Remote Sensing

Advanced Satellite Earth Observing Technologies for Weather and Climate Resilience

edited by

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,

,

and Longjiang Li

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4901 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite Earth observations; GNSS atmospheric monitoring; International GNSS Service data and products; severe weather forecasting; climate risks assessment; environmental monitoring; numerical weather prediction model; artificial intelligence (AI)-empowered climate model; GNSS tropospheric tomography; miscellaneous advanced methodologies and applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)

Advanced Techniques for Water-Related Remote Sensing (Second Edition)

edited by

,

, Jianhua Guo,

and

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4859 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; water-related optics; sensing/imaging techniques; sensors/platforms; deep learning; signal processing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)

Advanced Techniques of Spaceborne Surveillance Radar

edited by

Jingwei Xu

, Weiwei Wang, Yanhong Xu and Yuhong Zhang

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4431 | Submission Open

Keywords: spaceborne radar system; spaceborne antenna technique; array signal processing; moving target detection; non-homogeneity clutter suppression; jamming suppression; multi-target tracking

(This special issue belongs to the Section Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration)

Deep Learning and Foundation Models: Advancing Remote Sensing Applications

edited by

Mohamed Lamine Mekhalfi

,

Yakoub Bazi

,

Edoardo Pasolli

and

Mawloud Guermoui

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4429 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; deep learning; data analysis; modeling; machine vision; artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering Remote Sensing)

Advances in Detection-Oriented Multi-Sensor Fusion Beyond the Visible Spectrum

edited by

Liangliang Li

,

Zhenming Peng

, Yimian Dai, Fei Zhou and Xingchen Zhang

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3644 | Submission Open

Keywords: image fusion; target detection; anomaly detection; change detection; SAR

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)

Recent Advances in SAR: Signal Processing and Target Recognition

edited by Dahai Dai and Fengming Hu

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3641 | Submission Open

Keywords: synthetic aperture radar; signal processing; target recognition; machine learning; radar system; SAR feature extraction and processing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)

Application of Remote Sensing in Snow and Ice Monitoring

edited by Qian Yang,

Xiaohua Hao

, Yanli Zhang and Yuwen Pang

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3603 | Submission Open

Keywords: snow cover; lake ice; ice dynamics; sea ice; climate change; multi-sensor and multi-source data; change detection; remote sensing applications; resources assessment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)

Remote Sensing Applications in Natural Hazards and Sustainable Development

edited by

Yaohui Liu

, Bo Yu and

Fangbin Liu

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3413 | Submission Open

Keywords: natural hazards; risk; sustainable development goals; resilience; flood; earthquake; geology; landslide; ecology; fire; sustainably

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Microwave Remote Sensing for Object Detection (2nd Edition)

edited by

Guangcai Sun

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3324 | Submission Open

Keywords: synthetic aperture radar (SAR); airborne and satellite systems; objection detection and recognition; machine learning; compressive sensing; deep neural network sand few sample learning; ground moving target indication (GMTI); change detection in SAR images; generative adversarial networks (GANs); ship detection and ship traffic

Advances in Remote Sensing of Aerosol Optical Properties and the Effects on Radiation

edited by

Inmaculada Foyo-Moreno

,

Maria João Costa

, Maria Pilar Utrillas and

Juan Luis Guerrero Rascado

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3031 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; interaction aerosol radiation; aerosol radiative forcing; aerosol properties; solar radiation; atmospheric radiative transfer

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Remote Sensing)

Applications of Radar Remote Sensing in Earth Observation

edited by Guoman Huang,

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and

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3012 | Submission Open

Keywords: SAR; InSAR; land cover and land use mapping; forest canopy height; aboveground biomass estimation; land hazard and risk monitoring; earth system; deep learning; machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Advancements in Autonomous UAVs for Infrastructure Inspection and Monitoring

edited by

Bashar Alsadik

, Samer Karam and

Daniel Rodrigues Dos Santos

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2518 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAV; UAS; and drones; autonomous; SLAM; path planning; big data; infrastructure; civil engineering; machine learning and deep learning; three-dimensional mapping; navigation; data fusion; LiDAR; RGB-D; mapping; real-time; graph-based; Kalman filter; active exploration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)

High-Resolution Remote Sensing Image Processing and Applications

edited by Kai Xu, Yixiang Chen and

Kun Qin

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2290 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-resolution remote sensing; deep learning; image processing; image fusion; object detection; semantic segmentation; change detection; remote sensing vision– language model.

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)

Advances of Ocean Circulation and Air-Sea Interaction Using Remote Sensing Techniques

edited by Xiang Wang,

Huizan Wang

, Ronghua Zhang,

Haokun Bai

and Jingtao Yu

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2226 | Submission Open

Keywords: ocean circulation; air-sea interaction; remote sensing; satellite oceanography; ocean climate change; data assimilation; artificial intelligence; machine learning; multi-sensor observations

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)

Advances in Remote Sensing and AI for Monitoring and Mitigating Land Subsidence and Secondary Geohazards

edited by Jing Wang,

Sen Du

,

Joaquín Menéndez

and Xiwei Fan

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2158 | Submission Open

Keywords: land subsidence; InSAR; GNSS deformation monitoring; 3D deformation analysis; machine learning/deep learning; subsidence modeling; GPS optical image urban monitoring

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)

Spatial Analysis and Modeling in Urban Remote Sensing

edited by

Wei Fan

and

Changshan Wu

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2143 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; urban environment monitoring and modeling; unmanned aerial vehicles; lidar; hyperspectral sensor; imaging spectroscopy; social sensing; GeoAI; image processing algorithm; land use/land cover mapping and change analysis; socio-economic applications; public health applications; urban planning practices; environmental modeling; environmental impacts

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Remote Sensing)

Recent Advances in Remote Sensing Products for Water and Environment Monitoring

edited by

Gonzalo E. Espinoza-Dávalos

,

Mhd. Suhyb Salama

and

Marouane Temimi

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2126 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources; water fluxes; hydrologic modeling; Earth observations; environmental monitoring; hydroinformatics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Remote Sensing for Maritime Monitoring

edited by Peng Liu,

Jin Xu

and

Bingxin Liu

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2101 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine pollution detection; ship monitoring; maritime traffic situation awareness; multi-source remote sensing; image process and analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)

Precise Orbit Determination for Gravity Field Investigations

edited by

Ivan di Stefano

, Gael Cascioli and

Baocheng Zhang

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2094 | Submission Open

Keywords: precise orbit determination; radio science; interplanetary missions; planetary science; satellite geodesy; planetary interiors; gravity fields

(This special issue belongs to the Section Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration)

Advances in Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data Fusion and Analysis

edited by

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submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2050 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-source remote sensing data; deep learning; multi-source image fusion; pansharpening; classification; change detection; anomaly detection; target detection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Observation Data)

Multiplatform and Multisensor Applications for Landslide Characterization and Monitoring

edited by

Stratis Karantanellis

, Marco Mulas, Giuseppe Ciccarese and

Paolo Mazzanti

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1815 | Submission Open

Keywords: landslide detection; landslide characterization; landslide monitoring; data fusion; remote sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)

Cutting-Edge PolSAR Imaging Applications and Techniques

edited by Dapeng Tao,

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and

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1722 | Submission Open

Keywords: multitemporal SAR/PolSAR; polarimetric target decomposition; change detection; PolInSAR; deep learning for PolSAR image; land coverage mapping and classification

(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Observation Data)

Solar System Remote Sensing: Planetary Science and Exploration

edited by Jason (Jay) Laura and Ross A. Beyer

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1634 | Submission Open

Keywords: solar system remote sensing; planetary science; planetary exploration; surface analysis; planetary atmosphere; planetary geology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration)

Ecologically Vulnerable Zones (EVZs) in Focus: Remote Sensing and AI for Sustainable Futures

edited by

Alim Samat

, Jianli Ding, Yuemin Yue and

Junli Li

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1611 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; ecologically vulnerable zones; AI/ML applications; climate change; land degradation; biodiversity monitoring; disaster resilience; sustainable development; multi-source data fusion; environmental forecasting

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Advances in Machine Learning Algorithms for Atmospheric Remote Sensing

edited by Alqamah Sayeed, Ahmed Khan Salman and Siddharth Chaudhary

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1580 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; atmospheric remote sensing; hyperspectral data analysis; air quality prediction; aerosols and trace gases; urban pollution modeling; climate adaptation; human epidemiology; crop health monitoring; advanced time-series analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)

Advancements in Deep Learning for Remote Sensing: Exploring Planetary and Earth Observation Applications

edited by

Riccardo La Grassa

and

Ignazio Gallo

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1579 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; earth observation; planetary science; feature detection; mapping; super-resolution; classification

(This special issue belongs to the Section Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration)

AI-Enhanced Remote Sensing and Land Surface Modeling for Terrestrial Hydrology and Climate Systems

edited by

Ya Huang

,

Yuyan Zhou

and Qing Yang

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1572 | Submission Open

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence (AI); land surface model; remote sensing data assimilation; hydroclimatic extremes; climate modeling; human– environment interactions; hydrometeorological variables monitoring

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Advanced in Space-Air-Ground-Sea Integrated Remote Sensing: Intelligent Processing and Applications

edited by

Zhonghua Hong

, Chenchen Jiang and Huazhong Ren

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1528 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; space– air– ground– sea integration; artificial intelligence; data processing; modeling; mapping

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)

Monitoring and Managing Environmental Sustainability Using Remote Sensing (Second Edition)

edited by

Dongmei Chen

and

Yuhong He

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1366 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; environmental sustainability; land use/cover change; habitat health; climate change monitoring; satellite imagery; environmental monitoring; ecosystem assessment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biogeosciences Remote Sensing)

Spatio-Temporal Land Surface Temperature Retrieval Based on Ground-Based, Satellite Observations and Artificial Intelligence

edited by

Bo-Hui Tang

, Xiangyang Liu and Tian Hu

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1251 | Submission Open

Keywords: land surface temperature (LST); retrieval algorithm; complex terrain; urban area; ground-based observation; artificial intelligence; validation; reconstruction of data under clouds; temporal scale expansion

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Remote Sensing Image Change Detection and Feature Enhancement Based on Deep Learning

edited by Kaimin Sun, Wenzhuo Li,

Xin Tao

,

Ting Bai

and

Wangbin Li

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1202 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing change detection; feature enhancement; feature fusion; semantic segmentation; deep learning; multi-model image analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)

Ship Imaging, Detection and Recognition for High-Resolution SAR

edited by

Ze Yu

,

Jindong Yu

,

Xiaoqing Wang

, Lijia Huang and

Frank Zhang

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1159 | Submission Open

Keywords: SAR; ship imaging; ship detection; ship recognition; motion estimation; clutter suppression; maritime surveillance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)

Forest Disturbance Monitoring with Optical Satellite Imagery

edited by Antoine Masse and

Nikolay S. Strigul

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1136 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest disturbance; optical remote sensing; forest degradation; forest monitoring multi-source data fusion; data calibration and validation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Remote Sensing)

Satellite Remote Sensing for Ocean and Coastal Environment Monitoring (Second Edition)

edited by

Haidong Pan

,

Daosheng Wang

and

Jungang Yang

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1014 | Submission Open

Keywords: sea level rise; ocean tides; model assimilation; sea surface temperature; sea surface salinity; chlorophyll; water transparency; sea waves; mesoscale eddy; ocean dynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)

Advances in Remote Sensing Approaches for Agricultural Monitoring at Field and Regional Scale (Second Edition)

edited by

Jitka Kumhálová

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1007 | Submission Open

Keywords: precision agriculture; photogrammetry; UAV; yield monitoring; crop monitoring; agricultural monitoring; artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)

Applications of Photogrammetry and Lidar Techniques in Mining Areas

edited by Zhihua Xu,

Zhenghua Zhang

and

Xiaohu Lin

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 885 | Submission Open

Keywords: photogrammetry; laser scanning; mining engineering; slope stability; deformation monitoring; SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping); point cloud processing; mine surveying; ecological monitoring

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)

The Applications of Remote Sensing, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning in Atmospheric Radiative Transfer

edited by

Kun Wu

and

Panagiotis Kosmopoulos

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 849 | Submission Open

Keywords: atmospheric radiative transfer; remote sensing detection; machine learning; deep learning; parameterization of physical processes; collaborativeinversion of multi-source

(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)

Remote Sensing in Maritime Navigation and Transportation

edited by

David Brčić

,

Mario Bakota

and

Serdjo Kos

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 702 | Submission Open

Keywords: safety of maritime navigation; maritime traffic monitoring; environmental monitoring; vessel tracking and coastal surveillance; GNSS-based maritime navigation and transportation; synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and satellite imagery; navigation systems; port operations optimisation; maritime transportation efficiency; dynamic positioning; polar navigation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration)

Advances in Deep Learning in the Retrieval of Key Parameters of Agrometeorological Remote Sensing (Second Edition)

edited by

Kebiao Mao

,

Sayed M. Bateni

and Jongmin Park

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 642 | Submission Open

Keywords: surface temperature; near-surface air temperature; surface emissivity; soil moisture; vegetation moisture content; water vapor content; precipitation; LAI; drought and flood

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Ecological Change with Multi-Scale Spatial-Temporal Remote Sensing Data

edited by

Linlin Cheng

, Wei Tang and Deqin Fan

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 613 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecological structure and function; remote sensing; ecological networks; multi-source data fusion; ecological dynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecological Remote Sensing)

Remote Sensing for Hydrological Management

edited by

Ram L. Ray

and

Gebrekidan Tefera

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 572 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; hydrological monitoring; hydrological extremes; hydrological models; soil moisture; water quality; water management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Advances in Remote Sensing in Urban Climatology

edited by

Maria Zoran

and Marina N.M. Tautan

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 567 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban climate; remote sensing; aerosols and clouds; greenhouse gases; urban greening; urban thermal environment; urban ecosystem– climate interaction; urban land cover changes; urban climate sustainability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)

From Pixels to Spectra: Towards Generalizable Large Models for Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

edited by Yaxiong Chen, Qingyu Li,

Wuxia Zhang

and

Zhitong Xiong

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 443 | Submission Open

Keywords: hyperspectral image processing; spectral– spatial feature extraction; dimensionality reduction; deep learning for HSI; self-supervised learning; spectral unmixing; semantic segmentation; change detection; lightweight models; high-resolution remote sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)

Remote Sensing of Wave Dynamics and Hydrodynamics in Marine Environments

edited by

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submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 420 | Submission Open

Keywords: ocean remote sensing; wave; current; eddies; hydrodynamics; marine environments; altimeter; lidar; artificial intelligence model; data processing algorithms

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)

Intelligent Remote Sensing Information Extraction

edited by

Weixun Zhou

and

Zhenwei Shi

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 362 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; information extraction; deep learning; artificial intelligence; feature extraction; image segmentation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)

High-Precision Urban Positioning: GNSS and Multi-Sensor Fusion Technologies

edited by Hongjuan Zhang and

Bijun Li

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 289 | Submission Open

Keywords: global navigation satellite system; GNSS/INS integration; simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM); multi-source fusion; urban positioning; deep learning-based positioning; urban location-based services

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Remote Sensing)

Monitoring Urban Environment from Space

edited by Yong Xue,

Pinliang Dong

and

Linlin Lu

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 261 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use/land cover change; urban heat island; air pollution mapping; sustainable cities; earth observation; machine learning; multi-sensor fusion; climate resilience; big data analytics; disaster risk assessment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Remote Sensing)

Remote Sensing of Global Environmental Change’s Impacts on Ecosystem Resilience

edited by Yuchao Yan,

Alfredo Huete

and Huan Wang

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 235 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecosystem resilience; global change; remote sensing; disturbance detection; recovery monitoring; multi-sensor fusion; time series analysis; carbon sequestration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biogeosciences Remote Sensing)

Land Degradation Assessment with Earth Observation (Third Edition)

edited by

Elias Symeonakis

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 208 | Submission Open

Keywords: land degradation; desertification; deforestation; drought; soil erosion; land use/cover change; habitat degradation; multitemporal analysis; time-series analysis; SDG 15.3.1

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecological Remote Sensing)

Satellite Soil Moisture Estimation, Assessment, and Applications (Second Edition)

edited by

Xiaojun Li

, Lun Gao,

Frédéric Frappart

and

Hui Lu

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 206 | Submission Open

Keywords: surface and root-zone soil moisture; passive and active microwaves; SMOS/SMAP/AMSR2/CIMR; vegetation optical depth; evaluation/intercomparison; data assimilation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)

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