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Advanced Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning for Remote Sensing (4th Edition)

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 965

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College of Microelectronics and Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 401331, China
Interests: radar signal detection; target detection and recognition; radar system
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Key Laboratory of Technology in Geo-Spatial Information Processing and Application System, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Interests: object detection; remote sensing and scene perception; infrared image processing
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Remote sensing is a fundamental tool for examining the world from afar. The development of artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning (DL) applications has paved the way for research opportunities in various fields such as remote sensing, which uses Earth observation, disaster warning, and environmental monitoring. In recent years, with the continuous development of remote sensing technologies, especially the continuous emergence of different detection sensors and new detection systems and the continuous accumulation of historical data and samples, it is possible to use AI and DL for big data training, and the field has become a research hotspot.

This Special Issue aims to report the latest advances and trends in AI and DL techniques applied to remote sensing, with a particular thematic emphasis on foundation models for Earth observation, multi-modal and cross-modal remote sensing learning, vision–language understanding of geospatial scenes, and trustworthy physics-informed AI. Both theoretical and applied papers are welcome, especially those addressing interpretability, physical consistency, and generalization of AI-driven remote sensing systems. We invite experts and scholars to contribute original research on the latest progress of AI and DL in Earth observation, disaster warning, environmental monitoring, and multi-sensor remote sensing to further promote technological advancement in this field.

The topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Foundation models and large-scale pretraining for remote sensing scene understanding.
  • Vision–language models for geospatial scene interpretation.
  • Multi-modal learning across optical, SAR, LiDAR, infrared, and UAV data.
  • Physics-informed and knowledge-guided deep learning for remote sensing.
  • Trustworthy and explainable AI in remote sensing.
  • Object detection and scene classification in high-resolution and SAR imagery.
  • UAV remote sensing and scene perception.
  • Large-scale geospatial data mining in remote sensing.

This Special Issue is a new edition of “Advanced Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning for Remote Sensing (3rd Edition)”, which can be viewed at  https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/L289L3L887

Prof. Dr. Zhenming Peng
Prof. Dr. Zhengzhou Li
Dr. Yimian Dai
Dr. Yuhan Liu
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Keywords

  • foundation models
  • multi-modal remote sensing
  • vision–language models
  • trustworthy AI
  • multi-temporal change detection
  • SAR scene classification
  • LiDAR scene reconstruction
  • remote sensing object recognition

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FeedbackSTS-Det: Sparse-Frames-Based Spatio-Temporal Semantic Feedback Network for Moving Infrared Small Target Detection
by Yian Huang, Qing Qin, Aji Mao, Xiangyu Qiu, Han Guo, Liang Xu, Xian Zhang and Zhenming Peng
Remote Sens. 2026, 18(12), 2042; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18122042 - 18 Jun 2026
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Infrared small target detection (ISTD) has been a critical technology in various civilian and industrial applications over the past several decades, such as civilian patrol missions aboard UAVs or shipboard systems, and industrial inspection tasks like factory defect scanning. Nevertheless, moving infrared small [...] Read more.
Infrared small target detection (ISTD) has been a critical technology in various civilian and industrial applications over the past several decades, such as civilian patrol missions aboard UAVs or shipboard systems, and industrial inspection tasks like factory defect scanning. Nevertheless, moving infrared small target detection still faces considerable challenges: existing models suffer from insufficient spatio-temporal semantic correlation and are not lightweight-friendly, while algorithms that perform reliably across diverse scenarios are in great demand for real-world applications. To address these issues, we propose FeedbackSTS-Det, a sparse-frames-based spatio-temporal semantic feedback network. A closed-loop spatio-temporal semantic feedback strategy with paired forward and backward refinement modules that work cooperatively across the encoder and decoder is adopted to enhance information exchange between consecutive frames, effectively improving detection accuracy and reducing false alarms. Moreover, we introduce an embedded sparse semantic module (SSM), which operates by strategically grouping frames by interval, propagating semantics within each group, and reassembling the sequence to efficiently capture long-range temporal dependencies with low computational overhead. Extensive experiments on many widely adopted multi-frame infrared small target datasets demonstrate the consistent effectiveness of our proposed network across diverse scenes. Full article
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