Remote Sensing

Environmental Monitoring Using Satellite Remote Sensing (Second Edition)

edited by

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submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6007 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental monitoring; sustainability and resilience; LULC mapping; change-detection; hazard assessment; image classification; multi and hyperspectral remote sensing; multi-sensor integration; optical and SAR integration; multi-scale analysis; time-series analysis; satellite imagery calibration; validation strategies; geostatistical analysis for RS

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

Innovative UAV and Satellite Technologies and Applications for Spatiotemporal Analysis

edited by

Apostolos Papakonstantinou

,

Eufemia Tarantino

,

Alessandra Capolupo

and

Athos Agapiou

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4720 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAV and satellite mapping; spatiotemporal phenomena; geospatial technologies; geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI); aerial and satellite remote sensing; environmental change detection; multi-source data integration; high-resolution imagery; machine learning in geodata; natural disaster assessment

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

Remote Sensing Application in Sustainable Urban Planning and Environmental Services in the Big Data Era (Second Edition)

edited by

Danlin Yu

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3813 | Submission Open

Keywords: big data described urban landscape; urban remote sensing; sustainable urban development; urban health under the lens of remote sensing and social sensing technologies; spatiotemporal data analysis in urban studies; remote sensing and big data supported urban simulation; urban vibrancy; multispectral; hyperspectral; and social sensing applications in urban studies

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

Remote Sensing in Support of Crisis Management: How Space-Based Information Can Support Operations and the Decision-Making Process

edited by

Valerio Baiocchi

,

Roberta Onori

and

Erica Nocerino

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3633 | Submission Open

Keywords: LST; air pollutants; environment; climate; heat islands; lockdown periods; change detection; hot-spot analysis; seismic events; emergencies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Observation for Emergency Management)

Remote Sensing Data for Modeling and Managing Natural Disasters

edited by

Andrey Krasovskiy

, Frédéric Berger and

Florian Kraxner

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2731 | Submission Open

Keywords: disaster modeling; natural disasters monitoring; resilience to natural disasters; multi-hazard hotspot maps; climate change impacts; early warning systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Observation for Emergency Management)

GNSS Advanced Positioning Algorithms and Innovative Applications (2nd Edition)

edited by

Xianlu Tao

and

Rui Sun

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2013 | Submission Open

Keywords: GNSS high-precision positioning and navigation; multi-source fusion seamless positioning and navigation; intelligent processing of multipath and NLOS; reliable resolution of GNSS ambiguities; online evaluation of positioning integrity; machine learning in high-precision GNSS applications; high-precision GNSS applications for smartphones; high-precision GNSS applications for autonomous driving

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

Application of Remote Sensing and Numerical Modelling in River, Estuarine and Coastal Environments

edited by

Eleonora Perugini

, Lorenzo Melito and

Erwin Bergsma

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1564 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; numerical modelling; flood risk; coastal erosion; waves; river flow; surface velocity; video monitoring; hydro-morphodynamics; CFD

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

Remote Sensing Image Classification: Theory and Application

edited by Han Zhai and

Yuxiang Zhang

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1502 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing image; artificial intelligence; deep learning; classification; clustering; change detection; applications

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

International GNSS Service Validation, Application and Calibration (2nd Edition)

edited by

Serdjo Kos

,

Mario Bakota

and

David Brčić

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1439 | Submission Open

Keywords: GNSS technique/technology; GNSS positioning error budget; GNSS risk assessment; Space weather impact on GNSS; GNSS satellite orbit determination; GNSS data validation; GNSS applications on environments including water vapor; water level; and underwater surveying; GNSS applications in disasters such as fires and oil spills; GNSS applications on infrastructures; GNSS time and frequency transfer; GNSS atmospheric parameters; GNSS geodetic research; GNSS interferometric reflectometry applications

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

Recent Advances in Multimodal Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

edited by Yifan Zhang,

Mercedes E. Paoletti

and Yi Wang

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1030 | Submission Open

Keywords: multimodal hyperspectral remote sensing imaging; multitemporal hyperspectral imaging; hyperspectral video imaging; hyperspectral stereo imaging; hyperspectral image processing; hyperspectral image analysis

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

Monitoring Urban Thermal Environments and Landscapes Through Remote Sensing

edited by

Ruci Wang

,

Hao Hou

and

Yuji Murayama

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 910 | Submission Open

Keywords: land surface temperature; urban climate; scenario simulation; sustainable development; machine learning; cooling effect and scale; future prediction; landscape modeling

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

Assessment of Methane Emission from Rice Paddies and Water Management Using Remote Sensing Technology

edited by Shinichi Sobue, Thuy Le Toan, Kei Oyoshi and

Wataru Takeuchi

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 597 | Submission Open

Keywords: methane emission; water level; water management; polarimetric SAR change detection; remote sensing

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

Remote Sensing for Ecohydrology

edited by Ayele Almaw Fenta and Mewcha Amha Gebremedhin

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 484 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecohydrology; remote sensing; vegetation dynamics; water and sediment flux monitoring; evapotranspiration; soil moisture; water quality prediction; groundwater– surface water interaction; ecohydrological extremes; land use change impacts; climate change impacts; ecosystem-water interaction; hydrological modeling

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

New Advances in SmallSat and Landsat Algorithms and Applications for Earth Observation

edited by

David P. Groeneveld

and

Hankui Zhang

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 445 | Submission Open

Keywords: Landsat; smallsats; small satellite constellations; analysis-ready data; time series analysis; scientific application; earth observation; calibration and validation

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

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Multi-Modal and Multi-Spectral Remote Sensing Image Processing

edited by

Tao Lei

, Tao Gao,

Lefei Zhang

and

Asoke K. Nandi

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 251 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; transformer; diffusion model; multi-modal remote sensing data; multi-spectral remote sensing data; feature representation; feature fusion; remote sensing interpretation

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

Tianmu-1 Constellation: Advancements in Atmospheric, Ionospheric and Surface Remote Sensing Using GNSS-RO and GNSS-R

edited by Shengpeng Yang,

Hugo Carreno-Luengo

and

Feixiong Huang

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 237 | Submission Open

Keywords: GNSS-RO applications; data assimilation; numerical weather forecast; ocean wind

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

Advancements in Satellite and Ground-Based Retrievals for Aerosol and Cloud Characterization

edited by

Deaconu Lucia

and

Haipeng Zhang

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 124 | Submission Open

Keywords: aerosols; clouds; satellite remote sensing; ground-based measurements; aerosol– cloud interactions; validation; machine learning; retrieval algorithms

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

Multi-Source Remote Sensing and Spatial Statistical Analysis in Urban Sustainability Research

edited by

Hao Zhang

,

Ashraf Dewan

and Rui Zhou

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 119 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; multi-source remote sensing data; data mining; urban sustainability; climate change; spatial statistics; urban resilience; geohazards; biological degradation

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

State of the Art and Future Developments: Short-Range Radar (2nd Edition)

edited by

Yanhua Wang

,

Liang Zhang

and Shichao Chen

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 108 | Submission Open

Keywords: short-range radar; object detection; recognition; and tracking; radar imaging; sensor integration and data fusion; signal processing

Advances in the Remote Sensing Application of Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles (UAV/UGV/USV/UUV) (Second Edition)

edited by

Mariusz Specht

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 107 | Submission Open

Keywords: autonomous vehicle; drone; earth observation; remote sensing; sensors used in unmanned systems; unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); unmanned ground vehicle (UGV); unmanned surface vehicle (USV); unmanned system (US); unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV)

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

Remote Sensing of Urban Built Environment for Sustainable Development

edited by

Shengbiao Wu

, Siqi Jia and

Raffaele Lafortezza

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 100 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban built environment; remote sensing; sustainable development

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

Satellite Measurements and the Monitoring of Ionosphere and Space Weather (Second Edition)

edited by Fuyang Ke,

Wang Li

,

Lei Liu

and

Dongsheng Zhao

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 70 | Submission Open

Keywords: ionospheric modeling; deep learning; ionospheric disturbance; ionospheric tomography; severe space event; ionospheric scintillation

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

High-Precision Calibration and Polarimetric and Interferometric Image Processing Technology

edited by

Fengli Zhang

, Kun Li and Chang Liu

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 68 | Submission Open

Keywords: novel calibration algorithms; polarimetric and interferometric calibration models; application of big data and artificial intelligence for SAR calibration; calibration strategies for ongoing and upcoming SAR missions; multi-source data processing with physical modeling and deep learning techniques; quantitative applications of calibrated SAR data

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

New Trends on Remote Sensing Applications to Mineral Deposits (Third Edition)

edited by

Joana Cardoso-Fernandes

,

Ana Cláudia Teodoro

and

Alexandre Lima

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 62 | Submission Open

Keywords: mineral exploration; multispectral and hyperspectral data; sar data; machine learning; deep learning; satellite data; raw materials

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

Intelligent Processing of Multimodal Remote Sensing Data

edited by Xian Li and

Aleksandra Pizurica

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 59 | Submission Open

Keywords: multimodal remote sensing; intelligent processing; remote sensing; multisource remote sensing data processing; multi/hyperspectral and LiDAR remote sensing; deep learning; artificial intelligence in machine vision; multimodal feature fusion; heterogeneous feature fusion; space-intelligent information processing

The Application of Nighttime Remote Sensing in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (Second Edition)

edited by

Jinyao Lin

and

Jinpei Ou

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 57 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable development goals; social indicators; land use planning; environmental conservation; artificial intelligence

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

Beidou/GNSS Positioning, Navigation and Timing: Methods and Technology (Third Edition)

edited by

Baocheng Zhang

and

Robert Odolinski

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 54 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-frequency and multi-constellation GNSS; BDS; POD/LEO; navigation and timing; geodesy and geophysics; the advance of high-precision products

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

Monitoring of Volcanoes and Earthquakes with SAR and Satellite

edited by

Alfredo Falconieri

and

Valeria Satriano

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 53 | Submission Open

Keywords: volcano monitoring; earthquake monitoring; thermal anomalies; ground deformation; geohazards; machine learning for geohazards

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

Ionosphere and Space Weather Based on Satellite Remote Sensing Observation

edited by

Xudong Gu

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 48 | Submission Open

Keywords: ionospheric monitoring; space weather impacts; satellite-based observations; ionospheric irregularities; GNSS disruptions; remote sensing for space weather; ionospheric scintillation; space weather forecasting models

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

Remote Sensing Imagery for Agricultural Monitoring and Precision Farming

edited by Lang Xia and

He Li

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 46 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing imagery; artificial intelligence (AI); precision farming; crop health; crop mapping; yield prediction; sustainable agriculture; multi-sensor fusion; real-time monitoring; farmland infrastructure

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

Remote Sensing Applications Along the Dead Sea Fault: From the Red Sea to Anatolia

edited by

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submission deadline 1 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7605 | Submission Open

Keywords: Dead Sea Fault; earth surface deformation; submarine groundwater discharge; multispectral analysis; InSAR; photogrammetry; machine-learning-based remote sensing analysis; vegetation patterns; land use; geomorphology

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

Signal Processing Theory and Methods in Remote Sensing (Third Edition)

edited by

Shaohui Mei

, Junhui Hou, Kun Hu, Mingyang Ma and Fan Li

submission deadline 1 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 61 | Submission Open

Keywords: signal processing; remote sensing; image processing; deep learning; information fusion; time-series analysis

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

Advances in GNSS for Time Series Analysis

edited by Junping Chen,

Alfonso Vitti

, Weijie Tan and Nannan Guo

submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 12931 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-linear crustal deformation; common mode error; independent component analysis; noise analysis; mass loadings

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

Machine Learning for Intelligent Processing and Applications of Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data

edited by

Wei Li

, Haiyong Gan,

Heng-Chao Li

and Wenshuai Hu

submission deadline 14 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 16665 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-source remote sensing data; intelligent processing; earth observation applications; registration; data fusion; feature extraction; classification; object detection; advanced machine learning methods; lightweight designs

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

Applications of Remote Sensing Technology in Volcano Hazard Monitoring

edited by

Emanuela De Beni

, Cristina Proietti,

Gaetana Ganci

and

Simona Scollo

submission deadline 14 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8413 | Submission Open

Keywords: volcano monitoring and analysis; remote sensing systems; estimation of eruption parameters; ground-based; satellite; and UAS sensors; GIS

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

Monitoring and Early Warning for Heavy Precipitation, Flash Floods and Waterlogging Disasters Using Remote Sensing

edited by Youcun Qi,

Zhe Zhang

,

Zhanfeng Zhao

, Donghuan Li and Bong-Chul Seo

submission deadline 14 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7066 | Submission Open

Keywords: weather radars; satellites; flash floods and waterlogging; quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE); remote sensing data assimilation; extreme weather and hydrological events; artificial intelligence and machine (deep) learning; application of remote sensing equipment in geological disaster; disastrous weather analysis; and observation of hydrometeorological extremes; weather and hydrological forecast

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

Remote Sensing Interpretation Systematic Engineering for Natural Resources Monitoring and Management (Second Edition)

edited by

Dongping Ming

,

Jagannath Aryal

and

Kasturi Devi Kanniah

submission deadline 14 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5983 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-source data fusion; sample database construction; object based image analysis; GeoAI; region/parcel partition on different scales; land cover/use classification; land cover/use change monitoring/projection/modelling; thematic information extraction; advanced image processing techniques (machine learning and deep learning); authenticity verification; cloud based intelligent remote sensing application; GIS for land use/cover management; Impact of land use/cover on environment

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

Investigating State-of-the-Art Machine Learning Approaches in Vegetation Analysis through Earth Observation Data

edited by

Arnick Abdollahi

and

Chandrama Sarker

submission deadline 14 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5165 | Submission Open

Keywords: CNNs; RCNN; deep reinforcement learning; machine learning algorithms; ensemble algorithms; random forest; support vector machines; Gaussian Bayes; decision tree classifier; vegetation mapping; monitoring; trend analysis

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

Advancements in LiDAR Technology and Applications in Remote Sensing

edited by Luis Miguel González de Santos

submission deadline 14 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2969 | Submission Open

Keywords: LiDAR; point cloud processing; UAV; infrastructure monitoring; machine learning; power lines inspection

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

Advances in CubeSat Missions and Applications in Remote Sensing

edited by

Pedro Orgeira Crespo

and Fernando Aguado-Agelet

submission deadline 14 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1454 | Submission Open

Keywords: CubeSat; remote sensing; payload; artificial intelligence; earth observation; planetary exploration

Advances in Drone-Based Multi-Sensor Image Translation and Augmentation

edited by Min Sun and

Yong Wang

submission deadline 14 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 409 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-sensor image translation; drone image augmentation; image super-resolution; complex target classification; air-ground collaboration; multi-type sensor image fusion; image quality evaluation; UAV AI applications

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

Remote Sensing for Digital Twins in Forestry: Applications and Future Perspectives

edited by Juan Suarez-Minguez and Jacqueline Rosette

submission deadline 14 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 402 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital twins; earth observation; forestry; AI; tree growth models; high-resolution remote sensing

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

Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Applied to Deep Space Exploration

edited by

Bin Liu

,

Mao Ye

and Philipp Gläser

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 16402 | Submission Open

Keywords: moon; Mars; remote sensing; photogrammetry; planetary mapping; planetary geodesy

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

Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture and the Dynamics of Soil–Vegetation Systems

edited by

Ankur Srivastava

,

Mauro Holzman

and

Facundo Carmona

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 13811 | Submission Open

Keywords: vegetation water stress; surface and sub-surface soil moisture; solar-thermal spectra; evapotranspiration; arid and semi-arid ecosystems; vegetation productivity; water deficit in agricultural lands

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

Advances in Methods and Techniques for Satellite Image Processing and Analysis

edited by

Ali Jamali

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 11517 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; computer vision; machine learning; image processing; remote sensing; image analysis

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

Advances in Exploring the Moon, Mars, and Asteroids Based on In-Situ and Remote Sensing Measurements

edited by Simone Pirrotta,

Francesca Esposito

, Alice Lucchetti and

Maurizio Pajola

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6117 | Submission Open

Keywords: geological features; study of the environment; resources; robotic and human exploration; innovative strategies; remote sensing dataset analyses; new instrumentation concepts; smallsat concepts

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

Remote Sensing in Applied Ecology (Second Edition)

edited by

Jun Ma

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5837 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecological applications; remote sensing data; spatio-temporal scales; ecosystems; sustainable development

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

Coastal Environment Monitoring Based on Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence

edited by

Scot Smith

and

Kamal Darwish

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5092 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; remote sensing; coastal monitoring; LiDAR; satellite imagery

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

Advancement of Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data Fusion in Environmental Monitoring

edited by Junjue Wang, Jiaqi Yang, Yinhe Liu, Zhuo Zheng and

Yonghao Xu

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4254 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-source remote sensing data fusion; multi-source transferable or domain adaptation models; multi-modal models for remote sensing tasks; ecosystem monitoring; urban analysis; crop monitoring and yield forecasting; glacier and sea ice monitoring; atmospheric monitoring; greenhouse gas emission monitoring; vegetation dynamics and carbon cycle

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

Latest Improvements and Applications of Ground Deformation Monitoring Based on Remote Sensing Data (Second Edition)

edited by

Sen Du

, Jordi J. Mallorquí,

Feng Zhao

and

Joaquín Escayo Menéndez

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1767 | Submission Open

Keywords: synthetic aperture radar (SAR); interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR); persistent scatterer interferometry (PSI); global navigation satellite system (GNSS); data fusion; land subsidence analysis; geophysics and geology; structural health monitoring

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

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