Advances in Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Atmosphere

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims at gathering studies covering modern atmospheric remote sensing techniques. The terrestrial atmosphere is studied in various branches of modern science including chemistry, physics, and climatology. An important source of information on the properties of the atmosphere (temperature and pressure profiles, chemical composition, particulate matter load, and cloud properties) is provided by ground-based, airborne, and satellite atmospheric remote sensing techniques. Both passive and active (LiDAR and radar) remote sensing techniques are used.  The data derived are important for the monitoring of air quality, weather, and climate change. 

Novel techniques for monitoring clouds, atmospheric aerosols, and trace gases are to be discussed in this Special Issue.

The Special Issue will not only accept papers invited by the Editorial Office and Editorial Board Members, but also regular papers that are focused on the topic. Editorial Board Members are welcome to write or co-write articles and are exempt from the article processing charge for this collection.

Topics may cover anything from the advances in classical cloud, aerosol, and trace gas remote sensing techniques based on spectral reflectance measurements, to more comprehensive approaches based on polarimetric and multiangular observations. Multisource data integration (e.g., LiDAR, multispectral, hyperspectral, polarimetric, multiviewing, and thermal) and multiscale approaches or studies focused on terrestrial atmosphere monitoring are welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• cloud remote sensing;
• aerosol remote sensing;
• remote sensing of trace gases;
• ground-based remote sensing;
• satellite remote sensing;
• airborne remote sensing;
• ship-borne remote sensing;
• fog and rain detection;
• inverse problems of radiative transfer theory;
• inversion theory;
• light scattering and absorption by hydrometeors and aerosol particles.

Dr. Alexander Kokhanovsky
Dr. Dmitry Efremenko
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Remote Sensing is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.