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Machine Learning Approaches for Semantic and Instance Segmentation in Remote Sensing submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2559 | Submission Open
Keywords: semantic segmentation; instance segmentation; object detection; hyperspectral imagery; supervised machine learning; deep learning; feature extraction
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing in Environmental and Engineering Applications (Second Edition) submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1327 | Submission Open
Keywords: photogrammetry; remote sensing; laser scanning; close-range sensors; UAV sensors; airborne sensors; satellite sensors; data integration and synergy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Remote Sensing for Risk Assessment, Monitoring and Recovery of Fires
edited by Xikun Hu, and Puzhao Zhang
submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 758 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; geoscience and earth observation; artificial intelligence; machine learning; forest fires; post-fire assessment; visualization and mapping
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Advances in Remote Sensing Observation of Aerosol Properties and Assessment of Their Effects
edited by , , and Donghui Li
submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 743 | Submission Open
Keywords: aerosol optical; physical; and chemical properties; remote sensing observations; simulation and inversion; environmental; health; and climate assessment; spatiotemporal distribution; contributing factor analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)
Coastal Dynamics Monitoring Using Remote Sensing Data
edited by Huaguo Zhang, Wenting Cao and
submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 192 | Submission Open
Keywords: coastline; time series analysis; coastal erosion; coastal disaster; artificial intelligence; coastal flood; blue carbon; coastal vegetation; intertidal flat; bathymetric mapping; coastal wetland habitat; coastal management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Application of Artificial Intelligence in Land Use and Land Cover Mapping—3rd Version
edited by , Janet Nichol, and Hamid Mehmood
submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 150 | Submission Open
Keywords: land use and land cover (LULC) mapping; artificial intelligence (AI) in remote sensing; machine learning and deep learning; cloud computing (GEE; AWS); object detection in remote sensing images; hyperspectral and multispectral data analysis; change detection and monitoring; big data analytics in Earth observation; generative AI for geospatial applications; large language models (LLMs) for geospatial intelligence; urban morphology and landscape analysis; sustainable development goals (SDGs) and AI
(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
Application of Satellite Data for Lightning Mapping submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 102 | Submission Open
Keywords: lightning; lightning climatology; spaceborne sensors; forecasting; nowcasting; GLM; LMI; LI; lightning mapping
(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)
Fifth Anniversary of “AI Remote Sensing” Section
edited by and Yushi Chen
submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 74 | Submission Open
Keywords: machine learning and deep learning for remote sensing; optical/multispectral/hyperspectral/SAR image processing; target detection; anomaly detection; and change detection; multi-modal remote sensing
(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
Earth Observation Satellites for Soil Moisture Monitoring submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1398 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; soil moisture; hydrology; agriculture; meteorology; climate change; drought monitoring; algorithm development; data validation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biogeosciences Remote Sensing)
Applications and Advances of Remote Sensing Technologies in Assisting Landslide Investigation, Monitoring and Assessment
edited by , Han Bao, Daoyuan Tan, , Zhanbo Cheng and
submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 85 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing technologies; landslide investigation; landslide mapping; landslide deformation forecasting; landslide runout modelling; numerical simulation; artificial intelligence
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)
Remote Sensing Application in Coastal Geomorphology and Processes II submission deadline 25 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3741 | Submission Open
Keywords: geomorphology of the coastal zone; coastal hydrodynamics and morphodynamics; beach and dune processes; oceanographic forcing; coastal processes and management; remote sensing applications in the coastal zone
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)
Multi-platform and Multi-modal Remote Sensing Data Fusion with Advanced Deep Learning Techniques (Second Edition) submission deadline 28 Oct 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 14343 | Submission Open
Keywords: multispectral and hyperspectral data fusion; hyperspectral and LiDAR data fusion; pansharpening or thermal sharpening; optical and SAR data fusion; optical and LiDAR data fusion; novel benchmark; multi-platform or multi-modal datasets; advanced deep learning algorithm/architectures/theory transfer; multitask; few-shot and meta learning; attention mechanism and transformer; convolutional neural networks/graph convolutional networks; scene/object classification and segmentation; target detection/tracking; geological mapping
Advances in Oceanic Dynamics by SAR and Numeric Model in Tropical Cyclone
edited by Maurizio Migliaccio, Jian Shi, and Xianbin Zhao
submission deadline 28 Oct 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 9539 | Submission Open
Keywords: tropical cyclone; ocean dynamic; target detection; SAR; remote sensing; ocean modeling
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)
Advances and Innovative Applications in Multi-temporal InSAR Technology
edited by , , and Guoqiang Shi
submission deadline 28 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5422 | Submission Open
Keywords: SAR interferometry (InSAR); advanced multi-temporal InSAR algorithms; error estimation and correction; deformation modelling; parameter inversion; data integration; infrastructure stability monitoring; geohazard detection; machine/deep learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
Innovative Applications of HF Radar (Second Edition)
edited by , Yiming Wang, and
submission deadline 28 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4599 | Submission Open
Keywords: HF radar; target detection; target tracking; sea state inversion; OTH radar; clutter suppression
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)
Advances in the Remote Sensing of Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence for Vegetation Stress
edited by , Shan Xu and
submission deadline 28 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4154 | Submission Open
Keywords: solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence; stress detection and assessment; biotic stress; abiotic stress; drought
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)
Advances in AI-Driven Remote Sensing for Geohazard Perception submission deadline 28 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 653 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; artificial intelligence; deep learning; foundation models; geohazard; object detection; object recognition; monitoring and warning; risk assessment
(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
Applications of Remote Sensing in Landscapes and Human Settlements submission deadline 28 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 101 | Submission Open
Keywords: landscapes ecology; urban heat islands; local climate zones; human settlements; green infrastructure; urban and rural planning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecological Remote Sensing)
Using Earth Observation Data to Monitor Deforestation and Forest Degradation to Ensure Compliance with Regulatory Frameworks submission deadline 28 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 27 | Submission Open
Keywords: advanced remote sensing technologies; big data; GeoAI; and GIS integration; land cover and land use change; deforestation monitoring; forest degradation; regulatory compliance; zero-deforestation; sustainability governance
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Remote Sensing)
Intelligent Image Analysis: Advancing Remote Sensing with Artificial Intelligence submission deadline 29 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 58 | Submission Open
Keywords: intelligent RSI interpretation; remote sensing foundation models development and downstream applications; multi-modal RSI interpretation; remote sensing 3D reconstruction; open-world remote sensing image interpretation; remote sensing interpretation applications with advanced AI technology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Applications in Earth, Moon and Planetary Exploration (Second Edition)
edited by
submission deadline 29 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 53 | Submission Open
Keywords: ground-penetrating radar (GPR); planetary radar; subsurface structure; earth; moon; mars; system; simulation; signal processing; imaging; interpretation; etc.
(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering Remote Sensing)
AI Technology for Enhanced Analysis of High-Resolution Earth Observation Imagery in Climate Change
edited by , Liangzhi Li, Linlin Xu, Wei Liu and
submission deadline 29 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 53 | Submission Open
Keywords: deep learning for remote sensing; remote sensing image super-resolution; multi-source data fusion in EO; AI-based land use and land cover (LULC) classification; weakly\semi-supervised learning for EO applications; object detection and extraction for natural hazard assessment; change detection and image matching in multi-temporal analysis; synthetic aperture radar (SAR) deep learning techniques
(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
Remote Sensing and GeoAI in Natural Hazard Assessment: Emerging Trends and Applications
edited by Husam A. H. Al-Najjar, and
submission deadline 29 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 47 | Submission Open
Keywords: natural hazards (floods; landslides; earthquakes; erosion; wildfires; droughts; etc.); remote sensing; GeoAI (geospatial artificial intelligence); damage assessment; data fusion (e.g.; SAR; optical; LiDAR); intelligent geohazard computation; explainable AI (XAI) for geohazards; hazard and risk assessment; Earth observation; vulnerability mapping
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Multi-Source Remote Sensing Integrations in Geological Hazards Research
edited by Jie Zhao, , and
submission deadline 29 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 44 | Submission Open
Keywords: data fusion; landslide; mudslide; ground collapse; earthquake; hazard monitoring; hazard assessment; hazard prediction
(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Observation for Emergency Management)
Target Detection, Recognition, Tracking, and Positioning Using Remote Sensing and AI Techniques
edited by , , Yi Wan and Zhirui Wang
submission deadline 29 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 39 | Submission Open
Keywords: satellite– aerial– ground collaborative perception; multi-agent system; target detection; recognition; tracking; and positioning; geographic retrieval and cross-view geolocalization; knowledge graph; deep learning; task-driven optimization
(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
Remote Sensing Tools for Monitoring Vegetation and Enhancing Biodiversity Conservation Strategies submission deadline 29 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 17 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; upscaling approach; vegetation dynamics; biodiversity conservation; global change impact; machine learning technique; hyperspectral and multispectral data; time-series analyses; vegetation indices (e.g.; NDVI); vegetation mapping
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
New Insights in Remote Sensing of Snow and Glaciers submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 15401 | Submission Open
Keywords: snow cover; glaciers; optical remote sensing; radar remote sensing; data integration; novel methodologies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biogeosciences Remote Sensing)
Advances in Applications of Remote Sensing GIS and GNSS submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9567 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing for Geospatial Science)
Mapping and Monitoring of Geohazards with Remote Sensing Technologies II submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7456 | Submission Open
Keywords: geohazards; InSAR; remote sensing; photogrammetry; unmanned aerial vehicles; GNSS; TLS; persistent scatterer interferometry; machine learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Remote Sensing)
Remote Sensing Application in the Carbon Flux Modelling
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7201 | Submission Open
Keywords: carbon cycle; ecosystems; carbon emissions; vegetation carbon sequestration; geospatial modeling
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing for Geospatial Science)
Linking Upper Ocean Dynamics with Extreme Weather and Climate Events over the Ocean (Second Edition)
edited by Hailun He and
submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5191 | Submission Open
Keywords: extreme weather and climate; air– sea interaction; tropical cyclone; extratropical cyclone; ocean dynamics; biological response; in situ observation; remote sensing observation; ocean modelling; operational forecast
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)
Remote Sensing Technologies, Applications and Perspectives at Night: Nightlight, Nighttime Thermal Infrared and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
edited by , Jiajun Li, Weiying Lin and
submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2726 | Submission Open
Keywords: nightlight remote sensing; night-time thermal infrared remote sensing; night-time synthetic aperture radar (SAR); ecological applications; human settlement applications; other night-time applications
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Remote Sensing)
New Insights in Remote Sensing Image Interpretation with Deep Learning
edited by , Mi Zhang, Huiwei Jiang and
submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 221 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence; deep learning; remote sensing; semantic segmentation; change detection; classification; object detection
(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
Remote Sensing and GIS for Environmental Analysis and Cultural Heritage (2nd Edition) submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 32 | Submission Open
Keywords: climate change and CH site preservation; advanced change detection techniques for CH; monitoring of CH sites; 3D mapping and M Modeling for CH preservation; mapping hazards; risk mapping; geospatial standards; GIS-BIM integration
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing for Geospatial Science)
NISAR Global Observations for Ecosystem Science and Applications
edited by , Paul Siqueira and
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 17925 | Submission Open
Keywords: forest and vegetation; agriculture; ecosystem; synthetic aperture radar; NISAR; passive microwave measurements; LiDAR
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecological Remote Sensing)
Advances in Satellite Image Analysis and Applications for Earth Observation submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 13983 | Submission Open
Keywords: image analysis; environmental monitoring; image-based change detection; urban planning; earth observation; GeoAI; multi-scale and multi-sensor; earth observation analytics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Advance of Radar Meteorology and Hydrology II
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 13034 | Submission Open
Keywords: radar system; radar signal processing; quality control; quantitative precipitation estimation; nowcasting; hydrological applications; remote sensing; precipitation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)
Advances in Multiple Sensor Fusion and Classification for Object Detection and Tracking
edited by Chenwei Deng, and Jeongho Cho
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 7556 | Submission Open
Keywords: multi-modal; multi-dimensional; multi-source information fusion; object detection; recognition and tracking; earth observation applications; feature representation and modeling; machine learning and deep learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering Remote Sensing)
Remote Sensing Monitoring and Assessment of Forest, Grassland, Wetland and Urban Ecosystem
edited by , , Fangcheng Zhou and Wenchao Han
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6425 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing retrieval; ecological assessment; ecosystem monitoring; ecohydrological dynamics; ecosystem change; vegetation structure and physiology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Land Use Monitoring Based on Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5153 | Submission Open
Keywords: land use; remote sensing; crowdsourcing; artificial intelligence
(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
Estimating Above-Ground Biomass and Above-Ground Carbon by Remote Sensing Data
edited by Elia Vangi, and
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4081 | Submission Open
Keywords: above-ground biomass; carbon stock; remote sensing; machine learning; climate change; forest modeling; spatial modeling
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
International Symposium on Remote Sensing (ISRS2024)
edited by , and Yen-Ru Lai
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3385 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; spatial information sciences; global navigation satellite systems; photogrammetry; geoinformatics; artificial intelligence
(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
Precipitation and Evapotranspiration Mechanisms in Drylands and Their Remote Sensing Retrieval & Simulation (Second Edition)
edited by , Yu Zhang, Ping Yue, , Yongli He and
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3156 | Submission Open
Keywords: precipitation; evapotranspiration; environmental regulations; sensible heat fluxes; soil moisture; precipitation recycling process; evapotranspiration partitioning; evapotranspiration– precipitation coupling; Asia summer monsoon; westerly wind; vegetation dynamics; numerical simulation; hydrological extremes; drylands
(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)
Proximal and Remote Sensing for Low-Cost Soil Carbon Stock Estimation
edited by Tong Li, , Anquan Xia, and
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2732 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil fertility; visible near-infrared (VNIR) spectroscopy; mid-infrared (MIR) spectroscopy; climate change; machine learning; digital soil mapping; land-use management; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); airborne; and satellite imagery
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Applications of Remote Sensing in Water Quality Assessment of Lakes, Rivers and Reservoirs submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2555 | Submission Open
Keywords: water temperature retrieval; chlorophyll retrieval; remote sensing monitoring; water quality assessment; artificial intelligence; unmanned aerial vehicles
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)
State of the Art of Geomagnetic/Electromagnetic Satellites: Science and Applications (Second Edition)
edited by , , Yongxin Gao and
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2347 | Submission Open
Keywords: electromagnetic satellite; geomagnetic field disturbances; ionospheric perturbations; space weather; natural hazards; lithosphere– atmosphere– ionosphere coupling model; artificial intelligence technology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration)
Applications of Remote Sensing in Oceanography: Prospects and Challenges (3rd Edition) submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2298 | Submission Open
Keywords: SWOT; artificial intelligence; big remotely sensed data; sustainability; climate change; ocean numerical modeling; data assimilation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)
Recent Progress in GIS and Remote Sensing for Agriculture-Related Applications (Second Edition)
edited by , and
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2126 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; GIS; crop mapping; crop modeling; crop yield estimation; data processing; agricultural monitoring; AI and machine learning; spatial– temporal analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
Application of Electromagnetic Scattering Models in Ocean Remote Sensing
edited by , and Jinxing Li
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1764 | Submission Open
Keywords: electromagnetic scattering; radar cross sections; rough sea surface; radar echo; radar image; target detection; GNSS-R; information inversion
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)
Remote Sensing and GIS for Monitoring Urbanization and Urban Health (Second Edition) submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1257 | Submission Open
Keywords: urbanization and health both regionally and globally; urban landscape; urban ecological system; and health; territorial spatial planning and health city; urbanization speed and acceleration; spatial– temporal analysis of urbanization; green space/blue space/gray space remote sensing monitoring; map of urban development and evolution; urban environment changes and health effects; remote sensing GIS big data and urban health; remote sensing and GIS monitoring; simulating; and predicting of infectious diseases; such as COVID-19
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
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