Remote Sensing

Recent Progress in UAV-AI Remote Sensing II

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submission deadline 30 Jul 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8459 | Submission Open

Keywords: unmanned aerial vehicles; artificial intelligence; data fusion; data mining; UAV-AI algorithms; real-time processing; change detection; disaster monitoring; system and applications

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

Calibration and Validation of SAR Data and Derived Products

edited by Muriel Pinheiro and Clément Albinet

submission deadline 30 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7282 | Submission Open

Keywords: SAR; calibration and validation; FRM; reference targets; reference databases; quality monitoring; inter-comparison

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

SAR Monitoring of Marine and Coastal Environments

edited by Tao Xie,

Junmin Meng

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He Wang

and Xinwei Chen

submission deadline 30 Jul 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6274 | Submission Open

Keywords: synthetic aperture radar (SAR); marine environments; coastal hazards; remote sensing; deep learning; harsh environments; polar oceans; marine pollution; habitat mapping; climate change

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

Remote Sensing Monitoring for Earthquakes, Tectonics and Seismic Hazards

edited by

Nicola Alessandro Pino

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Stefano Carlino

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Raffaele Castaldo

submission deadline 30 Jul 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4661 | 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)

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

edited by

Tao Luo

, Juhua Luo,

Jianfeng Sun

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Jianfeng Chen

submission deadline 30 Jul 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2989 | 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)

Change Detection and Classification with Hyperspectral Imaging

edited by

Xinxin Liu

, Bin Yang, Qian Shi and Lin Lei

submission deadline 30 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1708 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced algorithms for hyperspectral image classification; machine learning and deep learning approaches for change detection; hybrid approaches combining traditional and AI-based methods; validation techniques for hyperspectral change detection; integration of hyperspectral data with other remote sensing technologies; applications of hyperspectral classification or change detection in real-world problem-solving; case studies of technological breakthroughs in classification or change detection; time-series analysis of hyperspectral data for trend identification

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

Remote Sensing Techniques for 3D Reconstruction and Multimodal Structural Analysis

edited by

Yakun Ju

, Jianyuan Sun, Cong Zhang and

Feng Gao

submission deadline 30 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 459 | Submission Open

Keywords: 3D surface reconstruction in remote sensing; multimodal remote sensing data fusion; synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging; LiDAR point cloud processing; hyperspectral and multispectral imaging; remote sensing for structural analysis; photogrammetry and remote sensing techniques

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

Remote Sensing for Sustainability and Durability of Transportation Infrastructures

edited by

Wendy Zhou

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Thomas Oommen

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Linan Liu

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 21816 | Submission Open

Keywords: tunneling-induced ground subsidence; landslide monitoring along transportation corridors; rockfalls along roadcuts; rock mass and fault zone characterization for transportation alignment selection; airfield ground subsidence; bridge monitoring; ground deformation time series; parametric analysis of ground subsidence or deformation

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

Remote Sensing Image Classification and Semantic Segmentation (Second Edition)

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submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 20491 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; deep learning; semantic segmentation; classification; cross-domain; earth observation

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

Planetary Geologic Mapping and Remote Sensing (Second Edition)

edited by

Kaichang Di

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Long Xiao

and

Jan-Peter Muller

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 19962 | Submission Open

Keywords: planetary geology; planetary topography and geomorphology; planetary chronology; planetary spectrum; planetary remote sensing; geologic structures; geologic mapping; planetary composition; planetary GIS; planetary exploration missions; landing sites

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

Recent Progress on Remote Sensing Change Detection and Application Driven by AI

edited by

Xinzheng Zhang

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Ce Zhang

and

Hong Huang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 14721 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; change detection; artificial intelligence; deep learning; neural network; image processing

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

Remote Sensing of Climate-Vegetation Dynamics and Their Effects on Ecosystems II

edited by

Chung-Te Chang

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Junhu Dai

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 12620 | Submission Open

Keywords: vegetation phenology; regular climate; climatic fluctuation; disturbance; phenocam; multisource remotely sensed data; time-series; water resources; productivity; biogeochemical cycles

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

Image Processing and Analysis: Trends in Registration, Data Fusion, 3D Reconstruction, and Change Detection (Third Edition)

edited by

Riccardo Roncella

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Mattia Previtali

and Luca Perfetti

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 12144 | Submission Open

Keywords: image registration; change detection; 3D reconstruction; deep learning; hyperspectral; image matching; data/sensor fusion; object-based image analysis; pattern recognition; volume rendering

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

Latest Developments and Applications in Remote Sensing with Nighttime Lights II

edited by

Johannes Puschnig

and Pietro Fiorentin

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 9313 | Submission Open

Keywords: night sky brightness; light pollution; light scattering; long-term trends of light pollution; photometric measurements; atmospheric modeling

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

Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis in the Big Data Era

edited by

Robert Tenzer

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Hok Sum Fok

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8927 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; geospatial analysis; Big Data; machine learning; data fusion and integration; spatial modeling; advanced algorithms

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

New Perspectives on 3D Point Cloud (Third Edition)

edited by

Sara Gonizzi Barsanti

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8832 | Submission Open

Keywords: point cloud acquisition (laser scanner; mono/stereo vision; panoramas; phone cameras; aerial and satellite images; indoor and narrow spaces); deep learning for segmentation/semantic representation and processing; AI/ML/DL for point cloud processing and pattern recognition; NErF; monocular depth estimation for 3D point cloud reconstruction; voxel creation; denoising point clouds; data extraction/data analysis/point cloud registration/multi-temporal point clouds; change detection; from 2D images to 3D Point Clouds with GANs and LLMs

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

Satellite Remote Sensing for Ocean and Coastal Environment Monitoring

edited by

Haidong Pan

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Daosheng Wang

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Jungang Yang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 8615 | Submission Open

Keywords: sea level rise; ocean tides; model assimilation; sea surface temperature; sea surface salinity; chlorophyll; water transparency; sea waves; mesoscale eddy; ocean dynamics

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

Precipitation, Flood and Earthquake Events Monitoring, Simulation, Analysis and Early Warning by Advanced Environmental Remote Sensing and AI

edited by

Congzheng Han

, Jiamou Liu and Hongbin Chen

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7565 | Submission Open

Keywords: radar; satellite; microwave links; AI and algorithms; flood and drought prediction; simulation; modeling; and analysis; short-term precipitation forecasting; precipitation monitoring; earthquake prediction and monitoring and geophysical exploration; technology for disaster information acquisition; disaster monitoring and disaster mitigation and avoidance simulation

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

Advances in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Data Processing and Applications

edited by Liang Guo,

Sergio Vitale

, Junli Liang,

Rui Guo

and Hongfei Yin

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7483 | Submission Open

Keywords: SAR data processing methods; SAR application; SAR image recognition and interpretation; SAR image quality evaluation; artificial intelligence in SAR data processing and applications; SAR image processing; polarimetric SAR; interferometric SAR; tomographic SAR

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

Real-Time Flood Monitoring and Prediction Using Integrative Remote Sensing and AI

edited by Pietro Ceccato, Pekel Jean-François and Peter Salamon

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7419 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite image; artificial intelligence; flood depth; flood monitoring; flood forecasting; airplane/drone images; urban flood; hydrological models

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

Estimating the Ecological Services of Urban Green Infrastructures Using Remote Sensing

edited by

Oz Kira

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Arnon Karnieli

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 7371 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban sustainability; urban green infrastructures; urban ecological services; vegetation classification; carbon cycle; evapotranspiration; urban heat islands; shading

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

Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data in Hydrology and Geophysical Processes

edited by

Shiqiang Zhang

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Yun Chen

, Qiudong Zhao and

Chang Huang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6253 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrologic variables; data fusion; surface water; glaciers; snow cover; hydrological process; flood monitoring

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

Global, Regional and Cross-Event Transferability of Deep Learning and Machine Learning Models for Landslide Detection and Susceptibility Mapping

edited by

Adel Asadi

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Magaly Koch

, Weiwei Zhan and

Xiaokang Zhang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6251 | Submission Open

Keywords: landslide detection; landslide susceptibility mapping; earthquakes and rainfalls; change detection; global and regional models; multi-source remote sensing; image processing; geospatial modeling; deep transfer learning; machine learning

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

Advancements in Environmental Remote Sensing and GIS

edited by

Mateo Gašparović

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Dorijan Radočaj

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Dino Dobrinić

and Sergej Baričević

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6244 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental monitoring; spatial analysis; geographic information systems (GIS); remote sensing; satellite imagery; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); ecosystem management; climate change assessment; land use and land cover change; sustainable development; conservation and biodiversity; global navigation satellite systems (GNSS); disaster management

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

Advances in Geological Hazard Characterization and Assessment: Merging Remote Sensing with Direct Surveys

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submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5548 | Submission Open

Keywords: geological Hazards; remote sensing; UAV LiDAR; InSAR; high-resolution satellite imagery; direct Surveys; hazard assessment; risk management; data integration; hazard mitigation

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

Remote Sensing of Aquatic Ecosystem Monitoring

edited by

Yibo Zhang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3982 | Submission Open

Keywords: aquatic ecosystem; algal blooms; aquatic vegetation; artificial intelligence; mechanism; extreme events

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

Study on Hydrological Hazards Based on Multi-Source Remote Sensing

edited by Jun Zhang, Shaonan Zhu and

Qiang Dai

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3830 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-source remote sensing; hydrological hazards; flood monitoring; drought assessment; landslide risk; remote sensing data fusion; machine learning; climate change

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

Advances in Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases Observation and Remote Sensing Applications

edited by Ailin Liang, Yawen Kong and

Simone Lolli

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3129 | Submission Open

Keywords: greenhouse gas remote sensing; carbon dioxide; methane; OCO-2/3 GOSAT TROPOMI TANSAT DQ-1; carbon flux; carbon assimilation

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

Sub-Pixel Mapping, Spatio-Temporal Fusion of Multi-Spectral and Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data

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submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2544 | Submission Open

Keywords: sub-pixel mapping; spatiotemporal fusion method; optical/multispectral/hyperspectral image analysis; mixed pixel problem; urban land use mapping; time-series analysis; multitemporal remote sensing data processing; change detection method

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

Advances in Atmospheric Chemistry and Transportation of Aerosol by Remote Sensing and Modeling (Second Edition)

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submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2498 | Submission Open

Keywords: aerosol; aerosols species; optical properties; vertical profile; long-range transport; radiative forcing; light-absorbing aerosol; snow; aerosol cloud; extreme weather

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

Estimating Atmospheric Aerosols and Cloud Physics with Optical and Multispectral Sensors

edited by

Yuying Wang

, Haofei Wang, Chunsong Lu and

Xiquan Dong

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1491 | Submission Open

Keywords: aerosol– cloud interactions; remote sensing; multispectral sensors; aerosol optical depth (AOD); cloud microphysical properties; cloud condensation nuclei (CCN); lidar; radiometers; satellite; machine learning

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

Signal Processing, Image Processing and Fusion Techniques in Remote Sensing

edited by

Georgia Koukiou

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1244 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; multichannel information; sensor types; signal processing; image processing; information fusion; registration; elevation models; target detection; surface characterization

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

Recent Progress in Monitoring the Troposphere with GNSS Techniques

edited by

Minghua Wang

, Hong Liang, Cuixian Lu and Jungang Wang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1145 | 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)

Monitoring, Assessment, and Prediction of Agroecosystem Dynamics for Sustainable Agriculture: Applications of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, and Geographic Information Systems

edited by

Yongfa You

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Naiqing Pan

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Dipankar Mandal

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 1038 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable agriculture; remote sensing; photogrammetry; GIS; agroecosystem dynamics

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

Remote Sensing in Monitoring Coastal and Inland Waters

edited by Xiaoyun Wan, Qun Liu,

Salem Morsy

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Yongjun Jia

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1027 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal and inland waters; satellite remote sensing; airborne/terrestrial/mobile LiDAR; water level/quality/depth; phytoplankton; carbon fluxes and stocks; Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

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

Deep Learning Techniques and Applications of MIMO Radar Theory

edited by

Chen Zhao

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 935 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; MIMO radar; signal processing; target detection and classification; target tracking; parameter estimation; data fusion; multi-sensor collaboration; generative model and LLM; image reconstruction; super resolution

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

Satellite Remote Sensing for Monitoring Forest Carbon and Supporting Nature-Based Carbon Crediting Mechanisms

edited by You-Ren Wang and

Zutao Yang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 865 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite remote sensing; forest carbon monitoring; carbon flux analysis; nature-based solutions (NbSs); carbon crediting mechanisms; carbon MRV; blue carbon

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

Environment Observation Analysis Based on Remote Sensing and Geospatial Artificial Intelligence

edited by

Lei Xu

, Peyman Abbaszadeh,

Wenying Du

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Min Huang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 764 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; big data; GeoAI; spatiotemporal processes; disaster analysis; large-scale monitoring and prediction

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

Snow Water Equivalent Retrieval Using Remote Sensing

edited by Jianwei Yang,

Lingmei Jiang

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Matias Takala

, Yan Huang and

Tao Che

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 654 | Submission Open

Keywords: microwave remote sensing; snow water equivalent (SWE); snow depth; SWE retrieving algorithm; snow forward modeling; field campaigns in cryosphere; spatiotemporal variability

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

Radar for Planetary Exploration (Second Edition)

edited by

Roberto Orosei

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Robert Wang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 582 | Submission Open

Keywords: planetary radar; radar sounder; solar system; planets; asteroids; comets; Moon

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

Leveraging Advanced Remote Sensing Technologies for Comprehensive Renewable Energy Monitoring, Systematic Optimization, and Multidimensional Environmental Integration

edited by

Zhengguang Liu

and

Zhiling Guo

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 356 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; renewable energy systems; solar radiation mapping; wind energy assessment; performance optimization; environmental impact assessment; LiDAR and hyperspectral imaging; resource monitoring; geospatial analysis; sustainable energy integration

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

Advances in Computer Vision and Machine Learning Applications on Remote Sensing Images

edited by

Qiang Li

, Jing Li, Dan Wang and

Tania Stathaki

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 344 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing image processing; geospatial data analysis; computer vision; machine learning; satellite imagery; image fusion; advanced computational techniques

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

Intelligent Perception of Geo-Hazards from Earth Observations (Second Edition)

edited by

Ionut Sandric

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 344 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; machine learning; deep learning; landslide; subsidence; ground deformation

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

Utilization of Remote Sensing in Evaluating Crop Production Constraints

edited by

Koki Homma

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 327 | Submission Open

Keywords: crops; production constraints; drought; floods; pests; disease; weeds

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

Advanced in Space-Air-Ground-Sea Integrated Remote Sensing: Intelligent Processing and Applications

edited by

Zhonghua Hong

, Chenchen Jiang and Huazhong Ren

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 313 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; space– air– ground– sea integration; artificial intelligence; data processing; modeling; mapping

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

State of the Art in Positioning Under Forest Canopies

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submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 264 | Submission Open

Keywords: new techniques/methodologies for positioning; 2D/3D; data-processing for laser scanning/camera data for positioning; mobile mapping and positioning; real-time system; large-scale mapping and positioning in forests; applications of position data in forest environments; literature reviews about the positioning methods in forest science

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

Recent Advances in Object Detection with Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data

edited by

Youqiang Zhang

and Xuesong Li

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 233 | Submission Open

Keywords: hyperspectral data; object detection; dimensionality reduction; feature fusion; machine learning; deep learning; real-time detection

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

Advances in Machine Learning Algorithms for Atmospheric Remote Sensing

edited by Alqamah Sayeed, Ahmed Khan Salman and Siddharth Chaudhary

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 217 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; atmospheric remote sensing; hyperspectral data analysis; air quality prediction; aerosols and trace gases; urban pollution modeling; climate adaptation; human epidemiology; crop health monitoring; advanced time-series analysis

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

Role of SAR/InSAR Techniques in Investigating Ground Deformation

edited by Xue Chen and

Teng Wang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 211 | Submission Open

Keywords: SAR/InSAR; ground deformation; tectonic activities; seismic activities; transient slow-slip processes; geological hazards; optical imagery; data fusion and machine learning

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

Remote Sensing for Ionospheric Studies

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