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Cutting-Edge Algorithms and Characteristic Geo-Applications with Remote Sensing

A Special Issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292) belonging to the section "Remote Sensing Image Processing".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2027 | Viewed by 743

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Imec-Vision Lab, Department of Physics, University of Antwerp, 2610 Antwerp, Belgium
Interests: hyperspectral unmixing; hyperspectral classification; hyperspectral anomaly detection; machine learning

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Department of Computer Technology and Communications, Polytechnic School of Cáceres, University of Extremadura, 10003 Cáceres, Spain
Interests: hyperspectral image analysis; machine (deep) learning; neural networks; multisensor data fusion; high performance computing; cloud computing
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Dear Colleagues,

The rapid advancement of remote sensing technologies has led to an ever-increasing availability of high-resolution, multi-source and multi-temporal Earth observation data. Effectively processing and analyzing such complex datasets requires innovative image processing algorithms that are both robust and accurate in deriving meaningful geospatial information.

This Special Issue focuses on cutting-edge algorithms for remote sensing image processing and their practical applications in representative geospatial domains. Our goal is to foster the exchange of recent methodological progress and implementation experiences that enhance the extraction, interpretation and utilization of remote sensing imagery. We particularly welcome contributions that introduce novel algorithms with improved performance, efficiency and adaptability, as well as case studies demonstrating their effectiveness in real-world geospatial scenarios.

We invite original research and review papers addressing advanced image processing techniques and intelligent algorithms for remote sensing. Contributions that link algorithm development with meaningful geospatial applications are particularly encouraged.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Advanced remote sensing image processing methods
  • Machine learning and deep learning for classification, segmentation and detection
  • Multi-source and multi-temporal data fusion
  • Representative geo-applications such as environmental monitoring, urban analysis, agriculture and disaster assessment

Dr. Xuanwen Tao
Dr. Mercedes E. Paoletti
Dr. Juan M. Haut
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Keywords

  • remote sensing
  • hyperspectral image
  • image classification
  • feature extraction
  • artificial intelligence
  • image processing

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DMDNet: Decoupled Multimodal Detection Network for Fine-Grained Ulva Prolifera Segmentation
by Xuanying Lyu, Li’e Sun, Hao Wang, Liang Zhao, Yishuo Fu, Jun Yan and Yongqing Li
Remote Sens. 2026, 18(17), 3052; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18173052 - 7 Sep 2026
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Ulva prolifera detection is of great significance for marine ecological monitoring and green tide disaster prevention and control. Current single-modal detection methods have inherent limitations. Optical RGB imagery is highly vulnerable to cloud occlusion, while synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data is contaminated by [...] Read more.
Ulva prolifera detection is of great significance for marine ecological monitoring and green tide disaster prevention and control. Current single-modal detection methods have inherent limitations. Optical RGB imagery is highly vulnerable to cloud occlusion, while synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data is contaminated by severe speckle noise. Furthermore, existing multimodal detection algorithms struggle to address the prominent multimodal feature heterogeneity between optical and SAR remote sensing data. To overcome these challenges, we develop a decoupled multimodal detection network (DMDNet) for fine-grained Ulva prolifera segmentation. First, a dual-branch feature extraction module with parallel alignment encoding is constructed to adapt to heterogeneous inputs of two modalities. Second, a dedicated convolutional layer unifies the dimensions of the two-modality feature streams. The processed features are subsequently passed to the encoder–decoder module, where the network exploits available features from both optical and SAR modalities for segmentation. Third, a multimodal comprehensive loss function is designed to mitigate the segmentation accuracy degradation caused by class imbalance and blurry target boundaries. In addition, a multimodal joint training strategy is adopted to train the model with optical and SAR samples simultaneously in each iteration. Equipped with a shared encoder and independent task-specific decoder heads, DMDNet accepts either a single optical image or a single SAR image as input and generates stable and reliable segmentation results. Comprehensive experiments are conducted on FIO-EP and CODC datasets, which demonstrate that DMDNet outperforms other baseline models. Full article
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