AI for Multi-Modal Remote Sensing Time Series Analysis

Dear Colleagues,

Thanks to the variety of missions with a large array of scientific applications, satellite remote sensing data has now become abundant. The low temporal revisit of orbiting satellites makes it possible to acquire data over a given zone with a sampling rate of a few days, allowing to capture quick variations in the scene content. However, making the most of these rich time series data is a promising but still relatively under-explored research direction because of the complexity of processing and analyzing this additional temporal information jointly with the spatial (and potentially spectral if the used sensor provides multichannel images) content of the scene. In this special issue, we aim at collecting papers developing original methods to process and analyze multimodal remote sensing time series, with a strong emphasis on data driven or artifical intelligence based approaches. By multimodal, we mean here that the information within the time series data may not be restricted to a single sensor type. Submissions of deep learning based approaches for remote sensing time series processing are warmly welcomed, but contributions featuring traditional machine learning or signal processing techniques are also encouraged.  Applications can range from land cover and land use changes, environmental monitoring to disaster management and data interpolation or forecasting, among others.

Dr. Guillaume Tochon
Dr. Lucas Drumetz
Dr. Mauro Dalla Mura
Guest Editors

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