Remote Sensing

Remote Sensing for Monitoring Harmful Algal Blooms (Second Edition)

edited by

Gongliang Yu

,

Junsheng Li

, Chen Wang and

Yao Liu

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2381 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; UAVs; citizen science; harmful algal blooms; eutrophication; water quality; bio-optical properties; natural and anthropogenic factors

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

Advances in Remote Sensing of the Polar Ice with High Frequency (HF) to L-Band Radar

edited by

Shinan Lang

,

Xiangbin Cui

,

Bo Zhao

and Pedro Fidel Espín-López

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2287 | Submission Open

Keywords: ice sounding radar; system design; signal processing; Antarctic; Arctic; mountain glaciers; subglacial conditions; snow cover; sea ice; satellite and aerial cryosphere

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

Remote Sensing-Driven Digital Twins for Climate-Adaptive Cities

edited by

Hossein M. Rizeei

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2268 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital twin frameworks; deep learning and transformer models; multi-sensor data fusion (optical; SAR; and LiDAR); urban heat island and environmental indicator mapping; feature extraction (buildings; impervious surfaces; and green spaces); spatiotemporal change detection; AI-powered decision-support systems

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

Emerging Technologies in Hyperspectral Image 3A—Acquisition, Analysis and Application

edited by Jie Chen, Shumin Liu, Min Zhao, Shuaikai Shi and Xiuheng Wang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2106 | Submission Open

Keywords: image processing; hyperspectral data acquisition; computational imaging; spectral and spatial analysis; AI-tools; hyperspectral applications; deep learning

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

Multi-Source Remote Sensing and Spatial Statistical Analysis in Urban Sustainability Research

edited by

Hao Zhang

,

Ashraf Dewan

and

Rui Zhou

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2067 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; multi-source remote sensing data; data mining; urban sustainability; climate change; spatial statistics; urban resilience; geohazards; biological degradation

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

High-Resolution Multisource Remote Sensing of Vegetation: Biomass, Structure, and Carbon Dynamics

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submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2016 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-spatial-resolution vegetation remote sensing product; carbon dynamic; biomass; vegetation structure parameters; vegetation monitoring; lidar based vegetation products

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

The Recent Progression of Machine Learning in Remote Sensing: Theory and Modelling (Second Edition)

edited by Rong Wang and

Lefei Zhang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1752 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; image processing; remote sensing; data fusion; satellite images; aerial images

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

Ecological Change with Multi-Scale Spatial-Temporal Remote Sensing Data

edited by

Linlin Cheng

, Wei Tang and Deqin Fan

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1731 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecological structure and function; remote sensing; ecological networks; multi-source data fusion; ecological dynamics

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

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

edited by

Jinyun Guo

,

Cheinway Hwang

,

Yu Sun

and Tzu-pang Tseng

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1567 | 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)

Artificial Intelligence for Coastal Remote Sensing: Dataset and Application

edited by

Chunpeng Chen

,

Panpan Xu

and Pengfei Tang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1550 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; automated mapping; coastal wetlands; river deltas; multi-source data fusion; earth observation big data

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

Machine Learning for Remote-Sensing Data Processing and Analysis

edited by Maria Kaselimi,

Olga Sykioti

,

Konstantinos Koutroumbas

and

Yongzhi Wang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1414 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning and deep learning for satellite; UAV and aerial-image analysis; data fusion of multispectral; hyperspectral; SAR; LiDAR and other sensors; change detection; segmentation; classification and object detection; generative AI; foundation models and self-supervised learning for remote sensing; interpretable; explainable and physics-informed machine learning; spatiotemporal modeling and prediction; AI-driven environmental monitoring and climate applications; applications in precision agriculture; urban analytics; water resources; forestry and natural-hazard assessment; including wildfires and earthquakes; machine learning for geoscience applications; including mineral and ore deposits exploration; mine-land monitoring; open-pit mine management and safety; mine recovery and geochemical pattern analysis; benchmark datasets; open-source tools and reproducibility in remote-sensing ML

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

Multimodal Data Fusion for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Image Processing

edited by

Ronghui Zhan

, Zongyong Cui and

Shiqi Chen

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1368 | Submission Open

Keywords: SAR; ship targets; target tracking; object detection; SAR interpretation; SAR recognition

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

Multimodal AI-Empowered Remote Sensing: Image Fusion and Analysis

edited by

Jie Guo

, F. Richard Yu and

Yinghua Li

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1292 | Submission Open

Keywords: multimodal remote sensing; cross-modal learning; remote sensing image fusion; image enhancement; domain adaptation

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

Remote Sensing and Smart Forestry (Third Edition)

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submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1234 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; smart forestry; intelligent forestry; forestry technology; virtual reality; artificial intelligence; image processing; remote sensing classification; LiDAR application in forestry

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

Advances in Multi-Source Remote Sensing, Space-Based Observations, Data Assimilation and Deep Learning for Localized Extreme Weather: Understanding Remote Sensing

edited by Chuang Zhang,

Zhengxia Zou

and Xiaoling Zhang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1187 | Submission Open

Keywords: localized extreme weather; remote sensing data assimilation; multi-source data fusion; deep learning in meteorology; precipitation nowcasting; statistical post-processing; high-resolution weather prediction; cognitive science in remote sensing

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

Intelligent Remote Sensing Information Extraction

edited by

Weixun Zhou

and

Zhenwei Shi

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1154 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; information extraction; deep learning; artificial intelligence; feature extraction; image segmentation

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

Advancements in Atmospheric Turbulence Remote Sensing

edited by

Andreu Salcedo-Bosch

and

Simone Lolli

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1066 | Submission Open

Keywords: turbulence; atmospheric remote sensing; wind; boundary layer; lidar; radar; clear air turbulence

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

Artificial Intelligence-Based Remote Sensing for Weather and Climate

edited by Fan Meng and Yangang Liu

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 990 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; deep learning; satellite meteorology; weather forecasting; climate change; tropical cyclones; data assimilation; atmospheric remote sensing; extreme weather events; physics-informed AI

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

InSAR Innovations: Advances in Remote Sensing for Geohazard Monitoring

edited by

Yunkai Deng

and Feifeng Liu

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 976 | Submission Open

Keywords: InSAR; InSAR data processing; radar interferometry; geohazard monitoring; deformation measurement

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

Satellite Remote Sensing of Quantifying Greenhouse Gases Emissions

edited by Ruixue Lei, Xueying Yu and Leyang Feng

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 966 | Submission Open

Keywords: greenhouse gas emissions; satellite remote sensing; CO2; CH4 retrieval; inversion algorithms; data assimilation; OCO-2; TROPOMI; GOSAT; machine learning; emission monitoring; carbon flux estimation

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

Ground- and Satellite-Based Remote Sensing for Air Quality Monitoring

edited by Patrizio Tratzi and

Cristiana Bassani

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 936 | Submission Open

Keywords: ground-based remote sensing; DOAS; air quality monitoring; tropospheric pollution; long-term observations

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

LiDAR Technology in Forest Ecosystems: Advances and Applications in Forest Management, Monitoring and Modelling

edited by Matteo Mura

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 927 | Submission Open

Keywords: LiDAR; airborne laser scanning; forest inventory; forest biometrics; large area estimation; forest management; forest monitoring

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

Remote Sensing Applications in Ocean Observation—4th Edition

edited by

Chung-Ru Ho

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 893 | Submission Open

Keywords: ocean remote sensing; internal waves; eddies; oil spills; algal blooms; sea ices; rogue waves; upwelling; bathymetry; air– sea interaction; marine debris; AI in ocean remote sensing

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

Multi-Source Remote Sensing for Terrestrial Vegetation and Ecosystem Services Mapping

edited by Richard Crabbe and

Wei He

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 864 | Submission Open

Keywords: image classification; SAR; LiDAR; UAV; mapping mosses and lichens; mapping grasslands; mapping groundwater-dependent ecosystems; mapping mangroves; machine learning and deep learning; mapping invasive plants

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

Object Detection in Remote Sensing Imagery

edited by

Dandan Ma

,

Zhiyu Jiang

and Le Dong

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 670 | Submission Open

Keywords: object detection remote sensing; deep learning; foundation models; transformer networks; VHR imagery; data fusion; urban monitoring; disaster and environmental assessment

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

Advancing Earth Observation Through Artificial Intelligence: From Foundation Models to Intelligent Retrieval Systems

edited by

Paolo M. Ruti

,

Claudia Acquistapace

, Andrew Parnell, Sid-Ahmed Boukabara and Chiara Maria Cocchiara

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 662 | Submission Open

Keywords: earth observations; foundation models; radiative transfer; meteorology; machine learning

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

Advances in Hyperspectral Remote Sensing for Mineral Exploration and Lithological Mapping

edited by Zhenghai Wang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 649 | Submission Open

Keywords: hyperspectral imaging (HSI); geological mapping; mineral exploration; artificial intelligence; data fusion; geohazards

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

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

edited by

Athanasios V. Argyriou

and

Dante Abate

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 602 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; cultural heritage; natural heritage; natural hazards; cutting-edge technologies; disaster risk reduction; preservation; change detection; machine learning; decision support systems

Multi-Source Remote Sensing for Spatiotemporal Monitoring of Soil Quality and Degradation

edited by Weichao Sun and

Kun Shang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 538 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil properties; soil quality; soil degradation; reflectance spectroscopy; multi-source remote sensing; time-series remote sensing; prediction and mapping; spatiotemporal monitoring

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

Multimodal Learning for Intelligent Remote Sensing Interpretation

edited by Wenkai Zhang, Yue Zhang and

Chen Wang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 482 | Submission Open

Keywords: AI algorithm; VLM models; cross-modal retrieval; visual grounding; image caption; object detection and recognition; semantic segmentation; multi-modal change-detection; spatio-temporal semantic understanding

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

Integration of Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence for Structural Health Monitoring

edited by

Bao Shu

, Xuanyu Qu,

Lei Xie

and

Mehdi Maboudi

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 407 | Submission Open

Keywords: automated displacement monitoring; damage detection; change detection in infrastructure; spatiotemporal modeling; predictive maintenance; big data analytics; novel monitoring techniques; multi-source data fusion

Deep Fusion and Analysis of Hyperspectral and Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data via Advanced AI

edited by

Zhu Han

,

Longfei Ren

, Xu Sun and Minghua Wang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 404 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-source data fusion; foundation model; frontier applications; hyperspectral image analysis; remote sensing; deep learning

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

Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Imagery for Object Detection

edited by

Tan Guo

,

Fulin Luo

and

Lei Zhang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 395 | Submission Open

Keywords: hyperspectral remote sensing; object detection; explainable AI (XAI); spectral-spatial feature fusion; domain-specific applications

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

Foundation Models and Intelligent Agents for Remote Sensing

edited by

Xue Yang

,

Hongjie He

and

Yue Zhou

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 371 | Submission Open

Keywords: foundation models; intelligent agents; multi-modal large language models (MLLMs); remote sensing interpretation; geospatial reasoning; spatiotemporal analysis

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

Theory and Applications of Satellite Remote Sensing Fusing Lidars with Optical and Thermal Sensors in Oceanography and Limnology

edited by

Xiao Hua Wang

, Yanfang Xiao, Song Ye,

Yue Ma

and

Jian Yang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 336 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite lidar; photon-counting lidar; oceanography and limnology; ocean color; subsurface optical/biological properties; satellite-derived bathymetry; sea surface temperature

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

Earthquake Fault Traces, Surface Deformation, and Secondary Hazards Revealed by High-Resolution Remote Sensing Data

edited by Peng Liang, Kang Li,

Wenqian Yao

and Jihong Liu

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 335 | Submission Open

Keywords: active fault; surface rupture; tectonic geomorphology; seismic hazard; machine learning; UAV; LIDAR; InSAR; high-resolution satellite imagery

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

Advancing Polar Cryosphere Science with Remote Sensing: From Snow Cover to Sea Ice Dynamics

edited by

Alexander Kokhanovsky

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 276 | Submission Open

Keywords: snow; ice; remote sensing; ice dynamics; ice concentration; snow cover and albedo

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

Cutting-Edge Algorithms and Characteristic Geo-Applications with Remote Sensing

edited by Xuanwen Tao,

Mercedes E. Paoletti

and

Juan M. Haut

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 247 | 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)

HF Radar Remote Sensing from Coastal to Offshore Platforms: Monitoring Marine Environments and Detecting Surface Targets

edited by

Yingwei Tian

,

Weimin Huang

, Haijian Zhang and Jiurui Zhao

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 238 | Submission Open

Keywords: HF radar; target detection and tracking; sea state inversion; data quality control and evaluation; offshore platforms; multi-source data fusion

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

High-Resolution Remote Sensing Applications in Precision Geoscience and Infrastructure Planning

edited by

Nikola Kranjčić

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 228 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-resolution remote sensing; precision geoscience; infrastructure planning; UAV remote sensing; LiDAR; digital elevation models; SAR and InSAR; geospatial data integration

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

Impacts of Climate Change on Water Cycle and Terrestrial Ecosystems by Remote Sensing

edited by Chun-Yu Dong,

Xufeng Wang

and

Chang Huang

submission deadline 5 Aug 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 9081 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; environmental monitoring; hydrological processes; vegetation dynamics; phenology; flood; biodiversity; water cycle; drought; water resources; carbon cycle; biomass

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

Advances in Retrieval and Validation of Atmospheric Components by Remote Sensing

edited by

Yuhan Luo

,

Lei Liu

, Shanshan Wang and

Youwen Sun

submission deadline 10 Aug 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10883 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite trace gas product validation; satellite cloud product validation; trace gas vertical profile; atmospheric composition; high-resolution imaging; data assimilation; data fusion

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

Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing for Soil Moisture Monitoring

edited by

Qunou Jiang

,

Na Chen

,

Qiang Yu

,

Konstantinos X. Soulis

and

Dionissios Kalivas

submission deadline 10 Aug 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1655 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil moisture inversion; multi-sensor remote sensing; machine learning; UAV-based observation; data assimilation; hydrological modeling

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

Remote Sensing Data Refinement and Utilization for Advanced Atmospheric Observations

edited by

Bangyu Ge

, Zhenwei Qiu and Sifeng Zhu

submission deadline 10 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 616 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite remote sensing; atmospheric observation; data validation; sensor calibration; atmospheric components; retrieval algorithms; data assimilation; climate change; environmental monitoring; machine learning

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

Near Real-Time (NRT) Agriculture Monitoring

edited by

Liang Sun

,

Feng Gao

,

Wenbin Wu

and Peng Yang

submission deadline 15 Aug 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 29914 | Submission Open

Keywords: near real-time (NRT); early crop mapping; crop stress; crop phenology; yield prediction; soil monitoring; data fusion; time-series analysis

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

Advances in the Application of Spaceborne and UAS-Borne Radar Remote Sensing

edited by

Neda Rojhani

,

George Shaker

,

Massimiliano Pieraccini

and

Amir Hosein Oveis

submission deadline 15 Aug 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 25800 | Submission Open

Keywords: radar technology; space-based radar technology; planetary mapping radar; remote sensing applications; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); disaster management applications; advanced signal processing; space exploration; radar technology in earth sciences

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

New Advances in Remote Sensing Techniques Applied in Surface and Underground Mine Operations

edited by

Kamran Esmaeili

submission deadline 15 Aug 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 17181 | Submission Open

Keywords: open-pit mining; underground mining; mapping; mine process monitoring; operational efficiency; mine safety; mine environmental monitoring

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

Remote Sensing Applications in Hydrology and Water Resources Management

edited by Ning Liu, Yun Yang,

Ge Sun

and

Gabriel Senay

submission deadline 15 Aug 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 13746 | Submission Open

Keywords: water use; water supply; water availability; hydrologic modeling; remote sensing; water resource management

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

Remote Sensing-Based Assessments in the Forest Fire Disturbance Continuum

edited by

José Manuel Fernández-Guisuraga

submission deadline 15 Aug 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9954 | Submission Open

Keywords: wildfires; fire severity; burned area; multispectral/hyperspectral; LiDAR; SAR; unmanned aerial vehicles; fuel mapping; fire impacts on vegetation and soils; fire regime

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

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

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submission deadline 15 Aug 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5159 | 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)

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