Satellite Remote Sensing with Artificial Intelligence
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 19014
Special Issue Editors
Interests: deep learning; forest; desertification; LU/LC change; convolutional neural networks; ecology; generative adversarial networks; object-based image analysis; semantic segmentation; super-resolution
Interests: drylands; ecology; climate change; species distribution modeling; carbon sequestration; deep learning; object-based image analysis; UAVs; sensor fusion
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Artificial intelligence has become a key tool in the interpretation and improvement of remotely sensed data. Methodologies based on machine learning and deep learning have become established methods for characterizing, modeling and improving remote sensing data sources. In particular, the use of a supervised Machine Learning Algorithm that is widely used in Classification and Regression problems or an artificial neural network used in image recognition and processing that is specifically designed to process pixel data are good examples widely used with satellite remote sensing data. Along with advances in methods and the popularisation and increasing improvement of satellite data (e.g., optical, multispectral and hyperspectral sensors, thermal, lidar, synthetic aperture radar (SAR)) and wide time series available. All these remotely sensed data are driving the development of computer vision in artificial intelligence that has obtained unprecedented results at local and global scales.
This Special Issue targets studies that apply artificial intelligence in any subset (e.g., machine learning, deep learning) to satellite imagery from different sensors and platforms in a wide range, from natural to artificial ecosystems, such as forests, cropland or urban. Topics can range from the enhancement of satellite data using techniques such as super-resolution to the modeling of variables at all levels, from single objects to larger scales. Thus, integration or fusion of data from multiple satellite sources, multi-scale approaches, land-use change monitoring, studies to identify and monitor ecosystem services, and restoration or desertification, among other topics, are welcome. Papers may address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Multispectral and hyperspectral, active and passive microwave remote sensing data enhancement.
- Modeling and use of Lidar and laser scanning data.
- Modeling of local to global scale variables.
- Land use and land cover change detection.
- Image processing and pattern recognition.
- Data fusion and assimilation.
- Remote sensing applications with artificial intelligence.
- Applications for ecosystem restoration.
- Forest ecology.
- Soil ecology and microbiome with remote sensing data.
Dr. Emilio Guirado
Dr. Javier Blanco-Sacristán
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- generative adversarial networks (GANs)
- transformers
- neural networks
- multi-band and multi-spectral imaging
- deep learning
- image classification
- object detection
- instance segmentation
- predictive modelling
- species distribution models
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