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Machine Learning and GeoAI for Remote Sensing Environmental Monitoring (2nd Edition)

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 488

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Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, 9200 Aalborg, Denmark
Interests: spatio-temporal data mining; remote sensing; computer vision; vegetation monitoring; dynamic temporal trend analysis; multi-modal data fusion

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School of Artificial Intelligence, Optics and Electronics (iOPEN), Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China
Interests: machine learning; remote sensing; semantic segmentation; scene parsing; small-sample learning
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Dear Colleagues,

The rapid advancement of machine learning and GeoAI has transformed remote sensing applications, enabling automated, high-resolution environmental monitoring and spatial modeling. As ecosystems face increasing challenges from climate change, deforestation, air pollution, land-use change, and urban expansion, AI-driven methods offer innovative solutions for large-scale, multi-temporal analysis of environmental processes. Remote sensing data, including multispectral, hyperspectral, LiDAR, SAR, and atmospheric observations, combined with deep learning and spatial modeling techniques, provide unprecedented insights into landscape dynamics, cloud formation patterns, air quality variations, transportation networks, and ecosystem health.

Recent developments in deep learning, graph neural networks, and spatial statistics have enhanced our ability to model complex spatial-temporal interactions in environmental systems. AI-driven remote sensing techniques are now being employed to analyze traffic-related air pollution cloud structures, track aerosol distributions, and assess environmental risks associated with urban mobility and infrastructure development. These methods provide valuable information for climate modeling, smart city planning, and public health monitoring. Cloud computing platforms like Google Earth Engine facilitate scalable data processing, allowing researchers to efficiently analyze multi-source geospatial data. Integrating AI with remote sensing is crucial for air quality forecasting, vegetation mapping, land cover classification, transportation impact assessment, environmental risk modeling, and predictive analysis of ecosystem changes.

This Special Issue seeks contributions to AI-driven remote sensing applications for environmental monitoring and spatial modeling. We welcome studies focusing on deep learning, spatio-temporal analysis, multi-source data fusion, transportation-related environmental modeling, and the development of scalable AI frameworks for geospatial data interpretation.

Dr. Haomin Yu
Dr. Zhiyu Jiang
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Keywords

  • spatio-temporal analysis
  • multi-source data fusion
  • environmental monitoring
  • predictive analytics
  • air quality monitoring
  • cloud pattern recognition
  • atmospheric remote sensing
  • transportation impact assessment
  • traffic-related air pollution

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Deep Learning-Based Super-Resolution Reconstruction of a 1/9 Arc-Second Offshore Digital Elevation Model for U.S. Coastal Regions
by Chenhao Wu, Bo Zhang, Meng Zhang and Chaofan Yang
Remote Sens. 2025, 17(18), 3205; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17183205 - 17 Sep 2025
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High-resolution offshore digital elevation models (DEMs) are essential for coastal geomorphology, marine resource management, and disaster prevention. While deep learning-based super-resolution (SR) techniques have become a mainstream solution for enhancing DEMs, they often fail to maintain a balance between large-scale geomorphological structure and [...] Read more.
High-resolution offshore digital elevation models (DEMs) are essential for coastal geomorphology, marine resource management, and disaster prevention. While deep learning-based super-resolution (SR) techniques have become a mainstream solution for enhancing DEMs, they often fail to maintain a balance between large-scale geomorphological structure and fine-scale topographic detail due to limitations in modeling spatial dependency. To overcome this challenge, we propose DEM-Asymmetric multi-scale super-resolution network (DEM-AMSSRN), a novel asymmetric multi-scale super-resolution network tailored for offshore DEM reconstruction. Our method incorporates region-level non-local (RL-NL) modules to capture long-range spatial dependencies and residual multi-scale blocks (RMSBs) to extract hierarchical terrain features. Additionally, a hybrid loss function combining pixel-wise, perceptual, and adversarial losses is introduced to ensure both geometric fidelity and visual realism. Experimental evaluations on U.S. offshore DEM datasets demonstrate that DEM-AMSSRN significantly outperforms existing GAN-based models, reducing RMSE by up to 72.47% (vs. SRGAN) and achieving 53.30 dB PSNR and 0.995056 SSIM. These results highlight its effectiveness in preserving both continental shelf-scale bathymetric patterns and detailed terrain textures. Using this model, we also constructed the USA_OD_2025, a 1/9 arc-second high-resolution offshore DEM for U.S. coastal zones, providing a valuable geospatial foundation for future marine research and engineering. Full article
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