Pattern Recognition and Image Processing for Remote Sensing

Dear Colleagues,

There is great need for pattern recognition and image processing in remote sensing. The field of remote sensing seeks to answer important questions such as: What is the land use in a certain area? What land cover classes make up a region? How much of a certain crop is planted in the southern part of a state? How many vehicles drive this highway? to name a few. The list is practically endless. The algorithms, methods and procedures to answer these questions greatly rely on pattern recognition and image processing. It is for this reason that we proposed this special issue.

This special issue is geared towards high-quality papers in the broad area of pattern recognition and image processing in remote sensing. Papers should have both a theoretical and an experimental component, and thus provide advances to the state of the art and also to practical implementation.

Scope: All imaging modalities (hyperspectral, multispectral, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), LiDAR, radar, thermal, multitemporal, etc.) are welcome. Remote sensing platforms can include unmanned aerial systems (UASs), airplanes, satellites, robots, undersea vehicles, autonomous vehicles, etc., and also any situation where the sensors are not in contact with the sensed environment.

This special issue topics include, but are not limited to, the following categories:

• Classification
• Pattern recognition
• Object recognition and detection
• Land cover/land use
• Anomaly detection
• Scene understanding
• Multi-sensor processing and fusion
• Deep learning and other data-driven methods
• Machine learning techniques
• Optimization techniques
• Parameter estimation techniques
• Systems or subsystems for use in robotics, UAS, or autonomous vehicle navigation and mapping
• Uncertainty characterization
• Probabilistic methods
• Sparsity-based techniques

Dr. John Ball
Dr. Nicolas H. Younan
Dr. Ali C. Gurbuz
Guest Editors

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