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 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7097 | 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)

Advances in Remote Sensing Video Data Processing: Theories, Technologies and Applications

edited by

Peng Wang

, Ying Zhang and

Henry Leung

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6829 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing video; video system development; video detection and tracking; image/video understanding; video data processing; machine learning

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

Remote Sensing and Modelling of Terrestrial Ecosystems Functioning

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submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6478 | Submission Open

Keywords: terrestrial ecosystems; remote sensing; vegetation functioning; ET and GPP; estimation and modelling; accuracy assessment

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

Advancements in Passive/Active Remote Sensing of Clouds and Precipitation

edited by Yong-Keun Lee and Thomas Greenwald

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6192 | Submission Open

Keywords: clouds; precipitation; active remote sensing; ground-based remote sensing; satellite remote sensing; airborne remote sensing

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

Machine Learning and Remote/Proximal Sensing for Rock Mass Characterization and Slope Analyses

edited by

Elisa Mammoliti

,

Adriano Mancini

and

Mirko Francioni

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5797 | Submission Open

Keywords: geomechanics and proximal/remote sensing; machine learning; rock mass characterization; discontinuities analysis; fracturing

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

Remote Sensing for Soil Moisture and Vegetation Parameters Retrieval (Second Edition)

edited by

Liangliang Tao

,

Dongryeol Ryu

and

Hao Sun

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5494 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil moisture; agricultural monitoring; microwave remote sensing; machine learning; vegetation dynamics estimates; modeling; drought assessment

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

Ecological Environment Remote Sensing and Sustainable Development Evaluation in Coastal Zones

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submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4286 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal zones; intelligent remote sensing interpretation; ecological environment remote sensing; ecological pro-cesses; landscape ecological security; land subsidence safety; sustainable development

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

Advances in Remote Sensing Image Target Detection and Recognition

edited by

Yin Zhuang

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3772 | Submission Open

Keywords: semi-supervised learning; few-shot learning; long-tail distribution; domain adaptation; open-vocabulary; zero-shot learning

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

Satellite Remote Sensing for Meteorological Disaster Monitoring and Forecasting

edited by

Dimitrios Katsanos

and

Adrianos Retalis

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3034 | 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)

Remote Sensing and Machine Learning Applications in Atmospheric Physics, Weather, and Air Quality

edited by

Michal Segal-Rosenheimer

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3031 | Submission Open

Keywords: Remote sensing; Machine learning; Air-quality; Aerosols; Weather; Cloud dynamics; Fires

AI Applications to Remote Sensing of Cloud and Precipitation: Monitoring, Modeling, and Prediction

edited by

, Jinfang Yin,

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submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3021 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing techniques; clouds and precipitation; AI applications for RS; cloud microphysics; cloud seeding; extreme weather events; data fusion and assimilation; RS for hydrological analysis; atmospheric water vapor/moisture

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

From Remotely Sensed Data to Ecological Intelligence: New Insights in Coral Reef Recovery Detected through Remote Sensing in a Warming Climate

edited by Renata Ferrari, Sophie Gordon, Kang Han,

Erica Nocerino

and Gaia Pavoni

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1841 | Submission Open

Keywords: underwater photogrammetry; neural radiance fields; machine learning applications to the segmentation and classification of coral reef images; orthomosaics; and 3D models; coral reef vital rates; climate change impact detection (i.e.; bleaching; cyclones); spatio-temporal comparisons

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

New Perspectives in Plant Phenotyping: Satellite-Based Multispectral Remote Sensing

edited by Luwei Feng,

Xiaoyan Kang

and Yan Zhao

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 422 | Submission Open

Keywords: multispectral remote sensing; crop classification; phenology; deep learning; radiative transfer model; plant parameter retrieval; vegetation productivity simulation; crop yield prediction

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

Advances in Remote Sensing Large Visual Language Model

edited by Fan Liu, Tianjin Huang and

Jun Zhou

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 253 | Submission Open

Keywords: Vision– Language Models (VLMs); remote sensing; multimodal data fusion; AI-driven mapping; land use classification; visual Question Answering; geospatial reasoning and spatial analysis

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

Remote Sensing for Marine Environmental Disaster Response

edited by

Zhixiang Fang

, Quanyi Huang, Jaroslaw Tęgowski,

Magaly Koch

and

Yukiharu Hisaki

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 14 articles | Viewed by 57999 | Submission Open

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

Glacial Lakes and Related Hazards: Mapping, Monitoring, and Risk Assessment

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submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 35612 | Submission Open

Keywords: novel lake mapping approaches/algorithms of remote sensing; glacial lake mapping and change; glacier and lake interactions; glacial lake outburst floods; reconstruct historical GLOFs; cascading geohazard related to glacial lake dynamics; GLOF risk assessment; social– economic impact of GLOFs; optical SAR-UAV-based monitoring

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

Remote Sensing Image Classification and Semantic Segmentation (Second Edition)

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submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 12 articles | Viewed by 30694 | 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)

Remote Sensing of Post-fire Environmental Damage and Forest Recovery: New Challenges and Approaches

edited by

Alfonso Fernández-Manso

and

Carmen Quintano

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 25135 | Submission Open

Keywords: Wildfire severity evaluation and land monitoring; Big data and artificial intelligence; 3D mapping post-fire Studies; Hyperspectral sensors post fire Studies; Ultra-high spatial resolution; Modeling image time-series for fire disturbance recovery; Wildland– urban interface (WUI); Climate change on forest fire severity

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

Advanced Applications of Remote Sensing in Monitoring Marine Environment (Second Edition)

edited by

Zhe-Wen Zheng

and

Jiayi Pan

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 23531 | Submission Open

Keywords: ocean remote sensing; ocean environment; environment monitoring; remote sensing techniques; satellite data

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

Multi-Data Integration in Near-Surface Geophysics and Close Range Remote Sensing Applied to Cultural Heritage

edited by

Maria Danese

and

Nicola Masini

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 23406 | Submission Open

Keywords: near-surface geophysics; close-range remote sensing; multi-data integration; GIS; spatial analysis; machine learning; deep learning; cultural heritage

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

New Insights in Remote Sensing of Snow and Glaciers

edited by

Roberto Salzano

and

Rosamaria Salvatori

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 23065 | Submission Open

Keywords: snow cover; glaciers; optical remote sensing; radar remote sensing; data integration; novel methodologies

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

Remote Sensing for the Study of the Changes in Wetlands

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submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 21571 | Submission Open

Keywords: earth observation monitoring of wetlands; essential biodiversity variables; time-series analysis to distinguish natural dynamics from artificial and climate change impacts; wetlands; including lacustrine and palustrine biome wetlands; in the estuarine; coastal and freshwater realms

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

Application of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing in Urban Areas

edited by

Marwa Elbouz

,

Gaëtan Palka

and

Catherine Baskiotis

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 21018 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; photogrammetry; urban heterogeneous data fusion; urban planning; urban traffic mitigation; urban digital twins; urban pollution monitoring; global extreme event; machine learning; data mining

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

SAR in Big Data Era III

edited by Chao Wang,

Alberto Moreira

, Mihai P. Datcu,

Sirui Tian

and

Yixian Tang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 18880 | Submission Open

Keywords: SAR/InSAR; big data; sustainable development goals (SDGs); high performance computing; artificial intelligence; PolSAR processing; TomoSAR processing; SAR applications; geohazards; global change

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

Machine Learning and Image Processing for Object Detection

edited by

Weifeng Liu

,

Igor García Olaizola

and

Bingfeng Zhang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 17007 | 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)

Advanced AI Technology for Remote Sensing Analysis

edited by Guangliang Cheng,

Qi Zhao

, Shuchang Lyu and

Hossein M. Rizeei

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 16898 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-modality images; image fusion; cross-domain adaptation; visual– linguistic models; multi-modality downstream tasks; remote sensing; pattern analysis; advanced AI technology; image segmentation/detection and change detection

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

Remote Sensing for Landslide Investigations: Mapping, Monitoring and Forecasting

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submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 16394 | Submission Open

Keywords: landslide susceptibility mapping; landslide monitoring; landslide forecasting; landslide hazard assessment; SBAS-InSAR; risk assessment

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

Quantitative Remote Sensing of Vegetation and Its Applications

edited by

Kun Jia

and Linqing Yang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 16190 | 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)

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 | 3 articles | Viewed by 16132 | 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)

Vegetation Mapping through Multiscale Remote Sensing

edited by

Alberto García-Martín

and

Antonio Luis Montealegre Gracia

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 15105 | Submission Open

Keywords: Vegetation distribution and dynamics; Environmental assessment and monitoring; Multiscale and multiplatform remote sensing; Spectral and structural data integration; Multispectral imagery; LiDAR/SAR; UAV; Field spectrometry; Upscaling; Downscaling

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

Recent Advances in Infrared Target Detection

edited by Xia Wang and

Kun Gao

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 13856 | Submission Open

Keywords: infrared target detection; deep learning; signal processing; infrared image enhancement; multi-resource data fusion; infrared target tracking; infrared target monitoring

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

Hyperspectral Sensors for Soil Parameters and Crop Parameters Retrieval

edited by

Minfeng Xing

,

Jinfei Wang

and

Qisheng He

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 13796 | Submission Open

Keywords: hyperspectral imaging; soil parameter retrieval; crop parameter retrieval; remote sensing technologies; precision agriculture; sustainable farming; soil physicochemical properties; crop health monitoring; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); biophysical and biochemical parameter estimation

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

HF Surface Wave Radar: Improving Performance and Extending Capabilities

edited by

Lucy Wyatt

and

Stuart Anderson

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 13617 | Submission Open

Keywords: HF radar; radar systems; signal processing; inverse methods; currents; waves; winds; MetOcean

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

Remote Sensing for Agricultural Water Management (RSAWM) (Second Edition)

edited by

Ramona Magno

and Paolo Filippucci

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 13196 | Submission Open

Keywords: high resolution; EO data; machine learning; multi-data-driven approach; water balance; water consumption; soil; climate; vegetation; irrigation

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

Remote, Proximal Sensing and Geophysics for Cultural Heritage Knowledge and Conservation (Second Edition)

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Sergio Vincenzo Calcina

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Ilaria Catapano

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 12998 | Submission Open

Keywords: methods and techniques for cultural heritage knowledge and conservation; geophysical and micro-geophysical methods; ground penetrating radar; electrical resistivity methods; magnetic and electromagnetic methods; seismic and acoustic methods; wide area geophysics; archaeological surveys; optical and infrared photogrammetry; infrared thermography; terahertz and microwave imaging; geomatics for imaging (LiDAR; laser scanner; structure for motion; etc.); image and data processing; NDT and diagnostics methods; satellite and aerial remote sensing; vulnerability studies; satellite and terrestrial radar interferometry (RAR; SAR); radar polarimetry; multispectral and hyperspectral remote sensing; motion magnification technique; integrated methods; virtual restoration and musealization

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

Advances in Remote Sensing in Coastal Geomorphology (Third Edition)

edited by

José Juan de Sanjosé Blasco

,

Germán Flor-Blanco

and

Ramón Blanco Chao

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 11729 | Submission Open

Keywords: geomatics techniques; coastal remote sensing; storm impact; coastal processes; coastal geomorphology; shoreline change; coastal erosion; sea level change; coastal and ports management; oceanography; anthropocene

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

Dam Stability Monitoring with Satellite Geodesy II

edited by

Antonio Miguel Ruiz Armenteros

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submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 11688 | Submission Open

Keywords: dam; satellite geodesy; remote sensing; GNSS; radar interferometry; InSAR; deformation monitoring; geodetic measurements; geotechnical measurements; infrastructure; earth observation; sensors

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

SAR for Forest Mapping III

edited by

Michele Martone

and Armando Marino

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 11608 | Submission Open

Keywords: drone/airborne/spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR); biomass estimation; forest mapping; change detection; SAR polarimetry; interferometry; tomography; artificial intelligence for forest applications

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

Advances in Synthetic Aperture Radar: Calibration, Analysis and Application II

edited by

Fang Shang

and

Lamei Zhang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 11146 | Submission Open

Keywords: synthetic aperture radar; PolSAR; InSAR; POLInSAR; calibration; signal processing; SAR applications; SAR intelligent interpretation

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

Application of Remote Sensing in Coastline Monitoring

edited by Paolo Ciavola, Clara Armaroli and Juan Montes Pérez

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 11086 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal morphodynamics; coastal evolution; earth observation data; shoreline; coastal wetlands; dunes; rocky shores; satellite images; UAVs; video monitoring systems

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

Advances in 3D Reconstruction Based on Remote Sensing Imagery and Lidar Point Cloud

edited by

Fuxun Liang

, Shuang Song and Bing Wang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 11060 | Submission Open

Keywords: three-dimensional reconstruction; remote sensing image; LiDAR point cloud; multi-modality fusion; semantic segmentation; deep learning; neural radiation field (NeRF); 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS); generative modeling; large models; ubiquitous point cloud interpretation; 3D scene modeling; building reconstruction; indoor modeling; natural scene reconstruction; digital twins

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

Advancements in Remote, Areal, and Proximal Soil Sensing: Innovations in Measurement and Spatial Modelling

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submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 10722 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; proximal soil sensing; UAV; soil spectroscopy; digital soil mapping; geostatistics; soil properties; machine learning

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

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

edited by

Paolo Tripicchio

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 9984 | 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)

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 | 8 articles | Viewed by 9879 | 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)

Applications of Satellite Geodesy for Sea-Level Change Observation

edited by

Isabel Vigo

,

David García-García

, José Antonio López Fernández and

José M. Ferrándiz

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8943 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite geodesy; sea-level change; Earth observation satellites; geodetic techniques; spatial and temporal patterns; comprehensive sea-level monitoring systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean 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 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8837 | 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)

Temporal and Spatial Analysis of Multi-Source Remote Sensing Images

edited by Lin Lei,

Zhiyong Lv

and

Yuli Sun

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8812 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing images; multi-source data; spatial-temporal analysis; machine learning and deep learning; multi-modal image fusion; change detection; feature alignment

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

Advances in Detecting and Understanding Land Surface Phenology

edited by

Jianmin Wang

,

Xiaoyang Zhang

and

Yuxia Liu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8773 | Submission Open

Keywords: land surface phenology; climate change; land use and land cover change; scaling effect; data fusion; near-real-time monitoring

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

Perspectives of Remote Sensing for Precision Agriculture

edited by

Christos Karydas

, Spiros Mourelatos and

Thomas Alexandridis

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8628 | Submission Open

Keywords: precision agriculture; site-specific management; machine learning; computer vision; object-based image analysis; fractal geometry; drones

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

Ground, Proximal and Remote Sensing for Precision Agriculture Applications

edited by

Alessandro Mei

,

Yung-Chung Chuang

and

Carlos Lozano Fondón

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8619 | 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)

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