Remote Sensing

Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence for Structural Health Monitoring

edited by Xiangdong An, Fan Zhang,

Rong Qu

,

Yilin Xie

and Vassilis Gikas

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 55 | Submission Open

Keywords: structural health monitoring (SHM); multiple source fusion of GNSS; LiDAR; and InSAR; data fusion; machine learning; anomaly detection; infrastructure monitoring

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

Applications of Multimodal Remote Sensing Models in Ecological Environment Monitoring

edited by

R. Douglas Ramsey

,

Jin Wu

and Jing Wang

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 47 | Submission Open

Keywords: multimodal remote sensing; ecological monitoring; data fusion; vegetation assessment; land cover classification; environmental change detection; machine learning; AI; geospatial analysis; sustainable resource management

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

Quantitative Inversion and Validation of Satellite Remote Sensing Products

edited by

Xingfa Gu

, Jian Yang,

Xiangqin Wei

, Hailiang Gao and

Fernando Camacho

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 25014 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing products; quantitative inversion; validation; space infrastructure; remote sensing applications

Oceanographic Lidar in the Study of Marine Systems

edited by

Peng Chen

,

Cédric Jamet

, Junwu Tang and

Martin A. Montes

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 13383 | Submission Open

Keywords: LiDAR; remote sensing; ocean optics; ocean ecology; ocean color; development; validation and calibration of ocean LiDAR algorithms; aerosol– ocean interactions.

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

Cropland and Yield Mapping with Multi-source Remote Sensing

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submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7399 | Submission Open

Keywords: yield mapping; crop yield estimation or forecasts; cropland mapping; crop parameter retrieval; multi-source imagery; crop growth model; Google Earth Engine; data assimilation; machine learning; deep learning

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

Advanced InSAR Techniques for Geohazard Monitoring and Risk Evaluation

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submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6937 | Submission Open

Keywords: InSAR; data fusion; artificial intelligence; geohazards; deformation monitoring and modelling; risk evaluation

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

Remote Sensing of High Winds and High Seas

edited by

Mark Bourassa

, Marcos Portabella,

Lucrezia Ricciardulli

and Zorana Jelenak

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4743 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; extreme weather; surface winds; tropical and extratropical cyclones; waves; currents; vertical motion; storm wake anomalies; extreme air– sea fluxes

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

Remote Sensing-Guided Land-Use Optimization for Carbon Neutrality

edited by

Sébastien Gadal

and

Gintautas Mozgeris

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 76 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; carbon neutrality; climate change adaptation; land use; land– climate interactions; LULUCF; UAST; land planning adaptation; energy transition; above ground biomass; soil carbon

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

Remote Sensing-Assisted Forest Inventory Planning

edited by Zhengyang Hou, Qing Xu and

Timo Tokola

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6452 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest ecosystems; forest management; forest inventory; forest planning; biostatistics

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

Remote Sensing of River and Lake Ice/Water Using Spaceborne, Airborne, and Ground Platforms

edited by

Zhijun Li

and

Lilong Zou

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 94 | 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)

Innovations in Hyperspectral Image Processing: Advancing Image Generation, Denoising, Fusion Techniques and Beyond

edited by Jiangjun Peng, Xiangyong Cao,

Shuang Xu

,

Jing Yao

and

Gemine Vivone

submission deadline 28 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1355 | Submission Open

Keywords: hyperspectral image denoising; hyperspectral image fusion; hyperspectral image generation; hyperspectral image restoration; deep learning; statistical regularization model

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

Using Remote Sensing Technology to Quantify Greenhouse Gas Emissions

edited by

Ge Han

,

Simit Raval

and Tianqi Shi

submission deadline 28 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 973 | 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)

Underwater Remote Sensing: Status, New Challenges and Opportunities

edited by

Yuri Rzhanov

and

Elias Fakiris

submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 150 | Submission Open

Keywords: multibeam sonar; synthetic aperture sonar; airborne lidar; underwater vehicles; hyperspectral satellites; satellite-derived bathymetry; satellite-based bathymetric measurements

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

Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images Based on Artificial Intelligence

edited by

Jianming Hu

, Xiyang Zhi,

Yong-Qiang Mao

and

Longfei Ren

submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 123 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing images; object detection; artificial intelligence; multimodal data fusion; frontier applications

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

Advances in Remote Sensing for Glacier Preservation

edited by Feiteng Wang, Chunhai Xu and

Qiao Liu

submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 104 | Submission Open

Keywords: glacier preservation; remote sensing; glacier region engineering; anthropogenic impacts; SAR/InSAR; machine learning; glacier dynamics; glacier mass balance

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

Array and Signal Processing for Radar (Second Edition)

edited by Haowei Zhang,

Jingwei Xu

, Junpeng Shi, Weijian Liu and Yuan Liu

submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 83 | Submission Open

Keywords: radar array and signal processing; waveform and frequency diversity; interference; clutter and noise suppression; radar imaging; radar resource management; machine learning; space-based radar (SBR) system

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

Revolutionizing Earth Observation: Convolutional Neural Networks Innovations in Remote Sensing and Environmental Monitoring

edited by

Antonio Mazza

, Massimiliano Gargiulo,

Sergio Vitale

and

Matteo Ciotola

submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 70 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; deep learning; convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs); generative Adversarial Networks (GANs); earth observation; remote sensing; image processing; data fusion; super resolution

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

Remote Sensing of Water Dynamics in Permafrost Regions

edited by Zeyong Gao and Lingxiao Wang

submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 64 | 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)

Advances in Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing for Vegetation Monitoring

edited by

Shan Lu

and

Chunying Ren

submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 36 | Submission Open

Keywords: SAR– optical synergy; thermal– optical synergy; LIDAR– optical synergy; SIF– multispectral synergy; vegetation biomass; vegetation phenology; vegetation mapping; vegetation parameter inversion

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

Algorithms Exploration of Land Surface Temperature Retrieval from Satellites Data

edited by Caixia Gao

submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 32 | Submission Open

Keywords: thermal infrared sensors; atmospheric effect correction; land surface temperature and emissivity separation; land surface temperature downscaling; land surface temperature validation; artificial intelligence

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

Image Analysis for Forest Environmental Monitoring (2nd Edition)

edited by

El Khalil Cherif

and

Catarina Barata

submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 22 | Submission Open

Keywords: image analysis; remote sensing; environment monitoring; forests; multispectral and hypespectral imaging; airborne image

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

Remote Sensing in Natural Resource and Water Environment II

edited by

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, Min Wu,

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Pedro Luiz Borges Chaffe

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 16 articles | Viewed by 36323 | Submission Open

Keywords: hyperspectral remote sensing in the environment; retrieving air pollutant concentrations through remote sensing; machine learning algorithms for modeling based on remote sensing data; ecological indicators mapping by remote sensing; urban stormwater models; hydrologic models; flood disaster; water pollution; wastewater treatment; water resource management; urban-rural management; urban planning

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

Remote Sensing and Machine Learning in Vegetation Biophysical Parameters Estimation (Second Edition)

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submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 13703 | Submission Open

Keywords: vegetation biophysical parameter estimation; vegetation spectral indices; multispectral/hyperspectral/LiDAR/SAR; satellite/airborne/UAV/tower-based/ground observation; regression/RTM/machine learning/deep learning; agriculture; forest; grassland; vegetation dynamics monitoring

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

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

edited by

Alexander Kokhanovsky

and

Dmitry Efremenko

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9311 | Submission Open

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

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

Intelligent Processing and Analysis of Multi-Modal Remote Sensing Data

edited by

Haopeng Zhang

and Giorgio Antonino Licciardi

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5418 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; image processing; image analysis; artificial intelligence; deep learning; data fusion; multispectral and hyperspectral data; synthetic aperture radar; LiDAR

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

Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data for Water Resource Management in Agriculture

edited by

Pasquale Nino

,

Nicolas Baghdadi

and

Artur Łopatka

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5114 | Submission Open

Keywords: irrigation; optical and microwave remote sensing; evapotranspiration; soil moisture; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV); ground sensor

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

Advancements in Passive/Active Remote Sensing of Clouds and Precipitation

edited by Yong-Keun Lee and Thomas Greenwald

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4165 | Submission Open

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

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

Remote Sensing and Modelling of Terrestrial Ecosystems Functioning

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submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3779 | Submission Open

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

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

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

edited by

Peng Wang

, Ying Zhang and

Henry Leung

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3396 | Submission Open

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

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

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

edited by Elisa Mammoliti,

Adriano Mancini

and

Mirko Francioni

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2626 | Submission Open

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

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

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

edited by

Liangliang Tao

,

Dongryeol Ryu

and

Hao Sun

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2279 | Submission Open

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

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

Ecological Environment Remote Sensing and Sustainable Development Evaluation in Coastal Zones

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submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2022 | Submission Open

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

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

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

edited by Renata Ferrari, Sophie Gordon, Kang Han,

Erica Nocerino

and Gaia Pavoni

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1009 | Submission Open

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

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

Satellite Remote Sensing for Meteorological Disaster Monitoring and Forecasting

edited by

Dimitrios Katsanos

and

Adrianos Retalis

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 712 | 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)

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

edited by

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submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 334 | Submission Open

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

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

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

edited by Luwei Feng,

Xiaoyan Kang

and Yan Zhao

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 255 | Submission Open

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

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

Advances in Remote Sensing Image Target Detection and Recognition

edited by

Yin Zhuang

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 87 | Submission Open

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

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

Advances in Remote Sensing Large Visual Language Model

edited by Fan Liu, Tianjin Huang and

Jun Zhou

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 54 | Submission Open

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

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

Remote Sensing for Marine Environmental Disaster Response

edited by

Zhixiang Fang

, Quanyi Huang, Jaroslaw Tęgowski,

Magaly Koch

and

Yukiharu Hisaki

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 13 articles | Viewed by 51726 | Submission Open

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

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

edited by

Alfonso Fernández-Manso

and

Carmen Quintano

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 20616 | Submission Open

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

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

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

edited by

Maria Danese

and

Nicola Masini

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 18016 | Submission Open

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

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

Application of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing in Urban Areas

edited by

Marwa Elbouz

,

Gaëtan Palka

and

Catherine Baskiotis

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 15282 | Submission Open

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

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

SAR in Big Data Era III

edited by Chao Wang,

Alberto Moreira

, Mihai P. Datcu,

Sirui Tian

and

Yixian Tang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 14892 | Submission Open

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

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

Machine Learning and Image Processing for Object Detection

edited by

Weifeng Liu

,

Igor García Olaizola

and

Bingfeng Zhang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 13661 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning algorithm; image processing; deep learning; object detection; quality measurement; 3D objects; pre/post-processing; drone imagery

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

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

edited by

Zhe-Wen Zheng

and

Jiayi Pan

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 11812 | Submission Open

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

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

Quantitative Remote Sensing of Vegetation and Its Applications

edited by

Kun Jia

and Linqing Yang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 11527 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; biochemical/biophysical parameters; vegetation dynamics; multi-sensor data fusion; algorithm development; artificial intelligence; accuracy validation; inter-comparison and evaluation; products and applications

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

Advances in Remote Sensing in Coastal Geomorphology (Third Edition)

edited by

José Juan de Sanjosé Blasco

,

Germán Flor-Blanco

and

Ramón Blanco Chao

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9768 | Submission Open

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

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

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

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Sergio Vincenzo Calcina

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Ilaria Catapano

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9485 | Submission Open

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

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

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

edited by

Ramona Magno

and Paolo Filippucci

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8569 | Submission Open

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

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

Hyperspectral Sensors for Soil Parameters and Crop Parameters Retrieval

edited by

Minfeng Xing

,

Jinfei Wang

and

Qisheng He

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8116 | Submission Open

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

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

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