Remote Sensing

Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing for Soil Moisture Monitoring

edited by

Qunou Jiang

,

Na Chen

,

Qiang Yu

,

Konstantinos X. Soulis

and

Dionissios Kalivas

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 109 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil moisture inversion; multi-sensor remote sensing; machine learning; UAV-based observation; data assimilation; hydrological modeling

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

Recent Achievements and Future Prospects of Land Surface Temperature (LST) with Remote Sensing

edited by

Guocan Wu

and

Jianhui Xu

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 108 | Submission Open

Keywords: land surface temperature; land– atmosphere interactions; land surface process; satellite retrieval; meteorological station observation; long-term change; multi-scale variation; climatological average

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

Remote Sensing Training Data: Annotation, Quality, and Optimization

edited by

Liangcun Jiang

,

Hao Li

and Boyi Shangguan

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 100 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing training data; training data quality; data annotation; label noise; data quality assessment; automated labeling; label correction; training data optimization; quality control in remote sensing

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

Remote Sensing of Cryospheric Hydrology and Water Cycle

edited by

Ping Wang

,

Tianye Wang

and

Hongyi Li

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 90 | Submission Open

Keywords: cryospheric hydrology; permafrost; snow hydrology; water cycle; surface– groundwater interaction; arctic

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

Advances in Remote Sensing for Smart Agriculture and Digital Twins

edited by

Lei Hu

,

Li Lin

and

Chen Zhang

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 75 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; GIS; agro-geoinformatics; smart agriculture; digital twin; disaster risk reduction; reproducible EO science; FAIR

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

GeoAI and Remote Sensing for Urban Planning and Human Comfort Analysis

edited by

Hossein Arefi

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 70 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban microclimate; thermal comfort; human comfort; climate-sensitive urban planning; urban heat island (UHI)

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

Interpretation and Attribution of Land Subsidence: A Remote Sensing and Machine Learning Perspective

edited by

Alex Hay-Man Ng

,

Linlin Ge

,

Hsing-Chung Chang

and Zheyuan Du

submission deadline 1 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 917 | Submission Open

Keywords: land subsidence; remote sensing; machine learning; deep learning; subsidence monitoring; predictive modeling; data fusion; ground deformation

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

Machine Learning in Global Change Ecology: Methods and Applications

edited by

Boyi Liang

,

Hongyan Liu

,

Ying Qu

, Jiangzhou Xia and

Micol Rossini

submission deadline 10 Mar 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 18480 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; machine learning; terrestrial vegetation; carbon cycle; climate change; global change ecology

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

Remote Sensing Applications for Enhancing Wildfire Management and Ecosystem Multifunctionality

edited by Paula García-Llamas and

Angela Taboada

submission deadline 10 Mar 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9949 | Submission Open

Keywords: wildfire; fire management; remote sensing; ecosystem functioning; fire products; fire risk; ecosystem services

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

Advances in Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases Observation and Remote Sensing Applications

edited by Ailin Liang, Yawen Kong and

Simone Lolli

submission deadline 10 Mar 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 8452 | Submission Open

Keywords: greenhouse gas remote sensing; carbon dioxide; methane; OCO-2/3 GOSAT TROPOMI TANSAT DQ-1; carbon flux; carbon assimilation

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

Mobile Laser Scanning Systems for Underground Applications

edited by

Sandra Buján Seoane

and Chester Andrew Sellers

submission deadline 13 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 175 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital twins; TLS; MLS; 3D modeling; 3D mapping; geo-monitoring; handheld LiDAR; mobile mapping technologies; non-contact geomatic methods; mine/tunnels surveys; mine infrastructure planning and monitoring

Spatiotemporal AI Methods for Atmospheric Remote Sensing

edited by

Qian Liu

and

Manzhu Yu

submission deadline 13 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 150 | Submission Open

Keywords: spatiotemporal AI; remote sensing; atmospheric composition; cloud features; air pollution and aerosols; environmental monitoring; climate and health impacts

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

Remote Sensing for Precision Farming and Crop Phenology (Second Edition)

edited by

Mitsunori Yoshimura

and

Francesco Pirotti

submission deadline 13 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 127 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; precision farming; crop phenology; crop yield estimation; crop monitoring

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

Multi-Task Remote Sensing Image Analysis: Classification, Segmentation, and Change Detection

edited by

Liguo Weng

submission deadline 15 Mar 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 13572 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-task learning; remote sensing image classification; semantic segmentation; change detection; deep learning; multi-temporal analysis; data fusion; transfer learning; environmental monitoring; high-resolution remote sensing

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

Deep Learning-Based Small-Target Detection in Remote Sensing

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submission deadline 15 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3681 | Submission Open

Keywords: small target detection; deep learning; remote sensing image processing; hyperspectral and infrared sensing; multi-sensor data fusion; feature extraction; target recognition

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

Recent Advances in Drought Risk Assessment, Monitoring, and Forecasting II

edited by

Yuei-An Liou

submission deadline 16 Mar 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 10784 | Submission Open

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

Big Earth Data in Support of the Sustainable Development Goals

edited by

Minquan Wu

,

Xi Li

and

Yu Chen

submission deadline 16 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4224 | Submission Open

Keywords: affordable and clean energy; integrated evaluations and interactions among SDGs; access to electricity; clean cooking; renewable energy; energy efficiency

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing for Geospatial Science)

Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Source Remote Sensing for Surface Hydrology

edited by

Xingxing Zhang

and Liguang Jiang

submission deadline 16 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 514 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-source remote sensing; surface water monitoring; satellite altimetry; SWOT mission; GRACE gravimetry; hydrological modeling; AI-based methods; climate change impacts; flood and drought monitoring; transboundary river basins

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

Computer Vision and Features Enhancement of Hyperspectral Images

edited by

Hongmin Gao

,

Shufang Xu

, Bing Tu and

Jun Zhou

submission deadline 16 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 437 | Submission Open

Keywords: hyperspectral imaging; computer vision; feature enhancement; image processing; spectral analysis; data integration

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

Remote Sensing for Sustainability and Durability of Transportation Infrastructures (Second Edition)

edited by

Wendy Zhou

,

Thomas Oommen

and Linan Liu

submission deadline 16 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 397 | Submission Open

Keywords: tunneling-induced ground subsidence; landslide monitoring along transportation corridors; rockfalls along roadcuts; rock mass and fault zone characterization for transportation alignment selection; airfield ground subsidence; bridge monitoring; ground deformation time series; parametric analysis of ground subsidence or deformation

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

Remote Sensing for Wildfire Science: Monitoring, Modeling, and Mitigation

edited by

Binbin He

and

Xingwen Quan

submission deadline 16 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 202 | Submission Open

Keywords: fuel; fire regime; wildfire monitoring; wildfire modeling; fire ecology; climate change; carbon cycling; remote sensing; multidisciplinary

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

Advanced Change Detection and Anomaly Detection in Remote Sensing

edited by Ganchao Liu

submission deadline 16 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 184 | Submission Open

Keywords: change detection algorithms; anomaly detection techniques; remote sensing time-series analysis; multi-source data fusion urban change detection; disaster monitoring using remote sensing; vegetation and land cover change detection; hyperspectral and sar data for anomaly detection; deep learning for change and anomaly detection; remote sensing in environmental monitoring; anomaly detection in agricultural management; cross-domain transfer learning in remote sensing

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

Remote Sensing Data Preprocessing and Calibration

edited by Qi Ming and Xudong Zhao

submission deadline 16 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 157 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing preprocessing; deep learning; image processing; geometric correction; cross-sensor harmonization; multi-source data fusion; time-series consistency; uncertainty assessment; multi-modality data processing; cloud-based processing

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

Advances in GeoAI with Remote Sensing Imagery for Urban Green Space Mapping and Monitoring

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submission deadline 16 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 144 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban green space; GeoAI; remote sensing; deep learning; data fusion; environmental justice; dynamic monitoring; explainable AI; image segmentation

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

Deep Learning-Based Analysis of High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images: Registration, Fusion, and Change Detection

edited by

Shikai Jiang

submission deadline 16 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 123 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; high-resolution remote sensing images; image registration; image fusion; change detection; multi-modal data; computer vision for remote sensing

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

Remote Sensing for Planetary Geomorphology and Mapping

edited by

Weiming Cheng

and

Zhiyong Xiao

submission deadline 16 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 122 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantitative geomorphology; planetary geomorphology; remote sensing; DEM; GIS; impact geomorphology; ecological and environmental change; geology; geomorphological evolution; geomorphological classification and mapping

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

Mapping the Blue: Remote Sensing in Water Resource Management

edited by

Junjie Li

,

Yun Chen

and Wen Zhang

submission deadline 16 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 120 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resource management; remote sensing applications; flood and drought monitoring; hydrological modeling; surface water mapping; geographic information science; multi-source data fusion; artificial intelligence

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

Application of Remote Sensing in Forest and Grassland Fire Management

edited by

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submission deadline 16 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 115 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest fire; forest and grassland combustibles; forest grassland meteorology; fire hazard; fuel load; fuel moisture content; fire extinguishing; loss assessment

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

Integrating Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence for Hydrological Variables Retrieval

edited by

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,

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submission deadline 16 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 114 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; machine learning; remote sensing; data assimilation; water cycle; water resources; hydrology; hydrological processes

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

Advances in GNSS-Reflectometry and Remote Sensing for Ocean Surface Monitoring

edited by

Xuerui Wu

and

Kaoru Ichikawa

submission deadline 16 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 106 | Submission Open

Keywords: GNSS-R; Beidou; ocean; sea ice; wind speed

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

Multisource Data Fusion and Reasoning in Remote Sensing: From Perception to Decision Making

edited by

Xiangtao Zheng

, Yaxiong Chen and

Hailong Ning

submission deadline 16 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 97 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing multi-modal learning; vision– language models; multi-modal reasoning; cross-modal alignment; multi-source fusion; reinforcement learning; remote sensing agent systems

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

Proximal and Remote Sensing for Precision Crop Management (Third Edition)

edited by

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and Lingwei Dong

submission deadline 16 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 88 | Submission Open

Keywords: proximal sensing; airborne and satellite remote sensing; crop stress diagnosis; soil mapping; precision crop management; artificial intelligence; machine/deep learning; big data; integrated sensing; data fusion and analytics

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

Planetary Geologic Mapping and Remote Sensing (Third Edition)

edited by

Jan-Peter Muller

and

Zongyu Yue

submission deadline 16 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 84 | Submission Open

Keywords: planetary geology; planetary topography and geomorphology; planetary chronology; planetary spectrum; planetary remote sensing; geologic structures; geologic mapping; planetary composition; planetary GIS; planetary exploration missions; landing sites

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

Advancing Ocean Observation, Analysis, and Forecasting Through AI-Powered Remote Sensing

edited by Lei Ren,

Indiana A. Olbert

and

Gang Zheng

submission deadline 16 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 76 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; artificial intelligence technology; observation; forecast; analysis; reconstruction

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

Artificial Intelligence for Remote Sensing: State-of-the-Art Reviews and Future Directions

edited by Fa-Ming Fang

submission deadline 16 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 57 | Submission Open

Keywords: image processing; remote sensing; artificial intelligence; review; survey

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

Multi-Source Remote Sensing and Modeling for Agro-Hydrological and Ecological Assessment

edited by

Yared Bayissa

,

Abebe D. Chukalla

and

David Costa

submission deadline 16 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 54 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; agricultural water management; hydrological modeling; watershed management; climate change; machine learning; deep learning

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

Deep Learning and Generative Artificial Intelligence for Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

edited by Yaser Esmaeili Salehani, Linlin Xu,

Yasser Maghsoudi

and

Nasehe Jamshidpour

submission deadline 18 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 211 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning (DL); hyperspectral imaging (HSI); hyperspectral image classification and unmixing; spectral– spatial analysis; convolutional neural networks (CNNs); self supervised and generative models; graph convolutional networks (GCNs); transformer models; dimensionality reduction and band selection; transfer learning and domain adaptation

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

New Insights in GNSS Remote Sensing for Ionosphere Monitoring and Modeling (Second Edition)

edited by

Angela Aragón-Ángel

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1170 | Submission Open

Keywords: GNSS ground- and space-based observations; electron density morphology and determination; ionospheric indices; ionospheric models; ionospheric storms; low-; mid- and high-latitude ionosphere; waves and irregularities; total electron content (TEC); ionospheric global and regional maps; extreme events; GNSS navigation

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

Target Recognition and Detection Based on High Resolution Radar Images (Second Edition)

edited by

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, Lixiang Ma and

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 438 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-resolution radar images; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); target detection; target recognition; deep learning; machine learning; image processing

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

Near Real-Time Remote Sensing Data and Its Geoscience Applications

edited by

John Trinder

and Zhiqi Zhang

submission deadline 25 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2406 | Submission Open

Keywords: near real-time intelligent satellite systems; onboard processing; video data capture; multispectral and SAR image data; data processing for information servicing; deep learning applications; applications-ready data

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing for Geospatial Science)

Artificial Intelligence for Optical Remote Sensing Image Processing

edited by

Wei Fang

and

Daniele Bortoli

submission deadline 26 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1215 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence for science; optical remote sensing; image processing; geographic information system; noise reduction and image enhancement; feature extraction and semantic segmentation; super-resolution reconstruction; satellite imagery; computer vision; multimodal data integration; heatwave warning; disaster management; crop monitoring; environmental monitoring; urban planning; infrastructure inspection

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

SAR Target Detection and Recognition with Intelligent Methods and Its Applications

edited by Zongyong Cui, Sihang Dang,

Siqian Zhang

and Zongjie Cao

submission deadline 28 Mar 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3388 | Submission Open

Keywords: synthetic aperture radar; SAR target detection; SAR target recognition; artificial intelligence; small sample; SAR image interpretation

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

Advances in Cryosphere Monitoring: Integrating Multi-Source Remote Sensing and AI Technologies

edited by Puyu Wang,

Ze Zhang

and Xuejiao Wu

submission deadline 28 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2229 | Submission Open

Keywords: cryosphere; remote sensing; AI technology; glacier monitoring; snow cover; permafrost observation; climate change impacts

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

Spatiotemporal Variability in Hydrologic Systems from GRACE, Remote Sensing, and Climate Data

edited by Karem Abdelmohsen

submission deadline 28 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1751 | Submission Open

Keywords: GRACE/GRACE-FO; remote sensing in hydrology; terrestrial water storage (TWS); groundwater recharge; precipitation patterns; climate change impacts; wind regime shifts; hydrological modeling; data assimilation and downscaling; water resource management

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

New Tools or Trends for Large-Scale Mapping and 3D Modelling (Second Edition)

edited by

Tarig Ali

,

Jorge Delgado García

and

Fayez Tarsha Kurdi

submission deadline 29 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 10247 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; topographic mapping; mobile mapping; data acquisition; sensors; LiDAR; UAVs (drone); feature extraction; 3D modelling; machine learning; data classification; forests modelling; digital twins; city information modelling (CIM); building information modelling (BIM); land information modelling (LAM); tree information modelling (TIM); processing quality

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

Monitoring and Modelling of Geological Disasters Based on InSAR Observations: 3rd Edition

edited by

Chisheng Wang

,

Bochen Zhang

,

Chuanhua Zhu

and Bin Zhang

submission deadline 29 Mar 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6605 | Submission Open

Keywords: InSAR; geological disaster; disaster monitoring; disaster modeling and interpretation

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

Change Detection and Classification with Hyperspectral Imaging

edited by

Xinxin Liu

, Bin Yang, Qian Shi and Lin Lei

submission deadline 29 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2774 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced algorithms for hyperspectral image classification; machine learning and deep learning approaches for change detection; hybrid approaches combining traditional and AI-based methods; validation techniques for hyperspectral change detection; integration of hyperspectral data with other remote sensing technologies; applications of hyperspectral classification or change detection in real-world problem-solving; case studies of technological breakthroughs in classification or change detection; time-series analysis of hyperspectral data for trend identification

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

New Image Processing Theories and Methods in Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

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submission deadline 29 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2268 | Submission Open

Keywords: rectification; denoising; restoration; and enhancement; feature selection and extraction; super-resolution; clustering; unmixing; and image fusion; classification; target detection; change detection; segmentation; and scene recognition; deep learning algorithms designed for hyperspectral remote sensing image processing; application of hyperspectral remote sensing image processing results; opportunities and challenges in hyperspectral remote sensing image processing

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

Advances in Remote Sensing and Geophysical Methods to the Earth’s Surface and Shallow Subsurface Characterization

edited by

Rui Jorge Oliveira

and

José Fernando Borges

submission deadline 30 Mar 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 11589 | Submission Open

Keywords: applied geophysics; remote sensing; geospatial methods; digital data processing; innovative processing techniques; artificial intelligence

Application of Spatial Information Science and Cartography in the Big Remotely Sensed Data Era

edited by Xi Chen, Mingqiang Guo and

Antonios Emmanouil Chatzipavlis

submission deadline 30 Mar 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9607 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; artificial intelligence; deep learning; large language models; remote sensing images processing; knowledge graph

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

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