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Microwave Remote Sensing for Object Detection (2nd Edition)
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2862 | 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 submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2725 | 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, , , and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2354 | 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 , Samer Karam and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2186 | 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)
Spatial Analysis and Modeling in Urban Remote Sensing
edited by and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1888 | 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)
Precise Orbit Determination for Gravity Field Investigations
edited by , Gael Cascioli and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1878 | 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)
High-Resolution Remote Sensing Image Processing and Applications
edited by Kai Xu, Yixiang Chen and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1873 | 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 in Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data Fusion and Analysis submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1740 | 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)
Recent Advances in Remote Sensing Products for Water and Environment Monitoring submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1726 | Submission Open
Keywords: water resources; water fluxes; hydrologic modeling; Earth observations; environmental monitoring; hydroinformatics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Advances in Remote Sensing and AI for Monitoring and Mitigating Land Subsidence and Secondary Geohazards
edited by Jing Wang, , and Xiwei Fan
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1669 | 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)
Remote Sensing for Maritime Monitoring
edited by Peng Liu, and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1619 | 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)
Advances of Ocean Circulation and Air-Sea Interaction Using Remote Sensing Techniques
edited by Xiang Wang, , Ronghua Zhang, and Jingtao Yu
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1451 | 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)
Cutting-Edge PolSAR Imaging Applications and Techniques
edited by Dapeng Tao, , , and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1442 | 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 1410 | 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)
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 1345 | 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)
Advanced in Space-Air-Ground-Sea Integrated Remote Sensing: Intelligent Processing and Applications
edited by , Chenchen Jiang and Huazhong Ren
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1332 | 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)
AI-Enhanced Remote Sensing and Land Surface Modeling for Terrestrial Hydrology and Climate Systems
edited by , and Qing Yang
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1233 | 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)
Ecologically Vulnerable Zones (EVZs) in Focus: Remote Sensing and AI for Sustainable Futures
edited by , Jianli Ding, Yuemin Yue and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1224 | 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)
Advancements in Deep Learning for Remote Sensing: Exploring Planetary and Earth Observation Applications submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1167 | 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)
Monitoring and Managing Environmental Sustainability Using Remote Sensing (Second Edition)
edited by and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 899 | 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)
Forest Disturbance Monitoring with Optical Satellite Imagery
edited by Antoine Masse and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 864 | 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)
Advances in Remote Sensing Approaches for Agricultural Monitoring at Field and Regional Scale (Second Edition)
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 752 | 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)
Multiplatform and Multisensor Applications for Landslide Characterization and Monitoring
edited by , Marco Mulas, Giuseppe Ciccarese and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 680 | 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)
Remote Sensing in Maritime Navigation and Transportation submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 643 | 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)
Satellite Remote Sensing for Ocean and Coastal Environment Monitoring (Second Edition) submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 623 | 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)
The Applications of Remote Sensing, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning in Atmospheric Radiative Transfer submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 606 | 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 for Hydrological Management submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 539 | 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)
Ecological Change with Multi-Scale Spatial-Temporal Remote Sensing Data
edited by , Wei Tang and Deqin Fan
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 533 | 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)
Advances in Remote Sensing in Urban Climatology
edited by and Marina N.M. Tautan
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 527 | 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)
Advances in Deep Learning in the Retrieval of Key Parameters of Agrometeorological Remote Sensing (Second Edition)
edited by , and Jongmin Park
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 420 | 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)
Ship Imaging, Detection and Recognition for High-Resolution SAR
edited by , , , Lijia Huang and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 385 | 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)
Remote Sensing of Wave Dynamics and Hydrodynamics in Marine Environments submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 357 | 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 and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 320 | 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)
Applications of Photogrammetry and Lidar Techniques in Mining Areas
edited by Zhihua Xu, and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 289 | 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)
Remote Sensing Image Change Detection and Feature Enhancement Based on Deep Learning
edited by Kaimin Sun, Wenzhuo Li, , and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 253 | 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)
From Pixels to Spectra: Towards Generalizable Large Models for Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
edited by Yaxiong Chen, Qingyu Li, and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 219 | 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)
Monitoring Urban Environment from Space
edited by Yong Xue, and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 210 | 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)
High-Precision Urban Positioning: GNSS and Multi-Sensor Fusion Technologies
edited by Hongjuan Zhang and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 204 | 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)
Remote Sensing of Global Environmental Change’s Impacts on Ecosystem Resilience
edited by Yuchao Yan, and Huan Wang
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 194 | 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)
Recent Advances in Satellite Data and In-Situ Measurements of Chlorophyll Fluorescence
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 162 | Submission Open
Keywords: chlorophyll fluorescence; fchl retrieval methods; radiative transfer models; vegetation stress conditions
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Remote Sensing)
Radar and Photo-Electronic Multi-Modal Intelligent Fusion
edited by , , Jianhua Shi and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 155 | Submission Open
Keywords: radar signal processing; photo-electronic image understanding; target detection and recognition; radar imaging
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
Land Degradation Assessment with Earth Observation (Third Edition)
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 150 | 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)
Remote Sensing for Marine Ecological Research
edited by and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 138 | Submission Open
Keywords: marine ecology; coral reefs; seagrass ecosystems; kelp forests; spatial data science; underwater observations
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)
Spatio-Temporal Land Surface Temperature Retrieval Based on Ground-Based, Satellite Observations and Artificial Intelligence
edited by , Xiangyang Liu and Tian Hu
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 134 | 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)
Satellite Soil Moisture Estimation, Assessment, and Applications (Second Edition)
edited by , Lun Gao, and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 130 | 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)
Intelligent Processing Techniques for Monocular and Multi-View Remote Sensing Imagery
edited by Shiqing Wei, Jin Liu and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 122 | Submission Open
Keywords: monocular remote sensing; multi-view stereo; intelligent image processing; multi-source data fusion; 3D reconstruction; semantic segmentation; object detection; monocular depth estimation; stereo matching; terrain and urban modeling
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
State-of-the-Art in Land Cover Classification and Mapping: Building Up Digital Twins of Earth submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 119 | Submission Open
Keywords: classification; mapping; classification systems; land cover; remote sensing images; scale; resolution; semantics; spectral– spatial– temporal features; phenology; pattern analysis; machine learning; rule bases; accuracy metrics and assessment; uncertainty; confusion matrix; mixed pixels; sampling; reference samples; image interpretation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing for Geospatial Science)
Advancing Process Representation for Hydrological Modeling Across Spatiotemporal Scales
edited by and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 118 | Submission Open
Keywords: hydrological modeling; spatiotemporal scales; flood; drought; data-scarce regions; hybrid models; remote sensing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)
Advances in Remote Sensing Data and Tools for Urban Climate Risks Analysis and Management
edited by Ashish Shrestha, , and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 112 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban climate risks; spatial data; urban flood; heat; cities; climate resilience
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Remote Sensing)
Observations, Mechanisms and Forecasts of Severe Convective Weather Based on Remote Sensing
edited by , Xiaoming Hu, and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 112 | Submission Open
Keywords: atmospheric convection; severe convective weather; advanced remote sensing technique; numerical modeling; AI and nowcasting
(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)
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