Remote Sensing

Application of Electromagnetic Scattering Models in Ocean Remote Sensing

edited by

Min Zhang

,

Weimin Huang

and Jinxing Li

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1698 | 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)

Remote Sensing and GIS for Monitoring Urbanization and Urban Health (Second Edition)

edited by

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and

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1228 | Submission Open

Keywords: urbanization and health both regionally and globally; urban landscape; urban ecological system; and health; territorial spatial planning and health city; urbanization speed and acceleration; spatial– temporal analysis of urbanization; green space/blue space/gray space remote sensing monitoring; map of urban development and evolution; urban environment changes and health effects; remote sensing GIS big data and urban health; remote sensing and GIS monitoring; simulating; and predicting of infectious diseases; such as COVID-19

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

Application of UAV Images in Precision Agriculture

edited by

Ganesh Bora

and

Yali Zhang

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 638 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAV; precision agriculture; remote sensing; AI; image processing; geospatial data

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

Advancement of Remote Sensing and GIS in Risk Protection for Cultural Heritage

edited by

Francesca Matrone

,

Elisabetta Colucci

and

Susana Del Pozo

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 624 | Submission Open

Keywords: mapping hazards; risk mapping; geospatial standards; GIS-BIM integration; AI techniques (machine and deep learning); climate change trend identification; monitoring of cultural heritage sites; change detection; open datasets

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

Advanced Algorithms and Techniques for Remote Sensing Image Processing

edited by Yuting Wan, Yang Chen and Junjue Wang

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 528 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; multi-modal; deep learning; semantic segmentation; object detection; change detection; real-time processing; disaster emergency assessment; urban management and sustainable development; ecological risk assessment

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

Terrestrial‑Satellite Communication Networks

edited by

Nan Cheng

,

Zhisheng Yin

, Conghao Zhou and Yanpeng Dai

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 503 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite-terrestrial networks; resource management; integrated sensing and communication; AI for network; remote sensing; security and privacy; digital twin; multi-tier collaborative computing

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

Intelligent Perception of Disaster Information in Remote Sensing Imagery

edited by Yakun Xie,

Shengjun Tang

and Saeid Pirasteh

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 429 | 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)

Advances in Remote Sensing in Glacial and Periglacial Geomorphology (Second Edition)

edited by

José Juan de Sanjosé Blasco

,

Enrique Serrano Cañadas

,

Manuel Gómez Lende

and

Claudete Oliveira Moreira

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 365 | Submission Open

Keywords: cryosphere; glaciers; rock glaciers; ice caves; permafrost degradation; remote sensing techniques

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

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

edited by

Weilian Li

, Yao Sun and Nina Merkle

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 317 | 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)

Remote Sensing of Agricultural Water Resources

edited by

Pei Leng

,

Chunfeng Ma

and Jianwei Ma

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 289 | Submission Open

Keywords: agricultural water resources (soil moisture/evapotranspiration/precipitation… ); crop water consumption; water use efficiency; detection of irrigation events; agricultural drought; crop monitoring and vegetation parameters retrieval; remote sensing experiments; thermal/SAR remote sensing

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

Advanced Remote Sensing Approaches for Multi-Scale Atmospheric Components Monitoring and Impact Assessment

edited by

, Bing Chen,

,

and

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 288 | Submission Open

Keywords: aerosols; clouds; trace gases; multi-scale remote sensing; lidar; satellite; radiative transfer; atmospheric inversion; multi-source data fusion

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

Remote Sensing in 3D Indoor Mapping and BIM Reconstruction

edited by

Maarten Bassier

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 285 | Submission Open

Keywords: point cloud processing; 3D reconstruction; classification; meshing; spatial analysis; BIM; GIS

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban 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 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 272 | 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 for Geospatial Science)

GRACE Observations for Global Groundwater Storage Analysis

edited by

Norman L. Jones

and

Gustavious Paul Williams

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 215 | Submission Open

Keywords: groundwater sustainability; GRACE; groundwater storage trends; groundwater management

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

ERA5 Climate Application in Cold and Arid Regions

edited by

Yetang Wang

, Giuseppe Longo-Minnolo,

Matteo Ippolito

and

Baojuan Huai

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 210 | Submission Open

Keywords: ERA5 application; cryospheric dynamics; climate changes in cold and arid regions; weather and climatic extremes; ERA5 downscaling techniques; global and regional climate models

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

Laser Scanning in Environmental and Engineering Applications

edited by Maria Alessandra Tini and

Alessandro Lambertini

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 206 | Submission Open

Keywords: TLS; ALS; SLAM; MMSs; LiDAR; UAV; BIM; mapping; monitoring

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

Ecologically Vulnerable Zones (EVZs) in Focus: Remote Sensing and AI for Sustainable Futures

edited by

Alim Samat

, Jianli Ding, Yuemin Yue and

Junli Li

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 206 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; ecologically vulnerable zones; AI/ML applications; climate change; land degradation; biodiversity monitoring; disaster resilience; sustainable development; multi-source data fusion; environmental forecasting

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

Precipitation Estimations Based on Satellite Observations

edited by

Yuanwei Wang

and

Francisco J. Tapiador

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 107 | Submission Open

Keywords: precipitation estimation; satellite observations; remote sensing; algorithm development; validation and calibration; climate applications

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

Remote Sensing of Inland Waters and Their Catchments (2nd Edition)

edited by

Cheng Su

,

Hankui Zhang

and

Rafia Mumtaz

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 102 | Submission Open

Keywords: inland waters; catchments; multispectral/hyperspectral sensors; data fusion; water body monitoring; water quality; flood disasters; AI algorithms; ecological balance; sustainable development

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

Automated Mapping and Monitoring of Soil Key Components and Functions Using Satellite Imagery and Artificial Intelligence Learning

edited by Fubo Zhao,

Huiwen Li

and

Shaohui Zhang

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 87 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil carbon and nitrogen mapping; soil moisture monitoring; soil moisture mapping; soil sustainable management; climate change; land use change; deep learning machine learning

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

Applications of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) in Natural Hazard

edited by Mahdi Panahi,

Fatemeh Rezaie

,

Mahdi Hasanlou

and

Zahra Kalantari

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 74 | Submission Open

Keywords: synthetic aperture radar (SAR); natural hazard assessment; SAR interferometry (InSAR); SAR image segmentation; SAR change detection; SAR time-series analysis; deep learning in remote sensing; disaster risk reduction; ground deformation analysis; SAR data fusion; remote sensing for disaster management

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

Advances in Remote Sensing for Burned Area Mapping

edited by

Giandomenico De Luca

,

Giuseppe Modica

and

Lorenzo Arcidiaco

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 64 | Submission Open

Keywords: burn areas’ detection and mapping; geo-informatics; fire severity; fire regime; biomass loss; wildland– urban interface (WUI) fires; three-dimensional modeling; image processing

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

Remote Sensing of Ecosystem Structure and Function Dynamics Due to Climate Change and Human Activities (2nd Edition)

edited by

Jun Zhai

,

Wei Cao

and

Yuanwei Qin

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 59 | 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)

Remote Sensing Applications for Environmental Monitoring and Land Changes

edited by Krystyna Michałowska,

Ewa Glowienka

,

Eva Savina Malinverni

and

Eufemia Tarantino

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 52 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing and environmental monitoring; AI and machine learning for remote sensing; land use and land cover change analysis; hyperspectral; lidar; optical and radar applications; climate change impact and disaster risk management; big data; cloud-based geospatial processing; data fusion in geospatial analysis; sustainable land management and policy applications

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

Remote Sensing and Non-Destructive Testing Solutions for Sustainable Development and Urban Resilience

edited by

Livia Lantini

, Atiyeh Ardakanian and

Enzo Rizzo

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

Keywords: remote sensing; non-destructive testing; urban resilience; sustainable development; environmental monitoring; disaster preparedness; urban infrastructure; climate adaptation; resource management; smart cities

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

Satellite Observations and Numerical Studies for Ionosphere, Plasma Dynamics, and Space Weather Prediction

edited by Dehe Yang and

Kwangsun Ryu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 43 | Submission Open

Keywords: ionosphere; geomagnetic activities; space plasma; space weather/numerical weather monitoring; satellite remote sensing; in situ measurements; radio occultation

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

Deep Neural Networks for Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Image Processing (Second Edition)

edited by

Yulei Wang

, Enyu Zhao,

Weiying Xie

and

Chein-I Chang

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 30 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep neural networks; deep feature extraction; lightweight model; hyperspectral remote sensing images; thermal infrared; quantitative remote sensing; multi-sensor and multi-platform analyses; remote sensing applications

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

Observation of Optical and Radiative Properties of Atmospheric Aerosols by Ground-Based Remote Sensing Measurements

edited by

Disong Fu

, Kai Wu, Hongrong Shi and

Yu Zheng

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 29 | Submission Open

Keywords: atmospheric aerosols; ground-based remote sensing; aerosol optical properties; radiative transfer modeling; lidar measurements; radiative forcing; sun photometry; long-term monitoring; data validation

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

Advanced Applications of Radar Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence in Meteorology and Hydrology

edited by

Dong-In Lee

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 28 | Submission Open

Keywords: AI and deep learning models for radar-based rainfall estimation; global case studies of radar-aided flood and storm forecasting; machine learning for hydrometeor classification using dual-pol radar; variational wind retrieval using radar networks; AI-driven analysis of tropical cyclones; hurricanes; and typhoons; orographic precipitation modeling across diverse terrains; integration of radar data with satellite or reanalysis products; cross-continental comparison of precipitation microphysics using disdrometers; radar and AI applications for snow; hail; and mixed-phase precipitation systems

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

Quantifying Greenhouse Gases Emissions from Remote Sensing Perspective

edited by

Christoffer Karoff

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 27 | Submission Open

Keywords: greenhouse gas emissions; satellite remote sensing; atmospheric inversion; data assimilation; climate change monitoring; GHG retrieval algorithms; environmental policy

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

Computer Vision, Neural Networks and Deep Learning for SAR Image Processing

edited by Changcheng Wang,

Peng Shen

and Alin Achim

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 22 | Submission Open

Keywords: SAR image processing; computer vision; deep learning; object detection with SAR; SAR image classification; PolSAR classification; optical and SAR data fusion; agricultural monitoring with SAR; forest monitoring with SAR; soil moisture inversion with SAR; geohazard monitoring with SAR

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

Observation and Simulation of Aerosol, Cloud and Their Interactions

edited by Zengxin Pan, Yawen Liu and

Xin Lu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 20 | Submission Open

Keywords: aerosol; cloud; aerosol– cloud interaction; satellite observation; simulation; deep learning

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

Application of Remote Sensing in Landscape Ecology

edited by

Wayne Myers

and

Douglas Miller

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 19 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; landscape ecology; image analysis; environmental indicators; lidar; radar; ecosystem services; spatial analysis; machine learning; drones; multispectral; digital elevation model; UAV; satellite imagery; radiotracking; digital sound recording; landscape fragmentation

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

Conformal Vector Arrays in Radar Remote Sensing

edited by Xiaofeng Ma, Wei Liu and

Xiangrong Wang

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Submission Open

Keywords: conformal vector arrays; modeling and calibration; array signal processing; target detection and classification; other applications in radar remote sensing

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

Advances in UAV-Based Remote Sensing for Climate-Smart Agriculture

edited by Hongquan Wang,

Taifeng Dong

and

Liming He

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Submission Open

Keywords: unmanned aerial vehicles; remote sensing; climate-smart agriculture; crop phenotyping; precision agriculture

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

Advancing Synthetic Aperture Radar: Imaging, Processing, and Applications in Remote Sensing

edited by Shiqi Xing,

Sinong Quan

and

Tao Zhang

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Submission Open

Keywords: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR); SAR imaging; SAR information processing; SAR signal processing; SAR image processing; digital beamforming

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

Remote Sensing Modelling and Measuring Snow Cover and Snow Albedo

edited by

Donghang Shao

,

Alexander Kokhanovsky

,

Zhiguang Tang

and

Anxin Ding

submission deadline 1 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 158 | Submission Open

Keywords: snow cover; snow albedo; light-absorbing particles; radiative forcing; Earth radiation budget

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

Applications of Unmanned Aerial Remote Sensing in Precision Agriculture

edited by Erica Isabella Parisi and

Fabiana Di Ciaccio

submission deadline 10 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 563 | Submission Open

Keywords: precision agriculture; unmanned aerial systems (UASs); remote sensing; crop monitoring; soil analysis; irrigation management; multi-spectral imaging; hyper-spectral imaging; thermal imaging; machine learning; environmental impact; data fusion

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

Geodata Science and Spatial Analysis with Remote Sensing

edited by

Qiangqiang Yuan

,

Bin Guo

and

Sergio Bernardes

submission deadline 14 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3343 | Submission Open

Keywords: air pollutants; heavy metals; nighttime light; data-driven models; hyperspectral remote sensing; coupled CFD-GIS

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing for Geospatial Science)

Monitoring Urban Environment and Temperature Change Using Remote Sensing

edited by

George Xian

, Peter Ibsen and

Xiangming Xiao

submission deadline 14 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1319 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban; land cover; surface temperature; urban thermal environment; urban heat island; urban climate

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

Precision Agriculture and Crop Monitoring Based on Remote Sensing Methods

edited by

Renan Falcioni

, Renato Herrig Furlanetto and

Luis Crusiol

submission deadline 14 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 263 | Submission Open

Keywords: precision agriculture; remote sensing; crop monitoring; satellite imagery; UAVs (drones); multispectral sensing; hyperspectral imaging; LiDAR in agriculture; AI in agriculture; sustainable farming.

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

Advances in Atmospheric Aerosol Monitoring Based on Lidar and Satellites

edited by

Dong Liu

submission deadline 14 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 196 | Submission Open

Keywords: atmospheric aerosols; LiDAR and remote sensing satellites; machine learning in aerosol detection; climate regulation; aerosol– cloud interactions; aerosol transport modeling

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

SAR Imaging and Deep Learning for Sea Target Detection and Maritime Surveillance

edited by

Ding Nie

,

Vassilis Anastassopoulos

and Hui Chen

submission deadline 14 Nov 2025 | Submission Open

Keywords: SAR imaging; maritime target detection; deep learning; electromagnetic scattering; multi-source data fusion; marine situational awareness

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

Multi-Dimensional Radar Sensing: Systems, Algorithms, and Applications (Second Edition)

edited by

Mou Wang

,

Jun Shi

, Xianxiang Yu,

Shunjun Wei

and Jiahui Chen

submission deadline 14 Nov 2025 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-dimensional radar sensing; imaging and sensing algorithms; object detection and recognition; 3-D image and point cloud processing; simultaneous localization and mapping; high-dimensional data visualization; multi-sensors image fusion

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

Multi-Platform Hydrometeorological Monitoring and Analysis Using Remote Sensing

edited by

Marios Anagnostou

,

John Kalogiros

and

Jianzhong Lu

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 15536 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing of hydrology; weather radar; multi-platform analysis; soil moisture; precipitation; evapotranspiration; meteorology; weather reanalysis; flood and drought

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

Applications of GIS and 3D City Modelling for Sustainable Urban Planning—from Remote Sensing Perspective

edited by

Iván Puente-Luna

and

Xavier Núñez-Nieto

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8132 | Submission Open

Keywords: GIS; sustainability; 3D city models; sensor data integration; urban planning; geospatial analysis

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

Trend, Progress and Application of Remote Sensing for Atmospheric Environment and Climate Change

edited by

Shaohua Zhao

, Xingying Zhang, Wei Xiong,

,

,

and

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3847 | Submission Open

Keywords: atmospheric monitoring; satellite observations; air quality; aerosols and clouds; greenhouse gas; climate change; data fusion; machine learning

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

Advancements in Microwave Radiometry for Atmospheric Remote Sensing

edited by Ada Vittoria Bosisio and

Jungho Kim

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3529 | Submission Open

Keywords: microwave radiometry; atmospheric remote sensing; weather forecasting; climate modeling; air quality monitoring

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

Advancing Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Service Using Satellite Navigation Technology

edited by

Ke Su

,

Liangliang Yuan

, Yulong Ge,

Amir Allahvirdi-Zadeh

and Guo Chen

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3152 | Submission Open

Keywords: GNSS; PNT; PPP; GNSS timing; GNSS orbiting determination; GNSS meteorology; GNSS ionosphere

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

Monitoring Terrestrial Water Resources Using Multiple Satellite Sensors (Second Edition)

edited by Yao Li,

Nan Xu

,

Yue Ma

and Yi Ma

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2296 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite sensors; terrestrial water resources; lake/reservoir/river/wetland; coast and ocean; hydrology; drought/flooding risk; water environment and security; sustainable development goals

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

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