; satellite orbit determination; communication Integration; space environment monitoring

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

Recent Advances in Water Quality Monitoring

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submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5072 | Submission Open

Keywords: water quality assessment; marine pollution; eutrophication; phytoplankton; HABs; marine litter; oil spills; dumping of dredge spoil; eddies and ecosystem dynamics in open waters

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

Time-Lapse Geophysical and Remote Sensing-Based Imaging and Diagnosis on Urban and Natural Hazards

edited by

Wallace W.L. Lai

,

Xiaolin Zhu

and

Xuehong Chen

submission deadline 6 Mar 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7894 | Submission Open

Keywords: time-lapse geophysics; remote sensing; image registration; image processing and classification; hazard diagnosis

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

Proximal and Remote Sensing for Low-Cost Soil Carbon Stock Estimation

edited by Tong Li,

Songchao Chen

, Anquan Xia,

Francesco Fava

and

Yash Dang

submission deadline 14 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 256 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil fertility; visible near-infrared (VNIR) spectroscopy; mid-infrared (MIR) spectroscopy; climate change; machine learning; digital soil mapping; land-use management; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); airborne; and satellite imagery

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

Advances in Microwave Remote Sensing for Earth Observation (EO)

edited by

Arnab Muhuri

submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 18996 | Submission Open

Keywords: Earth observation; active microwave remote sensing; passive microwave remote sensing; polarimetric SAR: full; dual; compact; machine learning; image classification; target decomposition techniques; interferometric SAR

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

High-Throughput Phenotyping in Plants Using Remote Sensing

edited by

Paulo Eduardo Teodoro

,

Carlos Antonio Da Silva Junior

and

Larissa Pereira Ribeiro Teodoro

submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 14743 | Submission Open

Keywords: computational intelligence; agronomic traits of plants; physiological traits of plants; nutritional traits of plants; industrial traits of plants; UAV-multispectral sensor

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

Deep Learning and Explainable AI (XAI) for Next Level Information Extraction from Remote Sensing Imagery

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submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8915 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; information extraction; artificial intelligence; machine learning; deep learning; explainable AI; classification; change detection; feature extraction

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

Image Processing from Aerial and Satellite Imagery

edited by Eugene Levin,

Roman Shults

and

Surya Prakash Tiwari

submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7797 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; aerial imagery; satellite imagery; image processing; data fusion; machine learning; feature extraction; change detection; environmental monitoring; photogrammetry/space photogrammetry; land use/land cover classification; geospatial analysis

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

Machine Learning and High-Throughput Phenotyping in Precision Agriculture

edited by

Jorge Martínez-Guanter

, Akash Ashapure and

Salah Er-Raki

submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5528 | Submission Open

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

Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Space Geodesy Applications

edited by

Maria Kaselimi

,

Benedikt Soja

and

Mattia Crespi

submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5487 | Submission Open

Keywords: space geodesy; GNSS; machine learning; deep learning; spatio-temporal data modelling

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

New Methods and Applications in Remote Sensing of Tropical Forests

edited by

Cibele Hummel Do Amaral

,

Polyanna da Conceição Bispo

,

Ricardo Dalagnol

and

Ekena Rangel Pinagé

submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5378 | Submission Open

Keywords: tropical forest; spectroscopy; lidar; SAR; solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence; data fusion; time series; machine learning; deep learning; cloud computing; open science

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

Target Detection with Fully-Polarized Radar

edited by Siwei Chen, Tao Liu,

Dusan Gleich

,

Gui Gao

and Jian Yang

submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4739 | Submission Open

Keywords: target detection; polarimetry; fully polarized radar; deep learning; ship wake detection; stealthy; slow; or high-speed targets; clutter

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

Remote Sensing Application in the Carbon Flux Modelling

edited by

Zongyao Sha

and

Yichun Xie

submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3691 | Submission Open

Keywords: carbon cycle; ecosystems; carbon emissions; vegetation carbon sequestration; geospatial modeling

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

Recent Advances in Precipitation Radar

edited by

Dong-In Lee

submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3143 | Submission Open

Keywords: weather radar quality control algorithms; quantitative precipitation estimation and forecasting; microphysical characteristics of precipitation; polarimetric and phased array radar applications; field observational campaign of high-impact weather; development mechanism of frontal systems and tropical cyclones; radar wind field retrieval and analyses; chaff diffusion analyses by radars; radar nowcasting

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

Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Recent Progress in Atmospheric Remote Sensing

edited by Gorden Videen and

Ismail Gultepe

submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2997 | Submission Open

Keywords: aerosols; smoke; ash; dust; ice crystals; clouds; polarimetry; lidar; satellites; neural networks and AI

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

Advances in Remote Sensing to Understand Hydrological and Meteorological Extreme Events

edited by

Hatim Sharif

submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2657 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrometeorology; remote sensing; natural hazards; extreme events; hydrologic modelling and forecasting; public health; risk management; disaster mitigation; satellite; radar

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

Recent Advances in Drought Risk Assessment, Monitoring, and Forecasting II

edited by

Yuei-An Liou

submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2558 | Submission Open

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

Recent Advances in Water Resources and Water Environmental Monitoring with Remote Sensing Techniques

edited by Xuchu Yu,

Bing Liu

and Qingyu Li

submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2417 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing hydrological model; hydrologic process; water level monitoring; water volume monitoring; water body extraction; inversion models; change detection; deep learning; large model; water pollution identification; geographic information systems

Enhanced Satellite Perspectives of Sea Surface Temperature and Air-Sea Interaction

edited by

Hazem Nagy

,

Omneya Ibrahim

and

Bayoumy Mohamed

submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1612 | Submission Open

Keywords: sea surface temperature; extreme events (e.g.; atmospheric and oceanic heatwaves; low chlorophyll-a); climate change; air-sea interaction; biogeochemical cycle; large-scale teleconnection pattern; coral bleaching; sea ice concentration

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

Remote Sensing Applications for Enhancing Wildfire Management and Ecosystem Multifunctionality

edited by Paula García-Llamas and

Angela Taboada

submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 903 | Submission Open

Keywords: wildfire; fire management; remote sensing; ecosystem functioning; fire products; fire risk; ecosystem services

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

Remote Sensing and Modelling of Terrestrial Ecosystems Functioning

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submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 804 | Submission Open

Keywords: terrestrial ecosystems; remote sensing; vegetation functioning; ET and GPP; estimation and modelling; accuracy assessment

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

Remote Sensing for Monitoring and Assessment of Hydrological and Water Quality Parameters

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submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 675 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable water management; climate change effects; hydrological processes; soil moisture and flooding; coastal and inland water dynamics; retrieval of water quality parameters; remote sensing; machine learning

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

Recent Advances in Infrared Target Detection

edited by Xia Wang and

Kun Gao

submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 608 | Submission Open

Keywords: infrared target detection; deep learning; signal processing; infrared image enhancement; multi-resource data fusion; infrared target tracking; infrared target monitoring

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

Mapping and Monitoring Glacial and Snow Changes through Remote Sensing

edited by

Livio Pinto

,

Niccolò Dematteis

and

Francesco Ioli

submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 543 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; glacial change; snow cover monitoring; climate change; water resource management

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

Drones for Natural Hazards

edited by

Vasil Yordanov

,

Luigi Barazzetti

and

Maria Antonia Brovelli

submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 541 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAV; drones; hazards; mapping; geographic information science; remote sensing; landslides; floods; wildfires; volcanoes; disasters; relief

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

Advancements of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in Remote Sensing

edited by Zhixi Feng, Chuang Yang, Hongyuan Zhang, Chen Yang and Yue Chang

submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 345 | Submission Open

Keywords: vision– language models (VLMs); multimodal data fusion; remote sensing VQA; automatic annotation; semantic segmentation; object detection; super-resolution reconstruction; change detection; pretraining models; multimodal retrieval

Multiplatform and Multisensor Applications for Landslide Characterization and Monitoring

edited by

Stratis Karantanellis

, Marco Mulas, Giuseppe Ciccarese and

Paolo Mazzanti

submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 230 | Submission Open

Keywords: landslide detection; landslide characterization; landslide monitoring; data fusion; remote sensing

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

Multi-Task Remote Sensing Image Analysis: Classification, Segmentation, and Change Detection

edited by Liguo Weng

submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 27 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-task learning; remote sensing image classification; semantic segmentation; change detection; deep learning; multi-temporal analysis; data fusion; transfer learning; environmental monitoring; high-resolution remote sensing

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

Advanced Deep Learning Techniques for Information Extraction and Analysis of Remote Sensing Imagery

edited by Hao Zhu and Biao Hou

submission deadline 16 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 19 | Submission Open

Keywords: image fusion; image segmentation; object detection; model acceleration or compression; image matching

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

Space-Geodetic Techniques (Third Edition)

edited by

Xiaogong Hu

and

Walyeldeen Godah

submission deadline 17 Mar 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1602 | Submission Open

Keywords: ground and satellite gravimetry; satellite altimetry; positioning; orbit determination; atmosphere; space weather; global climate change; geodynamics; natural hazard monitoring; earth rotation; planetary geodesy; GNSS-R

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

Advances in Remote Sensing of Ocean Salinity

edited by

Ebenezer Sackitey Nyadjro

submission deadline 20 Mar 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 9932 | Submission Open

Keywords: salinity; sea surface salinity; in situ salinity; SMAP; SMOS; Aquarius; remote sensing; data assimilation; freshwater dynamics; ocean climate

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

Deep Learning for Remote Sensing and Geodata

edited by

Levente Klein

, Conrad M. Albrecht,

Martin Werner

and Salman Khan

submission deadline 20 Mar 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 5984 | Submission Open

Keywords: foundational models; deep learning; artificial intelligence; satellite and aerial remote sensing; LiDAR and point cloud processing; earth digital twin

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

Advances in Applications of Remote Sensing GIS and GNSS

edited by

Bing Xu

,

Lei Wang

,

Qian (Chayn) Sun

and

Panagiotis Partsinevelos

submission deadline 20 Mar 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4951 | Submission Open

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

Advances in Near-Earth Space and Atmospheric Physics from Ground-Based and Satellite Observations

edited by Veronika Barta, Christina Arras and Jaroslav Urbar

submission deadline 20 Mar 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3205 | Submission Open

Keywords: ground-based and satellite observations; GNSS/Lidar/SAR/Microwave radiometer; solar– terrestrial coupling processes; troposphere– ionosphere coupling; geospheric storms; ionospheric physics; space weather; model comparison with observations

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

Analyzing the Influence of Environmental Change on Water and Terrestrial Vegetation Using Satellite Data

edited by

Yared Bayissa

,

Assefa M. Melesse

and David de Andrade Costa

submission deadline 20 Mar 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2734 | Submission Open

Keywords: terrestrial vegetation; environmental change; vegetation dynamics; deforestation; drought monitoring; climate change

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

Assessing Spatiotemporal Changes in Vegetation and Soil Properties Using Remote Sensing and Digital Soil Mapping (DSM)

edited by

Eli Argaman

submission deadline 20 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 612 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil– plant interactions; spatiotemporal modeling; soil properties; vegetation dynamics; soil health; soil ecosystems; UAV

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

Application of Remote Sensing and Numerical Modelling in River, Estuarine and Coastal Environments

edited by

Eleonora Perugini

, Lorenzo Melito and

Erwin Bergsma

submission deadline 20 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 272 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; numerical modelling; flood risk; coastal erosion; waves; river flow; surface velocity; video monitoring; hydro-morphodynamics; CFD

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

Intelligent Perception of Disaster Information in Remote Sensing Imagery

edited by Yakun Xie,

Shengjun Tang

and Saeid Pirasteh

submission deadline 20 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 82 | Submission Open

Keywords: disaster perception; artificial intelligence; multimodal data; emergency rescue; post-disaster reconstruction; geospatial big data

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

Machine Learning in Global Change Ecology: Methods and Applications

edited by

Boyi Liang

,

Hongyan Liu

,

Ying Qu

, Jiangzhou Xia and

Micol Rossini

submission deadline 25 Mar 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6077 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; machine learning; terrestrial vegetation; carbon cycle; climate change; global change ecology

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

Applications of Remote Sensing in the Monitoring of the Mountain Cryosphere

edited by Pedro Fidel Espín-López, Massimiliano Barbolini and

Andreas J. Dietz

submission deadline 25 Mar 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1514 | Submission Open

Keywords: snow cover; glaciers; remote sensing; permafrost; snow avalanches; climate change; water management; hyperspectral; black carbon

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

Rockfall Hazard Analysis Using Remote Sensing Techniques (Second Edition)

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submission deadline 25 Mar 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 878 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing-based rockfall mapping and measurement; remote sensing-based methods for rockfall hazard analysis; rockfall-triggering factors; parameters for rockfall analysis; detection and characterization of rockfall; landslides; rockfall monitoring; optical/multispectral/hyperspectral image processing; SAR/LiDAR; unmanned aerial system (UAS)

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

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