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Advances in Deep Learning in the Retrieval of Key Parameters of Agrometeorological Remote Sensing (Second Edition)

A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Remote Sensing".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2026 | Viewed by 351

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Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: artificial intelligence; deep learning; retrieval paradigm; soil moisture retrieval; land surface temperature retrieval; water vapor content retrieval; near surface temperature retrieval
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Water Resources Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
Interests: satellite data processing; land surface product algorithm; remote sensing classification with machine learning; agrometeorology; agrometeorological disater monitoring with remote sensing
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Department of Environmental Engineering, Korea National University of Transportation, Chungju, Republic of Korea
Interests: land surface models; remote sensing; snow accumulation; snow water equivalent; assimilation of observations
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, artificial intelligence has become the core driving force behind a new wave of industrial transformation; this will further unleash the enormous energy of technological innovation. The combination of artificial intelligence and specific industries will lead to the emergence of novel technologies and products, profoundly changing human thinking and production patterns, and achieving an overall leap in social and industrial productivity. Considering the potential and significance of deep learning in the fields of geology and agriculture, in order to promote the application of artificial intelligence, it is necessary to accelerate the deep integration of this technology with remote sensing, provide key technical support for meteorological forecasting, agricultural monitoring, and agricultural disaster prediction, and thus facilitate global disaster monitoring and food security. Cross-disciplinary research is still in its early stages, and most deep learning applications in the geosciences remain largely opaque, often lacking physical significance, interpretability, and universality.

Therefore, the first volume of this Special Issue of Remote Sensing was published to explore the application of artificial intelligence methods for retrieving key remote sensing parameters in geology and agriculture. Topics for the second edition may cover a range of subjects, from the retrieval of surface temperature or soil moisture to atmospheric water vapor content and rainfall. Building on the success of the first volume, we are excited to invite original research and review articles that discuss the progress, challenges, and opportunities in the remote sensing of agrometeorological phenomena for publication in the second volume.

Hence, submissions describing remote sensing parameters retrieved from multi-source data (such as multispectral, hyperspectral, thermal infrared, and microwave) at multiple scales are welcome. Articles may address, but are not limited to, the following topics:

  • surface temperature;
  • near-surface air temperature;
  • surface emissivity;
  • soil moisture;
  • vegetation moisture content;
  • water vapor content;
  • precipitation;
  • LAI;
  • drought and flood.

Prof. Dr. Kebiao Mao
Dr. Sayed M. Bateni
Dr. Jongmin Park
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • surface temperature
  • near-surface air temperature
  • surface emissivity
  • soil moisture
  • vegetation moisture content
  • water vapor content
  • precipitation
  • LAI
  • drought and flood

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AI-Based Downscaling of MODIS LST Using SRDA-Net Model for High-Resolution Data Generation
by Hongxia Ma, Kebiao Mao, Zijin Yuan, Longhao Xu, Jiancheng Shi, Zhonghua Guo and Zhihao Qin
Remote Sens. 2025, 17(21), 3510; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17213510 - 22 Oct 2025
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Land surface temperature (LST) is a critical parameter in agricultural drought monitoring, crop growth analysis, and climate change research. However, the challenge of acquiring high-resolution LST data with both fine spatial and temporal scales remains a significant obstacle in remote sensing applications. Despite [...] Read more.
Land surface temperature (LST) is a critical parameter in agricultural drought monitoring, crop growth analysis, and climate change research. However, the challenge of acquiring high-resolution LST data with both fine spatial and temporal scales remains a significant obstacle in remote sensing applications. Despite the high temporal resolution afforded by daily MODIS LST observations, the coarse (1 km) spatial scale of these data restricts their applicability for studies demanding finer spatial resolution. To address this challenge, a novel deep learning-based approach is proposed for LST downscaling: the spatial resolution downscaling attention network (SRDA-Net). The model is designed to upscale the resolution of MODIS LST from 1000 m to 250 m, overcoming the shortcomings of traditional interpolation techniques in reconstructing spatial details, as well as reducing the reliance on linear models and multi-source high-temporal LST data typical of conventional fusion approaches. SRDA-Net captures the feature interaction between MODIS LST and auxiliary data through global resolution attention to address spatial heterogeneity. It further enhances the feature representation ability under heterogeneous surface conditions by optimizing multi-source features to handle heterogeneous data. Additionally, it strengthens the model of spatial dependency relationships through a multi-level feature refinement module. Moreover, this study constructs a composite loss function system that integrates physical mechanisms and data characteristics, ensuring the improvement of reconstruction details while maintaining numerical accuracy and model interpret-ability through a triple collaborative constraint mechanism. Experimental results show that the proposed model performs excellently in the simulation experiment (from 2000 m to 1000 m), with an MAE of 0.928 K and an R2 of 0.95. In farmland areas, the model performs particularly well (MAE = 0.615 K, R2 = 0.96, RMSE = 0.823 K), effectively supporting irrigation scheduling and crop health monitoring. It also maintains good vegetation heterogeneity expression ability in grassland areas, making it suitable for drought monitoring tasks. In the target downscaling experiment (from 1000 m to 500 m and 250 m), the model achieved an RMSE of 1.804 K, an MAE of 1.587 K, and an R2 of 0.915, confirming its stable generalization ability across multiple scales. This study supports agricultural drought warning and precise irrigation and provides data support for interdisciplinary applications such as climate change research and ecological monitoring, while offering a new approach to generating high spatio-temporal resolution LST. Full article
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