Remote Sensing

Remote Sensing-Based Assessments in the Forest Fire Disturbance Continuum

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submission deadline 28 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7042 | 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)

AI-Driven Mapping Using Remote Sensing Data

edited by

Li Fang

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Jian Yang

and

Yu Feng

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 19447 | Submission Open

Keywords: AI-driven remote sensing; image interpretation; change detection; urban modeling; spatially explicit AI; crowdsourced label

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

Advances in Remote Sensing for Soil Property Mapping

edited by Miao Lu, Shangrong Wu and

Feng Liu

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8084 | 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)

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

edited by

Tao Luo

, Juhua Luo,

Jianfeng Sun

and

Jianfeng Chen

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6558 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental component monitoring; atmospheric detection; target detection; lidar; floating platform; satellite; airborne; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); collaborative observation; data assimilation

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

Multi-Object Detection and Feature Extraction of Remote Sensing Images

edited by

Yu Zhang

, Yan Zhang, Zhiguang Shi and Ruigang Fu

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4624 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing imagery; multi-object detection; feature extraction; deep learning; transformer-based architectures; multi-modal fusion

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

Remote Sensing for Landscape Dynamics

edited by

Peipei Wang

, Wei Han,

Yuanyuan Zhao

and

Xinqi Zheng

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4517 | Submission Open

Keywords: landscape dynamics; land use/land cover change; landscape pattern analysis; remote sensing; machine learning; time series analysis; landscape resilience; land degradation and recovery; geospatial modeling; multi-sensor data fusion; vegetation monitoring; large language models

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

Advances in Remote Sensing of the Inland and Coastal Water Zones (3rd Edition)

edited by

Jacek Lubczonek

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Paweł Terefenko

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Katarzyna Bradtke

and

Marta Wlodarczyk-Sielicka

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3804 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal zone; coastal geomorphology; inland waters; shoreline change/erosion; ecosystem; water parameters; water level; bathymetry; topo-bathymetry; geodata processing; data fusion; LIDAR; spatial big data; satellite remote sensing; algal blooms; 3D modelling; spatial mapping; image processing and analysis; machine learning; digital elevation/bathymetric models

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

Linking Landscapes, Landsliding, and Ecosystem Diversity and Functioning: New Insights from Remote Sensing

edited by

Carla Restrepo

and

Miles R. Silman

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3525 | Submission Open

Keywords: biodiversity; functional diversity; ecosystem function; ecosystem services; landscape function; spatial diversity; mountainscapes; landsliding

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biogeosciences 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 30 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1152 | 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)

Advancements in Ionospheric Research: Remote Sensing, Space Weather Impacts, and Machine Learning

edited by

Bo Xiong

and

Biqiang Zhao

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 699 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing techniques; ionospheric modeling; ionospheric disturbances due to ionospheric irregularities; geomagnetic storms; solar flares; and solar eclipses

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

Innovative Remote Sensing Methods and Applications for Smart Cities

edited by

Tingting Xu

, Biao He and

Jay Gao

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 560 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban remote sensing; smart city applications; artificial intelligence in remote sensing; multisensor data fusion; urban monitoring and management

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

Evaluation of Ecological Environment Quality Using Remote Sensing

edited by

Qifei Zhang

,

Gonghuan Fang

and

Shuhua Zhang

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 530 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing technology; ecological environment quality; vegetation dynamics; land use/cover change (LUCC); ecosystem monitoring; ecological model

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

High Earth Orbit Spaceborne SAR Systems, Technologies, and Applications (2nd Edition)

edited by

Jianlai Chen

,

Yu Li

, Yongkang Li and

Mengdao Xing

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 528 | Submission Open

Keywords: new imaging mechanism and theory; high Earth orbit spaceborne SAR; moving target indication; interference suppression; SAR image recognition and interpretation; antenna technologies for high Earth orbit spaceborne SAR; artificial intelligence in SAR applications; L-SAR4

Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing and Advanced Computational Frameworks for Landslide Detection and Predictive Modeling

edited by

Paraskevas Tsangaratos

,

Wei Chen

and

Ioanna Ilia

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 213 | Submission Open

Keywords: earth observation data— remote sensing technology; geographic information systems; machine learning; soft computing; landslide susceptibility; hazardous; and risk mapping; explainable AI in landslide phenomena prediction

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

UAV Applications for Forest Management: Wood Volume, Biomass, and Mapping (Second Edition)

edited by

Mauro Maesano

and

Federico Valerio Moresi

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 194 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAV; drone; remote sensing; forest management; forest inventory; precision forestry

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

Intelligent Processing, Mining and Application of Remote Sensing Information

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submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 25355 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing image processing; artificial intelligence; fusion of multi-sensor remote sensing data; nighttime light remote sensing; sustainable development goals; disaster and natural resource monitoring; socioeconomic remote sensing

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

Temporal Resolution, a Key Factor in Environmental Risk Assessment II - Integrating Data from Multiple Data Sources

edited by

Adrian Ursu

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Cristian Constantin Stoleriu

and

Marian Mierlă

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 20944 | Submission Open

Keywords: time series data and projections; rapid evaluation of the impact of extreme events on the environment and society; climate change; environmental risks; land-use and land-cover changes Multispectral; hyperspectral and LiDAR data from a temporal perspective; ecosystems monitoring from RS data; history and heritage; multiple data source integrated in time evolution analysis

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

Remote Sensing in Hydrometeorology and Natural Hazards

edited by

Peng Sun

,

Linyao Dong

and Rui Yao

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 18063 | Submission Open

Keywords: warming climate; remote sensing; hydrological cycle; hydrological hazards; hydrometeorology; climatic and hydrological extremes

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

Plant Disease Detection and Recognition Using Remotely Sensed Data

edited by

Huajian Liu

and

Haiguang Wang

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 17330 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; plant disease detection; plant disease recognition; computer vision; machine learning; deep learning; image processing

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

Imagery Classification and Feature Extraction Based on Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

edited by

Xia Xu

, Sen Lei, Yuanchao Su and

Xuanwen Tao

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 12579 | 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)

Advancements in Thunderstorm Nowcasting and Atmospheric Electricity Monitoring by Remote Sensing

edited by

Richard Müller

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 11175 | Submission Open

Keywords: thunderstorms; convective initiation; lightning; life cycle; hazards

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

Remote Sensing Applications in Hydrology and Water Resources Management

edited by Ning Liu, Yun Yang,

Ge Sun

and

Gabriel Senay

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9921 | 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 in Earth Surface Changes and Deformations Caused by Earthquake and Landslide (Third Edition)

edited by

Yi Wang

,

Jun Hu

and

Weile Li

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9351 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; earth surface change; surface deformation; earthquakes; landslides; hazard detection; hazard mapping; hazard evaluation

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

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

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submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9318 | Submission Open

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

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

edited by

Yongqing Li

,

Weimin Huang

and

Peng Ren

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 9140 | Submission Open

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

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

Artificial Intelligence and Remote Sensing for Geohazards

edited by

Pierluigi Confuorto

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Silvia Bianchini

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Chiara Martinello

and Davide Festa

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8598 | Submission Open

Keywords: modeling; monitoring; landslides; subsidence; geohazard; susceptibility; risk analysis; GIS; machine learning

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

Advances in Remote Sensing of Vegetation Structure Analysis and Forest Ecosystems Monitoring

edited by

Carlos José Novillo Camacho

and

Arrogante-Funes Patricia

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6142 | Submission Open

Keywords: LiDAR remote sensing; forest monitoring; aerial photogrammetry; vegetation structure; time series vegetation index; land cover change

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

Water Quality Monitoring and Quantitative Analysis in Marine and Inland Areas Utilizing Remote Sensing Techniques

edited by Jing Tan,

Ishan Joshi

and

Zhigang Cao

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5524 | Submission Open

Keywords: ocean color; eutrophication; water quality; multi-sensor data; optical properties; atmospheric correction; marine ecosystems; remote sensing data

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

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

edited by

Lei Ma

and

Claudio Persello

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 5168 | 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)

Advances in Multimodal Remote Sensing Data: Processing, Fusion and Applications

edited by Yixiang Luomei and Fa-Ming Fang

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4933 | Submission Open

Keywords: multimodal data alignment; multi-source data fusion; multimodal representation; multimodal co-learning; image interpretation; multimodal machine learning

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

Remote Sensing and Geophysical Tools for Land and Water System Analysis

edited by

Vivek Agarwal

,

Stuart Marsh

and

Anuj Tiwari

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4656 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; geophysical tools; land system analysis; water resource management; subsurface mapping; environmental monitoring; data integration and modeling

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

Development and Implementation of Early Detection and Warning Methods for Natural Hazards Utilizing Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data

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submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3865 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; reanalysis data; method development; natural hazards; early identification; monitoring and early warnings; glacier-related disasters; hill fire monitoring; flash flood; debris flow; drought; landslides

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

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

edited by

Yansong Bao

and

Fu Wang

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3666 | Submission Open

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

Big Data Era: AI Technology for SAR and PolSAR Image

edited by

Weidong Sun

,

Jinqi Zhao

, Yexian Ren and Weixian Tan

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3595 | 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)

Advanced Deep Learning Techniques for Information Extraction and Analysis of Remote Sensing Imagery

edited by Hao Zhu and Biao Hou

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3394 | Submission Open

Keywords: image fusion; image segmentation; object detection; model acceleration or compression; image matching

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

Radar Sensing and Intelligent Recognitions: Algorithms, Data and Advanced Applications

edited by Wei Yang, Tiaojie Xiao,

Mou Wang

, Conghui Qi and Shiwen Lei

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3193 | Submission Open

Keywords: radar scattering characteristics; ocean remote sensing; intelligent recognitions from radar data; radar data processing; artificial intelligence-based radar perception techniques; SAR imaging

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

Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Remote Sensing for Wildfire Detection, Monitoring and Management

edited by

Arnick Abdollahi

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2379 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; wildfire; bushfire risk modelling and reduction; earth and space science informatics; environmental assessment and monitoring; photogrammetry and remote sensing; natural hazards; image processing; machine learning

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

Remote Sensing in Monitoring Coastal and Inland Waters

edited by Xiaoyun Wan, Qun Liu,

Salem Morsy

and

Yongjun Jia

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2377 | Submission Open

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

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

New Views of the Moon: Recent Advances in Lunar Remote Sensing and Applications

edited by

Lingzhi Sun

,

Yuqi Qian

, Le Qiao and Honglei Lin

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1683 | Submission Open

Keywords: the moon; lunar volatile; remote sensing; spectroscopy; lunar south pole; mineralogy

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

Innovations in Remote Sensing Image Analysis

edited by Lu Xu,

Xianwei Lv

,

Wen Zhou

and

Gonzalo Pajares Martinsanz

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1674 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; multimodal data; object-based image analysis; image segmentation and classification; deep learning; knowledge graph

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

Remote Sensing-Driven Digital Twins for Climate-Adaptive Cities

edited by

Hossein M. Rizeei

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1253 | 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)

Hyperspectral Classification in Remote Sensing: State-of-the-Art Methods and Emerging Trends

edited by

Hao Sun

, Zhigang Tu, Le Dong and

Zhitong Xiong

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1199 | Submission Open

Keywords: hyperspectral image classification; remote sensing; spectral-spatial features; feature extraction; deep learning; machine learning

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

Recent Developments in Remote Sensing Instruments, Technologies, and Results for Aerosol and Cloud Measurements (Second Edition)

edited by Matthew McGill

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1091 | Submission Open

Keywords: clouds; cloud radiative effects; aerosols; aerosol radiative effects; cloud– aerosol interactions; aerosol transport; diurnal variability; remote sensing

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

GIS and RS for Spatial Documentation, Analysis and Interpretation in Multi-Scale Archaeological Applications

edited by

Jie He

,

Fulong Chen

and

Massimiliano Pepe

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 824 | Submission Open

Keywords: GIS; remote sensing; archaeological space; archaeological application; multiple scales; archaeological documentation; spatial analysis; spatial interpretation and narrative

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

Artificial Intelligence for Coastal Remote Sensing: Dataset and Application

edited by

Chunpeng Chen

,

Panpan Xu

and Pengfei Tang

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 789 | 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)

Applications and Opportunities of Remote Sensing in Fire Ecology

edited by

Nikos Grammalidis

,

Kosmas Dimitropoulos

and

Panagiotis Barmpoutis

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 697 | 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)

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 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 695 | 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)

Remote Sensing for Characterization of Fractured Rocks Masses and Landslide Monitoring

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submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 447 | Submission Open

Keywords: fractured rock masses; groundwater; InSAR; landslides; slope instability; UAV

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

Multimodal AI-Empowered Remote Sensing: Image Fusion and Analysis

edited by

Jie Guo

, F. Richard Yu and

Yinghua Li

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 431 | 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)

Assessment of Climate Change Impact on Terrestrial Ecosystems in Arid Regions Using Remote Sensing Data

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submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 415 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; terrestrial ecosystems; arid regions; remote sensing; vegetation dynamics; ecosystem monitoring; land surface phenology; natural resource management; nature-based solutions (NbS)

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

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