Remote Sensing

Monitoring and Assessment of Ecohydrological Evolution of River–Lake–Wetland Systems Based on Remote Sensing Big Data

edited by

and

submission deadline 10 Jan 2027 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5059 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing big data; ecohydrological evolution; river–lake–coastal wetland systems; ecological monitoring; hydrological assessment; machine learning; data analytics

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

Deep Learning-Driven Cloud and Haze Mitigation: Advancements in Remote Sensing Image Restoration

edited by Jie Han,

Zhen Ye

and

Huifang Li

submission deadline 15 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 228 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; dehazing; cloud removal; image restoration; multi-modal fusion; restoration quality; remote sensing

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

Robust and Trustworthy AI for SAR and Multi-Modal Remote Sensing Change Detection

edited by Muhammad Shahzad,

Mohamed Ihmeida

,

Faisal Saeed

and

Wadii Boulila

submission deadline 20 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 126 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning for remote sensing; multi-modal remote sensing; SAR-optical fusion; speckle-robust deep learning; SAR image change detection

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

Remote Sensing of Ecosystem Structure and Function Dynamics Due to Climate Change and Human Activities (2nd Edition)

edited by

Jun Zhai

,

Wei Cao

and

Yuanwei Qin

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | 5 articles | Viewed by 13024 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecosystem structure; ecosystem function; ecological protection; biodiversity; nature reserves; carbon sequestration; climate change

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

Application of Remote Sensing in Landscape Ecology

edited by

Wayne Myers

and

Douglas Miller

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7037 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; landscape ecology; image analysis; environmental indicators; lidar; radar; ecosystem services; spatial analysis; machine learning; drones; multispectral; digital elevation model; UAV; satellite imagery; radiotracking; digital sound recording; landscape fragmentation

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

Advances in Remote Sensing for Burned Area Mapping

edited by

Giandomenico De Luca

,

Giuseppe Modica

and

Lorenzo Arcidiaco

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5698 | Submission Open

Keywords: burn areas’ detection and mapping; geo-informatics; fire severity; fire regime; biomass loss; wildland–urban interface (WUI) fires; three-dimensional modeling; image processing

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

Advanced Application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Vision in Remote Sensing (Fourth Edition)

edited by Hossein M. Rizeei

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3691 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence (AI); machine vision (MV); machine learning (ML); geospatial information systems (GIS); optimisation; spatial framework; deep learning (DL)

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

Monitoring and Restoration of Mining-Impacted Ecosystems Using Remote Sensing Technology

edited by

Qiang Yu

,

Huaguo Huang

and

Jianbo Qi

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3432 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-source remote sensing data; remote sensing technology; mining ecosystem; ecological restoration; ecosystem structure and function

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

Advances in High-Resolution Crop Mapping at Large Spatial Scales

edited by

Lingbo Yang

and Pengliang Wei

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2617 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-resolution crop mapping; remote sensing for agriculture; large-scale crop monitoring; multi-source satellite data; crop classification; machine learning in agriculture; temporal dynamics of crops; agricultural change detection; precision agriculture; remote sensing applications in food security

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

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

edited by

Joana Cardoso-Fernandes

,

Ana Cláudia Teodoro

and

Alexandre Lima

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2160 | 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)

Emulation and Surrogate Modeling in Remote Sensing: Advances, Challenges and Applications

edited by

Jochem Verrelst

and

Jorge Vicent

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1994 | Submission Open

Keywords: emulation; surrogate modeling; radiative transfer models; machine learning/deep learning; uncertainty quantification; atmosphere, vegetation, and land surface retrievals; hyperspectral and multispectral data; data assimilation; cloud computing and HPC

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

Advances in Scene Understanding with Hyperspectral Remote Sensing: From Data Benchmarks to Applications

edited by

Yanzi Shi

,

Mengmeng Zhang

, Shou Feng,

Zhou Zhang

and Zhiyong Lv

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1334 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; hyperspectral image processing; benchmarking datasets; spectral unmixing; target detection; classification/segmentation; hyperspectral applications

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

Remote Sensing Applications for Environmental Monitoring and Land Changes

edited by

Krystyna Michałowska

,

Ewa Glowienka

,

Eva Savina Malinverni

and

Eufemia Tarantino

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 1047 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing and environmental monitoring; AI and machine learning for remote sensing; land use and land cover change analysis; hyperspectral, lidar, optical and radar applications; climate change impact and disaster risk management; big data, cloud-based geospatial processing; data fusion in geospatial analysis; sustainable land management and policy applications

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

Remote Sensing of Lithosphere–Atmosphere–Ionosphere Coupling Prior to Earthquakes and Other Natural Hazards: Second Edition

edited by

Dedalo Marchetti

,

Essam Ghamry

and Cristiano Fidani

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 858 | Submission Open

Keywords: earthquake; precursors; LAIC; ground-based observations; satellite observations; ionospheric disturbances; volcano eruptions; extreme weather; geomagnetic storms/substorms; natural hazards

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

Geohazard Mapping, Monitoring and Prediction with Advanced Remote Sensing Techniques

edited by

Cheng Zhong

,

Peng Gao

and

Tomaž Podobnikar

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | 1 articles | Viewed by 754 | Submission Open

Keywords: geohazards; remote sensing; InSAR; unmanned aerial vehicles; machine learning; deep learning

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

Innovations in 3D Terrain Modeling Through Advanced Remote Sensing

edited by Ermioni Eirini Papadopoulou,

Stratis Karantanellis

and

Apostolos Papakonstantinou

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | 1 articles | Viewed by 653 | Submission Open

Keywords: 3D mapping; remote sensing; 3D modeling; 3D point cloud; LiDAR; UASs; DEM\DSM; geospatial data processing

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

Deep Fusion and Analysis of Hyperspectral and Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data via Advanced AI

edited by

Zhu Han

,

Longfei Ren

, Xu Sun and Minghua Wang

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 471 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-source data fusion; foundation model; frontier applications; hyperspectral image analysis; remote sensing; deep learning

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

Explainable AI Methods for Remote Sensing Images Interpretation

edited by

Jean-Marc Le Caillec

and Didier Gueriot

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 433 | Submission Open

Keywords: explainability vs. interpretability; ante-hoc vs. post-hoc methods; global vs. local explanations; model agnostic vs. model specific explanation; algorithm unwrapping; target recognition, image/data segmentation, image registration, detection change

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

Numerical Modeling and AI-Driven Remote Sensing for Coastal Geomorphology Monitoring

edited by Jun Cheng and

Felix Jose

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 279 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-platform remote sensing; sensor fusion; LIDAR monitoring; AI and cloud-based analytics; shoreline erosion; coastal resilience

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

Agrometeorology Remote Sensing: Monitoring, Forecasting and Assessment

edited by

N. R. Patel

and

Bikash Ranjan Parida

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 130 | Submission Open

Keywords: agrometeorology; remote sensing; machine learning; climate-smart agriculture; crop yield prediction; soil moisture and evapotranspiration; drought monitoring and early warning; crop phenology; precision agriculture; decision support systems

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

Deep Learning for SAR Remote Sensing: Advanced Object Analysis and Feature Extraction

edited by Yueting Zhang and Guangyao Zhou

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 125 | Submission Open

Keywords: synthetic aperture radar (SAR); object analysis; feature extraction; artificial intelligence (AI); target detection, identification, and classification; data fusion; SAR applications; SAR-specific phenomena

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

Deep Learning for SAR Target Detection and Instance Segmentation

edited by Yingying Kong,

Henry Leung

,

Kefeng Ji

and Jinglu He

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 113 | Submission Open

Keywords: synthetic aperture radar (SAR); SAR target detection; instance segmentation; deep learning; physics-guided learning; attention mechanisms

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

AI Technology in Change Detection for High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images

edited by

Pengyuan Lv

, Xunqiang Gong, Jue Wang,

Zhenqi Liu

and

Yanfei Zhong

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 100 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-resolution remote sensing; artificial intelligence; change detection; foundation models; vision-language models; generative AI; physics-informed

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

Ecosystem Diversity Observation Based on Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data

edited by

,

,

and

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 90 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; urban green ecosystem; desert ecosystem; ecosystem diversity; ecosystem services and functions; multisource remote sensing; biodiversity monitoring; habitat heterogeneity; functional diversity; temporal dynamic analysis; multiscale mapping; vegetation structural parameters; species distribution models; conservation priority planning

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

Remote Sensing Monitoring of Urban Vegetation

edited by

Ying Sun

, Liming Du,

Haiying Wang

and

Chengbin Deng

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 74 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban vegetation; urban forests and street trees; canopy structure and canopy height; LiDAR (airborne/UAV/spaceborne); InSAR/PolInSAR/TomoSAR; multi-sensor fusion; time-series monitoring and change detection; ecosystem services assessment and spatial decision support; deep learning/foundation models; validation and uncertainty quantification

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

Advanced Remote Sensing Techniques for Shallow Seafloor Mapping and Bathymetry

edited by Zhipeng Dong, Wenxue Xu and Kai Guo

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 70 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine surveying; satellite derived bathymetry; spaceborne laser bathymetry; airborne laser bathymetry; optical remote sensing satellite imagery; SAR satellite imagery

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

Synergistic Earth Observation for Advanced Soil Moisture Datasets

edited by

Jingyao Zheng

, Nemesio Rodriguez-Fernandez, Olivier Merlin and

Tianjie Zhao

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 62 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil moisture datasets; synergistic Earth observation; multi-source data integration; active and passive microwave remote sensing; downscaling and data fusion; soil moisture validation; representativeness error; uncertainty characterization; long-term harmonized records; AI-ready earth observation data

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

Remote Sensing Assessment of Land Degradation for Sustainable Development

edited by

Donghui Shi

and

Linlin Lu

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 59 | Submission Open

Keywords: land degradation; remote sensing assessment; sustainable development; desertification; machine learning; earth observation; ecological monitoring

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

Multi-Modal Deep Learning for Remote Sensing Image Classification

edited by

Kaichen Chi

,

Qiang Li

and Cong Zhang

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 57 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing image processing; computer vision; deep learning; image fusion; multi-modal learning

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

Remote Sensing of Climate Change Impacts on Ecological, Agricultural, and Water Resources

edited by

Fengmei Yao

,

Jiahua Zhang

and

Malak Henchiri

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 56 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; remote sensing; ecological monitoring; drought/flooding and impacts; water resources and terrestrial water storage (TWS); time-series analysis; satellite observation; unmanned aerial vehicle and ground observation; machine learning and deep learning; compound disaster events; agricultural disaster and crop yields; land use and cover change; vegetation phenology

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

Advanced Remote Sensing for Polar Sea Ice Monitoring

edited by

Feng Xiao

,

Yu Zhang

and

Tingting Zhu

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 50 | Submission Open

Keywords: sea ice; remote sensing; sea ice concentration; sea ice classification; sea ice thickness; snow on sea ice; albedo; sea ice-ice shelf interaction; melt ponds

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

Remote Sensing for Accurate Identification of Marine Targets

edited by Zhanchao Huang,

Hua Su

and Shou Feng

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 50 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine object detection; deep learning; vessel monitoring; mariculture facilities identification; sea ice monitoring; multi-source data fusion; marine foundation models

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

Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data Fusion for Urban Digital Twin Construction

edited by

Lin Du

and

Wen Xiao

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 44 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban digital twins; multi-source remote sensing; spatiotemporal data fusion; multi-modal datasets; smart cities; solid geometry 3D reconstruction; operation and maintenance

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

Advanced Remote Sensing of Water Cycle Components: Measurements, Hydrological Applications and Uncertainty Quantification

edited by Ehsan Sharifi and

Ehsan Modiri

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 44 | Submission Open

Keywords: precipitation retrieval; water-balance closure; uncertainty propagation; evapotranspiration; extremes and nowcasting; physics-informed ML; bias correction; validation/benchmarking; hydrological risk; multi-sensor fusion

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

Earth Observation for Quantifying Sustainable Development Goals

edited by

Yu Chen

,

Yongze Song

, Min Cao and

Huijuan Xiao

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 42 | Submission Open

Keywords: earth observation; remote sensing for geospatial science; EO-to-SDG quantification chain; SDG synergies and trade-offs; multi-source data fusion; validation and uncertainty; SDG interlinkages; spatial spillover; uncertainty quantification; sustainable development goal quantification

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

AI-Driven Remote Sensing Technologies for Precision Agriculture

edited by

Rubén Valcarce-Diñeiro

, Graham Ferrier and

Ankush Prashar

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 36 | Submission Open

Keywords: thermal hyperspectral remote sensing; precision agriculture; artificial intelligence; deep learning; crop mapping; crop diseases and pests; yield prediction; precision irrigation management; UAV

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

Multi-Source Remote Sensing of Urban, Forest and Wetland Ecosystems

edited by

Kurt McLaren

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 31 | Submission Open

Keywords: data fusion; LiDAR; deep learning; ecosystem monitoring; multispectral remote sensing

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

Monitoring and Modelling of Geological Disasters Based on InSAR Observations (Fourth Edition)

edited by

Chisheng Wang

,

Ling Chang

,

Hongdong Fan

and Bin Zhang

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 23 | Submission Open

Keywords: InSAR; geological disasters; crustal deformation monitoring and modelling; phase unwrapping; geophysical inversion; multi-sensor SAR data fusion; phase-preserving super-resolution; physics-informed InSAR analysis; uncertainty quantification; machine learning for InSAR

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

Advancing Geo-Hydrological Hazard Monitoring and Assessment via Remote Sensing

edited by Diandong Ren

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 23 | Submission Open

Keywords: geo‑hydrological hazards; remote sensing; flood monitoring; landslides; drought; InSAR; gravimetric remote sensing; hazard assessment; disaster risk reduction

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

Image Quality in Remote Sensing Data: Metrics, Enhancement, and Impact on AI-Driven Analysis

edited by

Ashraf Saleem

and

Sidike Paheding

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 22 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing image quality; image quality assessment; image enhancement and restoration; task-driven evaluation; AI-driven remote sensing; object detection and segmentation; multispectral and hyperspectral imagery; UAV and underwater remote sensing; uncertainty and robustness; data fusion and calibration

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

Advancing Synthetic Aperture Radar: Imaging, Processing, and Applications in Remote Sensing (Second Edition)

edited by Shiqi Xing and Penghui Ji

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 14 | Submission Open

Keywords: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR); SAR imaging; SAR information processing; SAR signal processing; SAR image processing; digital beamforming

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

Advanced InSAR for High-Resolution Topography and Deformation Monitoring: Methods, Multi-Source Data Fusion, and Applications

edited by

Bing Xu

,

Xuemin Xing

and

Zelang Miao

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 11 | Submission Open

Keywords: InSAR; formation-flying InSAR; high-resolution topographic reconstruction; deformation monitoring; SAR data processing; earth observation; digital surface model (DSM) generation

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

Remote Sensing for Irrigation Monitoring and Agricultural Water Management

edited by

Xiaochun Zhang

, Junying Chen and

Jiang Bian

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Submission Open

Keywords: evapotranspiration (ET) estimation; remote sensing data fusion model; crop type classification; soil moisture retrieval; crop water stress detection; multi-sensor remote sensing (optical, thermal, SAR); data assimilation and crop-hydrological modeling; precision irrigation management; cloud computing and machine learning in irrigation mapping; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)

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

Comprehensive Remote Sensing for Geohazard Detection, Monitoring, and Prediction

edited by

Bo Chen

, Yao Li, Wanji Zheng and Chuang Song

submission deadline 15 Feb 2027 | Viewed by 104 | Submission Open

Keywords: InSAR; multi-source remote sensing; geohazard; detection; monitoring; prediction

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

Vision–Language and Multimodal Foundation Models for Intelligent Remote Sensing Interpretation

edited by Yuxiang Xie,

Yanming Guo

and

Guoxiong Zhou

submission deadline 25 Feb 2027 | Viewed by 52 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing intelligent interpretation; vision–language model; multimodal foundation model; open-world perception; geospatial artificial intelligence; multi-source remote sensing data; large model adaptation

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

Advances in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Imaging and Time-Varying Scattering Target Interaction: Innovation, Theory, and Applications

edited by

, Junjie Wang,

,

and

submission deadline 28 Feb 2027 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2647 | Submission Open

Keywords: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR); Polarized Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR); SAR imaging; SAR target feature extraction; SAR countermeasure; SAR target feature transformation; SAR target recognition

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

Advances in Forest Aboveground Biomass Mapping Using Multi-Source Remote Sensing and Machine Learning

edited by

Wenquan Dong

,

Zhiqiang Cheng

, Songyan Zhu and

Yongjie Ji

submission deadline 28 Feb 2027 | 1 articles | Viewed by 816 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest aboveground biomass; optical; SAR; LiDAR; biomass mapping; machine learning; deep learning; forest carbon; data fusion

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

Remote Sensing for Monitoring Nutrients in Coastal and Inland Waters

edited by

Christos Domenikiotis

and

Nikos Neofitou

submission deadline 28 Feb 2027 | Viewed by 379 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; water quality; nutrients; eutrophication; coastal waters; inland waters; regression; classification; machine learning; deep learning

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

Advanced Deep Learning and Foundation Models for Hyperspectral Image Interpretation

edited by Jinghui Yang,

Lifeng Wang

,

Jiaqi Yang

and

Lingling Li

submission deadline 28 Feb 2027 | Viewed by 215 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; hyperspectral imaging; foundation models; deep learning; image interpretation; model interpretability; image registration; earth observation

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

Remote Sensing Spatiotemporal Fusion with Deep and Generative Models

edited by

Huihui Song

and

Yongquan Zhao

submission deadline 28 Feb 2027 | Viewed by 173 | Submission Open

Keywords: spatiotemporal fusion; remote sensing; deep learning; generative model; diffusion model; generative adversarial network (GAN); transformer architecture; time‑series reconstruction; multi‑source data fusion; high-spatiotemporal resolution monitoring

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

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