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Quantitative Inversion and Validation of Satellite Remote Sensing Products
edited by , Jian Yang, , Hailiang Gao and
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 36861 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing products; quantitative inversion; validation; space infrastructure; remote sensing applications
Oceanographic Lidar in the Study of Marine Systems
edited by , , Junwu Tang and
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 16915 | Submission Open
Keywords: LiDAR; remote sensing; ocean optics; ocean ecology; ocean color; development; validation and calibration of ocean LiDAR algorithms; aerosol– ocean interactions.
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Cropland and Yield Mapping with Multi-source Remote Sensing submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 13165 | Submission Open
Keywords: yield mapping; crop yield estimation or forecasts; cropland mapping; crop parameter retrieval; multi-source imagery; crop growth model; Google Earth Engine; data assimilation; machine learning; deep learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)
Advanced InSAR Techniques for Geohazard Monitoring and Risk Evaluation submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 11678 | Submission Open
Keywords: InSAR; data fusion; artificial intelligence; geohazards; deformation monitoring and modelling; risk evaluation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Remote Sensing of High Winds and High Seas
edited by , Marcos Portabella, and Zorana Jelenak
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7940 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; extreme weather; surface winds; tropical and extratropical cyclones; waves; currents; vertical motion; storm wake anomalies; extreme air– sea fluxes
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)
Remote Sensing of River and Lake Ice/Water Using Spaceborne, Airborne, and Ground Platforms
edited by and
submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1853 | Submission Open
Keywords: river ice; lake ice; ice/snow properties; water quality; water ecosystem; remote sensing; remote sensing applications; multi-sensor and multi-source data; climate change; resources assessment; machine learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Innovations in Hyperspectral Image Processing: Advancing Image Generation, Denoising, Fusion Techniques and Beyond
edited by Jiangjun Peng, Xiangyong Cao, , and
submission deadline 28 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3382 | Submission Open
Keywords: hyperspectral image denoising; hyperspectral image fusion; hyperspectral image generation; hyperspectral image restoration; deep learning; statistical regularization model
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
Advances in Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing for Vegetation Monitoring
edited by and
submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6804 | Submission Open
Keywords: SAR– optical synergy; thermal– optical synergy; LIDAR– optical synergy; SIF– multispectral synergy; vegetation biomass; vegetation phenology; vegetation mapping; vegetation parameter inversion
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)
Underwater Remote Sensing: Status, New Challenges and Opportunities
edited by and
submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3679 | Submission Open
Keywords: multibeam sonar; synthetic aperture sonar; airborne lidar; underwater vehicles; hyperspectral satellites; satellite-derived bathymetry; satellite-based bathymetric measurements
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images Based on Artificial Intelligence
edited by , Xiyang Zhi, and
submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3353 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing images; object detection; artificial intelligence; multimodal data fusion; frontier applications
(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
Remote Sensing of Water Dynamics in Permafrost Regions
edited by Zeyong Gao and Lingxiao Wang
submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3350 | Submission Open
Keywords: permafrost degradation; thermokarst processes; ground-ice melting; active layer dynamics; climate change impacts; eco-hydrological effects
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)
Array and Signal Processing for Radar (Second Edition)
edited by Haowei Zhang, , Junpeng Shi, Weijian Liu and Yuan Liu
submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2137 | Submission Open
Keywords: radar array and signal processing; waveform and frequency diversity; interference; clutter and noise suppression; radar imaging; radar resource management; machine learning; space-based radar (SBR) system
(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering Remote Sensing)
Advances in Remote Sensing for Glacier Preservation
edited by Feiteng Wang, Chunhai Xu and
submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 739 | Submission Open
Keywords: glacier preservation; remote sensing; glacier region engineering; anthropogenic impacts; SAR/InSAR; machine learning; glacier dynamics; glacier mass balance
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Image Analysis for Forest Environmental Monitoring (2nd Edition) submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 149 | Submission Open
Keywords: image analysis; remote sensing; environment monitoring; forests; multispectral and hypespectral imaging; airborne image
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecological Remote Sensing)
Remote Sensing in Natural Resource and Water Environment II submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 19 articles | Viewed by 52937 | Submission Open
Keywords: hyperspectral remote sensing in the environment; retrieving air pollutant concentrations through remote sensing; machine learning algorithms for modeling based on remote sensing data; ecological indicators mapping by remote sensing; urban stormwater models; hydrologic models; flood disaster; water pollution; wastewater treatment; water resource management; urban-rural management; urban planning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Remote Sensing and Machine Learning in Vegetation Biophysical Parameters Estimation (Second Edition) submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 24210 | Submission Open
Keywords: vegetation biophysical parameter estimation; vegetation spectral indices; multispectral/hyperspectral/LiDAR/SAR; satellite/airborne/UAV/tower-based/ground observation; regression/RTM/machine learning/deep learning; agriculture; forest; grassland; vegetation dynamics monitoring
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)
Feature Papers of Section “Atmospheric Remote Sensing” (Second Edition) submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 14820 | Submission Open
Keywords: terrestrial atmosphere; remote sensing; atmospheric aerosol; trace gases; clouds; precipitation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)
Intelligent Processing and Analysis of Multi-Modal Remote Sensing Data
edited by and Giorgio Antonino Licciardi
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9072 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; image processing; image analysis; artificial intelligence; deep learning; data fusion; multispectral and hyperspectral data; synthetic aperture radar; LiDAR
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
Advances in Remote Sensing Video Data Processing: Theories, Technologies and Applications
edited by , Ying Zhang and
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8134 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing video; video system development; video detection and tracking; image/video understanding; video data processing; machine learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data for Water Resource Management in Agriculture submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7955 | Submission Open
Keywords: irrigation; optical and microwave remote sensing; evapotranspiration; soil moisture; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV); ground sensor
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Remote Sensing and Modelling of Terrestrial Ecosystems Functioning submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7549 | Submission Open
Keywords: terrestrial ecosystems; remote sensing; vegetation functioning; ET and GPP; estimation and modelling; accuracy assessment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)
Advancements in Passive/Active Remote Sensing of Clouds and Precipitation
edited by Yong-Keun Lee and Thomas Greenwald
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7088 | Submission Open
Keywords: clouds; precipitation; active remote sensing; ground-based remote sensing; satellite remote sensing; airborne remote sensing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)
Machine Learning and Remote/Proximal Sensing for Rock Mass Characterization and Slope Analyses submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6795 | Submission Open
Keywords: geomechanics and proximal/remote sensing; machine learning; rock mass characterization; discontinuities analysis; fracturing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)
Remote Sensing for Soil Moisture and Vegetation Parameters Retrieval (Second Edition) submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6622 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil moisture; agricultural monitoring; microwave remote sensing; machine learning; vegetation dynamics estimates; modeling; drought assessment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)
Ecological Environment Remote Sensing and Sustainable Development Evaluation in Coastal Zones submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5188 | Submission Open
Keywords: coastal zones; intelligent remote sensing interpretation; ecological environment remote sensing; ecological pro-cesses; landscape ecological security; land subsidence safety; sustainable development
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Advances in Remote Sensing Image Target Detection and Recognition
edited by
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4728 | Submission Open
Keywords: semi-supervised learning; few-shot learning; long-tail distribution; domain adaptation; open-vocabulary; zero-shot learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
Satellite Remote Sensing for Meteorological Disaster Monitoring and Forecasting submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3997 | Submission Open
Keywords: meteorological hazards; extreme Precipitation; flash floods; early warning systems; droughts; wildfires; heat waves; meteorological disaster management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)
AI Applications to Remote Sensing of Cloud and Precipitation: Monitoring, Modeling, and Prediction
edited by , Jinfang Yin, , and
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3816 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing techniques; clouds and precipitation; AI  applications for RS; cloud microphysics; cloud seeding; extreme weather events; data fusion and assimilation; RS for hydrological analysis; atmospheric water vapor/moisture
(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)
Remote Sensing and Machine Learning Applications in Atmospheric Physics, Weather, and Air Quality submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3585 | Submission Open
Keywords: Remote sensing; Machine learning; Air-quality; Aerosols; Weather; Cloud dynamics; Fires
From Remotely Sensed Data to Ecological Intelligence: New Insights in Coral Reef Recovery Detected through Remote Sensing in a Warming Climate
edited by Renata Ferrari, Sophie Gordon, Kang Han, and Gaia Pavoni
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2127 | Submission Open
Keywords: underwater photogrammetry; neural radiance fields; machine learning applications to the segmentation and classification of coral reef images; orthomosaics; and 3D models; coral reef vital rates; climate change impact detection (i.e.; bleaching; cyclones); spatio-temporal comparisons
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecological Remote Sensing)
New Perspectives in Plant Phenotyping: Satellite-Based Multispectral Remote Sensing
edited by Luwei Feng, and Yan Zhao
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 489 | Submission Open
Keywords: multispectral remote sensing; crop classification; phenology; deep learning; radiative transfer model; plant parameter retrieval; vegetation productivity simulation; crop yield prediction
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)
Advances in Remote Sensing Large Visual Language Model
edited by Fan Liu, Tianjin Huang and
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 340 | Submission Open
Keywords: Vision– Language Models (VLMs); remote sensing; multimodal data fusion; AI-driven mapping; land use classification; visual Question Answering; geospatial reasoning and spatial analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
Remote Sensing for Marine Environmental Disaster Response
edited by , Quanyi Huang, Jaroslaw Tęgowski, and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 14 articles | Viewed by 60408 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)
Glacial Lakes and Related Hazards: Mapping, Monitoring, and Risk Assessment submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 37915 | Submission Open
Keywords: novel lake mapping approaches/algorithms of remote sensing; glacial lake mapping and change; glacier and lake interactions; glacial lake outburst floods; reconstruct historical GLOFs; cascading geohazard related to glacial lake dynamics; GLOF risk assessment; social– economic impact of GLOFs; optical SAR-UAV-based monitoring
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Remote Sensing Image Classification and Semantic Segmentation (Second Edition) submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 12 articles | Viewed by 34667 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; deep learning; semantic segmentation; classification; cross-domain; earth observation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
Advanced Applications of Remote Sensing in Monitoring Marine Environment (Second Edition)
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 12 articles | Viewed by 28325 | Submission Open
Keywords: ocean remote sensing; ocean environment; environment monitoring; remote sensing techniques; satellite data
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)
Multi-Data Integration in Near-Surface Geophysics and Close Range Remote Sensing Applied to Cultural Heritage
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 25359 | Submission Open
Keywords: near-surface geophysics; close-range remote sensing; multi-data integration; GIS; spatial analysis; machine learning; deep learning; cultural heritage
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
New Insights in Remote Sensing of Snow and Glaciers submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 25204 | Submission Open
Keywords: snow cover; glaciers; optical remote sensing; radar remote sensing; data integration; novel methodologies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biogeosciences Remote Sensing)
Remote Sensing for the Study of the Changes in Wetlands submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 24096 | Submission Open
Keywords: earth observation monitoring of wetlands; essential biodiversity variables; time-series analysis to distinguish natural dynamics from artificial and climate change impacts; wetlands; including lacustrine and palustrine biome wetlands; in the estuarine; coastal and freshwater realms
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecological Remote Sensing)
Application of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing in Urban Areas submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 23372 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; photogrammetry; urban heterogeneous data fusion; urban planning; urban traffic mitigation; urban digital twins; urban pollution monitoring; global extreme event; machine learning; data mining
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Remote Sensing)
Advanced AI Technology for Remote Sensing Analysis
edited by Guangliang Cheng, , Shuchang Lyu and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 20707 | Submission Open
Keywords: multi-modality images; image fusion; cross-domain adaptation; visual– linguistic models; multi-modality downstream tasks; remote sensing; pattern analysis; advanced AI technology; image segmentation/detection and change detection
(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
SAR in Big Data Era III
edited by Chao Wang, , Mihai P. Datcu, and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 20507 | Submission Open
Keywords: SAR/InSAR; big data; sustainable development goals (SDGs); high performance computing; artificial intelligence; PolSAR processing; TomoSAR processing; SAR applications; geohazards; global change
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
Spatial Calculation and Remote Sensing Diagnosis for Environmental Health
edited by , , and Chunxiang Cao
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 19112 | Submission Open
Keywords: environmental health; spatial calculation; diagnosis by remote sensing; dynamic simulation; spatiotemporal big data analysis; geographic flow; disease transmission; risk warning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Remote Sensing for Landslide Investigations: Mapping, Monitoring and Forecasting submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 19040 | Submission Open
Keywords: landslide susceptibility mapping; landslide monitoring; landslide forecasting; landslide hazard assessment; SBAS-InSAR; risk assessment
(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
Machine Learning and Image Processing for Object Detection submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 18301 | Submission Open
Keywords: machine learning algorithm; image processing; deep learning; object detection; quality measurement; 3D objects; pre/post-processing; drone imagery
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Quantitative Remote Sensing of Vegetation and Its Applications
edited by and Linqing Yang
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 18042 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; biochemical/biophysical parameters; vegetation dynamics; multi-sensor data fusion; algorithm development; artificial intelligence; accuracy validation; inter-comparison and evaluation; products and applications
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Vegetation Mapping through Multiscale Remote Sensing submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 16716 | Submission Open
Keywords: Vegetation distribution and dynamics; Environmental assessment and monitoring; Multiscale and multiplatform remote sensing; Spectral and structural data integration; Multispectral imagery; LiDAR/SAR; UAV; Field spectrometry; Upscaling; Downscaling
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Recent Advances in Infrared Target Detection
edited by Xia Wang and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 16627 | Submission Open
Keywords: infrared target detection; deep learning; signal processing; infrared image enhancement; multi-resource data fusion; infrared target tracking; infrared target monitoring
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
Hyperspectral Sensors for Soil Parameters and Crop Parameters Retrieval submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 15764 | Submission Open
Keywords: hyperspectral imaging; soil parameter retrieval; crop parameter retrieval; remote sensing technologies; precision agriculture; sustainable farming; soil physicochemical properties; crop health monitoring; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); biophysical and biochemical parameter estimation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
Remote Sensing for Agricultural Water Management (RSAWM) (Second Edition)
edited by and Paolo Filippucci
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 15146 | Submission Open
Keywords: high resolution; EO data; machine learning; multi-data-driven approach; water balance; water consumption; soil; climate; vegetation; irrigation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)
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