Editorial Board
- Advisory Board
- Editorial Board
- Atmosphere Remote Sensing Section
- Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology Section
- Ocean Remote Sensing Section
- Forest Remote Sensing Section
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation Section
- Remote Sensing Image Processing Section
- Biogeosciences Remote Sensing Section
- Urban Remote Sensing Section
- Environmental Remote Sensing Section
- Coral Reefs Remote Sensing Section
- Engineering Remote Sensing Section
- Remote Sensing Communications Section
- AI Remote Sensing Section
- Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration Section
- Ecological Remote Sensing Section
- Earth Observation Data Section
- Earth Observation for Emergency Management Section
Editors (82)

Interests: hyperspectral remote sensing, remote sensing expertise in a number of areas including: (a) global croplands, (b) agriculture, (c) water resources, (d) wetlands, (e) droughts, (f) land use/land cover, (g) forestry, (h) natural resources management, (i) environments, (j) vegetation, and (k) characterization of large river basins and deltas
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Interests: Lidar remote sensing (ALS, TLS, UAV-lidar, GEDI), tropical forest structure and ecology; industrial forest plantations, algorithms and tools development; data integration and change detection
* Section “Forest Remote Sensing”
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Interests: remote sensing of vegetation with focus on time series analysis and use of physically based radiative transfer models for mapping biochemical and biophysical traits
* Section "Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation"
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Interests: remote sensing big data analysis; optical and SAR satellite remote sensing, photogrammetry, and stereo-SAR; 3D terrain and object modeling; GNSS positioning and monitoring; GNSS seismology
* Section "Engineering Remote Sensing"
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Interests: UAV-based multisource imaging; imaging sensor integration; AI and non-invasive exploration
* Section "Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology"
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Interests: biophysical remote sensing; phenology; satellite products; carbon and water fluxes; land use science; drought studies
* Section "Biogeosciences Remote Sensing"
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Interests: remote sensing of coastal and marine environments; conservation and management of coral reef and seagrass ecosystems; improving marine field calibration and validation approaches of remote sensing imagery
* Section "Coral Reefs Remote Sensing"
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Interests: hydrogeology; geomorphology; natural hazards; land use/cover changes; optical/radar remote sensing
* Section "Environmental Remote Sensing"
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Interests: hyperspectral image processing; artificial intelligence
* Section "AI Remote Sensing"
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Interests: remote sensing; disaster management; natural hazard; stochastic mechanics
* Section "Earth Observation for Emergency Management"
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Interests: water quality (inland waters, estuaries, coastal, and open ocean waters); wetlands health, productivity, and carbon sequestration; benthic habitat mapping, cyber-innovated environmental sensing
* Section "Remote Sensing Letter"
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Interests: optical remote sensing; imaging spectroscopy; vegetation fluorescence; vegetation biophysical parameters; land surface applications; optical reflectance/fluorescence models; retrieval methods; design of future earth observation missions; dynamical vegetation models; calibration/validation field campaigns
* Section "Satellite Missions"
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Interests: remote sensing; GIS; geospatial statistics; land use land cover change and prediction; assessment and monitoring of drought, land degradation, and desertification; landscape fragmentation; urban environmental modeling including urban water use and climate analysis; forest characterization including coastal environments; disaster assessment, recovery, and monitoring; agriculture water use, evapotranspiration, and surface energy analysis; spatial modeling; and classification algorithm development
* Section "Urban Remote Sensing"
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Interests: remote sensing
* Section "Ecological Remote Sensing"
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Interests: validation of remote sensing data; application of remote sensing to coastal regions; development of new remote sensing for high resolution; Validation of remote sensing data sets in challenging areas, including the Arctic and coastal regions
* Section "Ocean Remote Sensing"
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Interests: remote sensing; image analysis; computer vision; pattern recognition; machine learning
* Section "Remote Sensing Image Processing"
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Interests: cloud remote sensing; aerosol remote sensing; trace gas remote sensing; snow remote sensing; radiative transfer
* Section "Atmosphere Remote Sensing"
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Interests: laser scanning; structural monitoring; resilience of infrastructure
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2. Remote Sensing Signal and Image Processing Laboratory (RSSIPL), Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
Interests: hyperspectral/multispectral image processing; medical imaging
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2. National Weather Center, ARRC Suite 4610, University of Oklahoma, 120 David L. Boren Blvd, Norman, OK 73072, USA
Interests: radar and satellite remote sensing; hydrology and water security; water resource engineering and GIS
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Interests: national forest inventory; spatially estimating forest parameters; tree species; growing stock; change detection; biodiversity; LiDAR; airborne and spaceborne; image-matching; canopy height model; land cover/land use change
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Interests: SAR; InSAR; time-series InSAR; geophysical modeling; volcanoes; landslides; geohazards
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Interests: agricultural systems (crop rotation, tillage assessment, yield estimation); soil variability; land use/land cover change; coastal reclamation; urban systems (microclimates, impervious surfaces, drainage)
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Interests: geometric and radiometric sensors; sensor fusion; calibration of imageries; signal/image processing; mission planning; navigation and position/orientation; machine learning; simultaneous localization and mapping; regulations and economic impact; agriculture; geosciences; urban area; architecture; monitoring/change detection; education; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)
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Interests: imaging spectroscopy; vegetation properties retrieval; FLEX, vegetation fluorescence; optical remote sensing; radiative transfer models; retrieval methods
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Interests: crop production, area, yield; MODIS; Landsat
Interests: earth observation; optical oceanography; coastal waters
* Section "Ocean Remote Sensing"
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Interests: coastal remote sensing and air–sea interactions
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Interests: optical remote sensing of wetlands; time series; phenology; wetland ecology; SAV; species distribution models; ornithology
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Interests: synthetic aperture radar for sea observation; microwave radiometry; sea surface scattering; GNSS reflectometry
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Interests: urban remote sensing; nightlight remote sensing; remote sensing image analysis; GIS; spatial analysis
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Interests: physical oceanography; satellite oceanography; operational oceanography; climate variability marine circulation; physicalbiological interaction; remote sensing; air-sea interaction; satellite and model data qualification and validation

Interests: tropical dry forests; UAVs; carbon fluxes and phenology; hyperspectral remote sensing; ecological succession
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Interests: spatial ecology; fragmentation; climate change; hyperspectral remote sensing; image processing; geo-information techniques
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Interests: computer vision; image processing; hyperspectral image analysis; visual recognition; machine learning
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Interests: remote sensing; urban environments; physical models; time series; data assimilation; classification; regression, fusion; pasture systems; agriculture
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Interests: geological hazards and ground instability; landslide monitoring; remote sensing data interpretation and validation; engineering geological characterization and modelling
* Section "Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology"
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Interests: automated aerospace image and LiDAR mapping; geospatial modeling and analysis; geosocial data mining
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Interests: remote sensing; GIS; wetland hydrology; soil moisture; LiDAR; Google Earth Engine
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Interests: quantitative land remote sensing; surface radiation budget; satellite data product integration; satellite data degradation
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Interests: nighttime light remote sensing; urban remote sensing; object-oriented analysis for remotely sensed images; LiDaR (Light Detection and Ranging)
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Interests: atmosphere and high carbon reservoirs; agriculture; urban environment assessment; natural disaster
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Interests: geomorphology; geology; cartography
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Interests: quantitative remote sensing; algorithm development; environmental modeling; phenology
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Interests: ocean colour modelling; spectral characteristics of light penetration underwater; bio-optical properties of phytoplankton; modelling primary production; bio-geochemical cycles in the sea; climate change; biological–physical interactions in the marine system; ecological provinces in the sea; ecological indicators and phytoplankton functional types
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Interests: Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, spatial modeling, and data mining for urban and environmental analysis and planning; mapping urban land cover (green space, impervious surfaces, etc.) and monitoring forest health using fine resolution satellite imagery
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Interests: SAR remote sensing; SAR interferometry; surface motion estimation; SAR in archaeology
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Interests: air pollution; greenhouse gases; modelling studies
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Interests: land use/land cover mapping; land cover change detection; pre-fire planning and post-fire assessment; soil erosion risk assessment/desertification; other environmental applications of remote sensing and GIS
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2. Taiwan Group on Earth Observations, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Interests: remote sensing; atmospheric science; environmental monitoring; disaster analysis
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Interests: microwave active and passive; optical/IR; hydrology; soil moisture; sensitivity and uncertainty analysis; artificial intelligence; geospatial technology; classification methods; simulation and modelling
* Section "Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology"
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Interests: remote sensing; earth system modeling; Internet of Things; their integration to study air quality; wildfires; land–air interactions
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Interests: remote sensing; soil moisture; soil roughness
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Interests: radiative transfer theory; machine learning and data science; advanced remote sensing techniques for carbon modeling and vegetation structure; climate modeling; high performance computing and cloud computing; large-scale image processing and signal processing
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2. ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence, Limassol 3036, Cyprus
Interests: atmospheric energetics; development of mathematical methods for weather prediction and their verification; diagnostic investigation of Mediterranean depressions with emphasis on the quantification of various characteristics; applications of artificial neural networks in meteorological and climatological issues; desert dust transportation; applications of weather radar in the estimation of precipitation; applications of satellite meteorology and remote sensing; precipitation, drought, floods and methods for their prediction and mitigation planning; atmospheric and climatic models
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Interests: plant eco-physiology; remote sensing; micrometeorology; agro-ecosystems; precision agriculture; GIS; vegetation and water resources
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Interests: wave scattering and radar imaging of terrains and sea, and their applications
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Interests: REDD; remote sensing; forests; climate change; high performance computing; SAR imaging; data fusion; time series analysis
Interests: disaster risk management; damage assessment; vulnerability; UAV; resilience; recovery; OBIA; object-oriented analysis; VGI
* Section "Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology"
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Interests: physical oceanography; ocean remote sensing (including physics, data interpretation, applications, and laboratory simulation); meso-scale ocean dynamics; solitary waves in the atmosphere and ocean
Interests: air/sea interaction; boundary-layer meteorology; rainfall variability; earth observing system
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Interests: cloud remote sensing; aerosol remote sensing; trace gas remote sensing; snow remote sensing; radiative transfer
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Interests: satellite oceanography; microwave remote sensing; marine atmospheric boundary layer process studies; marine pollution monitoring; air–sea interactions
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Interests: synthetic aperture radar (SAR); interferometric SAR (InSAR); time series; precision agriculture
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2. Burroughs & Chapin Scholar, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC 29526, USA
Interests: observations of and numerical modeling of atmospheric; oceanic, estuary; land and hydraulic inter-actively coupled systems; relationships between climate and weather coupled systems; wind-wave-current coupled interactions
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Interests: terrestrial carbon cycle; vegetation monitoring; model–data integration
* Section "Biogeosciences Remote Sensing"
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Interests: thermal infrared remote sensing; land surface temperature; land surface emissivity; evapotranspiration; scaling problem; hyperspectral analysis; radiative transfer modelling
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Interests: UAV and multi/hyperspectral remote sensing; image processing and analysis; change detection; machine learning; pattern recognition; computer vision
* Section "Remote Sensing Image Processing"
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Interests: remote sensing; image analysis; pattern recognition; signal processing
* Section "Remote Sensing Image Processing"
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Interests: computer vision; image processing; pattern recognition; 3D image reconstruction; spatio-temporal image change detection and tracking; fusion and registering from imaging sensors; superresolution from low-resolution image sensors.
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Interests: remote sensing of vegetation biophysical variables; vegetation and agriculture monitoring; time series analysis; land surface phenology; stress detection; crop modelling; radiative transfer modelling; hyperspectral remote sensing
* Section "Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation"
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Interests: earth observation; modeling; land surface interactions; soil moisture; evapotrasnpiration; land use/cover mapping; change detection; natural hazards; floods; wildfires; sensitivity analysis; soil vegetation atmosphere transfer modeling; operational products benchmarking
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Interests: copernicus; disaster management; remote sensing image classification; SDG; Sendai; agriculture; time series analysis
* Section "Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation"
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Interests: land use and land cover change; landscape ecology; biodiversity; land dynamic modeling; assessment of ecological services; remote sensing
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Interests: hyperspectral remote sensing; reflectance spectroscopy; vegetation; soils; rocks

Interests: digital terrain analysis; earth surface processes analysis; natural hazards; geomorphometry; lidar; structure from motion; Anthropocene
* Section "Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology"
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2. Director, The Center for Remote Sensing, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Nankai District, Tianjin 300072, China
Interests: lidar imaging; lidar data processing; terrestrial remote sensing; image geometric rectification; image processing

Interests: geospatial web; geodata science; citizen science; open science; open data; open geospatial software; geospatial artificial intelligence
* Section "Engineering Remote Sensing"
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Interests: change detection; SAR; photogrammetry; deep learning; land cover mapping; geo big data; time series analysis; urban remote sensing; forest fire; mobile mapping
* Section "Engineering Remote Sensing"
Interests: IoT; reconfigurable computing; remote sensing; environmental monitoring; IoT for education; embedded energy harvesting
* Section "Engineering Remote Sensing"
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Interests: methods for spatial and temporal filtering of remote sensed data and digital surface models; GNSS for water resources; SAR and optical remote sensing for river and lake science
* Section "Engineering Remote Sensing"
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Interests: detection of phytoplankton size structure from satellite data; bio-opical model development and validation; unravelling the interaction between phytoplankton; physical forcing at large temporal and spatial scales using satellite observations
* Section "Ocean Remote Sensing"
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Advisory Board (10)

Interests: remote sensing; optical satellite imagery; greenhouse mapping; DSM extraction from satellite imagery; greenhouse crops monitoring; OBIA
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Interests: satellite geodesy; astronomy and satellite positioning; satellite altimetry; coastal altimetry and its applications; satellite altimetry retracking algorithms; sea level rise; remote sensing; satellite geodesy in natural hazard mitigation
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Interests: AI oceanography; big data; ocean remote sensing; physical oceanography; boundary layer meteorology; synthetic aperture radar imaging mechanism; multiple-polarization radar applications; satellite image classification and segmentation
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Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Ocean Remote Sensing with Synthetic Aperture Radar
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Sea Surface Temperature Retrievals from Remote Sensing
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Oil Spill Remote Sensing
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Radar Imaging Theory, Techniques, and Applications
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Sea Surface Roughness Observed by High Resolution Radar
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Advanced Topics in Remote Sensing
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: AI-based Remote Sensing Oceanography
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Novel Bistatic SAR Scattering Theory, Imaging Algorithms, and Applications
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing for Marine Environmental Disaster Response
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing Applications in Ocean Observation

Interests: radiation transfer modeling in the atmosphere; heat and energy budgets; long-term memory in climate quantities
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Interests: remote sensing of snow and ice; information service for cold regions
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Interests: glaciology; climate change; radar remote sensing; ice sheet modeling; interferometry; radio echo sounding; ice-ocean interactions

Interests: digital terrain analysis; earth surface processes analysis; natural hazards; geomorphometry; lidar; structure from motion; Anthropocene
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Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing of Environmental Changes in Cold Regions
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Landscape, Agriculture, and Society: Multiplatform Big Data Analysis for Monitoring and Sustainable Management of Agricultural Landscapes
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing of Environmental Changes in Cold Regions Ⅱ

Interests: remote sensing; image analysis; computer vision; pattern recognition; machine learning
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Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Change Detection Using Multi-Source Remotely Sensed Imagery
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: State-of-the-Art Remote Sensing Image Scene Classification

Interests: passive and active microwave remote sensing of soil and vegetation; water and carbon cycles; soil moisture; vegetation optical depth (VOD); L-MEB model (L-band Microwave Emission of the Biosphere); Sentinel 1; ASCAT; AMSR2; SMAP; SMOS-IC

Interests: applications of remote sensing to forestry; natural resource management; ecological modeling; and Earth system science
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Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Lidar for Forest Science and Management
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Interests: synthetic aperture radar (SAR); computational imaging; inverse problems; statistical signal processing

Interests: remote sensing; image processing; signal processing; sequential Bayesian estimation; estimation theory; detection theory; statistical signal processing; fractal models; data fusion; gravitational waves; localization; nonlinear devices; sensor networks
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Interests: remote sensing; sensors, smart environments; deep learning; IoT; radar (lidar); wireless power transer
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Special Issue in Future Internet: Security and Privacy in Information and Communication Systems
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Artificial Intelligence and Automation in Sustainable Smart Farming

Interests: remote sensing; satellite imagery; OBIA; DEM quality; greenhouse mapping; greenhouse crop monitoring; forests
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Special Issue in Sensors: Satellite Remote Sensing in Environmental Monitoring
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing of Agricultural Greenhouses and Plastic-Mulched Farmland

Interests: image processing; image fusion; pansharpening; data compression; image quality
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Interests: sensor calibration; 3D city modeling; laserscanning; photogrammetry; machine vision; cultural and natural heritage applications; high accuracy object measurement and 3D modeling
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Interests: soil moisture; hydrology; assimilation; microwave remote sensing; physical modeling; energy budget
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Interests: wireless communications; signal processing; satellite and UAV communications; radar systems; the Internet-of-Things over satellite
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Interests: atmospheric aerosol; lidar; remote sensing; atmospheric radiation; aerosol–cloud interaction
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Interests: land surface modelling; climate change; hydrology; data analysis
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Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Soil Moisture Retrieval using Radar Remote Sensing Sensors
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Data Assimilation of Satellite-Based Observations into Land Surface Models
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing of Land Surface and Earth System Modelling