Remote Sensing — Journal Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief
Research Geographer-15, U. S. Geological Survey (USGS), USGS Western Geographic Science Center (WGSC), 2255, N. Gemini Dr., Flagstaff, AZ 86001, USA
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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
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Global Croplands
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: High Performance Computing in Remote Sensing

Section Editor-in-Chief
Center for Remote Sensing, Boston University, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215-1401, USA
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Interests: applications of remote sensing in geology, geomorphology, and hydrogeology of arid lands; hyperspectral, multispectral and radar remote sensing; land use/cover changes; water resources exploration/assessment in arid/semiarid lands
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Water: Water Resources Assessment and Management in Drylands
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing of Arid/Semiarid Lands

Section Editor-in-Chief
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienze dell’Atmosfera e del Clima, via Gobetti 101, I-40129 Bologna, Italy
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Interests: clouds and precipitation structure; passive and active remote sensing of precipitation from satellite; climatology of precipitation
* Section "Remote Sensing of the Water Cycle"

Section Editor-in-Chief
School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
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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"
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Thermal Remote Sensing Applications: Present Status and Future Possibilities

Section Editor-in-Chief
Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change Cluster, School of Environment, University of Technology Sydney, 15 Broadway Road Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia
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Interests: biophysical remote sensing; phenology; satellite products; carbon and water fluxes; land use science; drought studies
* Section "Biogeosciences Remote Sensing"
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: What can Remote Sensing Do for the Conservation of Wetlands?

Section Editor-in-Chief
Center for OPTical IMagery Analysis and Learning (OPTIMAL), Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.O. Box 64, 127 West Youyi Road, Xi'an 710072, Shaanxi, China
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Interests: remote sensing; image analysis; computer vision; pattern recognition; machine learning
* Section "Remote Sensing Image Processing"
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Topical Collection in Remote Sensing: Learning to Understand Remote Sensing Images
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Change Detection Using Multi-Source Remotely Sensed Imagery

Section Editor-in-Chief
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria
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Interests: time series analysis; vegetation monitoring and dynamics; land surface phenology; drought early warning systems; EO for agriculture, forestry and natural resource management; imaging spectroscopy; radiative transfer modeling; machine learning; neural nets; vegetation biophysical variables
* Section "Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation"
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Advances in Remote Sensing of Agriculture
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Opportunities and Challenges for Medium Resolution (hecta- to kilometric) Earth Observation of Land Surfaces in the Advent of European Proba-V and Sentinel-3 Missions
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: First Experiences with European Sentinel-2 Multi-Spectral Imager (MSI)
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Monitoring Agricultural Land-Use Change and Land-Use Intensity
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Estimation of Crop Phenotyping Traits using Unmanned Ground Vehicle and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Imagery
Topical Collection in Remote Sensing: Sentinel-2: Science and Applications
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Earth Observation for Index Insurance
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing for Water Resources Assessment and Monitoring in Agriculture

Section Editor-in-Chief
Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Virginia Tech, Cheatham Hall, RM 319, 310 West Campus Dr, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
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Interests: applications of remote sensing to forestry; natural resource management; ecological modeling; and Earth system science
* Section "Forest Remote Sensing"
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Forests: Applications of Remote Sensing to Forestry
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Lidar for Forest Science and Management

Section Editor-in-Chief
German Meteorological Service CM-SAF, Frankfurter Straße 135, 63067 Offenbach, Germany
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Interests: remote sensing of surface radiation; clouds and aerosols; sensor calibration; methods for "merging" in-situ data with remote sensing data
* Section "Atmosphere Remote Sensing"
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing in Climate Monitoring and Analysis
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Calibration and Verification of Remote Sensing Instruments and Observations
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing of Solar Surface Radiation
Special Issue in Atmosphere: Energy Meteorology
Topical Collection in Remote Sensing: Feature Papers for Section Atmosphere Remote Sensing

Section Editor-in-Chief
NCWCP - E/RA3, 5830 University Research Court, College Park, MD 20740, U.S.A.
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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
* Section "Ocean Remote Sensing"
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Recent Advances in Remote Sensing with Nighttime Lights
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Ocean Remote Sensing with Synthetic Aperture Radar
Topical Collection 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

Section Editor-in-Chief
Remote Sensing Group, Helmholtz Institute Freiberg, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Bernhard von-Cotta Str., 2, D-09599 Freiberg, Germany
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Interests: earth sciences; remote sensing/photogrammetry; tectonic geomorphology; vegetation physical properties; hydrological cycle
* Section "Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology"
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing in Geomorphology
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: The Use of UAVs in the Raw Material Sector, from Mineral Exploration to Post-Mining Monitoring

Associate Editor
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Institute of Marine Science, Roma, Italy
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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

Associate Editor
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E3, Canada
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Interests: multi and hyper-spectral remote sensing; ecosystem succession; time series trend-analysis; geostatistics; spatial modeling; wireless sensor networks
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Sensors: Multi and Hyperspectral Remote Sensing for Tropical and Subtropical Forest

Associate Editor
Faculty for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, 7500AA Enschede, The Netherlands
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Interests: spatial ecology; fragmentation; climate change; hyperspectral remote sensing; image processing; geo-information techniques
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Sensors: Recent Advances in Remote Sensing of Plant Stress
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Monitoring of Status and Disturbances of Abiotic and Biotic Traits/Diversity and/or Their Interactions using Remote Sensing

Associate Editor
School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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Interests: multi- and hyperspectral image processing and analysis; super-resolution, fusion, denoising, unmixing, classification, feature extraction

Associate Editor
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Florence, Via La Pira 4, Florence, Italy
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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"
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Applications of Sentinel Satellite for Geohazards Prevention

Associate Editor
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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Interests: Automated aerospace image and LiDAR mapping; Geospatial modeling and analysis; Geosocial data mining
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Airborne Laser Scanning

Associate Editor
Department of Geography, Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, USA
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Interests: remote sensing; GIS; wetland hydrology; climate change; soil moisture; LiDAR
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing of Climate Change and Water Resources
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing for 3D Urban Morphology

Associate Editor
Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
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Interests: quantitative land remote sensing; surface radiation budget; satellite data product integration; satellite data degradation
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Quantitative Remote Sensing of Land Surface Variables

Associate Editor
Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science, Ministry of Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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Interests: nighttime light remote sensing, urban remote sensing, object-oriented analysis for remotely sensed images, LiDaR (Light Detection and Ranging)
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing for 3D Urban Morphology
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Recent Advances in Remote Sensing with Nighttime Lights
Special Issue in Sensors: The Design, Data Processing and Applications of Luojia 1-01 Satellite
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Satellite Remote Sensing of Urban Thermal Environment: Progresses, Challenges, and Opportunities

Associate Editor
Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan Bw-602, 6-1, Komaba 4-chome, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan
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Interests: remote sensing of disasters and environment; wetland ecosystems; blue/green/black/brown carbon studies; socio-economic impact assessment with night-time light; flood/drought and cropland monitoring; global air pollutant emission inventory study
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Advances in Remote Sensing-based Disaster Monitoring and Assessment

Associate Editor
Center for Spatial Information Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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Interests: landform; geology; hydrology; natural environment; GIS; DEM
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Earth Observations for the Sustainable Development

Associate Editor
Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University, 1-33, Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba-ken, 263-8522, Japan
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Interests: remote sensing of inland waters; remote sensing of vegetation; atmospheric correction; algoirthm development; environmental modeling; climate change
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Satellite Monitoring of Water Quality and Water Environment

Associate Editor
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, The Hoe, Plymouth, United Kingdom
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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
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing of Ocean Colour

Associate Editor
Natural Resources and Ecosystem Services Area, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), 2108-11, Kamiyamaguchi, Hayama, Kanagawa, 240-0115, Japan
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Interests: image segmentation; geographic object-based image analysis (GEOBIA); volunteered geographic information (VGI); land use/land cover change; environmental policy
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Image Segmentation for Environmental Monitoring

Associate Editor
The State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS), Wuhan University, No.129 Luoyu Road, Wuchang District, Wuhan 430079, China
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Interests: Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR); Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PS-InSAR); Remote Sensing for Archaeology; SAR geodesy; Radargrammetry; Coherence Change Detection; Corner reflectors; SAR image simulation
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Advances in SAR: Sensors, Methodologies, and Applications
Special Issue in Heritage: Space Technologies for the Sustainable Development of Natural and Cultural Heritage Sites

Associate Editor
Geodesy and Geomatics Division—DICEA, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
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Interests: remote sensing big data analysis; optical and SAR satellite remote sensing, photogrammetry, and stereo-SAR; 3D terrain and objects modeling; GNSS positioning and monitoring; GNSS seismology
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Advances in SAR: Sensors, Methodologies, and Applications
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: High-precision GNSS: Methods, Open Problems and Geoscience Applications
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Google Earth Engine and Cloud Computing Platforms: Methods and Applications in Big Geo Data Science

Associate Editor
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC); 3173-25 Showa-machi, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 236-0001, Japan
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Interests: greenhouse gases and air pollution research
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing of Carbon Dioxide and Methane in Earth’s Atmosphere

Associate Editor
Distinguished Professor and Academician, Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research, National Central University, Jhoneli District, Taoyuan 32001, Taiwan
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Interests: microwave and optical remote sensing, atmospheric science, GPS meteorology and methodology, cryosphere
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Earth Observations for the Sustainable Development
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: The Development and Validation of Remote Sensing Products for Terrestrial, Hydrological, and Ecological Applications at the Regional Scale
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Earth Observations for a Better Future Earth
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Earth Observations for Addressing Global Challenges
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Earth Observations for Environmental Sustainability for the Next Decade

Associate Editor
Center for Global and Environmental Research & Dept. of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering 4133 Seamans Center Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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Interests: satellite remote sensing, particle scattering, radiative transfer, observation-based atmospheric modeling
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Pollution

Associate Editor
Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Climate Research Programme, 00101 Helsinki, Finland
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Interests: atmospheric composition; aerosols; clouds; satellite and ground-based remote sensing; air quality; aerosol effects on climate; aerosol-cloud interaction; meteorological effects on aerosols
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing of Air Quality

Associate Editor
The Cyprus Institute, 20 Konstantinou Kavafi Street2121 Aglantzia, Nicosia, Cyprus
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Interests: meteorology; atmospheric remote sensing
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing of Precipitation

Associate Editor
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
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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
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Topical Collection in Remote Sensing: Sea Surface Temperature Retrievals from Remote Sensing
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Sentinel-3 Satellites: a three-sensor mission to observe the physical, bio-optical and biogeochemical properties of marine/water bodies

Associate Editor
The Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China
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Interests: microwave scattering and propagation, imaging radar, intelligent signal and image processing
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Data Restoration and Denoising of Remote Sensing Data
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Radar Imaging Theory, Techniques, and Applications
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Novel Bistatic SAR Scattering Theory, Imaging Algorithms, and Applications
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Synthetic Aperture Radar Observations of Marine Coastal Environments

Associate Editor
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MA 20742, USA
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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

Associate Editor
Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science & Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA
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Interests: air/sea interaction; boundary-layer meteorology; rainfall variability; earth observing system
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Ocean Surface Currents: Progress in Remote Sensing and Validation

Associate Editor
State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20A Datun Rd, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
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Interests: satellite oceanography; microwave remote sensing; marine atmospheric boundary layer process studies; marine pollution monitoring; air–sea interactions
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Ocean Remote Sensing with Synthetic Aperture Radar
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Tropical Cyclones Remote Sensing and Data Assimilation

Associate Editor
Professor Emeritus, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
Burroughs & Chapin Scholar, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC 29526, USA
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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
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Satellite Remote Sensing of Weather, Water and Climate Couplings and Phenomena

Associate Editor
Center for Environmental Remote Sensing (CEReS), Chiba Uiversity, 1-33, Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba, 263-8522, Japan
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Interests: terrestrial carbon cycle; vegetation monitoring; model-data integration
* Section "Biogeosciences Remote Sensing"

Associate Editor
Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, I-38123 Trento, Italy
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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"
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Recent Trends in UAV Remote Sensing

Associate Editor
Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iceland, Iceland
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Interests: remote sensing; biomedical analysis of signals; pattern recognition; image processing, signal processing
* Section "Remote Sensing Image Processing"
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Analysis of Remote Sensing Image Data
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Analysis of Big Data in Remote Sensing
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Superpixel based Analysis and Classification of Remote Sensing Images
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Multi-Modality Data Classification: Algorithms and Applications
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Advanced Multisensor Image Analysis techniques for land-cover Mapping

Associate Editor
Smead Aerospace Eng. Sci. Dept, CB 431, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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Interests: ocean remote sensing, sea surface temperature, ocean currents from sequential infrared-ocean color and SAR images, sea ice motion, sea ice concentration, land surface vegetation, BRDF, urban remote sensing, high-resolution image classification, infrared measurements from UAVs
* Section "Remote Sensing Image Processing"
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Associate Editor
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Directorate D – Sustainable Resources, Food Security Unit, Via Fermi 2749, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
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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"
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: State-of-the-Art Remote Sensing in Europe

Associate Editor
MapTailor Geospatial Consulting GbR, Nassestrasse 13, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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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"
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Land: Understanding the Patterns, Drivers and Consequences of Agricultural Land Use Change and Land-Use Intensity
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Monitoring Agricultural Land-Use Change and Land-Use Intensity
Special Issue in Land: Agricultural Land Abandonment: Patterns, Drivers and Consequences
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing for Impact Evaluation and Project Monitoring
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Earth Observation for Index Insurance

Associate Editor
Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padova, viale dell’Università 16, 35020 Legnaro (PD), Italy
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Interests: digital terrain analysis; earth surface processes analysis; natural hazards; geomorphology; hydro-geomorphology; lidar; structure-from-motion photogrammetry; new research directions include the analysis of topographic signatures and using remote sensing of human activities from local to regional scale
* Section "Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology"
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Land: The Impact of Land Use Change on Water Resources, Soil and Landforms: Perspectives from Multiple Climates
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing of Anthropocene
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing of Environmental Changes in Cold Regions

Associate Editor
Hydrological Sciences, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA and IESD, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
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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"
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Satellite Remote Sensing for Water Resources in a Changing Climate
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: GPS/GNSS Contemporary Applications

Associate Editor
IRSTEA, University of Montpellier, TETIS, 34090 Montpellier, France
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Interests: remote sensing; soil moisture; soil roughness
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Sensors: Recent Innovative Microwave Remote Sensing Instrumentation for Land Surface Applications
Special Issue in Water: Applications of Remote Sensing and GIS in Hydrology
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Soil Moisture Retrieval using Radar Remote Sensing Sensors

Associate Editor
NASA Ames Research Center and Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Bldg. 566, Room 114, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
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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
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing of Vegetation Structure and Dynamics
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Machine Learning Applications in Earth Science Big Data Analysis

Associate Editor
Laboratory of Forest Management and Remote Sensing, School of Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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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
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Advances in Remote Sensing of Wildland Fires
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Quantifying the Environmental Impact of Forest Fires
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Selected Papers from the 1st International Electronic Conference on Remote Sensing (ECRS-1)
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: New Sensors, Multi-Sensor Integration, Large Volumes: New Opportunities and Challenges in Forest Fire Research
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: New Trends in Forest Fire Research Incorporating Big Data and Climate Change Modeling
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Selected Papers from the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Remote Sensing (ECRS-2)
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing of Desert Landscapes to Monitor Impacts of Renewable Energy Developments

Associate Editor
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8904, Japan
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Interests: plant eco-physiology; remote sensing; modeling; agro-ecosystems; smart agriculture; geoinformation
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Recent Advances in Remote Sensing for Crop Growth Monitoring
Special Issue in Sensors: Recent Advances in Remote Sensing of Plant Stress

Associate Editor
EARTH BIG DATA, LLC, P.O. Box 114, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
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Interests: REDD; remote sensing; forests; climate change; high performance computing; SAR imaging; data fusion; time series analysis

Associate Editor
Department of Earth Systems Analysis (ESA), Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, P.O. Box 6, Hengelosestraat 99, 7500 AA Enschede, Netherlands
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Interests: disaster risk management; damage assessment; vulnerability; UAV; resilience; recovery; OBIA; object-oriented analysis; VGI
* Section "Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology"
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Advances in Object-Based Image Analysis—Linking with Computer Vision and Machine Learning
Topical Collection in Remote Sensing: Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA)

Associate Editor
Vitrociset_Belgium, Bratustrasse 7, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany
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Interests: remote sensing; light scattering; radiative transfer; inverse problems; atmospheric optics; retrieval of aerosol and cloud properties from spaceborne observations
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Atmospheric Remote Sensing
Special Issue in Atmosphere: Advances in Studies of Atmospheric Aerosol and Clouds Using Remote Sensing Techniques
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Aerosol and Cloud Remote Sensing
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Atmospheric Correction of Remote Sensing Data
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing of Atmosphere and Underlying Surface Using OLCI and SLSTR on Board Sentinel-3: Calibration, Algorithms, Geophysical Products and Validation

Associate Editor
School of Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK
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Interests: synthetic aperture radar (SAR); interferometric SAR (InSAR); time series; precision agriculture; GNSS
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Earth Observations for Geohazards
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Earth Observations for Precision Farming in China (EO4PFiC)
Special Issue in Sensors: First Experiences with Chinese Gaofen-3 SAR Sensor
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Earth Observation to Support Disaster Preparedness and Disaster Risk Management
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Radar Interferometry for Geohazards
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Imaging Geodesy and Infrastructure Monitoring
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Technology Advance and for Cultural Heritage Applications
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Revisiting the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan, China Earthquake: New evidence and implications from earth observations
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Earth Observations and Crop Models for Sustainable Agricultural Management
Special Issue in Sensors: Remote Sensing of Geohazards

Associate Editor
Key Laboratory of Agri-informatics, Ministry of Agriculture/Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
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Interests: thermal infrared remote sensing; land surface temperature; land surface emissivity; evapotranspiration; scaling problem; hyperspectral analysis; radiative transfer modelling
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Recent Advances in Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing for Land Surface Temperature (LST) Estimation, Generation, and Analysis
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Scale Issues in Remote Sensing: Analysis, Processing and Modeling

Senior Associate Editor
Geography Department, 220 Stanger Street, 115 Major Williams Hall, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
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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)
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing of Urban Agriculture and Land Cover

Senior Associate Editor
Department of Geography, University of Georgia, 210 Field Street, Rm 212B, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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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
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing of Water Resources
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing in Coastal Environments

Senior Associate Editor
Laboratory for Earth Observation, Image Processing Laboratory - Scientific Park, Department of Earth Physics and Thermodynamics, Faculty of Physics, University of Valencia, C/ Dr. Moliner, 50, 46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
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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
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing of Vegetation Fluorescence and Photosynthetic Efficiency
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: State-of-the-Art Remote Sensing in Europe
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Recent Trends and Applications for Imaging Spectroscopy

Senior Associate Editor
Swiss National Forest Inventory, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Zuercherstr. 111, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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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
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Forests: Optimizing Forest Inventories with Remote Sensing Techniques
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Advances in Remote Sensing for Global Forest Monitoring

Senior Associate Editor
Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275-0395, USA
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Interests: SAR; InSAR; time-series InSAR; geophysical modeling; volcanoes; landslides; geohazards
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Volcano Remote Sensing
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing of Landslides
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Radar Interferometry for Geohazards
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing of Volcanic Processes and Risk
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing Applications in Monitoring of Protected Areas
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing of Landslides II

Associate Editor
Department Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Informatics, University Complutense of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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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
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Sensors: State-of-the-Art Sensors Technology in Spain
Special Issue in Sensors: Sensors in Agriculture and Forestry
Special Issue in Sensors: Collaborative Sensors
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) based Remote Sensing
Special Issue in Sensors: Sensor-Based Technologies and Processes in Agriculture and Forestry
Special Issue in Sensors: State-of-the-Art Sensors Technology in Spain 2013
Special Issue in Sensors: Sensors for Fluid Leak Detection
Special Issue in Sensors: Agriculture and Forestry: Sensors, Technologies and Procedures
Topical Collection in Sensors: Sensors in Agriculture and Forestry
Special Issue in Sensors: State-of-the-Art Sensors Technology in Spain 2015
Special Issue in Journal of Imaging: Image Processing in Agriculture and Forestry
Special Issue in Journal of Imaging: Image and Video Processing in Medicine
Special Issue in ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Geomatics
Special Issue in Sensors: Imaging: Sensors and Technologies
Special Issue in Sensors: State-of-the-Art Sensors Technology in Spain 2016
Special Issue in Sensors: State-of-the-Art Sensors Technology in Spain 2017
Special Issue in Sensors: State-of-the-Art Sensors Technology in Spain 2018
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Wavelet Features in Remote Sensing Image Processing

Associate Editor
Department of Soil & Water Resources, Institute of Industrial & Forage Crops, Hellenic Agricultural Organization “Demeter” (former NAGREF), 1 Theofrastou St., 41335 Larissa, Greece
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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
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Satellite Remote Sensing for Water Resources in a Changing Climate
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing of Wildfire
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: GPS/GNSS Contemporary Applications

Associate Editor
University Centre of Earth & Space Science, Hyderabad Central University P.O Central University, Gachibouli, Hyderabad 500046, India
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Interests: land use and land cover change; landscape ecology; biodiversity; land dynamic modelling; assessment of ecological services

Associate Editor
Divisão de Sensoriamento Remoto, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Caixa Postal 515, Av. dos Astronautas, 1758, Bairro Jardim da Granja, 12245-970 São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
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Interests: hyperspectral remote sensing, reflectance spectroscopy, vegetation, soils and rocks

Associate Editor
Director, Guangxi Key Laboratory for Spatial Information and Geomatics, Guilin Iniversity of Technology, Guilin 541004, China & Director, The Center for Remote Sensing, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Nankai District, Tianjin, 300072, China
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Interests: lidar imaging; lidar data processing; terrestrial remote sensing; image geometric rectification; image processing

Former Editor-in-Chief
Research Group Remote Sensing, Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation (GEO), Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Gusshausstrasse 27-29, 1040 Vienna, Austria
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Interests: remote sensing; geophysical parameter retrieval; airborne laser scanning; full-waveform lidar; radar remote sensing; soil moisture
* Founding Editor-in-Chief and Editor-in-Chief up to 2 September 2011
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Microwave Remote Sensing
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: 100 Years ISPRS - Advancing Remote Sensing Science
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Retrieval, Validation and Application of Satellite Soil Moisture Data

School of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, The University of Newcastle (UON), University Drive, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
Tel. +61 2 4921 8988; Fax: +61 2 4921 6991
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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

University of the Aegean
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Interests: radiation transfer modeling in the atmosphere; heat and energy budgets; long-term memory in climate quantities
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Mediterranean Atmospheric Composition, Aerosols, and Clouds under a Changing Climate

Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.9 Dengzhuang South Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100094, China
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Interests: Remote Sensing of Snow and Ice; Information Service for Cold Regions

Department Earth System Science, University of California Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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Interests: Glaciology; climate change; radar remote sensing; ice sheet modeling; interferometry; radio echo sounding; ice-ocean interactions

Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padova, viale dell’Università 16, 35020 Legnaro (PD), Italy
Tel. +39 (049) 8272677; Fax: +39 (049) 8272750
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Interests: digital terrain analysis; earth surface processes analysis; natural hazards; geomorphology; hydro-geomorphology; lidar; structure-from-motion photogrammetry; new research directions include the analysis of topographic signatures and using remote sensing of human activities from local to regional scale
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Land: The Impact of Land Use Change on Water Resources, Soil and Landforms: Perspectives from Multiple Climates
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing of Anthropocene
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing of Environmental Changes in Cold Regions

Center for OPTical IMagery Analysis and Learning (OPTIMAL), Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.O. Box 64, 127 West Youyi Road, Xi'an 710072, Shaanxi, China
Tel. +86-13991995768
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Interests: remote sensing; image analysis; computer vision; pattern recognition; machine learning
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Topical Collection in Remote Sensing: Learning to Understand Remote Sensing Images
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Change Detection Using Multi-Source Remotely Sensed Imagery

University of Bristol, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Merchant Venturers Building, Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1UB, UK
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Interests: synthetic aperture radar (SAR), computational imaging, inverse problems, statistical signal processing

Department of Civil Engineering, Isik University, TR-34980 Sile, Istanbul, Turkey
Fax: +90 216 712 1474
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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
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing in Natural and Cultural Heritage

Météo-France/CNRS, 42, Av. G. Coriolis31057 Toulouse Cedex 1, France
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Interests: land surface modelling; remote sensing; data assimilation
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Water: Monitoring and Predicting Soil Moisture and Drought Conditions
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

Research Director, National Observatory of Athens, IAASARS
I. Metaxa & Vas. Pavlou St., Penteli, GR-15236, GREECE
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Interests: Active remote sensing, LiDAR

1. Andalusian Institute for Earth System Research, IISTA-CEAMA, University of Granada, Spain
2. Applied Physics Department, University of Granada, Spain
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Interests: atmospheric aerosol, air quality; aerosol and climate; aerosol-cloud interaction; ground based remote sensing; lidar; aerosol in-situ measurements; atmospheric radiation

National Research Council of Italy, Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection (CNR-IRPI), Via della Madonna Alta 126, 06128 Perugia, Italy
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Interests: landslide; geomorpholgy; natural hazard; Satellite Image Analysis; GIS; spatial temporal modelling of landslide evolution
* Section "Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology"

Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland
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Interests: Remote sensing for ecological applications; 3D modelling of canopy structure and biomass

School of Technology, Environments and Design, College of Sciences and Engineering, University of Tasmania, Tasmania 7001, Australia
Tel. +61362262848
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Interests: applications and issues in natural hazard understandings with spatial statistics in particular errors and uncertainties modelling; quantitative change detection; multi-scaling; data assimilation; spatial aggregation and disaggregation; GIS; remote sensing; surveying; GEOBIA
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Mass Movement and Soil Erosion Monitoring Using Remote Sensing

Nonlinear Wave Processes Laboratory, P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of Russian Academy of Sciences, 36, Nakhimovskii pr., Moscow 117997, Russia
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Interests: sea waves, satellite altimetry for wave studies

Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering North Dakota State University NDSU Dept. 7620 PO Box 6050, Fargo, ND 58108, USA
Tel. +1 701 231 7265; Fax: +1 701 231 1008
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Interests: remote sensing; precision agriculture; unmanned aerial systems; bio-composites