Advancing Weather and Flood Forecasting using Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2026 | Viewed by 38
Special Issue Editors
Interests: weather forecasting; meteorology; precipitation; groundwater storage; remote sensing; extreme events; drought monitoring
Interests: climatic risks; climatology and agroclimatology; GIS; remote sensing applications
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Dear Colleagues,
Reliable modeling and prediction of high-impact hydrometeorological events remains one of the major challenges in Earth system science. Severe floods and intense precipitation events cause severe socioeconomic damage, yet the accuracy of forecasts at local to regional scales is still limited. Recent advances in satellite remote sensing now provide unprecedented observations of precipitation, soil moisture, snow, surface water, and groundwater, offering essential datasets to complement in situ measurements and numerical weather forecasting models. At the same time, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) methods open up opportunities for extracting patterns, improving modeling and predictive skills, and integrating heterogeneous data streams.
This Special Issue aims to focus on innovative approaches that combine remote sensing observations with AI techniques to improve weather and hydrological modeling and predictions, particularly related to heavy precipitation and flood events. Contributions may include novel satellite-based data products, bias adjustment and post-processing methods for forecasts, AI-driven and physics-based hydrological modeling, data assimilation, or case studies highlighting successful applications in flood monitoring and prediction. By bringing together expertise from meteorology, hydrology, remote sensing, and data science, this Special Issue aims to advance the state of knowledge and foster new interdisciplinary solutions for more accurate and actionable forecasts of high-impact events.
Dr. Ehsan Sharifi
Dr. Karam Alsafadi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- precipitation extremes
- weather forecast post-processing
- flood modeling and prediction
- hydrological modeling
- weather forecasting
- artificial intelligence and machine learning
- remote sensing
- data assimilation
- climate services
- extreme events
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