Remote Sensing

Objective Mapping of Terrestrial and Planetary Surface Features: Remote Sensing in Geosciences

edited by Alberto González-Díez

submission deadline 15 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1608 | Submission Open

Keywords: precise DTM or DSM; image filtering techniques; modelling in GIS and remote sensing environments; interferometric measurements; LiDAR cloud of points; digital photogrammetric models; precise measurements of surface deformation; inventories of planetary geoforms; landmark extraction; physics of the earth; tectonics; engineering geology; geomorphology; paleontology; archaeology

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

Advances in the Study of Intelligent Aerospace

edited by

Zhaokui Wang

,

Yang Yang

and

Lin Zhang

submission deadline 15 May 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1584 | Submission Open

Keywords: intelligent perception; space missions; remote sensing; intelligent control; machine learning; space object detection; planetary exploration; optical images

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

Artificial Intelligence and Remote Sensing for Geohazards

edited by

Pierluigi Confuorto

,

Silvia Bianchini

,

Chiara Martinello

and Davide Festa

submission deadline 15 May 2025 | Viewed by 365 | Submission Open

Keywords: modeling; monitoring; landslides; subsidence; geohazard; susceptibility; risk analysis; GIS; machine learning

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

Advances in 3D Reconstruction with High-Resolution Satellite Data

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submission deadline 15 May 2025 | Viewed by 325 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite photogrammetry; dense image matching; semantic 3D reconstruction; realistic 3D reconstruction; 3D scene understanding; multi-model 3D reconstruction

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

Deep Learning for Remote Sensing Image Enhancement

edited by

Sidike Paheding

and

Ashraf Saleem

submission deadline 16 May 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4816 | Submission Open

Keywords: image enhancement; deep learning; underwater images; image restoration; Image database

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

Advances in Radar Systems for Target Detection and Tracking (Second Edition)

edited by Xiaolong Li,

Chenguang Shi

, Shisheng Guo and

Junkun Yan

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 5006 | Submission Open

Keywords: radar system design; target detection; target tracking; radar resource optimization and scheduling; signal and image processing; machine (deep) learning; environment monitoring (maritime; terrestrial; urban area; etc.); synthetic aperture radar

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

Remote Sensing in Applied Ecology (Second Edition)

edited by

Jun Ma

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 952 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecological applications; remote sensing data; spatio-temporal scales; ecosystems; sustainable development

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

Development and Implementation of Early Detection and Warning Methods for Natural Hazards Utilizing Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data

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submission deadline 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 59 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; reanalysis data; method development; natural hazards; early identification; monitoring and early warnings; glacier-related disasters; hill fire monitoring; flash flood; debris flow; drought; landslides

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

Application of Satellite and UAV Data in Precision Agriculture

edited by Mobushir Riaz Khan

submission deadline 25 May 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 13474 | Submission Open

Keywords: precision agriculture; decision support systems in agriculture; crop growth modeling; crop yield estimation; crop water stress detection; soil properties mapping; satellite and UAV data

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

Intelligent Processing and Analysis of Multi-modal Remote Sensing Data

edited by

Haopeng Zhang

and Giorgio Antonino Licciardi

submission deadline 25 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2544 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; image processing; image analysis; artificial intelligence; deep learning; data fusion; multispectral and hyperspectral data; synthetic aperture radar; LiDAR

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

Environmental Monitoring Using UAV and Mobile Mapping Systems

edited by

Ayman F. Habib

submission deadline 25 May 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2118 | Submission Open

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

GIS and Remote Sensing in Soil Mapping and Modeling (Second Edition)

edited by

Xiaoling Wu

,

Chong Luo

,

Liujun Zhu

and Xiaoji Shen

submission deadline 25 May 2025 | Viewed by 78 | Submission Open

Keywords: GIS; remote sensing; soil science; soil moisture; spatial modeling; climate change; precision agriculture

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

Exploring Innovative Ionospheric Applications Using Ground and Spaceborne Observations

edited by

Andong Hu

,

Dongsheng Zhao

, Weijia Zhan and

Kefei Zhang

submission deadline 28 May 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2311 | Submission Open

Keywords: ionosphere; machine learning; global navigation satellite system (GNSS); space weather; data assimilation; ionospheric disturbances

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

Advances in Remote Sensing and Geophysical Methods to the Earth’s Surface and Shallow Subsurface Characterization

edited by

Rui Jorge Oliveira

and

José Fernando Borges

submission deadline 28 May 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1161 | Submission Open

Keywords: applied geophysics; remote sensing; geospatial methods; digital data processing; innovative processing techniques; artificial intelligence

Advances in Drone-Based Multi-Sensor Image Translation and Augmentation

edited by Min Sun and

Yong Wang

submission deadline 28 May 2025 | Viewed by 52 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-sensor image translation; drone image augmentation; image super-resolution; complex target classification; air-ground collaboration; multi-type sensor image fusion; image quality evaluation; UAV AI applications

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

Agricultural Drought Monitoring Using Remote Sensing

edited by

Yang Lu

,

Jianzhi Dong

,

Shengzhi Huang

and Natthachet Tangdamrongsub

submission deadline 28 May 2025 | Viewed by 26 | Submission Open

Keywords: agricultural drought; remote sensing; drought detection; soil moisture; early warning; drought impact

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

Recent Advances in Multimodal Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

edited by Yifan Zhang,

Mercedes E. Paoletti

and Yi Wang

submission deadline 28 May 2025 | Viewed by 16 | Submission Open

Keywords: multimodal hyperspectral remote sensing imaging; multitemporal hyperspectral imaging; hyperspectral video imaging; hyperspectral stereo imaging; hyperspectral image processing; hyperspectral image analysis

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

Collaborative Learning for Multimodal Remote Sensing Analysis: Methods, Techniques and Applications

edited by Mingyang Zhang, Puzhao Zhang, Xiangming Jiang and

Fenlong Jiang

submission deadline 28 May 2025 | Viewed by 3 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; collaborative learning; remote sensing analysis; computational intelligence; regular optimization

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

Remote Sensing Calibration and Validation in Sounding Atmosphere and Ionosphere

edited by

Yajun Zhu

,

Weihua Bai

and Jiyao Xu

submission deadline 30 May 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 12831 | Submission Open

Keywords: GNSS-RO; GNSS-R; radar; lidar; airglow; data processing; calibration; validation

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

Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Applied to Deep Space Exploration

edited by

Bin Liu

,

Mao Ye

and Philipp Gläser

submission deadline 30 May 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9225 | Submission Open

Keywords: moon; Mars; remote sensing; photogrammetry; planetary mapping; planetary geodesy

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

Remote Sensing of Ocean Surface Currents: Measurement, Validation and Applications

edited by

Jun Myoung Choi

and

Mark Bourassa

submission deadline 30 May 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7212 | Submission Open

Keywords: ocean surface current; remote sensing; altimetry; scatterometry; optical remote sensing; synthetic aperture radar; autonomous underwater vehicles; air– sea interactions; data validation

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

Ground, Proximal and Remote Sensing for Precision Agriculture Applications

edited by

Alessandro Mei

,

Yung-Chung Chuang

and

Carlos Lozano Fondón

submission deadline 30 May 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4237 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite remote sensing; UAS and UGV; digital soil mapping; ground sensor network; vegetation analysis and yield estimation; precision agriculture and forestry; image processing and pattern recognition; field and laboratory Spectroscopy; DEM; DTM; DSM; DDM; artificial intelligence; decision support systems; geographical information systems; geostatistics

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

Application of GNSS Remote Sensing in Ionosphere Monitoring

edited by Lei Liu,

Zihan Wang

, Jun Wang and

Yunbin Yuan

submission deadline 30 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4079 | Submission Open

Keywords: GNSS ionosphere; data assimilation; ionospheric irregularities and scintillation; machine learning

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

Deep Transfer Learning for Remote Sensing II

edited by Yu Zhang,

Benoit Vozel

, Yuheng Jia, Junhui Hou and Deyu Meng

submission deadline 30 May 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3794 | Submission Open

Keywords: transfer learning; remote sensing images; domain adaptation; domain generalization; CNN

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

Advanced Satellite Remote Sensing for Geohazards

edited by

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, Yi He and

submission deadline 30 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1475 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite remote sensing; geohazard monitoring; interferometric SAR (InSAR); landslide detection; subsidence monitoring; glacier dynamics; remote sensing applications; satellite imagery; geospatial analysis

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

3D Virtual Reconstruction for Cultural Heritage (Second Edition)

edited by

Sara Gonizzi Barsanti

submission deadline 30 May 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 887 | Submission Open

Keywords: virtual reality; augmented reality; cultural heritage; 3D reconstruction; 3D modelling; reality-based modelling; integration of data; multi-source data; hidden cultural heritage; digital twin in cultural heritage; virtual tourism; virtual tour; virtual devices; storytelling

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

International GNSS Service Validation, Application and Calibration (2nd Edition)

edited by

Serdjo Kos

,

Mario Bakota

and

David Brčić

submission deadline 30 May 2025 | Viewed by 64 | Submission Open

Keywords: GNSS technique/technology; GNSS positioning error budget; GNSS risk assessment; Space weather impact on GNSS; GNSS satellite orbit determination; GNSS data validation; GNSS applications on environments including water vapor; water level; and underwater surveying; GNSS applications in disasters such as fires and oil spills; GNSS applications on infrastructures; GNSS time and frequency transfer; GNSS atmospheric parameters; GNSS geodetic research; GNSS interferometric reflectometry applications

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

Real-Time Agricultural Monitoring from Remotely Sensed Data (Second Edition)

edited by

Ruyin Cao

,

Tao Cheng

and

Ran Meng

submission deadline 30 May 2025 | Viewed by 30 | Submission Open

Keywords: agricultural remote sensing; crop types; crop phenotype; crop yield; in-season; phenotyping; plant stress; precision agriculture; time-series data; within-season

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

Remote Sensing Target Recognition and Detection: Theory and Applications (Second Edition)

edited by

Hao Li

and Mingyang Zhang

submission deadline 30 May 2025 | Viewed by 18 | Submission Open

Keywords: target recognition; target detection; deep learning; neural networks; image classification; image processing

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

Radar Signal Processing and Imaging for Ocean Remote Sensing (Second Edition)

edited by

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, Yunhua Wang,

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submission deadline 30 May 2025 | Submission Open

Keywords: ocean remote sensing; radar signal processing; radar imaging; ocean numerical modeling; artificial intelligence

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

Earth Observation and Citizen Contributed Data for Urban Sustainability

edited by

Maria Antonia Brovelli

,

Qi Zhou

and

Andong Ma

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 16044 | Submission Open

Keywords: Earth observation; citizen science; urban sustainability; SDG 11; geomatics and Earth observation machine learning (GEOML); digital twin cities

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

GIS and Remote Sensing in Ocean and Coastal Ecology

edited by Gang Yang,

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submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 11652 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal ocean modeling; coastal ocean remote sensing; coastal and ocean environment monitoring; coastal ocean forecasting; biodiversity; ecological process and risk assessment

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

Integration of Remote Sensing and GIS to Forest and Grassland Ecosystem Monitoring

edited by Xiuchun Yang,

Francois Girard

, Cong (Vega) Xu and Yungang Cao

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 10255 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; geographic information systems (GIS); forest ecosystem; grassland ecosystem; vegetation change; biodiversity assessment; land cover change; carbon sequestration; ecosystem degradation; ecosystem resilience; wildfire monitoring; environmental conservation

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

SAR in Big Data Era III

edited by Chao Wang,

Alberto Moreira

, Mihai P. Datcu,

Sirui Tian

and

Yixian Tang

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7940 | Submission Open

Keywords: SAR/InSAR; big data; sustainable development goals (SDGs); high performance computing; artificial intelligence; PolSAR processing; TomoSAR processing; SAR applications; geohazards; global change

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

Machine Learning for Intelligent Processing and Applications of Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data

edited by

Wei Li

, Haiyong Gan,

Heng-Chao Li

and Wenshuai Hu

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6577 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-source remote sensing data; intelligent processing; earth observation applications; registration; data fusion; feature extraction; classification; object detection; advanced machine learning methods; lightweight designs

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

Semantic Segmentation of High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images with Advanced Deep Learning Techniques

edited by

Le Sun

, Qian Sun and

Kan Chen

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5513 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-resolution/super-pixel remote sensing image segmentation; semantic segmentation/change detection; data augmentation; pixel-wise classification; zero-shot learning/ensemble learning; attention mechanisms; convolutional neural networks/generative adversarial networks/graph convolutional networks/transformer; multi-scale feature fusion; multimodal data fusion; time series image analysis; computational complexity; domain adaptation; explainable AI (XAI)

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

Advancements in Thunderstorm Nowcasting and Atmospheric Electricity Monitoring by Remote Sensing

edited by

Richard Müller

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4503 | Submission Open

Keywords: thunderstorms; convective initiation; lightning; life cycle; hazards

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

Monitoring and Early Warning for Heavy Precipitation, Flash Floods and Waterlogging Disasters Using Remote Sensing

edited by Youcun Qi,

Zhe Zhang

,

Zhanfeng Zhao

, Donghuan Li and Bong-Chul Seo

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3634 | Submission Open

Keywords: weather radars; satellites; flash floods and waterlogging; quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE); remote sensing data assimilation; extreme weather and hydrological events; artificial intelligence and machine (deep) learning; application of remote sensing equipment in geological disaster; disastrous weather analysis; and observation of hydrometeorological extremes; weather and hydrological forecast

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

Advances in Synthetic Aperture Radar: Calibration, Analysis and Application II

edited by

Fang Shang

and

Lamei Zhang

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3084 | Submission Open

Keywords: synthetic aperture radar; PolSAR; InSAR; POLInSAR; calibration; signal processing; SAR applications; SAR intelligent interpretation

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

Road Extraction and Distress Assessment by Spaceborne, Airborne and Terrestrial Platforms (Second Edition)

edited by

Alessandro Mei

,

Valerio Baiocchi

and

Xianfeng Zhang

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2234 | Submission Open

Keywords: road extraction and pavement distress analysis; very hight resolution satellite imagery; airborne remote sensing; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); UAV and UGV; multispectral and hyperspectral remote sensing; time series analysis; change detection; imaging spectroscopy; pavement management systems (PMS); photogrammetry and 3D modelling; GIS modelling for management plan; decision support systems based on remote sensed techniques; geostatistics; artificial intelligence; ML (machine learning); CNN; deep learning; data fusion; light detection and ranging (LiDAR); pattern recognition

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

Cropland and Yield Mapping with Multi-source Remote Sensing

edited by

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submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1691 | Submission Open

Keywords: yield mapping; crop yield estimation or forecasts; cropland mapping; crop parameter retrieval; multi-source imagery; crop growth model; Google Earth Engine; data assimilation; machine learning; deep learning

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

Advanced InSAR Techniques for Geohazard Monitoring and Risk Evaluation

edited by

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submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1461 | Submission Open

Keywords: InSAR; data fusion; artificial intelligence; geohazards; deformation monitoring and modelling; risk evaluation

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

Advances in Exploring the Moon, Mars, and Asteroids Based on In-Situ and Remote Sensing Measurements

edited by Simone Pirrotta,

Francesca Esposito

, Alice Lucchetti and

Maurizio Pajola

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1261 | Submission Open

Keywords: geological features; study of the environment; resources; robotic and human exploration; innovative strategies; remote sensing dataset analyses; new instrumentation concepts; smallsat concepts

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

Perspectives of Remote Sensing for Precision Agriculture

edited by

Christos Karydas

, Spiros Mourelatos and

Thomas Alexandridis

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 521 | Submission Open

Keywords: precision agriculture; site-specific management; machine learning; computer vision; object-based image analysis; fractal geometry; drones

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

Integration of Multi-sources in Fluvial Hydro-Geomorphology: A Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Remote Sensing Perspective

edited by Massimiliano Gargiulo,

Michael Nones

and

Giuseppe Ruello

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 361 | Submission Open

Keywords: fluvial hydro-geomorphology; river science; remote sensing; deep learning and machine learning in river monitoring; multi-sources; data integration and data fusion; river management; hydrology; hydrodynamic modeling; geospatial technologies; big data analytics

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

Deep Learning for Land Use and Land Cover Change Monitoring with Optical and SAR Images

edited by

Hyung-Sup Jung

,

Jin-Woo Kim

and

Zhong Lu

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 341 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; change detection; earth surface changes; geohazards; time series analysis; deep learning; optical/infrared imagery; SAR/InSAR imagery; land use/land cover

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

Landslide Studies Integrating Remote Sensing and Geophysical Data (Second Edition)

edited by

Veronica Pazzi

,

Anne-Sophie Mreyen

and

Sebastian Uhlemann

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 220 | Submission Open

Keywords: joint remote sensing and geophysical surveys; geophysical landslide monitoring; 3D data integration models; cross-validation of RS; ground-based; and subsurface information; visualization in extended reality

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

3D City Modelling and Remote Sensing: Advances, Challenges, and New Technologies (Second Edition)

edited by

Mohamed El Mekawy

and

Ihab Hamzi Hijazi

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 217 | Submission Open

Keywords: three-dimensional city models; BIM-GIS integration; urbanization; smart cities; crisis management; artificial intelligence

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

Advancing Water System with Satellite Observations and Deep Learning

edited by

Ying Zhang

, Peng Dou and

Chunlin Huang

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 71 | Submission Open

Keywords: water system; hydrological modeling; satellite observations; deep learning; water resource

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

Deep Learning-Driven Remote Sensing Image Processing for Object Detection and Localization

edited by

Jong-Eun Ha

and

Hyoseok Hwang

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

Keywords: object detection/tracking/localization; data fusion; weakly supervised object detection; artificial intelligence; deep learning; computer vision; convolutional neural networks; feature extraction; image segmentation; image processing

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

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