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Satellite Remote Sensing for Meteorological Disaster Monitoring and Forecasting submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4206 | 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 for Digital Twins in Forestry: Applications and Future Perspectives
edited by Juan Suarez-Minguez and Jacqueline Rosette
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4036 | Submission Open
Keywords: digital twins; earth observation; forestry; AI; tree growth models; high-resolution remote sensing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Remote Sensing)
Remote Sensing for Monitoring Water and Carbon Cycles
edited by , Fang Cao and Shujie Yu
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3857 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; water quality; water volume; carbon cycle; total suspended matter; Chlorophyll; dissolved organic carbon; particulate organic carbon; water color; global change
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Remote Sensing in Monitoring and Modelling the Patterns and Processes of Land System Change submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3695 | Submission Open
Keywords: land system science; human– environment interactions; ecosystem; ecological process; land degradation; land use function; land configuration; environmental performance; change detection; time series analysis; ecological restoration; social-ecological systems; human well-being
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Remote Sensing of Water Dynamics in Permafrost Regions
edited by Zeyong Gao and Lingxiao Wang
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3505 | Submission Open
Keywords: permafrost degradation; thermokarst processes; ground-ice melting; active layer dynamics; climate change impacts; eco-hydrological effects
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)
Remote Sensing and GIS for Monitoring Urbanization and Urban Health (Second Edition) submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2565 | Submission Open
Keywords: urbanization and health both regionally and globally; urban landscape; urban ecological system; and health; territorial spatial planning and health city; urbanization speed and acceleration; spatial– temporal analysis of urbanization; green space/blue space/gray space remote sensing monitoring; map of urban development and evolution; urban environment changes and health effects; remote sensing GIS big data and urban health; remote sensing and GIS monitoring; simulating; and predicting of infectious diseases; such as COVID-19
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Remote Sensing of Clouds and Aerosols: Techniques and Applications
edited by , and Yasmin Aboel Fetouh
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1991 | Submission Open
Keywords: clouds; precipitation; cloud pollution; remote sensing; radiative transfer; light scattering; atmospheric ice crystals; aerosol remote sensing; air quality; climate change
(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)
Remote Sensing of River and Lake Ice/Water Using Spaceborne, Airborne, and Ground Platforms
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1972 | Submission Open
Keywords: river ice; lake ice; ice/snow properties; water quality; water ecosystem; remote sensing; remote sensing applications; multi-sensor and multi-source data; climate change; resources assessment; machine learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Remote Sensing of Climate Change Influences on Urban Ecology submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1926 | 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 Calibration, Validation, and Quality Assurance for Optical Remote Sensors submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1494 | Submission Open
Keywords: optical remote sensing; radiometric calibration; polarimetric calibration; spectral calibration; geometric calibration; vicarious calibration; cross-calibration; uncertainty analysis; validation; data quality assurance
(This special issue belongs to the Section Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration)
Advances in Remote Sensing for Burned Area Mapping submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1229 | Submission Open
Keywords: burn areas’ detection and mapping; geo-informatics; fire severity; fire regime; biomass loss; wildland– urban interface (WUI) fires; three-dimensional modeling; image processing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Observation for Emergency Management)
Environmental Monitoring with Sentinel Satellites: Applications and Future Perspectives
edited by Silvia Scifoni, and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 1214 | Submission Open
Keywords: Sentinel-1; Sentinel-2; Sentinel-3; Sentinel-5P; Sentinel-6; environmental monitoring; copernicus programme
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Microwave Remote Sensing on Ocean Observation
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1013 | Submission Open
Keywords: ocean dynamic parameter retrieval; detection of marine dynamic phenomena and artificial targets; advanced forward modeling of ocean scattering and emission; data fusion and reconstruction of multi-source ocean products; deep learning/artificial intelligence in ocean remote sensing; scatterometer/radiometer/SAR/GNSS-reflectometry; scale effect analysis; Polarization theory and Polarimetric SAR applications in ocean remote sensing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)
Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing Synergies for Flood Hazard Monitoring and Geomorphic Analysis submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 855 | Submission Open
Keywords: multi-sensor remote sensing; flood hazard; geomorphology; flood geomorphic dynamics monitoring; process coupling; data fusion; risk assessment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)
Remote Sensing Applications for Environmental Monitoring and Land Changes submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 667 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing and environmental monitoring; AI and machine learning for remote sensing; land use and land cover change analysis; hyperspectral; lidar; optical and radar applications; climate change impact and disaster risk management; big data; cloud-based geospatial processing; data fusion in geospatial analysis; sustainable land management and policy applications
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Advances in High-Resolution Crop Mapping at Large Spatial Scales
edited by and Pengliang Wei
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 546 | Submission Open
Keywords: high-resolution crop mapping; remote sensing for agriculture; large-scale crop monitoring; multi-source satellite data; crop classification; machine learning in agriculture; temporal dynamics of crops; agricultural change detection; precision agriculture; remote sensing applications in food security
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)
New Trends on Remote Sensing Applications to Mineral Deposits (Third Edition) submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 480 | Submission Open
Keywords: mineral exploration; multispectral and hyperspectral data; sar data; machine learning; deep learning; satellite data; raw materials
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)
Deep Learning Techniques for Pixel Classification and Image Retrieval in Remote Sensing submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 333 | Submission Open
Keywords: high-resolution remote sensing; satellite imagery; pixel-wise classification; time-series image analysis; machine learning applications; deep learning applications; multi-source feature fusion; domain adaptation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
Remote Sensing and GIS for Environmental Analysis and Cultural Heritage (2nd Edition) submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 287 | Submission Open
Keywords: climate change and CH site preservation; advanced change detection techniques for CH; monitoring of CH sites; 3D mapping and M Modeling for CH preservation; mapping hazards; risk mapping; geospatial standards; GIS-BIM integration
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing for Geospatial Science)
Advances in Scene Understanding with Hyperspectral Remote Sensing: From Data Benchmarks to Applications
edited by , , Shou Feng, and Zhiyong Lv
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 279 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; hyperspectral image processing; benchmarking datasets; spectral unmixing; target detection; classification/segmentation; hyperspectral applications
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
Remote Sensing of Lithosphere–Atmosphere–Ionosphere Coupling Prior to Earthquakes and Other Natural Hazards: Second Edition
edited by , and Cristiano Fidani
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 236 | Submission Open
Keywords: earthquake; precursors; LAIC; ground-based observations; satellite observations; ionospheric disturbances; volcano eruptions; extreme weather; geomagnetic storms/substorms; natural hazards
(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)
Applications of Remote Sensing in Hydrology and Ecology: Observations, Methods, and Innovations
edited by , and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 190 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; hydrological modelling; data assimilation; machine learning; climate extremes monitoring; ground water storage; surface water dynamics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)
Multimodal Learning and Explainable AI for Remote Sensing Image Interpretation
edited by Le Yang, , Lei Shi, and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 174 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; multimodal machine learning; explainable AI; image interpretation; data fusion; heterogeneous data; image registration; earth observation; environmental monitoring; model interpretability
(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
3D Computer Vision for Remote Sensing: Point Clouds, Reconstruction and Scene Understanding
edited by , Li Li, Qi Dong and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 165 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; computer vision; LiDAR; point clouds; 3D synthesis and reconstruction; scene understanding; multimodal data fusion; deep generative models; large vision– language models; 3D remote sensing applications
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing for Geospatial Science)
High-Precision Calibration and Polarimetric and Interferometric Image Processing Technology
edited by , Kun Li and Chang Liu
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 149 | Submission Open
Keywords: novel calibration algorithms; polarimetric and interferometric calibration models; application of big data and artificial intelligence for SAR calibration; calibration strategies for ongoing and upcoming SAR missions; multi-source data processing with physical modeling and deep learning techniques; quantitative applications of calibrated SAR data
(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering Remote Sensing)
Artificial Intelligence and Satellite Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 130 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence; deep learning; environmental monitoring; ocean remote sensing; marine pollution; water quality monitoring; phytoplankton phenology monitoring; land use/land cover; coastline changes mapping; maritime target detection; hazards; floating material detection
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Multimodal GeoAI for Spatial Fusion: Multi-Source Geotagged Images, Video and Sound submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 108 | Submission Open
Keywords: multimodal geospatial data; street-view imagery; UAV-perspective data; cross-domain learning and transfer; vision language models for geospatial data fusion; urban built environment; urban governance and smart cities; urban health and wellbeing; disaster response
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing for Geospatial Science)
Remote Sensing with Radar or Lidar for Multi-Scale Atmospheric Observation
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 105 | Submission Open
Keywords: radar remote sensing; lidar atmospheric sensing; multi-scale atmospheric observation; atmospheric boundary layer observation; atmospheric parameter retrieval; energy meteorology observation; wind field detection; cloud and precipitation detection; radar/lidar data assimilation; machine learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)
Urban Sprawl and Urban Sustainability: High-Resolution Remote-Sensing Image Analytics
edited by , and Yan Zhang
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 104 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; deep learning; multi-sensor/ multi-modal data fusion; image classification; change detection; time-series image analysis; semantic segmentation; urban sustainability
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
Image Processing and Analysis: Trends in Registration, Data Fusion, 3D Reconstruction, and Change Detection (Fourth Edition)
edited by , and Luca Perfetti
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 99 | 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)
Remote Sensing and In-Situ Characterization of Desert Dust Outbreaks: From Sources to Climate Impact submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 92 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; desert dust; atmospheric aerosols; climate change; sensing techniques; dust outbreak; health effects; nutrient transport; trace elements transport
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Deep Learning for Maritime Target Interpretation in Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery
edited by Nan Xu, and Shijin Li
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 75 | Submission Open
Keywords: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR); deep learning; maritime monitoring; small target detection; anchor-free detection; multimodal data fusion
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)
Advances in Video Satellite Remote Sensing and Moving Target Monitoring
edited by and Shengyang Li
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 65 | Submission Open
Keywords: satellite video; dynamic target detection; dynamic target tracking; dynamic scene understanding; video enhancement and super-resolution; dim-small target; video intrinsic decomposition; deep leaning; video satellite design
(This special issue belongs to the Section Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration)
Geohazard Mapping, Monitoring and Prediction with Advanced Remote Sensing Techniques submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 61 | Submission Open
Keywords: geohazards; remote sensing; InSAR; unmanned aerial vehicles; machine learning; deep learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)
Advanced Remote Sensing Technologies for Soil Erosion Mapping and Modeling
edited by , Xihua Yang and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 60 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil erosion; remote sensing; RUSLE; gully erosion; land degradation; machine learning; GIS; UAV; sediment yield; conservation practices
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Multi-Source Remote Sensing and Foundation Models for Advanced Vegetation Mapping and Ecosystem Service Assessment
edited by Jianhong Liu, Clement Atzberger, Peijun Sun, Xianfeng Liu and Donghai Zhang
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 53 | Submission Open
Keywords: multi-source remote sensing; foundation model; vegetation mapping and monitoring; sensor fusion; lidar– optical– sar integration; ecosystem service assessment; shallow to deep machine learning; time-series analysis; multi-sensor uav-based vegetation monitoring; land surface phenology and phenology-driven mapping; cross-scale modeling and uncertainty assessment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)
Advanced Remote Sensing for Hydro-Climatic Extremes: Modeling, Characterization, and Risk Analysis
edited by , and Dimitrios Stampoulis
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 52 | Submission Open
Keywords: hydrological modeling; earth observation (EO); machine learning (ML); GeoAI; hydro-climatic extremes; water resources management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)
Emulation and Surrogate Modeling in Remote Sensing: Advances, Challenges and Applications submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 52 | Submission Open
Keywords: emulation; surrogate modeling; radiative transfer models; machine learning/deep learning; uncertainty quantification; atmosphere; vegetation; and land surface retrievals; hyperspectral and multispectral data; data assimilation; cloud computing and HPC
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
Remote Sensing of Solar Radiation Absorbed by Land Surfaces (Second Edition) submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 38 | Submission Open
Keywords: land surface albedo; incoming solar radiation; aerosols; clouds; BRDF; photovoltaic; radiative forcing; validation; climate change/mitigation; earth radiation budget; applications of radiation products
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Remote Sensing Technologies and Methods for Ocean Monitoring and Surveillance
edited by , Gianmarco Lunghi and José Carlos Nieto-Borge
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 33 | Submission Open
Keywords: radar data analysis; ocean wave; bathymetry reconstruction; numerical modeling; river discharge; oil spill
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)
Progress in Remote Sensing and Scalable Computing for Natural Hazard Detection and Emergency Response submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 33 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; scalable computing; data integration; natural hazard; early warning; emergency response
(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Observation for Emergency Management)
Global Monitoring of Inland Water Using Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence (Second Edition)
edited by Nan Xu, , and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 28 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; inland water; artificial intelligence; water resource; hydrology; machine learning; global change and regional response
(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
Advances Remote Sensing Technique in Agriculture and Artificial Intelligence
edited by , Meiyan Shu and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 25 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence; precision agriculture; satellite and UAV remote sensing; data fusion; crop monitoring; yield prediction; aboveground biomass estimation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)
Remote Sensing for Monitoring Nutrients in Coastal and Inland Waters submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 18 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; water quality; nutrients; eutrophication; coastal waters; inland waters; regression; classification; machine learning; deep learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Application of Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing to Investigate Water Energy Balance Process
edited by Linan Guo, Yanhong Wu and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 12 | Submission Open
Keywords: water energy balance; thermodynamic processes; climate change; data assimilation; remote sensing in water environments; water resources
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Image Analysis via Advanced Deep Learning and Computer Vision
edited by , Xiangyong Cao and Xueyang Fu
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 9 | Submission Open
Keywords: hyperspectral image analysis; spectral– spatial feature fusion; self-supervised learning; Explainable AI (XAI); domain adaptation; multimodal data fusion; generative models; lightweight deep learning; transformer networks; large language models
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
Advanced Quantitative Remote Sensing for Sustainable Agriculture and Vegetation: From Multi-Sensor Fusion to AI-Driven Global Food Security
edited by , Zunjian Bian, and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 6 | Submission Open
Keywords: quantitative remote sensing; precision agriculture; deep learning and foundation models; multi-sensor data fusion; crop yield prediction and phenotyping; carbon sequestration and soil health; vegetation radiative transfer models (RTMs); climate change adaptation; UAV and high-resolution imaging; digital twins in agriculture
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)
Numerical Modeling and AI-Driven Remote Sensing for Coastal Geomorphology Monitoring
edited by Jun Cheng and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 4 | Submission Open
Keywords: multi-platform remote sensing; sensor fusion; LIDAR monitoring; AI and cloud-based analytics; shoreline erosion; coastal resilience
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)
Explainable AI Methods for Remote Sensing Images Interpretation
edited by and Didier Gueriot
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 1 | Submission Open
Keywords: explainability vs. interpretability; ante-hoc vs. post-hoc methods; global vs. local explanations; model agnostic vs. model specific explanation; algorithm unwrapping; target recognition; image/data segmentation; image registration; detection change
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
Supporting Earth Observation and Human–Environment Interaction with Global Geospatial Information
edited by and
submission deadline 1 Jul 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7025 | 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)
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