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Remote Sensing-Based Assessments in the Forest Fire Disturbance Continuum

edited by

José Manuel Fernández-Guisuraga

submission deadline 28 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3011 | Submission Open

Keywords: wildfires; fire severity; burned area; multispectral/hyperspectral; LiDAR; SAR; unmanned aerial vehicles; fuel mapping; fire impacts on vegetation and soils; fire regime

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

SAR for Forest Mapping III

edited by

Michele Martone

and Armando Marino

submission deadline 10 May 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7495 | Submission Open

Keywords: drone/airborne/spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR); biomass estimation; forest mapping; change detection; SAR polarimetry; interferometry; tomography; artificial intelligence for forest applications

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

Remote Sensing for Vegetation Phenology in a Changing Environment

edited by

Mei Yu

and

Yuyu Zhou

submission deadline 15 May 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 14429 | Submission Open

Keywords: vegetation phenology; climate change; multisource remote sensing; SIF; ground phenology images; phenological model

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

Remote Sensing in Forest Fire Monitoring and Post-fire Damage Analysis II

edited by

Víctor Fernández-García

submission deadline 15 May 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 12663 | Submission Open

Keywords: fire damage; post-fire; soil; vegetation; landsat; sentinel; MODIS; multispectral; LiDAR; radar

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

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

edited by Juan Suarez-Minguez and Jacqueline Rosette

submission deadline 28 May 2025 | Viewed by 240 | 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 of Post-fire Environmental Damage and Forest Recovery: New Challenges and Approaches

edited by

Alfonso Fernández-Manso

and

Carmen Quintano

submission deadline 30 May 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 18504 | Submission Open

Keywords: Wildfire severity evaluation and land monitoring; Big data and artificial intelligence; 3D mapping post-fire Studies; Hyperspectral sensors post fire Studies; Ultra-high spatial resolution; Modeling image time-series for fire disturbance recovery; Wildland– urban interface (WUI); Climate change on forest fire severity

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

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 | 12 articles | Viewed by 18213 | 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)

Remote Sensing-Assisted Forest Inventory Planning

edited by Zhengyang Hou, Qing Xu and

Timo Tokola

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5184 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest ecosystems; forest management; forest inventory; forest planning; biostatistics

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

Intelligent Extraction of Phenotypic Traits in Agroforestry

edited by Xijian Fan,

Yanjie Li

Shichao Jin

, Cong (Vega) Xu and Sruti Das Choudhury

submission deadline 15 Jul 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 7902 | Submission Open

Keywords: phenotypic parameter extraction; deep learning; computer vision; high-throughput phenotyping; UAV; agriculture and forestry monitoring; 3D point cloud; multispectral image; multi-sensor data fusion; genetic breeding programs

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

Remote Sensing Based Forest Inventories from Landscape to Global Scale II

edited by Liyong Fu,

Ram P. Sharma

Guangxing Wang

and

Xiaodi Zhao

submission deadline 15 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3558 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; spatial statistics; forest ecosystem; ecological services function; value assessment; forest inventory; human activities; forest management; forest carbon sink; unmanned aerial vehicle

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

Global Biospheric Monitoring with Remote Sensing (2nd Edition)

edited by

Ram Avtar

submission deadline 29 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 88 | Submission Open

Keywords: global biospheric monitoring; remote sensing; ecosystem dynamics; vegetation changes; biodiversity assessment; carbon sequestration

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

Forest Disturbance Monitoring with Optical Satellite Imagery

edited by Antoine Masse and

Nikolay S. Strigul

submission deadline 28 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 99 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest disturbance; optical remote sensing; forest degradation; forest monitoring multi-source data fusion; data calibration and validation

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

Recent Advances in Satellite Data and In-Situ Measurements of Chlorophyll Fluorescence

edited by

Lin Du

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 41 | Submission Open

Keywords: chlorophyll fluorescence; fchl retrieval methods; radiative transfer models; vegetation stress conditions

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

Remote Sensing of Savannas and Woodlands II

edited by

Karine Adeline

Ana Andreu

and

Vicente Burchard-Levine

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6361 | Submission Open

Keywords: savannas and woodlands; functional traits and diversity; evapotranspiration and water stress; radiative transfer modeling; energy/water balance modeling; pixel unmixing; imaging spectroscopy; thermal infrared

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest 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 15 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2036 | 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)

Digital Modeling for Sustainable Forest Management

edited by

and

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 458 | Submission Open

Keywords: geospatial modeling; precision forestry; enhanced forest inventory; digital forestry; remote sensing of forests; image classification; climate smart forestry

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

Remote Sensing Applications for Forest Ecosystem Monitoring and Spatial Modeling (2nd Edition)

edited by

Jan Komarek

and

Marlena Kycko

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 769 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest inventory; landscape modeling; feature and pattern detection; long-term monitoring; image analysis; point cloud analysis; data fusion

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

Advances in Forest Degradation and Deforestation Monitoring with AI and Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data

edited by

Ran Meng

Huaguo Huang

and

Huabing Huang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 33 | Submission Open

Keywords: vegetation dynamics; vegetation structure parameters; multi-source remote sensing; artificial intelligence; radiative transfer model; smart forestry

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

Close-Range LiDAR for Forest Structure and Dynamics Monitoring

edited by Panagiotidis Dimitrios

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 291 | 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)

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