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 239
Special Issue Editors
Interests: infrared small-target detection; remote sensing image processing; deep learning
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Interests: radar signal detection; target detection and recognition; radar system
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Interests: target detection; image restoration; remote sensing object detection
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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
Guest Editors
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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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