Remote Sensing

Remote Sensing for Monitoring Land-Use/Land-Cover Change and Impacts on Ecosystem Service

edited by

Shaohua Wang

,

Liang Zhou

,

Yeran Sun

and Haojian Liang

submission deadline 26 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 33 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; land-use change; land-cover monitoring; urban environmental monitoring; urban infrastructure; sustainable land management; RS and GIS integration; deep learning applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental 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 29 | 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)

Remote Sensing for Structural Monitoring and Assessment of Constructions

edited by

Andrea Miano

submission deadline 26 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 15 | Submission Open

Keywords: structural health monitoring; satellite data; structural assessment; structural analysis

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

Remote Sensing for Hydrological Management

edited by

Ram L. Ray

and

Gebrekidan Tefera

submission deadline 26 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 10 | 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 Technologies, Applications and Perspectives at Night: Nightlight, Nighttime Thermal Infrared and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)

edited by

Di Liu

, Jiajun Li, Weiying Lin and

Chengbin Deng

submission deadline 27 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 75 | Submission Open

Keywords: nightlight remote sensing; night-time thermal infrared remote sensing; night-time synthetic aperture radar (SAR); ecological applications; human settlement applications; other night-time applications

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

Recent Development of Practical AI in Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics

edited by

Ziheng Sun

and

Nicoleta Cristea

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 30821 | Submission Open

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

Oceans from Space V

edited by

Vittorio Barale

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 14097 | Submission Open

Keywords: ocean observations; marine environment; oceanographic missions; satellite; and sensors; data cal-val; processing algorithms; and model assimilation; sea parameters and processes; bio-geo-chemical cycles; and ecological status.

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

Application of Hyperspectral Imagery in Precision Agriculture

edited by Donna M. Delparte

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8587 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; hyperspectral remote sensing; spectral analysis; CNN; crop threats; crop yield forecasting

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

Local-Scale Remote Sensing for Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation

edited by

Jesper Erenskjold Moeslund

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8236 | Submission Open

Keywords: biodiversity; ecology; local scale; remote sensing; conservation; restoration; laser scanning; satellite sensors; drones

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

Advance of Radar Meteorology and Hydrology II

edited by

Sanghun Lim

and

Seongsim Yoon

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7354 | Submission Open

Keywords: radar system; radar signal processing; quality control; quantitative precipitation estimation; nowcasting; hydrological applications; remote sensing; precipitation

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

Microwave Tomography: Advancements and Applications

edited by

Giovanni Ludeno

,

Livia Lantini

and

Ilaria Catapano

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7095 | Submission Open

Keywords: microwave and radar imaging; signal processing; microwaves sensors; radar systems; inverse scattering; Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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

Satellite-Based Climate Change and Sustainability Studies

edited by

John J. Qu

,

Xianjun Hao

and Zhiliang Zhu

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 6709 | Submission Open

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

Radar Remote Sensing for Monitoring Agricultural Management

edited by

Dipankar Mandal

,

Lucio Mascolo

and

Mehdi Hosseini

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6570 | Submission Open

Keywords: tillage operation and harvest; soil moisture; crop damage assessment; crop phenology stage identification; new processing pipelines in cloud computing framework; geo-biophysical parameter retrieval approaches; field experiments; data fusion and assimilation

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

Global Monitoring of Inland Water Using Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence

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submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6098 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; inland water; artificial intelligence; water resource; hydrology; machine learning; global change and regional response

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

Remote Sensing of Ecosystem Structure and Function Dynamics Due to Climate Change and Human Activities

edited by

Jun Zhai

,

Yuanwei Qin

and

Wei Cao

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5938 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecosystem structure; ecosystem function; ecological protection; biodiversity; nature reserves; carbon sequestration; climate change

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

Advances in Remote Sensing of Phytoplankton Optical Properties and for Studies in Marine Biology

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submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5562 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine optics; marine biology; phytoplankton communities; phytoplankton biomass; phytoplankton pigments

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

Biomass Remote Sensing in Forest Landscapes II

edited by

, Xiaoyi Wang,

,

and

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5517 | Submission Open

Keywords: above-ground biomass (AGB); carbon cycle; biomass; remote sensing; drone; lidar; laser scanning

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

Spatial Analysis of Fire Susceptibility, Taking into Account Climatic, Vegetation and Geomorphological Triggering Factors through the Use of Remote Sensing Techniques

edited by

Matteo Gentilucci

,

Nicola Casagli

and

Gilberto Pambianchi

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 5134 | Submission Open

Keywords: global warming; climate change effects monitoring; management of the forests; fire risk numeric models; real-time alert for fires; fire risk maps and susceptibility maps; assessment of vegetation well-being parameters

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

Remote Sensing and GIS for Archaeology

edited by

Diofantos G. Hadjimitsis

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 5064 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing and GIS; archaeology; looting; climate change; risk assessment; hazards; archaeological sites; Sentinel/Landsat/Planet; AI; digital twins

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

Structural Health Monitoring and Damage Assessment by Advanced Remote Sensing Techniques and Methods

edited by

Joan Ramon Casas Rius

, Necati Catbas, Rolando A. Chacón and

Daniele Zonta

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2284 | Submission Open

Keywords: structural health monitoring; remote sensing; deformation monitoring; time-series InSAR; lidar; damage identification; deep learning; resilience assessment

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

Advanced Machine Learning Models for Remote Sensing Applications and Data Analysis—Recent Developments

edited by Ahmed Shaharyar Khwaja and

Filippo Biondi

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2182 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; quantum machine learning; optical data; imaging radar data; multispectral and hyperspectral data; environment monitoring and prediction; calamity prediction and detection; agriculture monitoring and prediction; post-calamity evaluation; time-series for structural monitoring; transfer learning and one-shot learning; semi-supervised learning

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

Advances in Multiple Sensor Fusion and Classification for Object Detection and Tracking

edited by Chenwei Deng,

Wenzheng Wang

and Jeongho Cho

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2052 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-modal; multi-dimensional; multi-source information fusion; object detection; recognition and tracking; earth observation applications; feature representation and modeling; machine learning and deep learning

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

New Technologies, Methods and Studies for Seismic and Radar Subsurface Exploration

edited by

Filippo Carboni

,

Maurizio Ercoli

and

Ramon Carbonell

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1924 | Submission Open

Keywords: geological exploration; geophysics; seismic survey; radar surveys; seismic and radar processing and interpretation; planetary geology

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

The Retrievals and Application of Vegetation Optical Depth and Soil Moisture

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submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1853 | Submission Open

Keywords: microwave remote sensing; vegetation optical depth; soil moisture; remote sensing; eco-hydrological applications; vegetation water content; biomass

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

Estimating Above-Ground Biomass and Above-Ground Carbon by Remote Sensing Data

edited by Elia Vangi,

Gherardo Chirici

and

Alessio Collalti

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1653 | Submission Open

Keywords: above-ground biomass; carbon stock; remote sensing; machine learning; climate change; forest modeling; spatial modeling

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

Dam Stability Monitoring with Satellite Geodesy II

edited by

Antonio Miguel Ruiz Armenteros

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submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1465 | Submission Open

Keywords: dam; satellite geodesy; remote sensing; GNSS; radar interferometry; InSAR; deformation monitoring; geodetic measurements; geotechnical measurements; infrastructure; earth observation; sensors

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

Artificial Intelligence-Based Sensor Data Processing for Remote Sensing

edited by

Seongwook Lee

and Byung-Kwan Kim

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1465 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; artificial intelligence/deep learning; sensors (e.g.; camera; lidar; radar); sensor fusion; signal/image processing; target detection and tracking; target recognition and classification; image segmentation

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

Remote Sensing of Global Floods: Observing, Modelling, and Forecasting

edited by

Seyed Vahid Razavi-Termeh

,

Khabat Khosravi

,

Renato Frasson

and

Guy Jean Pierre Schumann

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1442 | Submission Open

Keywords: flood detection; synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery; artificial intelligence; spatial modelling; urban flood risk; flood susceptibility mapping; flood vulnerability and resilience; uncertainties in flood risk assessments; digital technologies in flood risk management; flood warning systems

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

International Symposium on Remote Sensing (ISRS2024)

edited by

Ming-Der Yang

,

Huiping Tsai

and Yen-Ru Lai

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 809 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; spatial information sciences; global navigation satellite systems; photogrammetry; geoinformatics; artificial intelligence

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

Machine Learning for Spatiotemporal Remote Sensing Data (2nd Edition)

edited by

Lianfa Li

,

Xiaomei Yang

,

Yong Ge

and

Nikolaos L. Tsakiridis

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 708 | Submission Open

Keywords: spatiotemporal modeling; spatiotemporal dependency; spatiotemporal prediction; spatiotemporal fusion; forecast; machine learning; deep learning; regression; classification; remote sensing; forecast

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

Crop Yield Estimation Based on Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence

edited by

Orly Enrique Apolo-Apolo

,

Simon Appeltans

,

Mino Sportelli

and

Nathaniel K. Newlands

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 486 | Submission Open

Keywords: data analytics; remote sensing; LiDAR; spectral analysis; crop modelling; geospatial data

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

Remote Sensing for Soil Properties and Plant Ecosystems

edited by

Jarosław Zawadzki

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 420 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil properties; plant ecosystems; soil spectroscopy; soil monitoring; soil mapping; deep learning; multisensoral analysis; soil moisture; plant stress detection

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

Expanding Horizons: Testing and Evaluating Non-conventional Mobile Devices for Remote Sensing in Built and Natural Environment

edited by

Alesandra Spreafico

,

Lorenzo Teppati Losè

and

Jesús Balado Frías

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 383 | Submission Open

Keywords: mobile devices; LiDAR; metric survey; low-cost sensors; mobile apps

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

Satellite Monitoring of Volcanoes in Near-Real Time

edited by

Annalisa Cappello

, Fabrizio Ferrucci, Nikola Rogic and Robert Wright

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 333 | Submission Open

Keywords: spaceborne EO; volcanic unrest; volcanic eruption; volcanic hazards; volcanic risk; emergency planning; emergency response; artificial intelligence; machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Observation for Emergency Management)

New Insights from Wind Remote Sensing

edited by Stefano Letizia, Peter Brugger, Matteo Puccioni and Sonia Wharton

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 314 | Submission Open

Keywords: wind lidars; wind radars; satellite imaging of wind fields; virtual remote sensing; uncertainty quantification of remote sensing; wind resource assessment; thermodynamic profiling for wind energy

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

Remote and Proximal Sensing for Precision Agriculture and Viticulture II

edited by

Frédéric Cointault

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 303 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; proximal sensing; precision agriculture and viticulture; image acquisition; image processing; multi- and hyperspectral data and sensors

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

Advances in Retrieval and Validation of Atmospheric Components by Remote Sensing

edited by

Yuhan Luo

,

Lei Liu

, Shanshan Wang and

Youwen Sun

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 206 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite trace gas product validation; satellite cloud product validation; trace gas vertical profile; atmospheric composition; high-resolution imaging; data assimilation; data fusion

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

Assessment of Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Forest and Grassland Ecosystems Based on Spectral Metrics

edited by

Laura Recuero

,

Víctor Cicuéndez

and Margarita Huesca

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 188 | Submission Open

Keywords: hyperspectral and multispectral sensors (satellite; aerial and UAV); vegetation biophysical parameters; forest and grassland functioning; changes and trends; modelling traits; machine learning algorithms

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

Remote Sensing Image Thorough Analysis by Advanced Machine Learning

edited by

Lei Zhang

,

Chen Ding

and

Wei Wei

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 156 | Submission Open

Keywords: image restoration; image super-resolution; image matching; image fusion; image segmentation; object detection; model acceleration or compression

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

Advanced AI Technology for Remote Sensing Analysis

edited by Guangliang Cheng,

Qi Zhao

, Shuchang Lyu and

Hossein M. Rizeei

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 93 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-modality images; image fusion; cross-domain adaptation; visual– linguistic models; multi-modality downstream tasks; remote sensing; pattern analysis; advanced AI technology; image segmentation/detection and change detection

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

Recent Advances in Multispectral and Hyperspectral Image Analysis and Classification

edited by

Guoming Gao

and

Mercedes E. Paoletti

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 71 | Submission Open

Keywords: hyperspectral classification; intrinsic image decomposition; scene classification; high-order tensor analysis; cross-domain adaptation; hyperspectral and multispectral image fusion; deep learning

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

3D City Modeling and Observation Using Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence

edited by Zheng Ji and

Brian Alan Johnson

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 67 | Submission Open

Keywords: 3D city modlling; city observation; AI algorithm; mobile measurement platform; laser scanning data processing; object recognition and positioning; neural network for 3D reconstruction; multi-source space data processing

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

Microwave Remote Sensing for Object Detection 2nd Edition

edited by

Guangcai Sun

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 63 | 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)

Advancements in Autonomous UAVs for Infrastructure Inspection and Monitoring

edited by

Bashar Alsadik

and Samer Karam

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 49 | 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)

Impacts of Climate Change on Water Cycle and Terrestrial Ecosystems by Remote Sensing

edited by Chun-Yu Dong,

Xufeng Wang

and

Chang Huang

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 44 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; environmental monitoring; hydrological processes; vegetation dynamics; phenology; flood; biodiversity; water cycle; drought; water resources; carbon cycle; biomass

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

Applications of Remote Sensing in Oceanography: Prospects and Challenges (3rd Edition)

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submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 40 | Submission Open

Keywords: SWOT; artificial intelligence; big remotely sensed data; sustainability; climate change; ocean numerical modeling; data assimilation

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

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 35 | 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)

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 34 | 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)

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 30 | 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)

Low Earth Orbit Enhanced GNSS: Opportunities and Challenges

edited by Ziang Zhang and

Kan Wang

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 29 | 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)

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