Remote Sensing

Remote Sensing for Sustainability and Durability of Transportation Infrastructures

edited by

Wendy Zhou

,

Thomas Oommen

and

Linan Liu

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 23356

Keywords: tunneling-induced ground subsidence; landslide monitoring along transportation corridors; rockfalls along roadcuts; rock mass and fault zone characterization for transportation alignment selection; airfield ground subsidence; bridge monitoring; ground deformation time series; parametric analysis of ground subsidence or deformation

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

Planetary Geologic Mapping and Remote Sensing (Second Edition)

edited by

Kaichang Di

,

Long Xiao

and

Jan-Peter Muller

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 22142

Keywords: planetary geology; planetary topography and geomorphology; planetary chronology; planetary spectrum; planetary remote sensing; geologic structures; geologic mapping; planetary composition; planetary GIS; planetary exploration missions; landing sites

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

Remote Sensing Image Classification and Semantic Segmentation (Second Edition)

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, Bobo Xi,

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submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 22105

Keywords: remote sensing; deep learning; semantic segmentation; classification; cross-domain; earth observation

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

Recent Progress on Remote Sensing Change Detection and Application Driven by AI

edited by

Xinzheng Zhang

,

Ce Zhang

and

Hong Huang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 15673

Keywords: remote sensing; change detection; artificial intelligence; deep learning; neural network; image processing

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

Remote Sensing of Climate-Vegetation Dynamics and Their Effects on Ecosystems II

edited by

Chung-Te Chang

and

Junhu Dai

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 14212

Keywords: vegetation phenology; regular climate; climatic fluctuation; disturbance; phenocam; multisource remotely sensed data; time-series; water resources; productivity; biogeochemical cycles

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

Image Processing and Analysis: Trends in Registration, Data Fusion, 3D Reconstruction, and Change Detection (Third Edition)

edited by

Riccardo Roncella

,

Mattia Previtali

and Luca Perfetti

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 13353

Keywords: image registration; change detection; 3D reconstruction; deep learning; hyperspectral; image matching; data/sensor fusion; object-based image analysis; pattern recognition; volume rendering

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

New Perspectives on 3D Point Cloud (Third Edition)

edited by

Sara Gonizzi Barsanti

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10300

Keywords: point cloud acquisition (laser scanner; mono/stereo vision; panoramas; phone cameras; aerial and satellite images; indoor and narrow spaces); deep learning for segmentation/semantic representation and processing; AI/ML/DL for point cloud processing and pattern recognition; NErF; monocular depth estimation for 3D point cloud reconstruction; voxel creation; denoising point clouds; data extraction/data analysis/point cloud registration/multi-temporal point clouds; change detection; from 2D images to 3D Point Clouds with GANs and LLMs

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

Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis in the Big Data Era

edited by

Robert Tenzer

and

Hok Sum Fok

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 10233

Keywords: remote sensing; geospatial analysis; Big Data; machine learning; data fusion and integration; spatial modeling; advanced algorithms

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing for Geospatial Science)

Satellite Remote Sensing for Ocean and Coastal Environment Monitoring

edited by

Haidong Pan

,

Daosheng Wang

and

Jungang Yang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 10144

Keywords: sea level rise; ocean tides; model assimilation; sea surface temperature; sea surface salinity; chlorophyll; water transparency; sea waves; mesoscale eddy; ocean dynamics

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

Latest Developments and Applications in Remote Sensing with Nighttime Lights II

edited by

Johannes Puschnig

and Pietro Fiorentin

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 9772

Keywords: night sky brightness; light pollution; light scattering; long-term trends of light pollution; photometric measurements; atmospheric modeling

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

Estimating the Ecological Services of Urban Green Infrastructures Using Remote Sensing

edited by

Oz Kira

and

Arnon Karnieli

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8546

Keywords: urban sustainability; urban green infrastructures; urban ecological services; vegetation classification; carbon cycle; evapotranspiration; urban heat islands; shading

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

Real-Time Flood Monitoring and Prediction Using Integrative Remote Sensing and AI

edited by Pietro Ceccato, Pekel Jean-François and Peter Salamon

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8504

Keywords: satellite image; artificial intelligence; flood depth; flood monitoring; flood forecasting; airplane/drone images; urban flood; hydrological models

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

Advances in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Data Processing and Applications

edited by Liang Guo,

Sergio Vitale

, Junli Liang,

Rui Guo

and Hongfei Yin

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8237

Keywords: SAR data processing methods; SAR application; SAR image recognition and interpretation; SAR image quality evaluation; artificial intelligence in SAR data processing and applications; SAR image processing; polarimetric SAR; interferometric SAR; tomographic SAR

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

Advancements in Environmental Remote Sensing and GIS

edited by

Mateo Gašparović

,

Dorijan Radočaj

,

Dino Dobrinić

and Sergej Baričević

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7328

Keywords: environmental monitoring; spatial analysis; geographic information systems (GIS); remote sensing; satellite imagery; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); ecosystem management; climate change assessment; land use and land cover change; sustainable development; conservation and biodiversity; global navigation satellite systems (GNSS); disaster management

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

Global, Regional and Cross-Event Transferability of Deep Learning and Machine Learning Models for Landslide Detection and Susceptibility Mapping

edited by

Adel Asadi

,

Magaly Koch

, Weiwei Zhan and

Xiaokang Zhang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7171

Keywords: landslide detection; landslide susceptibility mapping; earthquakes and rainfalls; change detection; global and regional models; multi-source remote sensing; image processing; geospatial modeling; deep transfer learning; machine learning

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

Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data in Hydrology and Geophysical Processes

edited by

Shiqiang Zhang

,

Yun Chen

, Qiudong Zhao and

Chang Huang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 7067

Keywords: hydrologic variables; data fusion; surface water; glaciers; snow cover; hydrological process; flood monitoring

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

Advances in Geological Hazard Characterization and Assessment: Merging Remote Sensing with Direct Surveys

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submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6014

Keywords: geological Hazards; remote sensing; UAV LiDAR; InSAR; high-resolution satellite imagery; direct Surveys; hazard assessment; risk management; data integration; hazard mitigation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Observation for Emergency Management)

Remote Sensing of Aquatic Ecosystem Monitoring

edited by

Yibo Zhang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4380

Keywords: aquatic ecosystem; algal blooms; aquatic vegetation; artificial intelligence; mechanism; extreme events

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

Sub-Pixel Mapping, Spatio-Temporal Fusion of Multi-Spectral and Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data

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submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2717

Keywords: sub-pixel mapping; spatiotemporal fusion method; optical/multispectral/hyperspectral image analysis; mixed pixel problem; urban land use mapping; time-series analysis; multitemporal remote sensing data processing; change detection method

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

Signal Processing, Image Processing and Fusion Techniques in Remote Sensing

edited by

Georgia Koukiou

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1689

Keywords: remote sensing; multichannel information; sensor types; signal processing; image processing; information fusion; registration; elevation models; target detection; surface characterization

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

Deep Learning Techniques and Applications of MIMO Radar Theory

edited by

Chen Zhao

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1230

Keywords: deep learning; MIMO radar; signal processing; target detection and classification; target tracking; parameter estimation; data fusion; multi-sensor collaboration; generative model and LLM; image reconstruction; super resolution

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

Monitoring, Assessment, and Prediction of Agroecosystem Dynamics for Sustainable Agriculture: Applications of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, and Geographic Information Systems

edited by

Yongfa You

,

Naiqing Pan

and

Dipankar Mandal

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 1095

Keywords: sustainable agriculture; remote sensing; photogrammetry; GIS; agroecosystem dynamics

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

Radar for Planetary Exploration (Second Edition)

edited by

Roberto Orosei

and

Robert Wang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 598

Keywords: planetary radar; radar sounder; solar system; planets; asteroids; comets; Moon

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

Leveraging Advanced Remote Sensing Technologies for Comprehensive Renewable Energy Monitoring, Systematic Optimization, and Multidimensional Environmental Integration

edited by

Zhengguang Liu

and

Zhiling Guo

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 393

Keywords: remote sensing; renewable energy systems; solar radiation mapping; wind energy assessment; performance optimization; environmental impact assessment; LiDAR and hyperspectral imaging; resource monitoring; geospatial analysis; sustainable energy integration

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

Intelligent Perception of Geo-Hazards from Earth Observations (Second Edition)

edited by

Ionut Sandric

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 371

Keywords: remote sensing; machine learning; deep learning; landslide; subsidence; ground deformation

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

Utilization of Remote Sensing in Evaluating Crop Production Constraints

edited by

Koki Homma

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 353

Keywords: crops; production constraints; drought; floods; pests; disease; weeds

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

Advanced in Space-Air-Ground-Sea Integrated Remote Sensing: Intelligent Processing and Applications

edited by

Zhonghua Hong

, Chenchen Jiang and Huazhong Ren

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 349

Keywords: remote sensing; space– air– ground– sea integration; artificial intelligence; data processing; modeling; mapping

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

State of the Art in Positioning Under Forest Canopies

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submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 289

Keywords: new techniques/methodologies for positioning; 2D/3D; data-processing for laser scanning/camera data for positioning; mobile mapping and positioning; real-time system; large-scale mapping and positioning in forests; applications of position data in forest environments; literature reviews about the positioning methods in forest science

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

Role of SAR/InSAR Techniques in Investigating Ground Deformation

edited by Xue Chen and

Teng Wang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 256

Keywords: SAR/InSAR; ground deformation; tectonic activities; seismic activities; transient slow-slip processes; geological hazards; optical imagery; data fusion and machine learning

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

Application of Remote Sensing Approaches in Geohazard Risk (Second Edition)

edited by

Chao Zhou

, Kunlong Yin and

Federico Raspini

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 250

Keywords: satellite-; UAV-; and ground-based remote sensing approaches; landslides; debris flow; rockfall; subsidence; etc.; susceptibility and hazard mapping; geohazard detection; monitoring; and early warning; risk analysis and prediction; mechanisms of geohazards; srtificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Observation for Emergency Management)

Remote Sensing for Ionospheric Studies

edited by

Qihou Zhou

,

Yun Gong

and Yanlin Li

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 217

Keywords: ionosphere; space weather; radar remote sensing; optical remote sensing; thermosphere; mesosphere.

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

Remote Sensing Methods and Technical Developments in Planetary Geodesy and Geophysics

edited by

Hongling Shi

and

Jianguo Yan

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 163

Keywords: planetary geodesy; planetary geophysics; remote sensing technologies; gravity field mapping; planetary topography; surface deformation; planetary interior dynamics; multispectral and radar data fusion; altimetry and gravimetry techniques; planetary exploration and observation

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

Recent Advances in GNSS Aviation and LEO Orbit Determination

edited by Zhigui Kang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 157

Keywords: GNSS aviation; LEO/POD; spacecraft navigation/autonomous landing; navigation and pose determination; ionosphere and space weather; artificial intelligence; machine learning

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

Algorithm Development in Earth Observation Modeling Using Multi-Sensor Data

edited by Sanaz Vajedian, Rishabh Dutta and Indhu Varatharajan

submission deadline 10 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2182 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; multisensor data; earth observation modeling; satellite data; algorithm development; radar remote sensing; InSAR; tectonic geomorphology; optical remote sensing; multispectral sensors; hyperspectral sensors; seismic activity; geological hazards; multisource data integration; LiDAR

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

State-of-the-Art in Land Cover Classification and Mapping

edited by

Jingxiong Zhang

and

Won-Ho Nam

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 12 articles | Viewed by 39778 | Submission Open

Keywords: classification; mapping; classification systems; land cover; remote-sensing images; scale; resolution; semantics; spectral– spatial– temporal features; phenology; pattern analysis; machine learning; rule bases; accuracy metrics and assessment; uncertainty; confusion matrix; mixed pixels; sampling; reference samples; image interpretation

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

LEO-Augmented PNT Service

edited by

Kan Wang

,

Ahmed El-Mowafy

and

Xuhai Yang

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 13 articles | Viewed by 32006 | Submission Open

Keywords: Low Earth orbit (LEO); Precise orbit determination (POD); Time and frequency transfer; Positioning; Navigation; Integrity monitoring; Quality control; Signal processing; Sensor calibration

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

Near Real-Time (NRT) Agriculture Monitoring

edited by

Liang Sun

,

Feng Gao

,

Wenbin Wu

and Peng Yang

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 21785 | Submission Open

Keywords: near real-time (NRT); early crop mapping; crop stress; crop phenology; yield prediction; soil monitoring; data fusion; time-series analysis

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

Towards Biodiversity Conservation: Remote Sensing Applications in Ecological Modeling

edited by

Grant Hamilton

and Evangeline Corcoran

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 21444 | Submission Open

Keywords: biodiversity; conservation; remote sensing; ecological modeling; species distribution modeling; spatial ecology; mapping and monitoring; population analysis; threatened species; invasive species

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

Remote Sensing and Ecosystem Modeling for Nature-Based Solutions

edited by

Lei Ma

and

Aolin Jia

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 16713 | Submission Open

Keywords: nature based solutions; remote sensing observations; afforestation; reforestation; deforestation; carbon; water and energy fluxes; carbon sequestration potential; empirical or process-based modeling

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

Remote Sensing of Coastal Waters, Land Use/Cover, Lakes, Rivers and Watersheds III

edited by

Jiayi Pan

,

Bo Huang

,

Hongsheng Zhang

and Adam T. Devlin

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 16629 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing of coastal waters and zones; remote sensing data fusion technology; land cover/use; remote sensing of lakes; rivers; and watersheds; remote sensing and GIS technology; marine remote sensing

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

Remote Sensing Cross-Modal Research: Algorithms and Practices

edited by

Xiangtao Zheng

, Xiumei Chen and

Jinchang Ren

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 14262 | Submission Open

Keywords: cross-modal representation learning; cross-modal detection and identification; cross-modal conversion and retrieval; cross-modal knowledge reasoning; cross-modal image generation; cross-modal collaborative learning; remote sensing cross-modal application; domain adaptation; transfer learning; cross-modal consistency feature representation

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

Air-Sea Interaction and Climate Variability in the Ocean: Observations and Modeling Based on Remote Sensing Techniques

edited by

Yuhong Zhang

,

Xiaomei Liao

and

Vladimir N. Kudryavtsev

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 13406 | Submission Open

Keywords: air-sea interactions; climate variability; oceanic dynamics; small- and meso-scale processes; remote sensing observations; high-resolution modeling

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

Advances in the Application of Spaceborne and UAS-Borne Radar Remote Sensing

edited by

Neda Rojhani

,

George Shaker

,

Massimiliano Pieraccini

and

Amir Hosein Oveis

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 13070 | Submission Open

Keywords: radar technology; space-based radar technology; planetary mapping radar; remote sensing applications; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); disaster management applications; advanced signal processing; space exploration; radar technology in earth sciences

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

Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing II

edited by

Chunlei Huo

,

Zhiqiang Zhou

, Lurui Xia and

Samia Ainouz

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 12474 | Submission Open

Keywords: pattern recognition; deep learning; remote sensing; image processing; artificial intelligence

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

Artificial Intelligence-Based Sensor Data Processing for Remote Sensing

edited by

Seongwook Lee

and Byung-Kwan Kim

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 12075 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; artificial intelligence/deep learning; sensors (e.g.; camera; lidar; radar); sensor fusion; signal/image processing; target detection and tracking; target recognition and classification; image segmentation

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

Processes and Effects of Atmospheric and Ionospheric Dynamics Based on Remote Sensing Observations

edited by

Yun Gong

,

Guozhu Li

and Maosheng He

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 10693 | Submission Open

Keywords: gravity/tidal/planetary waves; ionospheric irregularities; solar activity; geomagnetic storms; atmosphere– ionosphere coupling; remote sensing techniques

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

New Advances in Remote Sensing Techniques Applied in Surface and Underground Mine Operations

edited by

Kamran Esmaeili

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9810 | Submission Open

Keywords: open-pit mining; underground mining; mapping; mine process monitoring; operational efficiency; mine safety; mine environmental monitoring

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

Remote Sensing of Solar Radiation Absorbed by Land Surfaces

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submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9683 | Submission Open

Keywords: land surface albedo; incoming solar radiation; aerosols; clouds; BRDF; photovoltaic; radiative forcing; validation; climate change/mitigation; earth radiation budget; applications of radiation products

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

Object Detection and Information Extraction Based on Remote Sensing Imagery (Second Edition)

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, Gong Cheng and

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8109 | Submission Open

Keywords: object detection of remote sensing images; object detection and tracking of remote sensing videos; few/zero-shot learning; multi-source data fusion; weakly supervised learning; semantic segmentation; remote sensing image classification

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

Remote Sensing for Groundwater Hydrology

edited by Zofia Rzepecka,

Monika Birylo

and Olga Barron

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7576 | Submission Open

Keywords: groundwater; GRACE; GLDAS; water storage; methods of groundwater monitoring; water cycle and balance

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

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