Sensors and Sensing Technologies for Precise Earth Observation
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2025 | Viewed by 334
Special Issue Editors
Interests: commercial aerospace; earth observation; GeoAI; agricultural remote sensing; deep learning
Interests: vegetation remote sensing; image processing; image classification; parameter mapping; system development; agricultural application
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As a non-contact information acquisition technology, remote sensing leverages principles such as electromagnetic waves and lasers to develop various types of sensors. These sensors, deployed on platforms such as satellites, drones, and ground-based observation stations, enable the three-dimensional exploration of Earth's spheres from different distances, angles, and levels. Due to its strong compatibility with other fields, remote sensing technology has played a significant role in resource management, precision agriculture, precise ecological management, smart cities, disaster prevention and mitigation, and other domains in recent years. This has greatly contributed to the sustainable and healthy development of society and the economy.
This Special Issue of Sensors aims to gather original research and review articles on new technologies, advancements, methods, applications, and challenges in the field of remote sensing.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Development of remote sensing sensor payloads;
- Large-scale production technologies for remote sensing satellites;
- Modularization and low-cost technologies for commercial aerospace;
- Hyperspectral image processing techniques for target detection, classification, and characterization;
- High-resolution image information extraction and change detection;
- Fusion and calibration of multi-source remote sensing imagery;
- New methods for processing and analyzing remote sensing data, such as machine learning and deep learning;
- Earth observation and artificial intelligence;
- Precision agriculture;
- Farmland extraction and classification;
- Crop yield prediction;
- Monitoring of crop growth conditions;
- Carbon sink estimation;
- Assessment and recommendations for wetland ecological quality.
Prof. Dr. Xin Zhang
Prof. Dr. Wenjiang Huang
Dr. Yi Wan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sensors
- remote sensing
- precision agriculture
- earth observation
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