Remote Sensing

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 14 Dec 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 32667

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)

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 14 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 11156

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)

Advancements in LiDAR Technology and Applications in Remote Sensing

edited by Luis Miguel González de Santos

submission deadline 14 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 7104

Keywords: LiDAR; point cloud processing; UAV; infrastructure monitoring; machine learning; power lines inspection

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

Investigating State-of-the-Art Machine Learning Approaches in Vegetation Analysis through Earth Observation Data

edited by

Arnick Abdollahi

and

Chandrama Sarker

submission deadline 14 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6969

Keywords: CNNs; RCNN; deep reinforcement learning; machine learning algorithms; ensemble algorithms; random forest; support vector machines; Gaussian Bayes; decision tree classifier; vegetation mapping; monitoring; trend analysis

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

Advances in CubeSat Missions and Applications in Remote Sensing

edited by

Pedro Orgeira Crespo

and Fernando Aguado-Agelet

submission deadline 14 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3228

Keywords: CubeSat; remote sensing; payload; artificial intelligence; earth observation; planetary exploration

Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Applied to Deep Space Exploration

edited by

Bin Liu

,

Mao Ye

and Philipp Gläser

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 30660 | 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)

Advances in Methods and Techniques for Satellite Image Processing and Analysis

edited by

Ali Jamali

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 20957 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; computer vision; machine learning; image processing; remote sensing; image analysis

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

Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture and the Dynamics of Soil–Vegetation Systems

edited by

Ankur Srivastava

,

Mauro Holzman

and

Facundo Carmona

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 18478 | Submission Open

Keywords: vegetation water stress; surface and sub-surface soil moisture; solar-thermal spectra; evapotranspiration; arid and semi-arid ecosystems; vegetation productivity; water deficit in agricultural lands

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

Remote Sensing in Applied Ecology (Second Edition)

edited by

Jun Ma

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 11212 | Submission Open

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

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

Integrating Deep Learning with Image Perception for Advanced Remote Sensing Applications

edited by Xin He, Yushi Chen, Jinghui Yang and

Aili Wang

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6402 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; remote sensing data analysis; hyperspectral classification; multimodal remote sensing data fusion; deep learning-based SAR methods

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

Advances in Miniaturized Radar Systems for Close-Range Sensing

edited by

Yangyang Wang

,

Tianjiao Zeng

,

Xiaoling Zhang

and Zhe Zhang

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1232 | Submission Open

Keywords: miniaturized radar systems; close-range remote sensing; mobile and embedded platforms; radar-based scene understanding

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

Upcoming Positioning, Navigation and Timing: GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou (Second Edition)

edited by Shengyue Ji,

Sukhjit Sehra

and

Antonio Tupek

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 506 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban navigation; smartphone; ocean navigation; multipath; sensor integration

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

Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence for Structural Health Monitoring

edited by Xiangdong An, Fan Zhang,

Rong Qu

,

Yilin Xie

and Vassilis Gikas

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 362 | Submission Open

Keywords: structural health monitoring (SHM); multiple source fusion of GNSS; LiDAR; and InSAR; data fusion; machine learning; anomaly detection; infrastructure monitoring

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

Quantitative Inversion and Validation of Satellite Remote Sensing Products

edited by

Xingfa Gu

, Jian Yang,

Xiangqin Wei

, Hailiang Gao and

Fernando Camacho

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 36582 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing products; quantitative inversion; validation; space infrastructure; remote sensing applications

Oceanographic Lidar in the Study of Marine Systems

edited by

Peng Chen

,

Cédric Jamet

, Junwu Tang and

Martin A. Montes

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 16824 | Submission Open

Keywords: LiDAR; remote sensing; ocean optics; ocean ecology; ocean color; development; validation and calibration of ocean LiDAR algorithms; aerosol– ocean interactions.

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

Cropland and Yield Mapping with Multi-source Remote Sensing

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submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 13075 | 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

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submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 11584 | 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)

Remote Sensing of High Winds and High Seas

edited by

Mark Bourassa

, Marcos Portabella,

Lucrezia Ricciardulli

and Zorana Jelenak

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7861 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; extreme weather; surface winds; tropical and extratropical cyclones; waves; currents; vertical motion; storm wake anomalies; extreme air– sea fluxes

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

Remote Sensing-Guided Land-Use Optimization for Carbon Neutrality

edited by

Sébastien Gadal

and

Gintautas Mozgeris

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 254 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; carbon neutrality; climate change adaptation; land use; land– climate interactions; LULUCF; UAST; land planning adaptation; energy transition; above ground biomass; soil carbon

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

Remote Sensing-Assisted Forest Inventory Planning

edited by Zhengyang Hou, Qing Xu and

Timo Tokola

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 11309 | Submission Open

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

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

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

edited by

Zhijun Li

and

Lilong Zou

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1806 | 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)

Using Remote Sensing Technology to Quantify Greenhouse Gas Emissions

edited by

Ge Han

,

Simit Raval

and Tianqi Shi

submission deadline 28 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5884 | Submission Open

Keywords: greenhouse gas emissions; CO2; CH4; N2O; flux inversion; point sources; space– ground-based remote sensing; hyperspectral and LiDAR remote sensing; OCO-2/3 GOSAT TROPOMI TANSAT DQ-1

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

Innovations in Hyperspectral Image Processing: Advancing Image Generation, Denoising, Fusion Techniques and Beyond

edited by Jiangjun Peng, Xiangyong Cao,

Shuang Xu

,

Jing Yao

and

Gemine Vivone

submission deadline 28 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3318 | Submission Open

Keywords: hyperspectral image denoising; hyperspectral image fusion; hyperspectral image generation; hyperspectral image restoration; deep learning; statistical regularization model

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

Advances in Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing for Vegetation Monitoring

edited by

Shan Lu

and

Chunying Ren

submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6653 | Submission Open

Keywords: SAR– optical synergy; thermal– optical synergy; LIDAR– optical synergy; SIF– multispectral synergy; vegetation biomass; vegetation phenology; vegetation mapping; vegetation parameter inversion

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

Underwater Remote Sensing: Status, New Challenges and Opportunities

edited by

Yuri Rzhanov

and

Elias Fakiris

submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3618 | 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)

Remote Sensing of Water Dynamics in Permafrost Regions

edited by Zeyong Gao and Lingxiao Wang

submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3280 | 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)

Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images Based on Artificial Intelligence

edited by

Jianming Hu

, Xiyang Zhi,

Yongqiang Mao

and

Longfei Ren

submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3245 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing images; object detection; artificial intelligence; multimodal data fusion; frontier applications

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

Array and Signal Processing for Radar (Second Edition)

edited by Haowei Zhang,

Jingwei Xu

, Junpeng Shi, Weijian Liu and Yuan Liu

submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2093 | Submission Open

Keywords: radar array and signal processing; waveform and frequency diversity; interference; clutter and noise suppression; radar imaging; radar resource management; machine learning; space-based radar (SBR) system

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

Algorithms Exploration of Land Surface Temperature Retrieval from Satellites Data

edited by Caixia Gao

submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 760 | Submission Open

Keywords: thermal infrared sensors; atmospheric effect correction; land surface temperature and emissivity separation; land surface temperature downscaling; land surface temperature validation; artificial intelligence

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

Advances in Remote Sensing for Glacier Preservation

edited by Feiteng Wang, Chunhai Xu and

Qiao Liu

submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 711 | 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)

Revolutionizing Earth Observation: Convolutional Neural Networks Innovations in Remote Sensing and Environmental Monitoring

edited by

Antonio Mazza

, Massimiliano Gargiulo,

Sergio Vitale

and

Matteo Ciotola

submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 402 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; deep learning; convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs); generative Adversarial Networks (GANs); earth observation; remote sensing; image processing; data fusion; super resolution

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

Image Analysis for Forest Environmental Monitoring (2nd Edition)

edited by

El Khalil Cherif

and

Catarina Barata

submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 148 | Submission Open

Keywords: image analysis; remote sensing; environment monitoring; forests; multispectral and hypespectral imaging; airborne image

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

Remote Sensing in Natural Resource and Water Environment II

edited by

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, Min Wu,

and

Pedro Luiz Borges Chaffe

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 19 articles | Viewed by 52552 | Submission Open

Keywords: hyperspectral remote sensing in the environment; retrieving air pollutant concentrations through remote sensing; machine learning algorithms for modeling based on remote sensing data; ecological indicators mapping by remote sensing; urban stormwater models; hydrologic models; flood disaster; water pollution; wastewater treatment; water resource management; urban-rural management; urban planning

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

Remote Sensing and Machine Learning in Vegetation Biophysical Parameters Estimation (Second Edition)

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submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 23997 | Submission Open

Keywords: vegetation biophysical parameter estimation; vegetation spectral indices; multispectral/hyperspectral/LiDAR/SAR; satellite/airborne/UAV/tower-based/ground observation; regression/RTM/machine learning/deep learning; agriculture; forest; grassland; vegetation dynamics monitoring

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

Feature Papers of Section “Atmospheric Remote Sensing” (Second Edition)

edited by

Alexander Kokhanovsky

and

Dmitry Efremenko

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 14697 | Submission Open

Keywords: terrestrial atmosphere; remote sensing; atmospheric aerosol; trace gases; clouds; precipitation

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

Intelligent Processing and Analysis of Multi-Modal Remote Sensing Data

edited by

Haopeng Zhang

and Giorgio Antonino Licciardi

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8978 | 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)

Advances in Remote Sensing Video Data Processing: Theories, Technologies and Applications

edited by

Peng Wang

, Ying Zhang and

Henry Leung

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8041 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing video; video system development; video detection and tracking; image/video understanding; video data processing; machine learning

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

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

edited by

Pasquale Nino

,

Nicolas Baghdadi

and

Artur Łopatka

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7888 | 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)

Remote Sensing and Modelling of Terrestrial Ecosystems Functioning

edited by

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submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7479 | Submission Open

Keywords: terrestrial ecosystems; remote sensing; vegetation functioning; ET and GPP; estimation and modelling; accuracy assessment

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

Advancements in Passive/Active Remote Sensing of Clouds and Precipitation

edited by Yong-Keun Lee and Thomas Greenwald

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7026 | Submission Open

Keywords: clouds; precipitation; active remote sensing; ground-based remote sensing; satellite remote sensing; airborne remote sensing

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

Machine Learning and Remote/Proximal Sensing for Rock Mass Characterization and Slope Analyses

edited by

Elisa Mammoliti

,

Adriano Mancini

and

Mirko Francioni

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6724 | Submission Open

Keywords: geomechanics and proximal/remote sensing; machine learning; rock mass characterization; discontinuities analysis; fracturing

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

Remote Sensing for Soil Moisture and Vegetation Parameters Retrieval (Second Edition)

edited by

Liangliang Tao

,

Dongryeol Ryu

and

Hao Sun

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6534 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil moisture; agricultural monitoring; microwave remote sensing; machine learning; vegetation dynamics estimates; modeling; drought assessment

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

Ecological Environment Remote Sensing and Sustainable Development Evaluation in Coastal Zones

edited by

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submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5140 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal zones; intelligent remote sensing interpretation; ecological environment remote sensing; ecological pro-cesses; landscape ecological security; land subsidence safety; sustainable development

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

Advances in Remote Sensing Image Target Detection and Recognition

edited by

Yin Zhuang

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4646 | Submission Open

Keywords: semi-supervised learning; few-shot learning; long-tail distribution; domain adaptation; open-vocabulary; zero-shot learning

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

Satellite Remote Sensing for Meteorological Disaster Monitoring and Forecasting

edited by

Dimitrios Katsanos

and

Adrianos Retalis

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3900 | 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)

AI Applications to Remote Sensing of Cloud and Precipitation: Monitoring, Modeling, and Prediction

edited by

, Jinfang Yin,

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submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3758 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing techniques; clouds and precipitation; AI applications for RS; cloud microphysics; cloud seeding; extreme weather events; data fusion and assimilation; RS for hydrological analysis; atmospheric water vapor/moisture

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

Remote Sensing and Machine Learning Applications in Atmospheric Physics, Weather, and Air Quality

edited by

Michal Segal-Rosenheimer

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3538 | Submission Open

Keywords: Remote sensing; Machine learning; Air-quality; Aerosols; Weather; Cloud dynamics; Fires

From Remotely Sensed Data to Ecological Intelligence: New Insights in Coral Reef Recovery Detected through Remote Sensing in a Warming Climate

edited by Renata Ferrari, Sophie Gordon, Kang Han,

Erica Nocerino

and Gaia Pavoni

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2109 | Submission Open

Keywords: underwater photogrammetry; neural radiance fields; machine learning applications to the segmentation and classification of coral reef images; orthomosaics; and 3D models; coral reef vital rates; climate change impact detection (i.e.; bleaching; cyclones); spatio-temporal comparisons

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

New Perspectives in Plant Phenotyping: Satellite-Based Multispectral Remote Sensing

edited by Luwei Feng,

Xiaoyan Kang

and Yan Zhao

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 486 | Submission Open

Keywords: multispectral remote sensing; crop classification; phenology; deep learning; radiative transfer model; plant parameter retrieval; vegetation productivity simulation; crop yield prediction

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

Advances in Remote Sensing Large Visual Language Model

edited by Fan Liu, Tianjin Huang and

Jun Zhou

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 337 | Submission Open

Keywords: Vision– Language Models (VLMs); remote sensing; multimodal data fusion; AI-driven mapping; land use classification; visual Question Answering; geospatial reasoning and spatial analysis

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

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