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Remote Sensing for Hydrological Management

edited by

Ram L. Ray

and

Gebrekidan Tefera

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 498 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; hydrological monitoring; hydrological extremes; hydrological models; soil moisture; water quality; water management

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

Advances in Remote Sensing in Urban Climatology

edited by

Maria Zoran

and Marina N.M. Tautan

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 479 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban climate; remote sensing; aerosols and clouds; greenhouse gases; urban greening; urban thermal environment; urban ecosystem– climate interaction; urban land cover changes; urban climate sustainability

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

Advanced in Remote Sensing Approaches for Agricultural Monitoring at Field and Regional Scale (Second Edition)

edited by

Jitka Kumhálová

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 412 | Submission Open

Keywords: precision agriculture; photogrammetry; UAV; yield monitoring; crop monitoring; agricultural monitoring; artificial intelligence

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

Advancements in Deep Learning for Remote Sensing: Exploring Planetary and Earth Observation Applications

edited by

Riccardo La Grassa

and

Ignazio Gallo

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 408 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; earth observation; planetary science; feature detection; mapping; super-resolution; classification

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

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

edited by

Linlin Cheng

, Wei Tang and Deqin Fan

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 335 | 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)

Intelligent Remote Sensing Information Extraction

edited by

Weixun Zhou

and

Zhenwei Shi

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 272 | 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)

Remote Sensing of Wave Dynamics and Hydrodynamics in Marine Environments

edited by

and

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 246 | Submission Open

Keywords: ocean remote sensing; wave; current; eddies; hydrodynamics; marine environments; altimeter; lidar; artificial intelligence model; data processing algorithms

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

Applications of Photogrammetry and Lidar Techniques in Mining Areas

edited by Zhihua Xu,

Zhenghua Zhang

and

Xiaohu Lin

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 210 | Submission Open

Keywords: photogrammetry; laser scanning; mining engineering; slope stability; deformation monitoring; SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping); point cloud processing; mine surveying; ecological monitoring

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

Monitoring Urban Environment from Space

edited by Yong Xue,

Pinliang Dong

and

Linlin Lu

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 151 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use/land cover change; urban heat island; air pollution mapping; sustainable cities; earth observation; machine learning; multi-sensor fusion; climate resilience; big data analytics; disaster risk assessment

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

Satellite Remote Sensing for Ocean and Coastal Environment Monitoring (Second Edition)

edited by

Haidong Pan

Daosheng Wang

and

Jungang Yang

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 149 | Submission Open

Keywords: sea level rise; ocean tides; model assimilation; sea surface temperature; sea surface salinity; chlorophyll; water transparency; sea waves; mesoscale eddy; ocean dynamics

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

Remote Sensing Image Change Detection and Feature Enhancement Based on Deep Learning

edited by Kaimin Sun, Wenzhuo Li,

Xin Tao

Ting Bai

and

Wangbin Li

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 146 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing change detection; feature enhancement; feature fusion; semantic segmentation; deep learning; multi-model image analysis

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

From Pixels to Spectra: Towards Generalizable Large Models for Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

edited by Yaxiong Chen, Qingyu Li,

Wuxia Zhang

and

Zhitong Xiong

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 145 | Submission Open

Keywords: hyperspectral image processing; spectral– spatial feature extraction; dimensionality reduction; deep learning for HSI; self-supervised learning; spectral unmixing; semantic segmentation; change detection; lightweight models; high-resolution remote sensing

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

Recent Advances in Satellite Data and In-Situ Measurements of Chlorophyll Fluorescence

edited by

Lin Du

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 139 | Submission Open

Keywords: chlorophyll fluorescence; fchl retrieval methods; radiative transfer models; vegetation stress conditions

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

High-Precision Urban Positioning: GNSS and Multi-Sensor Fusion Technologies

edited by Hongjuan Zhang and

Bijun Li

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 133 | Submission Open

Keywords: global navigation satellite system; GNSS/INS integration; simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM); multi-source fusion; urban positioning; deep learning-based positioning; urban location-based services

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

Ship Imaging, Detection and Recognition for High-Resolution SAR

edited by

Ze Yu

Jindong Yu

Xiaoqing Wang

, Lijia Huang and

Frank Zhang

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 127 | Submission Open

Keywords: SAR; ship imaging; ship detection; ship recognition; motion estimation; clutter suppression; maritime surveillance

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

Remote Sensing of Global Environmental Change’s Impacts on Ecosystem Resilience

edited by Yuchao Yan,

Alfredo Huete

and Huan Wang

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 121 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecosystem resilience; global change; remote sensing; disturbance detection; recovery monitoring; multi-sensor fusion; time series analysis; carbon sequestration

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

The Applications of Remote Sensing, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning in Atmospheric Radiative Transfer

edited by

Kun Wu

and

Panagiotis Kosmopoulos

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 116 | Submission Open

Keywords: atmospheric radiative transfer; remote sensing detection; machine learning; deep learning; parameterization of physical processes; collaborativeinversion of multi-source

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

Remote Sensing for Marine Ecological Research

edited by

Gregory P. Asner

and

Jiwei Li

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 95 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine ecology; coral reefs; seagrass ecosystems; kelp forests; spatial data science; underwater observations

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

Satellite Soil Moisture Estimation, Assessment, and Applications (Second Edition)

edited by

Xiaojun Li

, Lun Gao,

Frédéric Frappart

and

Hui Lu

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 86 | Submission Open

Keywords: surface and root-zone soil moisture; passive and active microwaves; SMOS/SMAP/AMSR2/CIMR; vegetation optical depth; evaluation/intercomparison; data assimilation

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

Radar and Photo-Electronic Multi-Modal Intelligent Fusion

edited by

Ganggang Dong

Xinhua Mao

, Jianhua Shi and

Xiaowei Hu

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 80 | Submission Open

Keywords: radar signal processing; photo-electronic image understanding; target detection and recognition; radar imaging

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

Land Degradation Assessment with Earth Observation (Third Edition)

edited by

Elias Symeonakis

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 78 | Submission Open

Keywords: land degradation; desertification; deforestation; drought; soil erosion; land use/cover change; habitat degradation; multitemporal analysis; time-series analysis; SDG 15.3.1

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

Recent Achievements and Future Prospects of Land Surface Temperature (LST) with Remote Sensing

edited by

Guocan Wu

and

Jianhui Xu

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 78 | Submission Open

Keywords: land surface temperature; land– atmosphere interactions; land surface process; satellite retrieval; meteorological station observation; long-term change; multi-scale variation; climatological average

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

Advancing Process Representation for Hydrological Modeling Across Spatiotemporal Scales

edited by

Yao Li

and

Tangao Hu

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 78 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrological modeling; spatiotemporal scales; flood; drought; data-scarce regions; hybrid models; remote sensing

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

Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing for Soil Moisture Monitoring

edited by Qunou Jiang,

Na Chen

Qiang Yu

Konstantinos X. Soulis

and

Dionissios Kalivas

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 74 | 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)

Advances in Remote Sensing Data and Tools for Urban Climate Risks Analysis and Management

edited by Ashish Shrestha,

Ahmed Mustafa

Chuyuan (Carter) Wang

and

Peng Fu

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 73 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban climate risks; spatial data; urban flood; heat; cities; climate resilience

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

Spatio-Temporal Land Surface Temperature Retrieval Based on Ground-Based, Satellite Observations and Artificial Intelligence

edited by

Bo-Hui Tang

, Xiangyang Liu and Tian Hu

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 72 | Submission Open

Keywords: land surface temperature (LST); retrieval algorithm; complex terrain; urban area; ground-based observation; artificial intelligence; validation; reconstruction of data under clouds; temporal scale expansion

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

Intelligent Processing Techniques for Monocular and Multi-View Remote Sensing Imagery

edited by Shiqing Wei, Jin Liu and

Muhammad Yasir

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 67 | Submission Open

Keywords: monocular remote sensing; multi-view stereo; intelligent image processing; multi-source data fusion; 3D reconstruction; semantic segmentation; object detection; monocular depth estimation; stereo matching; terrain and urban modeling

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

Remote Sensing of Cryospheric Hydrology and Water Cycle

edited by

Ping Wang

Tianye Wang

and

Hongyi Li

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 63 | Submission Open

Keywords: cryospheric hydrology; permafrost; snow hydrology; water cycle; surface– groundwater interaction; arctic

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

Observations, Mechanisms and Forecasts of Severe Convective Weather Based on Remote Sensing

edited by

Xin Xu

, Xiaoming Hu,

Shushi Zhang

and

Chong Wu

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 61 | Submission Open

Keywords: atmospheric convection; severe convective weather; advanced remote sensing technique; numerical modeling; AI and nowcasting

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

Monitoring and Managing Environmental Sustainability Using Remote Sensing (Second Edition)

edited by

Dongmei Chen

and

Yuhong He

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 60 | Submission Open

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

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

State-of-the-Art in Land Cover Classification and Mapping: Building Up Digital Twins of Earth

edited by

Jingxiong Zhang

Won-Ho Nam

and

Wangle Zhang

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 59 | Submission Open

Keywords: classification; mapping; classification systems; land cover; remote sensing images; scale; resolution; semantics; spectral– spatial– temporal features; phenology; pattern analysis; machine learning; rule bases; accuracy metrics and assessment; uncertainty; confusion matrix; mixed pixels; sampling; reference samples; image interpretation

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

Remote Sensing Training Data: Annotation, Quality, and Optimization

edited by

Liangcun Jiang

Hao Li

and Boyi Shangguan

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 53 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing training data; training data quality; data annotation; label noise; data quality assessment; automated labeling; label correction; training data optimization; quality control in remote sensing

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

Advances in Remote Sensing for Smart Agriculture and Digital Twins

edited by Lei Hu,

Li Lin

and

Chen Zhang

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 51 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; GIS; agro-geoinformatics; smart agriculture; digital twin; disaster risk reduction; reproducible EO science; FAIR

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

Advances in Deep Learning in the Retrieval of Key Parameters of Agrometeorological Remote Sensing (Second Edition)

edited by

Kebiao Mao

Sayed M. Bateni

and Jongmin Park

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 51 | Submission Open

Keywords: surface temperature; near-surface air temperature; surface emissivity; soil moisture; vegetation moisture content; water vapor content; precipitation; LAI; drought and flood

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

GeoAI and Remote Sensing for Urban Planning and Human Comfort Analysis

edited by

Hossein Arefi

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 35 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban microclimate; thermal comfort; human comfort; climate-sensitive urban planning; urban heat island (UHI)

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

Interpretation and Attribution of Land Subsidence: A Remote Sensing and Machine Learning Perspective

edited by

Alex Hay-Man Ng

Linlin Ge

Hsing-Chung Chang

and Zheyuan Du

submission deadline 1 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 502 | Submission Open

Keywords: land subsidence; remote sensing; machine learning; deep learning; subsidence monitoring; predictive modeling; data fusion; ground deformation

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

Machine Learning in Global Change Ecology: Methods and Applications

edited by

Boyi Liang

Hongyan Liu

Ying Qu

, Jiangzhou Xia and

Micol Rossini

submission deadline 10 Mar 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 16059 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; machine learning; terrestrial vegetation; carbon cycle; climate change; global change ecology

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

Remote Sensing Applications for Enhancing Wildfire Management and Ecosystem Multifunctionality

edited by Paula García-Llamas and

Angela Taboada

submission deadline 10 Mar 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8043 | Submission Open

Keywords: wildfire; fire management; remote sensing; ecosystem functioning; fire products; fire risk; ecosystem services

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

Advances in Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases Observation and Remote Sensing Applications

edited by Ailin Liang, Yawen Kong and

Simone Lolli

submission deadline 10 Mar 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 6082 | Submission Open

Keywords: greenhouse gas remote sensing; carbon dioxide; methane; OCO-2/3 GOSAT TROPOMI TANSAT DQ-1; carbon flux; carbon assimilation

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

Spatiotemporal AI Methods for Atmospheric Remote Sensing

edited by

Qian Liu

and

Manzhu Yu

submission deadline 13 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 92 | Submission Open

Keywords: spatiotemporal AI; remote sensing; atmospheric composition; cloud features; air pollution and aerosols; environmental monitoring; climate and health impacts

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

Mobile Laser Scanning Systems for Underground Applications

edited by

Sandra Buján Seoane

and Chester Andrew Sellers

submission deadline 13 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 86 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital twins; TLS; MLS; 3D modeling; 3D mapping; geo-monitoring; handheld LiDAR; mobile mapping technologies; non-contact geomatic methods; mine/tunnels surveys; mine infrastructure planning and monitoring

Remote Sensing for Precision Farming and Crop Phenology (Second Edition)

edited by

Mitsunori Yoshimura

and

Francesco Pirotti

submission deadline 13 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 68 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; precision farming; crop phenology; crop yield estimation; crop monitoring

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

Multi-Task Remote Sensing Image Analysis: Classification, Segmentation, and Change Detection

edited by

Liguo Weng

submission deadline 15 Mar 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 9897 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-task learning; remote sensing image classification; semantic segmentation; change detection; deep learning; multi-temporal analysis; data fusion; transfer learning; environmental monitoring; high-resolution remote sensing

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

Deep Learning-Based Small-Target Detection in Remote Sensing

edited by

and

submission deadline 15 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2042 | Submission Open

Keywords: small target detection; deep learning; remote sensing image processing; hyperspectral and infrared sensing; multi-sensor data fusion; feature extraction; target recognition

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

Recent Advances in Drought Risk Assessment, Monitoring, and Forecasting II

edited by

Yuei-An Liou

submission deadline 16 Mar 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9497 | Submission Open

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

Big Earth Data in Support of the Sustainable Development Goals

edited by

Minquan Wu

Xi Li

and

Yu Chen

submission deadline 16 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3631 | Submission Open

Keywords: affordable and clean energy; integrated evaluations and interactions among SDGs; access to electricity; clean cooking; renewable energy; energy efficiency

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

Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Source Remote Sensing for Surface Hydrology

edited by

Xingxing Zhang

and Liguang Jiang

submission deadline 16 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 465 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-source remote sensing; surface water monitoring; satellite altimetry; SWOT mission; GRACE gravimetry; hydrological modeling; AI-based methods; climate change impacts; flood and drought monitoring; transboundary river basins

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

Computer Vision and Features Enhancement of Hyperspectral Images

edited by

Hongmin Gao

Shufang Xu

, Bing Tu and

Jun Zhou

submission deadline 16 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 394 | Submission Open

Keywords: hyperspectral imaging; computer vision; feature enhancement; image processing; spectral analysis; data integration

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

Remote Sensing for Wildfire Science: Monitoring, Modeling, and Mitigation

edited by

Binbin He

and

Xingwen Quan

submission deadline 16 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 94 | Submission Open

Keywords: fuel; fire regime; wildfire monitoring; wildfire modeling; fire ecology; climate change; carbon cycling; remote sensing; multidisciplinary

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

Mapping the Blue: Remote Sensing in Water Resource Management

edited by

Junjie Li

Yun Chen

and Wen Zhang

submission deadline 16 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 85 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resource management; remote sensing applications; flood and drought monitoring; hydrological modeling; surface water mapping; geographic information science; multi-source data fusion; artificial intelligence

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

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