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Spatial Calculation and Remote Sensing Diagnosis for Environmental Health

edited by

Min Xu

Shaohua Wang

Ran Tao

and Chunxiang Cao

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4191 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental health; spatial calculation; diagnosis by remote sensing; dynamic simulation; spatiotemporal big data analysis; geographic flow; disease transmission; risk warning

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

PAZ Ciencia: Review of the Scientific Results from Radar PAZ Mission Data

edited by

José Fernández

Antonio Turiel

, María José González Bonilla, Juan Manuel Cuerda Muñoz and Nuria Casal Vázquez

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3978 | Submission Open

Keywords: synthetic aperture radar; SAR interferometry; SAR polarimetry; ground deformation; land cover; geo-hazards; hidrology

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

Remote Sensing for Monitoring Land-Use/Land-Cover Change and Impacts on Ecosystem Service

edited by

Shaohua Wang

Liang Zhou

Yeran Sun

and Haojian Liang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3452 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; land-use change; land-cover monitoring; urban environmental monitoring; urban infrastructure; sustainable land management; RS and GIS integration; deep learning applications

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

Multi-Data Applied to Near-Surface Geophysics (Second Edition)

edited by

Fridon Shubitidze

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3287 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-data near-surface; joint-inversion; remote sensing; UXO; magnetics; electromagnetics induction; acoustic; permafrost; classification; hazardous materials; unmanned aerial systems

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

Recent Advantages in Monitoring Inland Water Using Various Sources of Remote Sensing Imagery from Space

edited by

Xiaodong Li

and

Frédéric Frappart

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2887 | Submission Open

Keywords: inland surface water; time series analysis; artificial intelligence; data fusion; small water bodies and floods

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

Impacts of Climate Change on Water Cycle and Terrestrial Ecosystems by Remote Sensing

edited by Chun-Yu Dong,

Xufeng Wang

and

Chang Huang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2590 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; environmental monitoring; hydrological processes; vegetation dynamics; phenology; flood; biodiversity; water cycle; drought; water resources; carbon cycle; biomass

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

Remote Sensing of Target Object Detection and Identification (Third Edition)

edited by

Paolo Tripicchio

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 2450 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; data fusion; machine learning; deep learning; signal processing; classification; target tracking

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

Data-Driven City and Society – A Remote Sensing Perspective

edited by

Szymon Chmielewski

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2394 | Submission Open

Keywords: data utilization; data-driven; AI

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

Application of Remote Sensing Data in Data Assimilation, Reanalysis and Artificial Intelligence for Mesoscale Numerical Weather Models (Second Edition)

edited by

, Yunheng Wang,

and

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2350 | Submission Open

Keywords: advances in remote sensing data assimilation; new types of remote sensing observations; network design or data analysis with numerical models; convective-allowing and/or regional numerical model developments; probabilistic prediction methods; verification methods and statistical modelling; new developments in artificial intelligence for numerical models; regional and global data reanalysis techniques; coupled data assimilation; artificial intelligence; machine learning; air quality research

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

Recent Advances in Nonlinear Processing Technique for Radar Sensing

edited by

Xiaoqiang Hua

Yongqiang Cheng

and Hao Wu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2335 | Submission Open

Keywords: information geometry; Riemannian manifold; nonlinear processing technique; deep learning; radar sensing; SAR image processing

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

Advances in Retrieval and Validation of Atmospheric Components by Remote Sensing

edited by

Yuhan Luo

Lei Liu

, Shanshan Wang and

Youwen Sun

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2234 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite trace gas product validation; satellite cloud product validation; trace gas vertical profile; atmospheric composition; high-resolution imaging; data assimilation; data fusion

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

Enhancing Geological Remote Sensing with Cutting-Edge Sensor Technologies

edited by

Veronika Kopačková-Strandová

Pierre Lacroix

, Kati Laakso and

Teodosio Lacava

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2191 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; geological applications; hyperspectral imaging; synthetic aperture radar; cutting-edge sensor innovations

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

Satellite Observations for Particulate Matter and Gaseous Pollutants Research

edited by

Zhengqiang Li

, Jintai Lin,

Cheng Chen

and Yan Yu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2019 | Submission Open

Keywords: particulate matters; gaseous pollutants; such as SO2; NO2; O3; etc.; aerosol and chemical compositions; satellite observation; interaction; PM2.5; PM10; PM1; and dust

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

Remote Sensing for Monitoring Water and Carbon Cycles

edited by

Dong Liu

, Fang Cao and Shujie Yu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1722 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; water quality; water volume; carbon cycle; total suspended matter; Chlorophyll; dissolved organic carbon; particulate organic carbon; water color; global change

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

Recent Advances in Sea Ice Research Using Satellite Data (Second Edition)

edited by

Linlin Xu

, Xinwei Chen,

Qingyun Yan

and

Juha Karvonen

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1213 | Submission Open

Keywords: sea ice cover; satellite observations; AI-based Methods; sea ice parameters; remote sensing techniques; computer vision; deep learning; SAR; image segmentation/classification

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

Application of Advanced Remote Sensing Techniques in Mining Areas

edited by

Tingting He

, He Ren and

Yongjun Yang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1069 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-resolution remote sensing; optical data; SAR images; surface/open-pit mining; disturbances; coal waste dumps; mining subsidence area; land degradation; land reclamation and ecological restoration; active/abandoned mining; deep learning; change detection; Google Earth Engine

Advances in Aerosol and Cloud Properties Observation in the Middle and Upper Layers Based on Remote Sensing (Second Edition)

edited by Ian Y. Chang,

Lan Gao

and

Falguni Patadia

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1002 | Submission Open

Keywords: aerosol optical; chemical and physical properties; middle and upper troposphere; aerosol– cloud interactions; atmospheric composition; aerosol and cloud remote sensing; radiative transfer

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

Understanding Snow Hydrology Through Remote Sensing Technologies

edited by

Emanuele Santi

and

Simone Pettinato

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 760 | Submission Open

Keywords: snow remote sensing; SAR/SAR interferometry; microwave radiometers (AMSR2; SSM/I; … ); snow cover area; snow water equivalent; snow depth; machine learning

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

Satellite Observations for Hydrological Modelling

edited by

Younghyun Cho

Taeil Jang

and

Won-Ho Nam

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 759 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrological modelling; satellite remote sensing; earth observations; data assimilation; earth’ s water cycle; global hydrology; hydrometeorological variables; hydrological extremes; climate change assessment; machine learning applications

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

Expanding Horizons: Testing and Evaluating Non-Conventional Mobile Devices for Remote Sensing in Built and Natural Environment

edited by

Alesandra Spreafico

Lorenzo Teppati Losè

and

Jesús Balado Frías

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 731 | Submission Open

Keywords: mobile devices; LiDAR; metric survey; low-cost sensors; mobile apps

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

Close-Range LiDAR for Forest Structure and Dynamics Monitoring

edited by Panagiotidis Dimitrios

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 309 | Submission Open

Keywords: • Forest Growth & Dynamics • Airborne Laser Scanning • Terrestrial Laser Scanning • 3D Point Clouds • Unmanned Aerial Systems • Forest Inventory • Forest Monitoring & Mapping • UAV

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

Lidar Monitoring of Aerosols and Clouds

edited by Carmen Córdoba-Jabonero and

Juan Luis Guerrero Rascado

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 283 | Submission Open

Keywords: active remote sensing techniques and methods; aerosol– cloud interactions; atmospheric aerosols and clouds; cirrus clouds; lidar observations; radiative transfer

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

Remote Sensing of Extreme Heat Events, Urban Heat Islands, and Public Health Impacts: Integrating Hydrological and Atmospheric Dynamics

edited by

Yuei-An Liou

Shih-Chun Candice Lung

and

Kim Anh Nguyen

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 240 | Submission Open

Keywords: adaptation strategies; atmospheric dynamics; climate resilience; earth observation data; extreme heat events; heatwaves; heat vulnerability; human health and heat exposure; hydrological processes; hydrological dynamics; mitigation measures; thermal remote sensing; urban heat islands; water– energy– climate nexus; public health impacts

Applications of Advanced Computational Technologies and Algorithms for Spatiotemporal Analysis in the Artificial Intelligence Era

edited by Wenwu Tang,

Minrui Zheng

and

Zhengfeng Zhang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 209 | Submission Open

Keywords: big spatiotemporal data; advanced computational technologies and algorithms; spatial analysis and modeling; artificial intelligence applications; land systems

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

Advances in Imaging Radar Signal Processing, Target Feature Extraction and Recognition

edited by

Qihua Wu

Xiaobin Liu

, Zhiming Xu and Siyuan He

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 142 | Submission Open

Keywords: synthetic aperture radar (SAR); inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR); radar imaging; radar waveform design; radar anti-jamming; target feature extraction; target recognition

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

Microwave Remote Sensing on Ocean Observation

edited by

Yanlei Du

and

Ali Khenchaf

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 60 | Submission Open

Keywords: ocean dynamic parameter retrieval; detection of marine dynamic phenomena and artificial targets; advanced forward modeling of ocean scattering and emission; data fusion and reconstruction of multi-source ocean products; deep learning/artificial intelligence in ocean remote sensing; scatterometer/radiometer/SAR/GNSS-reflectometry; scale effect analysis; Polarization theory and Polarimetric SAR applications in ocean remote sensing

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

Wave Propagation and Scattering in Complex Ground/Marine Environment

edited by Lixin Guo,

Juan Li

Ke Li

and

Shuirong Chai

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 41 | Submission Open

Keywords: electromagnetic modeling; wave propagation; SAR imaging; active/passive interference; ground/marine environment; artificial intelligence

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

Multi-Scale Remote Sensing for Wetland Landscape Change Monitoring and Ecological Resilience

edited by

and

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 22 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-scale analysis; wetland ecological resilience; wetland structure and function; multi-sensor applications; ecosystem dynamics; remote sensing indicators; time-series remote sensing

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

New Advances in High-Resolution Remote Sensing Applied for Land Use/Land Cover and Forest Succession Monitoring

edited by

Marta Szostak

and

Beata Calka

submission deadline 1 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 734 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-resolution remote sensing; land use/land cover (LULC); forest evolution; image classification; artificial intelligence; spatiotemporal analysis; environmental impact assessment; data fusion and integration

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

Remote Sensing in Hydrometeorology and Natural Hazards

edited by

Peng Sun

Linyao Dong

and Rui Yao

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 5684 | Submission Open

Keywords: warming climate; remote sensing; hydrological cycle; hydrological hazards; hydrometeorology; climatic and hydrological extremes

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

Advanced Deep Learning Techniques for Information Extraction and Analysis of Remote Sensing Imagery

edited by Hao Zhu and Biao Hou

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1056 | Submission Open

Keywords: image fusion; image segmentation; object detection; model acceleration or compression; image matching

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

Remote Sensing for Soil and Water Conservation and Sustainable Development in the Context of Climate Change

edited by

Shaohua Lei

Xiaojun Wang

, Guoqing Wang, Shuai Zeng,

Yongjian Ruan

and

Xianghui Lu

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2166 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil and water conservation; management techniques for soil and water loss; net primary productivity; aquatic ecosystems health; water quality parameters retrieval; non-optically active parameters; machine/deep learning; vegetation phenology; lake/river ice phenology; climate change and human activities impacts

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

Microwave Remote Sensing for Object Detection (2nd Edition)

edited by

Guangcai Sun

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1457 | 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

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

Machine Learning for Applications in Agriculture and Vegetation Using Remote Sensing

edited by

Christoph Jörges

and

Aaron Moody

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1406 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; machine learning; deep learning; remote sensing; data mining; water– energy– food nexus; crop yield prediction; agriculture; climate change; sustainable irrigation and fertilization

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

Advancements in Autonomous UAVs for Infrastructure Inspection and Monitoring

edited by

Bashar Alsadik

, Samer Karam and

Daniel Rodrigues Dos Santos

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 584 | 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)

Advances in Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data Fusion and Analysis

edited by

and

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 317 | 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)

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

edited by

Liguo Weng

submission deadline 15 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2852 | Submission Open

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

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

Near Real-Time Remote Sensing Data and Its Geoscience Applications

edited by

John Trinder

and Zhiqi Zhang

submission deadline 25 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 764 | Submission Open

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

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

Applications of Multi-Scale Remote Sensing and Machine Learning to Study Agriculture and Agriculture Water Management

edited by

Weiwei Zhu

, Ya’nan Zhou and Nana Yan

submission deadline 30 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 626 | Submission Open

Keywords: precision agriculture; crop monitoring; evapotranspiration; drought; agricultural water management remote sensing methods; machine learning; data analysis

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

Improving Remote Sensing Crop Mapping and Yield Estimation by New Techniques

edited by

Huapeng Li

, Hua Zhang, Xin Pan and

Ce Zhang

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3650 | Submission Open

Keywords: crop classification/mapping; yield estimation; high-resolution remote sensing; artificial intelligence; deep learning; semantic segmentation; precision agriculture; food security; agricultural sustainability; big data; data analytics

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

Efficient Object Detection Based on Remote Sensing Images

edited by

Yanan You

Wei Yang

and Yan Wang

submission deadline 20 Apr 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1382 | Submission Open

Keywords: SAR weak target detection; small object detection; trustworthy target detection; integration of imaging and detection; model compression and acceleration; real-time object detection; efficient detection architectures; optimization of on-orbit detection models

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

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition for the Analysis of 2D/3D Remote Sensing Data in Geoscience (Second Edition)

edited by Shengke Wang, Bineng Zhong,

Guoqiang Zhong

and

Feng Gao

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 439 | Submission Open

Keywords: object detection and tracking; intelligent interpretation of remote sensing video/image; image segmentation and feature extraction; image stitching and fusion; online and real time processing; monitoring and inspection; application and software development

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

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