Machine Learning and Deep Learning Applied to Remote Sensing Image Analysis
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensing Image Processing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 September 2025 | Viewed by 99
Special Issue Editors
Interests: remote sensing image super-resolution; deep learning; multi-modal learning
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Interests: hyperspectral remote sensing image processing; image generation; deep learning
Interests: remote sensing image processing; deep learning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Remote sensing technology has significantly enhanced earth observation by providing vast amounts of high-resolution multimodal data across various sensing platforms, including satellite, airborne, and UAV systems. The rapid advancement of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) techniques has further improved our ability to process and interpret these data, leading to breakthroughs in land cover classification, object detection, environmental monitoring, etc.
This Special Issue will focus on the latest developments in ML and DL methods for remote sensing image analysis. We aim to highlight novel algorithms, innovative applications, and emerging trends that address the challenges of remote sensing interpretation and remote sensing image generation. We welcome original research articles, methodological contributions, and application-driven studies that will advance this field. Submissions can include work on various remote sensing data types, such as multispectral, hyperspectral, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), LiDAR, etc. Potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Supervised, unsupervised, and self-supervised learning for remote sensing images;
- Advanced deep learning architectures for scene classification, object detection, image segmentation, and change detection;
- Generative models (e.g., generative adversarial networks (GANs), diffusion models, autoregressive models) for image quality improvement and data generation;
- Multimodal learning and cross-modal learning for remote sensing applications;
- Vision–language modeling for image caption, referring segmentation, visual grounding, and visual question-answering;
- Domain adaptation and transfer learning for cross-sensor and cross-region generalization;
- Real-time processing of remote sensing images.
Dr. Sen Lei
Dr. Liqin Liu
Prof. Dr. Zhengxia Zou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- remote sensing
- machine learning
- deep learning
- generative models
- multimodal learning
- multispectral
- hyperspectral
- synthetic aperture radar
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