Remote Sensing

Remote Sensing for Management of Invasive Species

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submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 16517 | Submission Open

Keywords: invasive species and pathogens; remote sensing; machine learning; mapping invasive species; monitoring environmental impact; species distribution modelling; invasive species management; biocontrol; pest and weed control

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

Application of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing in Urban Areas

edited by

Marwa Elbouz

,

Gaëtan Palka

and

Catherine Baskiotis

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 13809 | 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)

Advances in Near-Earth Space and Atmospheric Physics from Ground-Based and Satellite Observations

edited by Veronika Barta, Christina Arras and Jaroslav Urbar

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 12756 | Submission Open

Keywords: ground-based and satellite observations; GNSS/Lidar/SAR/Microwave radiometer; solar– terrestrial coupling processes; troposphere– ionosphere coupling; geospheric storms; ionospheric physics; space weather; model comparison with observations

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

Mapping Essential Elements of Agricultural Land Using Remote Sensing

edited by

Luo Liu

, Jilin Yang, Fei Li,

Yaqun Liu

and Wenzhi Zhao

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 12648 | Submission Open

Keywords: agricultural land mapping; agricultural land parameter retrieval; yield estimation or forecasts; biomass in agricultural land; water use efficiency in agricultural land; plant biodiversity in agricultural land; plant growth model; deep learning

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

Machine Learning and Image Processing for Object Detection

edited by

Weifeng Liu

,

Igor García Olaizola

and

Bingfeng Zhang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 12402 | 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)

Target Recognition and Detection Based on High Resolution Radar Images

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, Lixiang Ma and

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 10721 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-resolution radar images; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); target detection; target recognition; deep learning; machine learning; image processing

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

Vegetation Mapping through Multiscale Remote Sensing

edited by

Alberto García-Martín

and

Antonio Luis Montealegre Gracia

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 10409 | 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)

Remote Sensing in Space Geodesy and Cartography Methods (Third Edition)

edited by

Jinyun Guo

,

Cheinway Hwang

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Yu Sun

, Tzu-pang Tseng and

Pia Addabbo

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 10292 | Submission Open

Keywords: GNSS; LiDAR; satellite gravimetry; satellite altimetry; optical/multispectral/hyperspectral/SAR remote sensing; space geodetic technique; deep space detection

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

Advanced Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) Technologies and Applications

edited by

Xuan Feng

,

Haoqiu Zhou

and

Zejun Dong

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 9667 | Submission Open

Keywords: GPR; signal processing; modeling; inversion; application

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

Advances in Remote Sensing for Land Subsidence Monitoring

edited by Xiaoqiong Qin, Wei Tang,

Xuguo Shi

and

Cheng Zhong

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8691 | Submission Open

Keywords: land subsidence; remote sensing; deformation monitoring; InSAR; GNSS; monitoring and prediction; damage mapping; deep learning

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

Remote Sensing Applications in Land Cover Changes and Associated Environmental Effects: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities

edited by

Mingjun Ding

,

Lanhui Li

,

Linshan Liu

, Haiyan Zhang and Shoubao Geng

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8224 | Submission Open

Keywords: land cover change; remote sensing; climate change; human activities; human well-being

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

Feature Papers of Section “Atmospheric Remote Sensing” (Second Edition)

edited by

Alexander Kokhanovsky

and

Dmitry Efremenko

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8219 | Submission Open

Keywords: terrestrial atmosphere; remote sensing; atmospheric aerosol; trace gases; clouds; precipitation

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

Monitoring and Managing Environmental Sustainability Using Remote Sensing

edited by

Dongmei Chen

and

Yuhong He

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7354 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; environmental sustainability; land use/cover change; habitat health; climate change monitoring; satellite imagery; environmental monitoring; ecosystem assessment

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

Advances in Earth Observation to Improve Flood Disaster Monitoring and Management (Second Edition)

edited by

Valeria Satriano

,

Mariapia Faruolo

and Sandro Martinis

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6772 | Submission Open

Keywords: flood disaster; flood monitoring and management; remote sensing; modelling; machine learning

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

Deep Learning Applications of 3D Reconstruction and Visualization from Remote Sensing Imagery

edited by

Henry Meißner

and

Francesco Nex

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6602 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; 3D reconstruction; visualization; disaster management; enhanced spatial understanding; algorithms

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

Land Surface Temperature Estimation Using Remote Sensing II

edited by

Anand Inamdar

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6218 | Submission Open

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

Applications of Remote Sensing in Monitoring Ionospheric and Atmospheric Physics (Third Edition)

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submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 5346 | Submission Open

Keywords: ionosphere; atmosphere; ionospheric irregularities; ionospheric/thermosphric modeling; data assimilation; geomagnetic storms; radars; radio occultations; GNSS TEC; airglow observations

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

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

edited by

Fuxun Liang

, Shuang Song and Bing Wang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5008 | 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)

Imagery Classification and Feature Extraction Based on Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

edited by

Xia Xu

, Sen Lei, Yuanchao Su and

Xuanwen Tao

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5002 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; hyperspectral image; image classification; feature extraction; artificial intelligence; image processing

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

Advanced SAR/InSAR Techniques in Understanding and Monitoring Geohazards

edited by Zhangfeng Ma, Haipeng Luo, Jihong Liu,

Chenglong Li

and Yosuke Aoki

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4600 | Submission Open

Keywords: SAR/InSAR; space geodesy; earthquake; landslides; volcano; multiple source data integration; natural hazards; geological disasters; risk assessment

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

Antarctic Remote Sensing Applications (Second Edition)

edited by

Gonçalo Prates

,

Manuel Berrocoso Domínguez

and

Cristina Torrecillas

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4139 | Submission Open

Keywords: antarctica; ice sheets change; permafrost state; landform dynamics; biota occupation; human presence; multi-sensor and multiplatform analysis; remote sensing applications

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

Advances in Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Aerosols and Their Radiative Effects

edited by

Omar Torres

and Hiren Jethva

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3766 | Submission Open

Keywords: radiative effects; aerosol properties; polarization; retrieval algorithm; long-term record; satellite; cloud screening; surface reflectance

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

Big Geo-Spatial Data and Advanced 3D Modelling in GIS and Satellite

edited by

Lidia M. Ortega Alvarado

and

María I. Ramos Galan

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3532 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing from satellite and UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles) sources; massive dataset processing; spatiotemporal information systems; data analysis including data mining and machine and deep learning; imagery and 3D point cloud fusion; ecology and precision agriculture

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

Ecosystem Protection in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions Supported by Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data

edited by

Qiang Yu

, Junran Li,

Di Yang

and

Linyuan Li

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3327 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi scale remote sensing data; remote sensing technology; arid and semi-arid regions; climate change; dryland ecosystems; structure and function farmland protection forest

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

Deep Learning for Very-High Resolution Land-Cover Mapping (Second Edition)

edited by

Lei Ma

and

Claudio Persello

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2304 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; explainable deep learning; land-cover mapping; geo-information extraction; very high-resolution images; data augmentation; data fusion; semantic segmentation; instance segmentation; change detection; weak and semi-supervision

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

Geospatial Intelligence in Remote Sensing

edited by Samsung Lim and Badal Pokharel

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2161 | Submission Open

Keywords: geospatial intelligence; remote sensing; machine learning; spatial analysis; GeoAI; 3D point cloud processing; environmental monitoring; satellite image classification

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

Observations of Atmospheric and Oceanic Processes by Remote Sensing

edited by

Jinpeng Zhang

,

Xi Zhang

, Xiaofeng Zhao and

Weimin Huang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1298 | Submission Open

Keywords: ocean– atmosphere interaction; atmospheric processes; oceanic monitoring; climate change monitoring; microwave remote sensing; satellite observations; observation methods; observation instruments; artificial intelligence in remote sensing; emerging remote sensing technologies

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

Intelligent Perception and Robust Positioning Methods in GNSS-Denied Environments

edited by

Yue Yu

, Zhaoliang Liu,

Xiaoxiang Cao

and

Liang Chen

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1277 | Submission Open

Keywords: spatiotemporal intelligence; ubiquitous positioning; global navigation satellite system; indoor positioning; intelligent perception; multi-source fusion; deep learning; location-based services

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

Artificial Intelligence and Big Data for Oceanography (2nd Edition)

edited by

Yongqing Li

,

Weimin Huang

and

Peng Ren

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1186 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; oceanography; big data; remote sensing; information extraction; data mining

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

Advanced Techniques of Spaceborne Surveillance Radar

edited by

Jingwei Xu

, Weiwei Wang, Yanhong Xu and Yuhong Zhang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1153 | Submission Open

Keywords: spaceborne radar system; spaceborne antenna technique; array signal processing; moving target detection; non-homogeneity clutter suppression; jamming suppression; multi-target tracking

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

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with Applications in Remote Sensing (Third Edition)

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submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1148 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing data; artificial intelligence; machine learning; deep learning; hyperspectral images

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

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

edited by

Enrico Corrado Borgogno Mondino

,

Filippo Sarvia

and

Samuele De Petris

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1076 | 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)

Application of Remote Sensing Technology in Wetland Ecology

edited by

Dehua Mao

,

Yang Liu

,

Jianing Zhen

and Jingwei Li

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1063 | Submission Open

Keywords: remotely sensed big data; wetland landscape patterns or processes; wetland functions and services; wetland resilience and sustainability; wetland biodiversity

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

Spaceborne Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS-R): Techniques, Applications, and Challenges

edited by

Feixiong Huang

, Wei Wan and

Feng Wang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1039 | Submission Open

Keywords: GNSS-R; satellite mission; small satellite; ocean surface; soil moisture; sea ice; biomass; target detection

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

Recent Advances in Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Imaging Sensing

edited by

Yayun Cheng

,

Dong Zhu

, Hailiang Lu, Guoping Hu and

Jian Dong

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1016 | Submission Open

Keywords: microwave; millimeter wave; radiometer; radar; imaging systems; polarization; aperture synthesis; antenna design; detection and recognition; information extraction

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

Deep Learning and Foundation Models: Advancing Remote Sensing Applications

edited by

Mohamed Lamine Mekhalfi

,

Yakoub Bazi

,

Edoardo Pasolli

and

Mawloud Guermoui

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 914 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; deep learning; data analysis; modeling; machine vision; artificial intelligence

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

Supporting Earth Observation and Human–Environment Interaction with Global Geospatial Information

edited by

Hua Liu

and

Hone-Jay Chu

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 897 | Submission Open

Keywords: muti-platform earth observations; AI; big data; remote sensing; image fusion; hazards; human health; anthropogenic influences; climate resilience; global change; climate change

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

Remote Sensing Applications for Trace Gases and Air Quality

edited by Songyan Zhu,

Shuaiyi Shi

and Haolin Wang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 769 | Submission Open

Keywords: trace gases; air quality; remote sensing; public well-being; pollution exposure; ecosystem responses

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

Using Remote Sensing Technology to Quantify Greenhouse Gas Emissions

edited by

Ge Han

,

Simit Raval

and Tianqi Shi

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 672 | 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)

Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces: Observation, Modeling, and Data Assimilation

edited by

Yansong Bao

and

Fu Wang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 602 | Submission Open

Keywords: land surface process; data assimilation; remote sensing ; land cover; soil moisture

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

Recent Advances and Future Vision for Remote Sensing of Hazards in Cultural and Natural Heritage

edited by

Athanasios V. Argyriou

and

Dante Abate

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 601 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; cultural heritage; natural heritage; natural hazards; environmental threats; hazard monitoring; cutting-edge technologies; disaster risk reduction; preservation; decision support systems

GNSS Technology Advancements and Contemporary Applications in Geosciences

edited by

George P. Petropoulos

,

Prashant Srivastava

,

Kamil Maciuk

, Pavan Kumar and Abhay Kumar Singh

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 516 | Submission Open

Keywords: GPS technology; GNSS technology; GPS/GNSS reference station infrastructure; geodesy; geosciences applications of GPS/GNSS; navigation; precise positioning; precision agriculture; land surface properties; UAVs; software tools; COSMIC radiation; environmental monitoring; geolocation services

Space-Based Observations of Lightning and Related Phenomena

edited by Jing Yang and

Chengling Kuo

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 396 | Submission Open

Keywords: lightning activity; transient luminous events; terrestrial gamma-ray flashes

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

Remote Sensing Datasets and 3D Visualization of Geospatial Big Data

edited by

Mohammad Kakooei

,

Meisam Amani

and Yasser Baleghi

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 391 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; 3D visualization; urban planning; dataset; mapping; satellite imagery

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

Big Data Era: AI Technology for SAR and PolSAR Image

edited by

Weidong Sun

,

Jinqi Zhao

, Yexian Ren and Weixian Tan

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 382 | Submission Open

Keywords: synthetic aperture radar image processing; radar polarimetry; microwave remote sensing; explainable artificial intelligence; deep learning; earth resource monitoring; target attribute extraction

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

Remote Sensing of Climate Change Influences on Urban Ecology

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submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 367 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban ecology; climate change; nature-based solutions; urban wetlands; green infrastructure; environmental justice; urban forestry; remote sensing; ecosystem services; urban sustainability; urban biodiversity

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

Advances in Remote Sensing for Soil Property Mapping

edited by Miao Lu, Shangrong Wu and

Feng Liu

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 341 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil quality; soil properties; soil mapping; crop responses; crop growth/yield

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

Applications and Opportunities of Remote Sensing in Fire Ecology

edited by

Nikos Grammalidis

,

Kosmas Dimitropoulos

and

Panagiotis Barmpoutis

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 332 | Submission Open

Keywords: fire ecology; forest fire prevention; fire risk assessment and management; fire/smoke detection sensors and algorithms; fire/smoke modeling and prediction; burned area estimation; post-fire management and restoration

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

Application of Remote Sensing in Arctic Ecosystem Monitoring

edited by

Gareth Rees

and Olga Tutubalina

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 319 | Submission Open

Keywords: Arctic; ecosystem; terrestrial; marine; sea ice; coastal; freshwater; satellite; UAV; ecology; monitoring

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

High-Resolution Soil Moisture Products for Hydrology, Agriculture, and Hazard Applications

edited by Yuchuan Luo, Juan Cao and Peng Zhu

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 313 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-resolution soil moisture; remote sensing; data assimilation; soil moisture retrieval; hydrological modeling; agricultural productivity; hazard risk assessment

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

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