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In order to further enhance the international influence of the Remote Sensing (ISSN: 2072-4292) and promote academic exchange among researchers, we are currently recruiting prestigious scholars from around the world to join our Editorial Board.

Recruitment:

Editorial Board Members will hold the position for two years, with the possibility of renewal for a second term.

Application eligibility:

• Completed their doctorate/PhD degree;
• Researchers must have served as the first author/corresponding author on at least ten peer-reviewed and published manuscripts in the last five years;
• Researchers must have published impactful work in the field of remote sensing.
• Researchers that are currently (at the time of application) holding a senior lecturer, associate professor or professor title in academia;
• Researchers that are actively engaged in their community (e.g., experienced at presenting at conferences or involved in professional organizations).

The main responsibilities of Editorial Board Members are as follows:

• Pre-screening and making decisions on new submissions related to their research interests;
• Setting up at least one Special Issue during their term on a topic related to their research interests (or supervising Special Issues related to their research field);
• Helping to attract suitable expert authors and inviting young scholars to join the Topical Advisory Panel;
• Providing input or feedback regarding journal policies;
• Helping promote the journal among their peers or at conferences;
• Attending Board Meetings to suggest journal development strategies;
• Reviewing manuscripts.

According to the expertise, Editorial Board Members may be assigned to a specific journal Section as Section Board Members; in this case, they are primarily committed to this Section.

The benefits of becoming an Editorial Board Member include the following:

• A certificate recognizing you as an Editorial Board Member;
• Travel grants, offered to Editorial Board Members who make significant contributions to the journal;
• The opportunity to publish one paper per year free of charge in our journal and potential discounts for the authors of papers invited by you;
• Organizing or promoting your own conferences using our SciForum platform;
• An expanded research network providing new insights, collaborations, and opportunities for future research projects.

Applications:

To apply for this position, recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact the Editorial Office with the subject of “Remote Sensing Editorial Board Member Application + Name”, including the following two files attached:

• A full academic CV;
• A short cover letter that details your interest and enthusiasm for the position.

Application deadline: 31 December 2025.

Selection process and announcement:

The selection process: initial screening of application materials → selection by the Editor-in-Chief and Section Editor-in-Chief → email notification → issuing a certificate of appointment.

Remote Sensing is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal about the science and application of remote sensing technology, and is published semimonthly online by MDPI. For more information about the Editorial Board team, please visit the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/editors.

We look forward to receiving your application and hope that you will join us in our mission to advance the field of remote sensing through high-quality research and scholarship.

Remote Sensing Editorial Office

We cordially invite you to attend the 1st International Online Conference on Non-Destructive Testing (ICNDT 2026), organized by MDPI’s NDT (ISSN: 2813-477X), which will take place online via Sciforum from 1 to 3 July 2026, Central European Summer Time (CEST).

Conference Chairs:

• Prof. Dr. Fabio Tosti, ¹ School of Computing and Engineering, University of West London, UK; ² The Faringdon Research Centre for Non-Destructive Testing and Remote Sensing, University of West London, UK;
• Prof. Dr. Andreas Loizos, Laboratory of Pavement Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece;
• Dr. Luca Bianchini Ciampoli, Department of Civil, Computer Science and Aeronautical Technologies Engineering, Roma Tre University, Italy.

Topics of Interest:
S1. Digitalization of NDT Data;
S2. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for NDT;
S3. Advanced Sensing Technologies;
S4. Robotics and Automation in NDT;
S5. NDT for Structural Health Monitoring;
S6. NDT for Additive Manufacturing;
S7. NDT in Cultural Heritage Preservation;
S8. Data Fusion and Integration.

Submit your abstract here!

Register for the conference here!

For any inquiries regarding the event, please contact us at icndt2026@mdpi.com.

We look forward to seeing you at ICNDT 2026.

Conference: The 33rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2025)
Date: 8–12 September 2025
Location: Palermo, Italy

MDPI will be attending the 33rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2025) as an exhibitor from 8 to 12 September 2025, welcoming researchers from diverse backgrounds to visit and share their latest ideas.

EUSIPCO is recognized as one of the premier signal processing conferences, attracting delegates and papers from all over the world, and it covers a large number of applications of interest related to signal processing, including audio and acoustic, speech and language, image and video, multimedia, sensor array, communications, radar and sonar, compressed sensing, sparse modelling, optimization methods, machine learning, bio-medical, vision and robotics, spectral imaging, information forensics and security, power systems, education, bioinformatics and genomics, big data, internet of things, and the design and implementation of systems.

Join us in the beautiful city of Palermo, Italy, for the 2025 Annual Meeting. We look forward to seeing you in Palermo in September 2025!

The following MDPI journals will be represented at EUSIPCO 2025:

• Electronics;
• Signals;
• Computers;
• J. Imaging;
• Applied Sciences;
• JSAN;
• NDT;
• Remote Sensing.

If you are planning to attend the above conference, please do not hesitate to start an online conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have.

MDPI will be attending the IAG 2025 Scientific Assembly as an exhibitor. The conference will take place from 1 to 5 September, in Rimini, Italy.

The theme of the Assembly is “Geodesy for a changing environment”, to be developed within the domains of interest of the four IAG Commissions, namely Reference Frames, Gravity Field, Rotation and Geodynamics, and Positioning and Applications.

The Scientific Assembly provides a unique opportunity for the international community to meet, and proposes as well as discuss topics where geodetic science plays a considerable role. The theme of the assembly draws geodesists’ attention to the impacts of environmental variations/changes, increasingly severe extreme events of different natures, and developing strategies apt to capture the onset of abrupt changes in Earth’s system.

• Remote Sensing;
• Geomatics;
• Atmosphere;
• Applied Sciences;
• Earth;
• Climate;
• Eng;
• Geosciences;
• Sensors;
• Geographies;
• Hydrology.

MDPI will be attending the Second National Conference on Information Geography in Chengdu, China, which will take place from 17 to 20 August 2025. This conference is themed “Chinese Geography in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”, focusing on the innovative development and cutting-edge applications of information geography driven by artificial intelligence. We sincerely invite experts, scholars, scientific and technological workers and graduate students in geography and related fields to gather in Chengdu to discuss the transformation and innovation of geographical science in the era of artificial intelligence, gather wisdom and consensus, and contribute to the leapfrog development of Chinese information geography in the era of AI. If you are attending the conference, please visit our booth; our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions you may have.

The following open access journals will be represented at the conference:

• Geographies (leading);
• IJGI (leading);
• Earth;
• Sustainability;
• Land;
• Remote Sensing;
• Hydrology;
• GeoHazards;
• Geomatics;
• Quaternary.

We are pleased to announce Dr. Roberto Pierdicca as the winner of the Remote Sensing 2025 Young Investigator Award. The Remote Sensing Young Investigator Award was established in 2018 to acknowledge the achievements of young investigators in the field of remote sensing. All winners were chosen by the journal’s award committee.

Name: Dr. Roberto Pierdicca
Affiliation: Università Politecnica delle Marche, Department of Civil, Building Engineering and Architecture (DICEA), Italy
Research interests: GeoAI; point cloud; cultural heritage; remote sensing

We were honored to interview Dr. Roberto Pierdicca and learn about his views and experiences in relation to scientific research and awards. The interview is summarized below:

The following is a short interview with Dr. Roberto Pierdicca:

1. Could you briefly introduce yourself and your current affiliation?
I’m Roberto Pierdicca, Associate Professor of Geomatics at the Università Politecnica delle Marche (Marche Ploytechnic University), Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile Edile e dell’Architettura (DICEA)—Department of Civil, Building Engineering and Architecture.

2. Could you share your main current research interests, what inspired you to pursue a career in remote sensing, as well as your perspective on its future?
My research interests focus on GeoAI, new paradigms of geospatial data processing, and interpretation with the aid of Artificial Intelligence methods. Within such an interesting topic, I’m investigating Geospatial Reasoning and Spatial Intelligence systems to unveil the potential of reasoning systems under the complex umbrella of spatio-temporal dynamics in different fields and geo-data. Just to mention some, point clouds in cultural heritage, forestry, and environmental monitoring. I’m also interested in discovering the potential of new visualization systems based on eXtended Reality. I owe my passion for remote sensing to Prof. Fangi; his passion and dedication to photogrammetry shed light on my real inclination toward research and education. Ciao Gabriele.

3. Could you share your experiences of collaborating with the Remote Sensing journal?
From the very beginning of my career, I have had an active collaboration with Remote Sensing and other MDPI journals, mostly in the fields of applied science, GIS, and remote sensing. We have strengthened our collaboration with series collections, where I acted as a guest editor. I also served as a reviewer for several papers and contributed by publishing my research.

4. How do you see the future of remote sensing science, particularly in your area?
Remote sensing will be closer to computer vision and pattern recognition with the essential aid of AI. The availability of data from satellites with growing temporal, spatial, and spectral resolutions requires more complex approaches that, with human supervision, shall be able to merge more data to refine the interpretation of phenomena. Data imputation, multimodal systems, classification, and segmentation are part of our daily job as remote sensing researchers, and I expect a dialogue between these disciplines. More should be done in terms of validation, and we must strive to “speak the same language” as geoscientists, data scientists, and computer engineers.

5. Lastly, as the award winner, would you like to take a moment to share your thoughts with our readers?
Gratitude. Without the help of my research team and the support of colleagues and friends, I would never have reached this point. My suggestion to the new generation of researchers is to do difficult things—the easiest ones are the most trivial. Difficult things are tough sometimes, but they deserve to be pursued. And please, mind the use of AI; it is a fantastic tool, it can reduce the time to perform tasks, but the risk is to reduce your capacity for interpretation and creative thinking of solutions. “A fool with a tool is still a fool”.

MDPI will be attending the Busan IAMAS-IACS-IAPSO Joint Assembly 2025 (BACO-25), Busan, Republic of Korea, which will take place from 20 to 25 July 2025. BACO-25 will be organized jointly by the Korean Meteorological Society, the Korean Society of Oceanography, and the Geological Society of Korea, with enthusiastic support from the Korean government and Busan Metropolitan City, ensuring a professional and successful conference. Over these six days, esteemed colleagues from academia, government, and industry worldwide will engage in scientific presentations, discussions, information exchanges, and international cooperation in earth sciences. Participants will enjoy exceptional scientific programs, exhibitions, and exciting supporting events. Busan, Republic of Korea's second-largest city, boasts numerous world-class institutions and universities renowned for earth and ocean science research, such as the Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology (KIOST), the APEC Climate Center (APCC), the IBS Center for Climate Physics, and the National Institute of Fisheries Sciences. If you are attending the conference, please visit us at booth #4; our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions you may have.

The following MDPI journals will be represented at the conference:

• Climate (leading);
• Atmosphere (leading);
• Remote Sensing;
• Environments;
• GeoHazards;
• Oceans;
• Quaternary;
• Air;
• Coasts;
• Meteorology.

Conference: AOGS2025 22nd Annual Meeting
Date: 27 July–1 August 2025
Place: Level 4, Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore 

MDPI is excited to announce its participation as an exhibitor at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS2025), taking place in Singapore from 27 July to 1 August 2025. 

This prestigious conference brings together scientists, researchers, and practitioners from across eight geoscience disciplines: atmospheric sciences (ASs), biogeosciences (BGs), hydrological sciences (HSs), interdisciplinary geosciences (IGs), ocean sciences (OSs), planetary sciences (PSs), solar and terrestrial sciences (STs), and solid earth sciences (SEs). 

In addition to a robust program of scientific presentations and exhibitions, AOGS2025 will feature a variety of engaging ancillary activities—including workshops, panel discussions, special sessions, and field trips—designed to offer a well-rounded and enriching experience for all participants. 

One of the event highlights is "Speed Networking", which provides a unique opportunity for attendees and exhibitors to expand their professional networks through focused one-on-one meetings. 

We look forward to connecting with the global geoscience community at AOGS2025! 

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Drones;
• Geomatics;
• Earth;
• Geosciences;
• Water;
• Remote Sensing;
• Environments;
• Climate;
• Hydrology;
• Limnological Review;
• Coasts;
• Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (JMSE);
• Sustainability;
• Oceans;
• Atmosphere. 

If you are planning to attend this conference, please feel free to start a conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference and our booth, please visit https://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2025/public.asp?page=home.asp.

Topographical studies of the Earth we live in are important because they inform us about the planet’s history, climate change, and natural hazards. Geoscientists, paleontologists, and earth observation scientists all work towards the goal of understanding Earth’s history and its natural processes better. The rapid and continuous advancement in the field brings new methodologies and technologies to study the earth with greater precision. For instance, remote sensing technology has progressed from simple cameras for aerial photography in the 19th century to complex satellite sensors that generate topographic maps and high-resolution digital elevation models.

MDPI’s cluster of geospatial and earth sciences journals feature these cutting-edge advances in scientific research in remote sensing and physical geography. The cluster is spearheaded by MDPI’s well-established journals Remote Sensing (IF 4.1) and Geosciences (IF 2.1).

The seven participating journals are as follows:

• Remote Sensing (ISSN: 2072-4292) focuses on remote sensing science, from sensor design and validation/calibration to its application in geosciences, environmental sciences, ecology and civil engineering. Remote Sensing is led by Editor-in-Chief Dr. Prasad S. Thenkabail (Senior Scientist (ST), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), USGS Western Geographic Science Center);
• Geosciences (ISSN: 2076-3263) focuses on solid earth, the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, and the biosphere, as well as related issues in planetary and space sciences. In addition, it provides a particular place, and an advanced forum, for contributions on Earth history, natural hazards, geology-related environmental problems and geoethics, reflecting the wide scope of the field and societal, educational, cultural and general human implications and the cross-disciplinary nature of the issues. Geosciences is led by Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. John C. Eichelberger (Alaska Center for Energy and Power, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA);
• Quaternary (ISSN: 2571-550X) focuses on quaternary science, embracing the whole range of scientific fields related to geological, ecological, physical, chemical, environmental and human sciences. Quaternary is led by Prof. Dr. Jef Vandenberghe (Department of Earth Sciences, VU University, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands);
• Earth (ISSN: 2673-4834) provides an advanced forum for multidisciplinary research and focuses on the interactions/connections among global environmental systems. It publishes reviews, regular research papers and short communications, as well as Special Issues on particular subjects. Earth is led by Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Charles Jones (Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA);
• Geographies (ISSN: 2673-7086) focuses on providing an advanced forum for theoretical and empirical studies related to all aspects of geographies. Geographies is led by Editor-in-Chief Luca Salvati (Department of Economics and Law, University of Macerata, Via Armaroli 43, I-62100 Macerata, Italy);
• Geomatics (ISSN: 2673-7418) focuses on surveying and mapping, positioning and navigation, satellite positioning, geodesy, photogrammetry, cartography and cadastral, hydrography, remote sensing, spatial data analysis, spatial information science and geographic information systems. Geomatics is led by Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Enrico Corrado Borgogno Mondino (Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Turin, L.go Braccini 2, 10095 Grugliasco, Italy);
• Fossil Studies (ISSN: 2813-6284) focuses on all aspects of paleontology. It publishes regular research papers, review papers and communications about all groups of fossil organisms, from all time periods, from the earliest living beings to the Holocene. Fossil Studies is led by Dr. Eric Buffetaut (CNRS, Paris, France);

	Launch year	Impact Factor (2024)	CiteScore (2024)	First Decision (Median)	Acceptance to Publication (Median Days)	APC (CHF)
	2009	4.1	8.6	23.9	2.5	2700
	2011	2.1	5.1	23.5	2.9	1800
	2018	2.1	4.1	43.4	6.9	1600
	2020	3.4	5.9	23.7	2.6	1400
	2021	1.7	2.9	17.5	4.8	1200
	2021	2.8	5.1	22.1	3.3	1000
	2023	/	/	18	4	1000

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As a pioneer of academic open access publishing, MDPI has been serving the scientific community since 1996. Our aim is to foster scientific exchange in all forms, across all disciplines. MDPI’s guidelines for disseminating open science are based on the following values and guiding principles:

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Selected Topics:

• “Responses of Trees and Forests to Climate Change”;
• “Past, Current and Future Processes in the Earth Critical Zone”;
• “The Geography of Digital Twin: Concepts, Architectures, Modeling, AI and Applications”;
• “Vegetation Characterization and Classification With Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data”;
• “Deep Earth and Deep Sea Engineering: Challenges, Theory and Advance Technologies”.

Selected Articles:
Remote Sensing
“Change Detection Methods for Remote Sensing in the Last Decade: A Comprehensive Review”

Geosciences
“Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (CCS) in Saline Aquifers versus Depleted Gas Fields”

Quaternary
“Sedimentary Ancient DNA Reveals Local Vegetation Changes Driven by Glacial Activity and Climate”

Earth
“Biological Carbon Sequestration: From Deep History to the Present Day”

Geographies
“Application of Machine Learning Models for Improving Discharge Prediction in Ungauged Watershed: A Case Study in East DuPage, Illinois”

Geomatics
“Use of Smartphone Lidar Technology for Low-Cost 3D Building Documentation with iPhone 13 Pro: A Comparative Analysis of Mobile Scanning Applications”

Fossil Studies
“Caletodraco cottardi: A New Furileusaurian Abelisaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Cenomanian Chalk of Normandy (North-Western France)”