Remote Sensing

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

edited by

Shaohua Zhao

, Xingying Zhang, Wei Xiong,

,

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and

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 12287 | 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)

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 30 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 11132 | 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)

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

edited by

Alessandro Mei

,

Valerio Baiocchi

and

Xianfeng Zhang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 11054 | Submission Open

Keywords: road extraction and pavement distress analysis; very high 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)

Ground, Proximal and Remote Sensing for Precision Agriculture Applications

edited by

Alessandro Mei

,

Yung-Chung Chuang

and

Carlos Lozano Fondón

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 11007 | 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)

Advancement of Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data Fusion in Environmental Monitoring

edited by Junjue Wang,

Jiaqi Yang

, Yinhe Liu, Zhuo Zheng and

Yonghao Xu

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 10896 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-source remote sensing data fusion; multi-source transferable or domain adaptation models; multi-modal models for remote sensing tasks; ecosystem monitoring; urban analysis; crop monitoring and yield forecasting; glacier and sea ice monitoring; atmospheric monitoring; greenhouse gas emission monitoring; vegetation dynamics and carbon cycle

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

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Applications in Earth, Moon and Planetary Exploration (Second Edition)

edited by

David Gomez-Ortiz

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 10341 | Submission Open

Keywords: ground-penetrating radar (GPR); planetary radar; subsurface structure; earth; moon; mars; system; simulation; signal processing; imaging; interpretation; etc.

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

Remote Sensing and Associated Artificial Intelligence in Agricultural Applications (2nd Edition)

edited by

Enrico Corrado Borgogno Mondino

,

Filippo Sarvia

and

Samuele De Petris

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 10000 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; agricultural application; common agricultural policy (CAP); precision agriculture; machine learning; service prototype development; crop monitoring; crop detection; deep learning; artificial intelligence; crop classification; yield prediction; GIS application; precision farming; remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPASs); image segmentation

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

PAZ Ciencia: Review of the Scientific Results from Radar PAZ Mission Data

edited by

José Fernández

,

Antonio Turiel

, María José González Bonilla, Juan Manuel Cuerda Muñoz and Nuria Casal Vázquez

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 9861 | Submission Open

Keywords: synthetic aperture radar; SAR interferometry; SAR polarimetry; ground deformation; land cover; geo-hazards; hidrology

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

Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data for Water Resource Management in Agriculture

edited by

Pasquale Nino

,

Nicolas Baghdadi

and

Artur Łopatka

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 9490 | Submission Open

Keywords: irrigation; optical and microwave remote sensing; evapotranspiration; soil moisture; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV); ground sensor

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

Applications of Remote Sensing in Vegetation Cover and Phenology Observation

edited by

Raffaella Matarrese

and Annarita D’Addabbo

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9453 | Submission Open

Keywords: vegetation monitoring; plant phenology; multispectral and hyperspectral imaging; environmental monitoring; satellite; aerial and UAV data fusion; vegetation pathology

(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 30 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9435 | 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 for Geospatial Science)

GNSS and Multi-Sensor Integrated Precise Positioning and Applications

edited by

Guorui Xiao

,

Xinghan Chen

, Peiyuan Zhou and

Lingxuan Wang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9031 | Submission Open

Keywords: GNSS; multi-sensors integration; integration algorithms; cooperative positioning; challenging environments; precise positioning; robust positioning

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

Multi-Source Remote Sensing for Environmental Component Monitoring and Target Detection

edited by

Tao Luo

, Juhua Luo,

Jianfeng Sun

and

Jianfeng Chen

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8088 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental component monitoring; atmospheric detection; target detection; lidar; floating platform; satellite; airborne; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); collaborative observation; data assimilation

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

Intelligent Processing of 3D Point Clouds for Scene Understanding and Modelling

edited by

Yuan Li

, Rong Huang, Shuhang Zhang and Linfu Xie

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8009 | Submission Open

Keywords: LiDAR; point cloud processing; deep learning; artificial intelligence; 3D mapping and modelling

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

Underwater Remote Sensing: Status, New Challenges and Opportunities

edited by

Yuri Rzhanov

and

Elias Fakiris

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 7886 | Submission Open

Keywords: multibeam sonar; synthetic aperture sonar; airborne lidar; underwater vehicles; hyperspectral satellites; satellite-derived bathymetry; satellite-based bathymetric measurements

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

Point Cloud Data Analysis and Applications

edited by

Ruijin Ma

,

Tarig Ali

and

Maolin Chen

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7565 | Submission Open

Keywords: point clouds processing; geospatial digital twin modeling; data fusion

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

Multi-Object Detection and Feature Extraction of Remote Sensing Images

edited by

Yu Zhang

, Yan Zhang, Zhiguang Shi and Ruigang Fu

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7111 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing imagery; multi-object detection; feature extraction; deep learning; transformer-based architectures; multi-modal fusion

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

Remote Sensing Measurements of Land Use and Land Cover

edited by

Victor Mesev

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6846 | Submission Open

Keywords: image classification; change detection; image processing; urban sprawl; environmental science

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

Recent Progress in Monitoring the Troposphere with GNSS Techniques

edited by

Minghua Wang

, Hong Liang, Cuixian Lu and Jungang Wang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6169 | Submission Open

Keywords: GNSS meteorology; zenith total delay estimation; precipitable water vapor; water vapor tomography; severe weather monitoring; data assimilation; numerical weather forecast

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

Advances in Remote Sensing Used in Mineral Exploration

edited by Hai Li and

Zhenwei Guo

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6123 | Submission Open

Keywords: mineral exploration; geospatial analysis; data integration; geological mapping; machine learning; hyperspectral imaging

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

Application of Remote Sensing in Landscape Ecology

edited by

Wayne Myers

and

Douglas Miller

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6022 | 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)

Remote Sensing for Monitoring Water and Carbon Cycles

edited by

Dong Liu

, Fang Cao and Shujie Yu

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5915 | Submission Open

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

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

Satellite Remote Sensing for Meteorological Disaster Monitoring and Forecasting

edited by

Dimitrios Katsanos

and

Adrianos Retalis

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5733 | Submission Open

Keywords: meteorological hazards; extreme Precipitation; flash floods; early warning systems; droughts; wildfires; heat waves; meteorological disaster management

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

Advances in Deep Learning and Machine Learning for Remote Sensing Image Analysis

edited by

Keshav D. Singh

,

Abdul Bais

and

Saeid Homayouni

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5709 | Submission Open

Keywords: imagery data analysis; remote sensing; machine learning; deep learning; computer vision; exploiting big data; HPC and predictive analytics; multi-source/sensor data fusion; object detection and recognition; image segmentation; large language models; generative AI

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

Remote Sensing of Water Dynamics in Permafrost Regions

edited by Zeyong Gao and Lingxiao Wang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5627 | Submission Open

Keywords: permafrost degradation; thermokarst processes; ground-ice melting; active layer dynamics; climate change impacts; eco-hydrological effects

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

Remote Sensing for Digital Twins in Forestry: Applications and Future Perspectives

edited by Juan Suarez-Minguez and Jacqueline Rosette

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5398 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital twins; earth observation; forestry; AI; tree growth models; high-resolution remote sensing

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

Remote Sensing in Water Quality Monitoring

edited by

Xuejiao Hou

,

Shangbo Yang

and

Jilin Men

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 4990 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; water quality; water clarity; eutrophication; water turbidity; atmospheric correction; algal bloom; climate change; multi-source integrated observation; inherent/apparent optical properties

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

Remote Sensing of River and Lake Ice/Water Using Spaceborne, Airborne, and Ground Platforms

edited by

Zhijun Li

and

Lilong Zou

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 4838 | Submission Open

Keywords: river ice; lake ice; ice/snow properties; water quality; water ecosystem; remote sensing; remote sensing applications; multi-sensor and multi-source data; climate change; resources assessment; machine learning

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

Remote Sensing in Monitoring and Modelling the Patterns and Processes of Land System Change

edited by

Yu Cao

,

Narumasa Tsutsumida

,

Chuyuan (Carter) Wang

and

Chengbin Deng

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4516 | Submission Open

Keywords: land system science; human– environment interactions; ecosystem; ecological process; land degradation; land use function; land configuration; environmental performance; change detection; time series analysis; ecological restoration; social-ecological systems; human well-being

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

Remote Sensing Applications for Trace Gases and Air Quality

edited by Songyan Zhu,

Shuaiyi Shi

and Haolin Wang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4399 | Submission Open

Keywords: trace gases; air quality; remote sensing; public well-being; pollution exposure; ecosystem responses

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

Multi-Source Data Fusion and Feature Extraction for Underwater Target Detection

edited by

Min Fu

and Salah Bourennane

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4277 | Submission Open

Keywords: target detection; multi-modal fusion; feature extraction; underwater data classification; multispectral imaging; multi-sensor systems; data fusion; signal processing; underwater sensing; acoustic– optical fusion

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

Monitoring and Assessment of Ecohydrological Evolution of River–Lake–Wetland Systems Based on Remote Sensing Big Data

edited by

Yanfeng Wu

and

Hsiang-te Kung

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3885 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing big data; ecohydrological evolution; river– lake– coastal wetland systems; ecological monitoring; hydrological assessment; machine learning; data analytics

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

LiDAR Technology for Autonomous Navigation and Mapping

edited by

Yiqing Yao

and

Johnson Ihyeh Agbinya

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3817 | Submission Open

Keywords: LiDAR technology; spatial perception; environmental reconstruction; simultaneous localization and mapping; 3D mapping; multi-sensor fusion; autonomous vehicles

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

Close-Range LiDAR for Forest Structure and Dynamics Monitoring

edited by Panagiotidis Dimitrios

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3600 | Submission Open

Keywords: • Forest Growth & Dynamics • Airborne Laser Scanning • Terrestrial Laser Scanning • 3D Point Clouds • Unmanned Aerial Systems • Forest Inventory • Forest Monitoring & Mapping • UAV

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

Advances in Remote Sensing for Burned Area Mapping

edited by

Giandomenico De Luca

,

Giuseppe Modica

and

Lorenzo Arcidiaco

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3579 | 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)

High-Resolution Soil Moisture Products for Hydrology, Agriculture, and Hazard Applications

edited by Yuchuan Luo, Juan Cao and Peng Zhu

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3489 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-resolution soil moisture; remote sensing; data assimilation; soil moisture retrieval; hydrological modeling; agricultural productivity; hazard risk assessment

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

Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere (Third Edition)

edited by

Ulrich Kamp

,

Bijeesh K. Veettil

and

Dmitry Ganyushkin

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3364 | Submission Open

Keywords: cryosphere; GIS; glacier; ice; frozen ground; remote sensing; snow

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

Microwave Remote Sensing on Ocean Observation

edited by

Yanlei Du

and

Ali Khenchaf

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3326 | Submission Open

Keywords: ocean dynamic parameter retrieval; detection of marine dynamic phenomena and artificial targets; advanced forward modeling of ocean scattering and emission; data fusion and reconstruction of multi-source ocean products; deep learning/artificial intelligence in ocean remote sensing; scatterometer/radiometer/SAR/GNSS-reflectometry; scale effect analysis; Polarization theory and Polarimetric SAR applications in ocean remote sensing

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

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

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submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3184 | 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)

Vegetation Biophysical Variables and Remote Sensing Applications (Second Edition)

edited by

Jia Sun

and

Chunbo Huang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3178 | Submission Open

Keywords: vegetation biophysical variables; parameter retrieval; data fusion; vegetation dynamics; carbon cycling; LiDAR; SAR; precision agriculture; ecological modelling; machine learning

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

Advances in Calibration, Validation, and Quality Assurance for Optical Remote Sensors

edited by

Zhenhai Liu

and

Gennadi Milinevsky

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3043 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical remote sensing; radiometric calibration; polarimetric calibration; spectral calibration; geometric calibration; vicarious calibration; cross-calibration; uncertainty analysis; validation; data quality assurance

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

Remote Sensing of Clouds and Aerosols: Techniques and Applications

edited by

Alexander Kokhanovsky

,

Linlu Mei

and Yasmin Aboel Fetouh

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2593 | Submission Open

Keywords: clouds; precipitation; cloud pollution; remote sensing; radiative transfer; light scattering; atmospheric ice crystals; aerosol remote sensing; air quality; climate change

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

Remote Sensing of Climate Change Influences on Urban Ecology

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submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2397 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban ecology; climate change; nature-based solutions; urban wetlands; green infrastructure; environmental justice; urban forestry; remote sensing; ecosystem services; urban sustainability; urban biodiversity

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

Advances in Remote Sensing for Glacier Preservation

edited by Feiteng Wang, Chunhai Xu and

Qiao Liu

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2275 | Submission Open

Keywords: glacier preservation; remote sensing; glacier region engineering; anthropogenic impacts; SAR/InSAR; machine learning; glacier dynamics; glacier mass balance

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

Radiometric Calibration of Satellite Sensors Used in Remote Sensing

edited by

Shengli Wu

,

Yong Zhang

, Boyang Chen and Juyang Hu

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2137 | Submission Open

Keywords: calibration; radiometer; SNO; SCO; vicarious calibration; lunar calibration; pre-launch calibration

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

Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing Synergies for Flood Hazard Monitoring and Geomorphic Analysis

edited by

Marina Zingaro

,

Domenico Capolongo

and

Alberto Refice

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1580 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-sensor remote sensing; flood hazard; geomorphology; flood geomorphic dynamics monitoring; process coupling; data fusion; risk assessment

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

New Trends on Remote Sensing Applications to Mineral Deposits (Third Edition)

edited by

Joana Cardoso-Fernandes

,

Ana Cláudia Teodoro

and

Alexandre Lima

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1443 | Submission Open

Keywords: mineral exploration; multispectral and hyperspectral data; sar data; machine learning; deep learning; satellite data; raw materials

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

Environmental Monitoring with Sentinel Satellites: Applications and Future Perspectives

edited by Silvia Scifoni,

Maria Marsella

and

Francesca Giannone

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 1381 | Submission Open

Keywords: Sentinel-1; Sentinel-2; Sentinel-3; Sentinel-5P; Sentinel-6; environmental monitoring; copernicus programme

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

Advances in High-Resolution Crop Mapping at Large Spatial Scales

edited by

Lingbo Yang

and Pengliang Wei

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1346 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-resolution crop mapping; remote sensing for agriculture; large-scale crop monitoring; multi-source satellite data; crop classification; machine learning in agriculture; temporal dynamics of crops; agricultural change detection; precision agriculture; remote sensing applications in food security

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

Recent Advances in Quantitative Thermal Imaging Using Remote Sensing

edited by

Susana Lagüela López

and

Iván Garrido González

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1227 | Submission Open

Keywords: thermal remote sensing; land surface temperature; sensor calibration; urban heat island; wildfire detection; multisource data fusion; artificial intelligence; UAV thermal mapping; infrastructure monitoring

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

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