Remote Sensing

Advances in GIS and Remote Sensing Applications in Natural Hazards

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submission deadline 28 Jun 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 23593 | Submission Open

Keywords: GIS; natural hazards; remote sensing; vulnerability; machine learning

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

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

edited by

Ankur Srivastava

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Mauro Holzman

and

Facundo Carmona

submission deadline 28 Jun 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 23116 | 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)

Remote Sensing in Applied Ecology (Second Edition)

edited by

Jun Ma

submission deadline 28 Jun 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 16379 | Submission Open

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

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

Using Remote Sensing Technology to Quantify Greenhouse Gas Emissions

edited by

Ge Han

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Simit Raval

and Tianqi Shi

submission deadline 28 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 13290 | Submission Open

Keywords: greenhouse gas emissions; CO2; CH4; N2O; flux inversion; point sources; space– ground-based remote sensing; hyperspectral and LiDAR remote sensing; OCO-2/3 GOSAT TROPOMI TANSAT DQ-1

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

Integrating Deep Learning with Image Perception for Advanced Remote Sensing Applications

edited by Xin He, Yushi Chen, Jinghui Yang and

Aili Wang

submission deadline 28 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9820 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; remote sensing data analysis; hyperspectral classification; multimodal remote sensing data fusion; deep learning-based SAR methods

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

Advances in 3D Reconstruction with High-Resolution Satellite Data

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submission deadline 28 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 8680 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite photogrammetry; dense image matching; semantic 3D reconstruction; realistic 3D reconstruction; 3D scene understanding; multi-model 3D reconstruction

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

Advances in SAR Remote Sensing for Landslide Monitoring and Hazard Assessment

edited by Wanji Zheng,

Jun Hu

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Zhong Lu

and

Jiehua Cai

submission deadline 28 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7373 | Submission Open

Keywords: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR); Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR); landslide monitoring; ground deformation; multi-temporal analysis; data fusion; deep learning

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

Innovations in Hyperspectral Image Processing: Advancing Image Generation, Denoising, Fusion Techniques and Beyond

edited by Jiangjun Peng, Xiangyong Cao,

Shuang Xu

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Jing Yao

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Gemine Vivone

submission deadline 28 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6229 | Submission Open

Keywords: hyperspectral image denoising; hyperspectral image fusion; hyperspectral image generation; hyperspectral image restoration; deep learning; statistical regularization model

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

Intelligent Interpretation of Remote Sensing Images and Intelligent Processing of Remote Sensing Information

edited by

Xueying Wang

, Yingqian Wang,

Yanyan Zhang

and

Boyang Li

submission deadline 28 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2883 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing images; space-based SAR; infrared and visible optics remote sensing; remote sensing information processing; integration processing; intelligence processing; target detection; tracking and recognition

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

Revolutionizing Earth Observation: Convolutional Neural Networks Innovations in Remote Sensing and Environmental Monitoring

edited by

Antonio Mazza

, Massimiliano Gargiulo,

Sergio Vitale

and

Matteo Ciotola

submission deadline 28 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 1118 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; deep learning; convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs); generative Adversarial Networks (GANs); earth observation; remote sensing; image processing; data fusion; super resolution

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

The Emerging Trends and Applications of Big Data and Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Remote Sensing II

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submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 10 articles | Viewed by 28216 | Submission Open

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

Combination of LiDAR and UAS Data for Geological and Environmental Applications

edited by

Emmanuel Vassilakis

and

George Papathanassiou

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 27709 | Submission Open

Keywords: Terrestrial Laser Scanner; point clouds; microtopography; digital geomorphology; 3D representation; LiDAR; SLAM

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

Spatial Calculation and Remote Sensing Diagnosis for Environmental Health

edited by

Min Xu

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Shaohua Wang

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Ran Tao

and Chunxiang Cao

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 26751 | 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)

Quantitative Remote Sensing of Vegetation and Its Applications

edited by

Kun Jia

and Linqing Yang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 24268 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; biochemical/biophysical parameters; vegetation dynamics; multi-sensor data fusion; algorithm development; artificial intelligence; accuracy validation; inter-comparison and evaluation; products and applications

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

Plant Disease Detection and Recognition Using Remotely Sensed Data

edited by

Huajian Liu

and

Haiguang Wang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 9 articles | Viewed by 23133 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; plant disease detection; plant disease recognition; computer vision; machine learning; deep learning; image processing

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

Advances in GNSS Remote Sensing for Ionosphere Observation

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submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 22452 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; ionospheric modeling; space weather; ionospheric disturbances; ionospheric scintillation; lithosphere-ionosphere coupling

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

Machine Learning and Image Processing for Object Detection

edited by

Weifeng Liu

,

Igor García Olaizola

and

Bingfeng Zhang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 22040 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning algorithm; image processing; deep learning; object detection; quality measurement; 3D objects; pre/post-processing; drone imagery

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

Remote Sensing Monitoring for Earthquakes, Tectonics and Seismic Hazards

edited by

Nicola Alessandro Pino

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Stefano Carlino

and

Raffaele Castaldo

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 20353 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing techniques; tectonics; earthquakes; lower crust and upper mantle rheology; seismic hazard; induced seismicity and ground deformation

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

Validation and Evaluation of Global Ocean Satellite Products (Second Edition)

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submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 19978 | Submission Open

Keywords: sea surface current; temperature; and salinity; ocean color and chlorophyll-a concentration; oceanic front; new approaches; methods and algorithms; climatic variables; ocean– typhoon interaction; multiscale ocean dynamics

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

Applications and Analysis of Satellite Cloud Imagery Using Deep Learning Techniques

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submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 19628 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite cloud image; deep learning; object detection; classification; prediction; restoration; tropical cyclone

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

Machine Learning and Automation in Remote Sensing Applied in Hydrological Processes

edited by

Andrei Enea

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Cristian Constantin Stoleriu

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Marina Iosub

and

Fiachra O’Loughlin

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 17979 | Submission Open

Keywords: automation; artificial intelligence; flood risk automation; GIS tools; Google Earth Engine; hydrological processes; machine learning; neural networks; remote sensing automation

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

Coastal Environment Monitoring Based on Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence

edited by

Scot Smith

and

Kamal Darwish

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 15551 | Submission Open

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

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

Remote Sensing for Mineral Exploration: Current Progress and Future Vision

edited by

Hengqian Zhao

, Zhifang Zhao,

Joana Cardoso-Fernandes

and Deshuai Yuan

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 15085 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; mineral exploration; multispectral and hyperspectral; lithology; mineralization; deep learning

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

Trend, Progress and Application of Remote Sensing for Atmospheric Environment and Climate Change

edited by

Shaohua Zhao

, Xingying Zhang, Wei Xiong,

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submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 14601 | Submission Open

Keywords: atmospheric monitoring; satellite observations; air quality; aerosols and clouds; greenhouse gas; climate change; data fusion; machine learning

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

Advanced Lidar Remote Sensing for Atmosphere, Vegetation, and Ocean Observations

edited by Boming Liu, Zhiyu Zhang,

Hui Zhou

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Xin Ma

and

Yue Ma

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 14568 | Submission Open

Keywords: lidar remote sensing; aerosol and clouds; boundary layer; leaf and canopy; lidar bathymetry; photon-counting lidar; high-spectral-resolution lidar

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

Remote Sensing Based Forest Inventories from Landscape to Global Scale II

edited by Liyong Fu,

Ram P. Sharma

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Guangxing Wang

and

Xiaodi Zhao

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 14195 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; spatial statistics; forest ecosystem; ecological services function; value assessment; forest inventory; human activities; forest management; forest carbon sink; unmanned aerial vehicle

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

Road Extraction and Distress Assessment by Spaceborne, Airborne and Terrestrial Platforms (Second Edition)

edited by

Alessandro Mei

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Valerio Baiocchi

and

Xianfeng Zhang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 13959 | Submission Open

Keywords: road extraction and pavement distress analysis; very high resolution satellite imagery; airborne remote sensing; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); UAV and UGV; multispectral and hyperspectral remote sensing; time series analysis; change detection; imaging spectroscopy; pavement management systems (PMS); photogrammetry and 3D modelling; GIS modelling for management plan; decision support systems based on remote sensed techniques; geostatistics; artificial intelligence; ML (machine learning); CNN; deep learning; data fusion; light detection and ranging (LiDAR); pattern recognition

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental 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 30 Jun 2026 | 9 articles | Viewed by 13752 | 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)

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Applications in Earth, Moon and Planetary Exploration (Second Edition)

edited by

David Gomez-Ortiz

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 13056 | 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)

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

edited by

Jun Zhai

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Wei Cao

and

Yuanwei Qin

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 12965 | 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)

Remote Sensing and Associated Artificial Intelligence in Agricultural Applications (2nd Edition)

edited by

Enrico Corrado Borgogno Mondino

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Filippo Sarvia

and

Samuele De Petris

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 12290 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; agricultural application; common agricultural policy (CAP); precision agriculture; machine learning; service prototype development; crop monitoring; crop detection; deep learning; artificial intelligence; crop classification; yield prediction; GIS application; precision farming; remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPASs); image segmentation

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

Ground, Proximal and Remote Sensing for Precision Agriculture Applications

edited by

Alessandro Mei

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Yung-Chung Chuang

and

Carlos Lozano Fondón

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 12110 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite remote sensing; UAS and UGV; digital soil mapping; ground sensor network; vegetation analysis and yield estimation; precision agriculture and forestry; image processing and pattern recognition; field and laboratory Spectroscopy; DEM; DTM; DSM; DDM; artificial intelligence; decision support systems; geographical information systems; geostatistics

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

Underwater Remote Sensing: Status, New Challenges and Opportunities

edited by

Yuri Rzhanov

and

Elias Fakiris

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 9 articles | Viewed by 11231 | Submission Open

Keywords: multibeam sonar; synthetic aperture sonar; airborne lidar; underwater vehicles; hyperspectral satellites; satellite-derived bathymetry; satellite-based bathymetric measurements

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

GNSS and Multi-Sensor Integrated Precise Positioning and Applications

edited by

Guorui Xiao

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Xinghan Chen

, Peiyuan Zhou and

Lingxuan Wang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10810 | Submission Open

Keywords: GNSS; multi-sensors integration; integration algorithms; cooperative positioning; challenging environments; precise positioning; robust positioning

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

GIS and Remote Sensing in Soil Mapping and Modeling (Second Edition)

edited by

Xiaoling Wu

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Chong Luo

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Liujun Zhu

and Xiaoji Shen

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 10682 | Submission Open

Keywords: GIS; remote sensing; soil science; soil moisture; spatial modeling; climate change; precision agriculture

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

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

edited by

José Fernández

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Antonio Turiel

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

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 10653 | 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)

Applications of Remote Sensing in Vegetation Cover and Phenology Observation

edited by

Raffaella Matarrese

and Annarita D’Addabbo

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 10479 | Submission Open

Keywords: vegetation monitoring; plant phenology; multispectral and hyperspectral imaging; environmental monitoring; satellite; aerial and UAV data fusion; vegetation pathology

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

Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data for Water Resource Management in Agriculture

edited by

Pasquale Nino

,

Nicolas Baghdadi

and

Artur Łopatka

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 10401 | Submission Open

Keywords: irrigation; optical and microwave remote sensing; evapotranspiration; soil moisture; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV); ground sensor

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

Multi-Source Remote Sensing for Environmental Component Monitoring and Target Detection

edited by

Tao Luo

, Juhua Luo,

Jianfeng Sun

and

Jianfeng Chen

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10055 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental component monitoring; atmospheric detection; target detection; lidar; floating platform; satellite; airborne; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); collaborative observation; data assimilation

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

Point Cloud Data Analysis and Applications

edited by

Ruijin Ma

,

Tarig Ali

and

Maolin Chen

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 9685 | Submission Open

Keywords: point clouds processing; geospatial digital twin modeling; data fusion

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

Intelligent Processing of 3D Point Clouds for Scene Understanding and Modelling

edited by

Yuan Li

, Rong Huang, Shuhang Zhang and Linfu Xie

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9327 | Submission Open

Keywords: LiDAR; point cloud processing; deep learning; artificial intelligence; 3D mapping and modelling

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

Recent Progress in Monitoring the Troposphere with GNSS Techniques

edited by

Minghua Wang

, Hong Liang, Cuixian Lu and Jungang Wang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8475 | Submission Open

Keywords: GNSS meteorology; zenith total delay estimation; precipitable water vapor; water vapor tomography; severe weather monitoring; data assimilation; numerical weather forecast

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

Advances in Deep Learning and Machine Learning for Remote Sensing Image Analysis

edited by

Keshav D. Singh

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Abdul Bais

and

Saeid Homayouni

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8332 | Submission Open

Keywords: imagery data analysis; remote sensing; machine learning; deep learning; computer vision; exploiting big data; HPC and predictive analytics; multi-source/sensor data fusion; object detection and recognition; image segmentation; large language models; generative AI

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

Remote Sensing Measurements of Land Use and Land Cover

edited by

Victor Mesev

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7865 | Submission Open

Keywords: image classification; change detection; image processing; urban sprawl; environmental science

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

Remote Sensing in Water Quality Monitoring

edited by

Xuejiao Hou

,

Shangbo Yang

and

Jilin Men

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7514 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; water quality; water clarity; eutrophication; water turbidity; atmospheric correction; algal bloom; climate change; multi-source integrated observation; inherent/apparent optical properties

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

Satellite Remote Sensing for Meteorological Disaster Monitoring and Forecasting

edited by

Dimitrios Katsanos

and

Adrianos Retalis

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7273 | Submission Open

Keywords: meteorological hazards; extreme Precipitation; flash floods; early warning systems; droughts; wildfires; heat waves; meteorological disaster management

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

Application of Remote Sensing in Landscape Ecology

edited by

Wayne Myers

and

Douglas Miller

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6989 | 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)

Remote Sensing of Water Dynamics in Permafrost Regions

edited by Zeyong Gao and Lingxiao Wang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6951 | Submission Open

Keywords: permafrost degradation; thermokarst processes; ground-ice melting; active layer dynamics; climate change impacts; eco-hydrological effects

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

Advances in Remote Sensing Used in Mineral Exploration

edited by Hai Li and

Zhenwei Guo

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6896 | Submission Open

Keywords: mineral exploration; geospatial analysis; data integration; geological mapping; machine learning; hyperspectral imaging

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

Remote Sensing for Monitoring Water and Carbon Cycles

edited by

Dong Liu

, Fang Cao and Shujie Yu

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6818 | 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)

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