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Uncertainty in Remote Sensing Image Analysis (Second Edition)
edited by Penglin Zhang, and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5441 | Submission Open
Keywords: image processing and uncertainty analysis; uncertainty in remote sensing applications; uncertainty quantification; uncertainty suppression/control; error or uncertainty modeling; process or mechanism of uncertainty propagation; data quality; reliability; the impact of uncertainty on decision making; geospatial statistics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
Study on Hydrological Hazards Based on Multi-Source Remote Sensing
edited by Jun Zhang, Shaonan Zhu and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4735 | Submission Open
Keywords: multi-source remote sensing; hydrological hazards; flood monitoring; drought assessment; landslide risk; remote sensing data fusion; machine learning; climate change
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
State of the Art of GNSS and SAR/InSAR Techniques for Geomatic Applications
edited by Claudia Pipitone and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4608 | Submission Open
Keywords: geomatic applications; SAR/InSAR; GNSS time series; deformation analysis; fault/crustal property; active tectonics; multi-source data integration; seismic activities; stability modeling; time series analysis; landslides; hazard mapping
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)
Advanced Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning for Remote Sensing (3rd Edition)
edited by , and Yimian Dai
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4117 | Submission Open
Keywords: object detection; artificial intelligence; deep learning; scene reconstruction; scene perception; data mining; change detection; object recognition
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deep Learning (DL) in UAV-Based Remote Sensing
edited by and Ryan Rad
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3868 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence; deep learning; UAV remote sensing; object detection; semantic segmentation; environmental monitoring; precision agriculture; 3D reconstruction; real-time analytics; multi-sensor integration
(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
Advanced Satellite Earth Observing Technologies for Weather and Climate Resilience
edited by , , , and Longjiang Li
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3617 | Submission Open
Keywords: satellite Earth observations; GNSS atmospheric monitoring; International GNSS Service data and products; severe weather forecasting; climate risks assessment; environmental monitoring; numerical weather prediction model; artificial intelligence (AI)-empowered climate model; GNSS tropospheric tomography; miscellaneous advanced methodologies and applications
(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)
Observations of Atmospheric and Oceanic Processes by Remote Sensing
edited by , , Xiaofeng Zhao and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3373 | Submission Open
Keywords: ocean– atmosphere interaction; atmospheric processes; oceanic monitoring; climate change monitoring; microwave remote sensing; satellite observations; observation methods; observation instruments; artificial intelligence in remote sensing; emerging remote sensing technologies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)
Coastal and Marine Monitoring and Restoration Mapping Using UAS and Remote Sensing Systems
edited by , and Matthew Brolly
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3346 | Submission Open
Keywords: UAVs; remote sensing; blue carbon; coastal vegetated systems; saltmarsh; seagrass; kelp; marine mammals; birds
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)
Advances in Detection-Oriented Multi-Sensor Fusion Beyond the Visible Spectrum
edited by , , Yimian Dai, Fei Zhou and Xingchen Zhang
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3018 | Submission Open
Keywords: image fusion; target detection; anomaly detection; change detection; SAR
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
Deep Learning for Multi-Source Remote Sensing Image Interpretation: Exploring, Rethinking, and Limiting Breakthroughs
edited by , Xueyao Hu, Yang Li, and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2845 | Submission Open
Keywords: multi-source remote sensing image processing; remote sensing image generation; multimodal remote sensing image interpretation model; target characteristic analysis; radar signal processing; new task dataset and benchmark for remote sensing image interpretation
(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
Advancing Hydrological Monitoring and Prediction Through Multisource Geodetic Observations
edited by , Daocheng Yu and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2642 | Submission Open
Keywords: satellite geodesy; hydrological geodesy; land water storage; joint inversion; machine learning; hydrological monitoring and predication
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)
Advanced Techniques of Spaceborne Surveillance Radar
edited by , Weiwei Wang, Yanhong Xu and Yuhong Zhang
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2417 | Submission Open
Keywords: spaceborne radar system; spaceborne antenna technique; array signal processing; moving target detection; non-homogeneity clutter suppression; jamming suppression; multi-target tracking
(This special issue belongs to the Section Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration)
Microwave Remote Sensing for Object Detection (2nd Edition)
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2312 | 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
Application of Remote Sensing in Snow and Ice Monitoring
edited by Qian Yang, , Yanli Zhang and Yuwen Pang
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2152 | Submission Open
Keywords: snow cover; lake ice; ice dynamics; sea ice; climate change; multi-sensor and multi-source data; change detection; remote sensing applications; resources assessment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)
Remote Sensing Applications in Natural Hazards and Sustainable Development
edited by , Bo Yu and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2054 | Submission Open
Keywords: natural hazards; risk; sustainable development goals; resilience; flood; earthquake; geology; landslide; ecology; fire; sustainably
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Deep Learning and Foundation Models: Advancing Remote Sensing Applications submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1769 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; deep learning; data analysis; modeling; machine vision; artificial intelligence
(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering Remote Sensing)
Precise Orbit Determination for Gravity Field Investigations
edited by , Gael Cascioli and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1660 | 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)
Spatial Analysis and Modeling in Urban Remote Sensing
edited by and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1540 | 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)
Advancements in Autonomous UAVs for Infrastructure Inspection and Monitoring
edited by , Samer Karam and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1536 | 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)
Recent Advances in Remote Sensing Products for Water and Environment Monitoring submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 1319 | Submission Open
Keywords: water resources; water fluxes; hydrologic modeling; Earth observations; environmental monitoring; hydroinformatics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
High-Resolution Remote Sensing Image Processing and Applications
edited by Kai Xu, Yixiang Chen and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1293 | 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)
Applications of Radar Remote Sensing in Earth Observation
edited by Guoman Huang, , , and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1263 | 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)
Advances in Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data Fusion and Analysis submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1171 | 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)
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 1070 | 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)
Cutting-Edge PolSAR Imaging Applications and Techniques
edited by Dapeng Tao, , , and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1023 | 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)
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 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1022 | 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)
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 959 | 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)
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 821 | 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)
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 | 1 articles | Viewed by 800 | 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)
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 783 | 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)
Remote Sensing for Maritime Monitoring
edited by Peng Liu, and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 737 | 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)
Remote Sensing in Maritime Navigation and Transportation submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 551 | 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)
Forest Disturbance Monitoring with Optical Satellite Imagery
edited by Antoine Masse and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 512 | 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)
Remote Sensing for Hydrological Management submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 487 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; hydrological monitoring; hydrological extremes; hydrological models; soil moisture; water quality; water management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Advances in Remote Sensing in Urban Climatology
edited by and Marina N.M. Tautan
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 467 | 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)
Advancements in Deep Learning for Remote Sensing: Exploring Planetary and Earth Observation Applications submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 382 | 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)
Ecological Change with Multi-Scale Spatial-Temporal Remote Sensing Data
edited by , Wei Tang and Deqin Fan
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 318 | 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)
Intelligent Remote Sensing Information Extraction
edited by and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 257 | 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)
Remote Sensing of Wave Dynamics and Hydrodynamics in Marine Environments submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 224 | 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)
Applications of Photogrammetry and Lidar Techniques in Mining Areas
edited by Zhihua Xu, and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 190 | 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)
Satellite Remote Sensing for Ocean and Coastal Environment Monitoring (Second Edition) submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 129 | 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)
Monitoring Urban Environment from Space
edited by Yong Xue, and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 128 | 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)
Recent Advances in Satellite Data and In-Situ Measurements of Chlorophyll Fluorescence
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 127 | Submission Open
Keywords: chlorophyll fluorescence; fchl retrieval methods; radiative transfer models; vegetation stress conditions
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Remote Sensing)
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 127 | Submission Open
Keywords: hyperspectral image processing; spectral– spatial feature extraction; dimensionality reduction; deep learning for HSI; self-supervised learning; spectral unmixing; semantic segmentation; change detection; lightweight models; high-resolution remote sensing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
Remote Sensing Image Change Detection and Feature Enhancement Based on Deep Learning
edited by Kaimin Sun, Wenzhuo Li, , and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 118 | 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)
High-Precision Urban Positioning: GNSS and Multi-Sensor Fusion Technologies
edited by Hongjuan Zhang and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 109 | 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)
Ship Imaging, Detection and Recognition for High-Resolution SAR
edited by , , , Lijia Huang and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 107 | 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 Global Environmental Change’s Impacts on Ecosystem Resilience
edited by Yuchao Yan, and Huan Wang
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 101 | 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)
The Applications of Remote Sensing, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning in Atmospheric Radiative Transfer submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 93 | 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 Marine Ecological Research
edited by and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 80 | 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)
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