Remote Sensing

Recent Advances in Multispectral and Hyperspectral Image Analysis and Classification

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submission deadline 10 Sep 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6448 | Submission Open

Keywords: hyperspectral classification; intrinsic image decomposition; scene classification; high-order tensor analysis; cross-domain adaptation; hyperspectral and multispectral image fusion; deep learning

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

Recent Advances in SAR: Signal Processing and Target Recognition

edited by Dahai Dai and Fengming Hu

submission deadline 10 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2103 | Submission Open

Keywords: synthetic aperture radar; signal processing; target recognition; machine learning; radar system; SAR feature extraction and processing

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

Applications to Internet of Things with Images and Videos from Remote Sensing

edited by

Chen Chen

,

Liang Zhao

, Yoong Choon Chang and

Ying Ju

submission deadline 10 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 771 | Submission Open

Keywords: Internet of Things; remote sensing technology; environmental monitoring; image and video processing; intelligent data analysis; decision support systems

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

Advances in Microwave Remote Sensing for Earth Observation (EO)

edited by

Arnab Muhuri

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 41221 | Submission Open

Keywords: Earth observation; active microwave remote sensing; passive microwave remote sensing; polarimetric SAR: full; dual; compact; machine learning; image classification; target decomposition techniques; interferometric SAR

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

Current and Future Earth Observing Sensor Systems aboard the International Space Station (ISS)

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submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 21837 | Submission Open

Keywords: ISS; Calibration; Validation; Temperature; Evapotranspiration; Vegetation structure; Carbon dioxide; Solar-induced fluorescence; Hyperspectral imaging; Future instruments onboard ISS

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

Biomass Remote Sensing in Forest Landscapes II

edited by

, Xiaoyi Wang,

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submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 15693 | Submission Open

Keywords: above-ground biomass (AGB); carbon cycle; biomass; remote sensing; drone; lidar; laser scanning

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

Machine Learning in Global Change Ecology: Methods and Applications

edited by

Boyi Liang

,

Hongyan Liu

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Ying Qu

, Jiangzhou Xia and

Micol Rossini

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 15364 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; machine learning; terrestrial vegetation; carbon cycle; climate change; global change ecology

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

Linking Marine Heatwaves/Cold-Spells, Eddies, and Sea Surface Features

edited by

Wenjin Sun

and

Yulong Yao

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 13 articles | Viewed by 14773 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine heatwaves; marine cold-spells; oceanic eddies; sea surface features; remote sensing; AI; climate change; ecosystem impacts

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

River and Lake Dynamic Monitoring and Ecological Assessment Based on Remote Sensing

edited by Yingxin Shang and

Zhidan Wen

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 14265 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; spatial and temporal variation; optical properties; water quality; natural and anthropogenic influences; hydrological processes; ecological risk assessment; climate change; carbon cycles; sustainable water management

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

Deep Learning and Explainable AI (XAI) for Next Level Information Extraction from Remote Sensing Imagery

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submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 14070 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; information extraction; artificial intelligence; machine learning; deep learning; explainable AI; classification; change detection; feature extraction

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

Crop Yield Estimation Based on Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence

edited by

Orly Enrique Apolo-Apolo

,

Simon Appeltans

,

Mino Sportelli

and

Nathaniel K. Newlands

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 14020 | Submission Open

Keywords: data analytics; remote sensing; LiDAR; spectral analysis; crop modelling; geospatial data

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

Artificial Intelligence Remote Sensing for Earth Observation

edited by Haokui Zhang,

Jie Feng

, Xizhe Xue and

Chen Ding

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 13023 | Submission Open

Keywords: image super-resolution; image segmentation; image classification; multimodal fusion; language– image contrastive learning; visual language model

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

Advances in Remote Sensing of Solving Challenges in Autonomous Driving and Safety Analysis

edited by

Mohammad Aldibaja

,

Sufyan Ali Memon

and

Andrea Masiero

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 10726 | Submission Open

Keywords: autonomous vehicles; 3D point cloud analysis; path planning with unprotected turns; robust perception of construction areas; SLAM-based mapping in challenging environments; road pavement assessment for driving safety analysis; object status classification in urban traffic conditions; LIDAR/radar-based localization systems in adverse weather conditions; map quality analysis and enhancement; lane graph generation; safe AI integration technologies into autonomous driving

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

Remote Sensing of Savannas and Woodlands II

edited by

Karine Adeline

,

Ana Andreu

and

Vicente Burchard-Levine

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 10648 | Submission Open

Keywords: savannas and woodlands; functional traits and diversity; evapotranspiration and water stress; radiative transfer modeling; energy/water balance modeling; pixel unmixing; imaging spectroscopy; thermal infrared

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

Advances in Synthetic Aperture Radar Data Processing and Application (Second Edition)

edited by

Hui Bi

, Daiyin Zhu and Jingjing Zhang

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 9221 | Submission Open

Keywords: synthetic aperture radar (SAR); SAR data processing; 3D/4D SAR imaging; ISAR imaging; moving target imaging; SAR applications

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

Recent Advances in Drought Risk Assessment, Monitoring, and Forecasting II

edited by

Yuei-An Liou

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9117 | Submission Open

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

The Applications of Remote Sensing, Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Frozen Ground Regions

edited by Xiaoqing Peng,

Dongliang Luo

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Raul-David Șerban

, Lingcao Huang and Yonghong Yi

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8955 | Submission Open

Keywords: frozen ground; permafrost; remote sensing; machining learning; deep learning; InSAR; carbon

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

Marine Ecology and Biodiversity by Remote Sensing Technology

edited by Laura Martín-García and

Manuel Arbelo

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8430 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine and coastal habitats; habitat mapping; remote sensing; distribution models; marine biodiversity; coastal biodiversity; marine management

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

Remote Sensing Applications for Enhancing Wildfire Management and Ecosystem Multifunctionality

edited by Paula García-Llamas and

Angela Taboada

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7508 | Submission Open

Keywords: wildfire; fire management; remote sensing; ecosystem functioning; fire products; fire risk; ecosystem services

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

Quantitative Remote Sensing and Its Applications in Agriculture and Vegetation

edited by

Zhijun Zhen

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Shengbo Chen

, Tiangang Yin and

Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6279 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantitative remote sensing; radiation directionality observing and modelling; radiative transfer and radiation budget; bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF); directional anisotropy; angular anisotropy; retrieval of plant biochemical parameters; precision agriculture

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

Space-Geodetic Techniques (Third Edition)

edited by

Xiaogong Hu

and

Walyeldeen Godah

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5745 | Submission Open

Keywords: ground and satellite gravimetry; satellite altimetry; positioning; orbit determination; atmosphere; space weather; global climate change; geodynamics; natural hazard monitoring; earth rotation; planetary geodesy; GNSS-R

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

Remote and Proximal Sensing for Precision Agriculture and Viticulture(2nd Edition)

edited by

Frédéric Cointault

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4971 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; proximal sensing; precision agriculture and viticulture; image acquisition; image processing; multi- and hyperspectral data and sensors

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

Remote Sensing for Monitoring and Assessment of Hydrological and Water Quality Parameters

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submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4202 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable water management; climate change effects; hydrological processes; soil moisture and flooding; coastal and inland water dynamics; retrieval of water quality parameters; remote sensing; machine learning

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

Trends and Prospects in Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Images Processing and Analysis

edited by

Qiang Zhang

and

Kui Jiang

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4017 | Submission Open

Keywords: hyperspectral image; object detection; deep learning; image processing; classification; anomaly detection; super-resolution; denoising; fusion; unmixing

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

Assessment of Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Forest and Grassland Ecosystems Based on Spectral Metrics

edited by

Laura Recuero

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Víctor Cicuéndez

and Margarita Huesca

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3245 | Submission Open

Keywords: hyperspectral and multispectral sensors (satellite; aerial and UAV); vegetation biophysical parameters; forest and grassland functioning; changes and trends; modelling traits; machine learning algorithms

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

Advanced Techniques for Water-Related Remote Sensing (Second Edition)

edited by

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, Jianhua Guo,

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submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3097 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; water-related optics; sensing/imaging techniques; sensors/platforms; deep learning; signal processing

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

Advances in Remote Sensing of Aerosol Optical Properties and the Effects on Radiation

edited by

Inmaculada Foyo-Moreno

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Maria João Costa

, Maria Pilar Utrillas and

Juan Luis Guerrero Rascado

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2201 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; interaction aerosol radiation; aerosol radiative forcing; aerosol properties; solar radiation; atmospheric radiative transfer

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

Drones for Natural Hazards

edited by

Vasil Yordanov

,

Luigi Barazzetti

and

Maria Antonia Brovelli

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 2169 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAV; drones; hazards; mapping; geographic information science; remote sensing; landslides; floods; wildfires; volcanoes; disasters; relief

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

Deep Learning-Based Small-Target Detection in Remote Sensing

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submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1774 | Submission Open

Keywords: small target detection; deep learning; remote sensing image processing; hyperspectral and infrared sensing; multi-sensor data fusion; feature extraction; target recognition

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

Solar System Remote Sensing: Planetary Science and Exploration

edited by Jason (Jay) Laura and Ross A. Beyer

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1065 | Submission Open

Keywords: solar system remote sensing; planetary science; planetary exploration; surface analysis; planetary atmosphere; planetary geology

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

Low Earth Orbit Enhanced GNSS: Opportunities and Challenges

edited by Ziang Zhang and

Kan Wang

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1030 | Submission Open

Keywords: navigation augmentation; integrity monitoring; GNSS anti-spoofing; global navigation satellite system; low orbit constellation; satellite orbit determination; communication Integration; space environment monitoring

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

Multiplatform and Multisensor Applications for Landslide Characterization and Monitoring

edited by

Stratis Karantanellis

, Marco Mulas, Giuseppe Ciccarese and

Paolo Mazzanti

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 607 | Submission Open

Keywords: landslide detection; landslide characterization; landslide monitoring; data fusion; remote sensing

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

Application of Remote Sensing in Agroforestry (Third Edition)

edited by

Emanuel Peres

and

Joaquim João Sousa

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2517 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing technologies; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); deep learning applications; decision support systems; yield and disease forecasting models; sustainable management practices; data visualization and analysis; sensor fusion and integration; climate impact assessment on agroforestry; ecological and environmental monitoring

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

New Insights in GNSS Remote Sensing for Ionosphere Monitoring and Modeling (Second Edition)

edited by

Angela Aragón-Ángel

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 812 | Submission Open

Keywords: GNSS ground- and space-based observations; electron density morphology and determination; ionospheric indices; ionospheric models; ionospheric storms; low-; mid- and high-latitude ionosphere; waves and irregularities; total electron content (TEC); ionospheric global and regional maps; extreme events; GNSS navigation

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

Aerosol–Cloud–Precipitation Interaction: Challenges and Advances

edited by

Wenhao Zhang

, Lili Zhang and

Yu Wu

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 281 | Submission Open

Keywords: aerosol; cloud; satellite remote sensing; machine learning; climate effects; cloud detection; atmospheric particulate matter; dust; air quality; environment and health

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

High-Throughput Phenotyping in Plants Using Remote Sensing

edited by

Paulo Eduardo Teodoro

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Carlos Antonio Da Silva Junior

and

Larissa Pereira Ribeiro Teodoro

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 24272 | Submission Open

Keywords: computational intelligence; agronomic traits of plants; physiological traits of plants; nutritional traits of plants; industrial traits of plants; UAV-multispectral sensor

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

Remote Sensing in Viticulture II

edited by

Luís Pádua

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Emanuel Peres

and

Raul Morais dos Santos

submission deadline 28 Sep 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 25893 | Submission Open

Keywords: precision viticulture; vineyard management; vineyard mapping and classification; machine and deep learning; decision support; phenological modelling and yield prediction; estimation of biophysical and geometrical parameters; intelligent monitoring; multi-temporal analysis

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

Remote Sensing for Geology and Mapping (Second Edition)

edited by

Chao Chen

,

Tao Chen

and

Yanni Dong

submission deadline 28 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4053 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; machine learning; deep learning; remote sensing; object detection; segmentation; agriculture environment; classifications

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

Remote Sensing Applications in Urban Environment and Climate

edited by

Jia Hu

,

Yuyu Zhou

, Ying-Bao Yang and Zhengyuan Zhu

submission deadline 28 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2983 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use/cover change; urban climate; urban sustainability; urban extreme events; environmental inequality; human– environmental interactions; urban ecology; building energy use

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

Machine Learning and Deep Learning Applied to Remote Sensing Image Analysis

edited by Sen Lei,

Liqin Liu

and

Zhengxia Zou

submission deadline 28 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2839 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; machine learning; deep learning; generative models; multimodal learning; multispectral; hyperspectral; synthetic aperture radar

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

Ground Deformation Patterns Detection by InSAR and GNSS Techniques (3rd Edition)

edited by

Mimmo Palano

, Alessandra Carollo and Federica Sparacino

submission deadline 28 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1458 | Submission Open

Keywords: earthquakes; plate motion; volcano geodesy; land subsidence; GNSS reflectometry; ground deformation modelling

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

Remote Sensing and GIScience for Natural Hazard Mitigation and Resilience

edited by Mohamed Aly,

Brad Peter

, Yaqian He and

Kashif Mahmud

submission deadline 28 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1137 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; GIScience; natural hazards; disaster mitigation; resilience; risk assessment; disaster response; recovery strategies; satellite imagery; geospatial modeling

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

Advanced Technology for Remote Sensing Image Analysis and Applications

edited by

, Haixia Bi,

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submission deadline 28 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1097 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; deep learning; classification; image fusion; segmentation; enhancement; cross-domain

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

Remote Sensing for Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction Studies

edited by

Shakeel Asharaf

submission deadline 28 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 963 | Submission Open

Keywords: air– sea interactions; satellite oceanography; ocean surface wind/heat fluxes; satellite/in situ data validation; high-impact weather events; impact studies; uncertainty quantification

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

Applications of UAV Photogrammetric Survey in Smart City and Smart Region

edited by Ka Zhang

submission deadline 28 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 897 | Submission Open

Keywords: structure from motion; route planning; airborne point cloud processing; multi-source data fusion; multi-source data processing; object detection and recognition; image matching; 3D reconstruction

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

Machine Learning and Remote Sensing for Improved Autonomous Driving

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submission deadline 28 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 398 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning for autonomous driving; multi-sensor fusion; mmWave radar; LiDAR and radar perception; deep learning in remote sensing; environmental modeling; real-time object detection; edge computing for AVs; urban remote sensing; autonomous vehicle navigation; explainable AI in transportation

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

Computer Vision and Features Enhancement of Hyperspectral Images

edited by

Hongmin Gao

,

Shufang Xu

, Bing Tu and

Jun Zhou

submission deadline 28 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 382 | Submission Open

Keywords: hyperspectral imaging; computer vision; feature enhancement; image processing; spectral analysis; data integration

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

Remote Sensing for Natural Resources and Environmental Management of Arid and Semi-Arid Regions

edited by Chong Wang,

Hao Wang

and

Shuci Liu

submission deadline 28 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 320 | Submission Open

Keywords: vegetation dynamics; ecosystem services; carbon cycle/sequestration; soil moisture; evaporation; water quality; scale effects; climate change

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

Urban Land Use Mapping Using Deep Learning

edited by

Chang Li

,

Rongjun Qin

and Ruisheng Wang

submission deadline 28 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 319 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban land use mapping; deep learning; multi-modal data integration; knowledge graphs; remote sensing; urban environmental monitoring; semantic segmentation; three-dimensional urban modeling; dynamic urban change detection

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

SAR Image Change Detection: From Hand-Crafted to Deep Learning

edited by

Yuming Xiang

, Ling Wan,

Niangang Jiao

and

Sourabh Paul

submission deadline 28 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 250 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning for SAR image change detection; SAR change detection applications; multi-modal image change detection; multi-temporal data analysis; SAR change detection datasets

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

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