Remote Sensing

Environmental Monitoring with Sentinel Satellites: Applications and Future Perspectives

edited by Silvia Scifoni,

Maria Marsella

and

Francesca Giannone

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 1008 | 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)

Expanding Horizons: Testing and Evaluating Non-Conventional Mobile Devices for Remote Sensing in Built and Natural Environment

edited by

Alesandra Spreafico

,

Lorenzo Teppati Losè

and

Jesús Balado Frías

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 783 | Submission Open

Keywords: mobile devices; LiDAR; metric survey; low-cost sensors; mobile apps

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

Road Detection, Monitoring and Maintenance Using Remotely Sensed Data (2nd Edition)

edited by

Nicholas Fiorentini

and

Massimo Losa

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 721 | Submission Open

Keywords: road monitoring and maintenance; remote sensing of infrastructures; non-destructive techniques (NDTs); synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR); falling weight deflectometer (FWD); ground-penetrating radar (GPR); unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery; pavement management systems (PMSs); artificial intelligence (AI); decision support systems (DSS); data integration and data fusion

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

Exploring the Variations and Interplay of Drought and Heatwaves: Uncovering the Associated Mechanisms and Impacts (2nd Edition)

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submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 684 | Submission Open

Keywords: heatwave and drought; spatio-temporal variations; mechanisms; potential impacts; compound events; interplay; projection; adaptation strategies

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

Remote Sensing in Mangroves IV

edited by

Chandra Giri

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 575 | Submission Open

Keywords: mangrove distribution; mangrove expansion and squeeze; deforestation and afforestation; species discrimination; stand density; forest health; forest disturbance; multi-platform; multi-spectral; and multi-resolution data; image processing; image classification; results validation; change detection; cloud computing

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

Remote Sensing Technologies for the Conservation and Preservation of Cultural Heritage Sites

edited by

Vicente Bayarri

,

Francisco García

and

Luis A. Ruiz

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 420 | Submission Open

Keywords: cultural heritage conservation; remote sensing applications; digital twins; ground-penetrating radar (GPR); hyperspectral and multi-spectral imaging; LiDAR and laser scanning; environmental impact monitoring; change detection techniques; data fusion and assimilation; sustainable conservation management

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

Close-Range LiDAR for Forest Structure and Dynamics Monitoring

edited by Panagiotidis Dimitrios

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 377 | Submission Open

Keywords: • Forest Growth & Dynamics • Airborne Laser Scanning • Terrestrial Laser Scanning • 3D Point Clouds • Unmanned Aerial Systems • Forest Inventory • Forest Monitoring & Mapping • UAV

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

High-Resolution Soil Moisture Products for Hydrology, Agriculture, and Hazard Applications

edited by Yuchuan Luo, Juan Cao and Peng Zhu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 357 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-resolution soil moisture; remote sensing; data assimilation; soil moisture retrieval; hydrological modeling; agricultural productivity; hazard risk assessment

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

Lidar Monitoring of Aerosols and Clouds

edited by Carmen Córdoba-Jabonero and

Juan Luis Guerrero Rascado

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 320 | Submission Open

Keywords: active remote sensing techniques and methods; aerosol– cloud interactions; atmospheric aerosols and clouds; cirrus clouds; lidar observations; radiative transfer

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

Remote Sensing of Extreme Heat Events, Urban Heat Islands, and Public Health Impacts: Integrating Hydrological and Atmospheric Dynamics

edited by

Yuei-An Liou

,

Shih-Chun Candice Lung

and

Kim Anh Nguyen

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 290 | Submission Open

Keywords: adaptation strategies; atmospheric dynamics; climate resilience; earth observation data; extreme heat events; heatwaves; heat vulnerability; human health and heat exposure; hydrological processes; hydrological dynamics; mitigation measures; thermal remote sensing; urban heat islands; water– energy– climate nexus; public health impacts

Radiometric Calibration of Satellite Sensors Used in Remote Sensing

edited by

Shengli Wu

,

Yong Zhang

, Boyang Chen and Juyang Hu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 271 | Submission Open

Keywords: calibration; radiometer; SNO; SCO; vicarious calibration; lunar calibration; pre-launch calibration

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

Applications of Advanced Computational Technologies and Algorithms for Spatiotemporal Analysis in the Artificial Intelligence Era

edited by Wenwu Tang,

Minrui Zheng

and

Zhengfeng Zhang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 258 | Submission Open

Keywords: big spatiotemporal data; advanced computational technologies and algorithms; spatial analysis and modeling; artificial intelligence applications; land systems

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

Advances in Imaging Radar Signal Processing, Target Feature Extraction and Recognition

edited by

Qihua Wu

,

Xiaobin Liu

, Zhiming Xu and Siyuan He

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 255 | Submission Open

Keywords: synthetic aperture radar (SAR); inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR); radar imaging; radar waveform design; radar anti-jamming; target feature extraction; target recognition

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

Microwave Remote Sensing on Ocean Observation

edited by

Yanlei Du

and

Ali Khenchaf

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 127 | 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-Scale Remote Sensing for Wetland Landscape Change Monitoring and Ecological Resilience

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submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 95 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-scale analysis; wetland ecological resilience; wetland structure and function; multi-sensor applications; ecosystem dynamics; remote sensing indicators; time-series remote sensing

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

Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere (Third Edition)

edited by

Ulrich Kamp

,

Bijeesh K. Veettil

and

Dmitry Ganyushkin

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 92 | Submission Open

Keywords: cryosphere; GIS; glacier; ice; frozen ground; remote sensing; snow

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

Wave Propagation and Scattering in Complex Ground/Marine Environment

edited by Lixin Guo,

Juan Li

,

Ke Li

and

Shuirong Chai

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 87 | Submission Open

Keywords: electromagnetic modeling; wave propagation; SAR imaging; active/passive interference; ground/marine environment; artificial intelligence

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

Advances in Scene Understanding with Hyperspectral Remote Sensing: From Data Benchmarks to Applications

edited by

Yanzi Shi

,

Mengmeng Zhang

, Shou Feng,

Zhou Zhang

and Zhiyong Lv

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 83 | 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 for Monitoring Harmful Algal Blooms (Second Edition)

edited by

Gongliang Yu

,

Junsheng Li

, Chen Wang and

Yao Liu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 70 | Submission Open

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

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

Deep Learning Techniques for Pixel Classification and Image Retrieval in Remote Sensing

edited by

Kyungil Lee

,

Eunbeen Park

and Hyun-Woo Jo

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 64 | 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)

Advances in Calibration, Validation, and Quality Assurance for Optical Remote Sensors

edited by

Zhenhai Liu

and

Gennadi Milinevsky

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 63 | 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)

Applications and New Trends in Metrology for Radar/LiDAR-Based Systems (Third Edition)

edited by

Silvia Liberata Ullo

,

Alfonso Farina

and

Harun Taha Hayvaci

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 44 | Submission Open

Keywords: radar and LiDAR systems; radar and LiDAR data measurements and processing; remote sensing applications; land-based; shipborne; and onboard drones; aircraft; and satellites; cognitive radars; human-in-the-loop aspects in radar systems; dual-function radar communications; waveform diversity and design; adaptive radar waveform design; radar detection theory; radar signal processing: theory; algorithms; and applications (RTAA)

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

Satellite and Ground Monitoring and Measurements of Ionospheric and Geo Magnetic Disturbances and Space Weather Events

edited by Si Chen and

Serdjo Kos

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 42 | Submission Open

Keywords: extreme space weather; ionosphere (observation and modelling); GNSS radio occultation; LEO satellite measurements; ionospheric irregularities; geomagnetic storms

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

Earth Observation Using Satellite Global Images of Remote Sensing (2nd Edition)

edited by

Giuliana Bilotta

and

Jon Atli Benediktsson

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 40 | Submission Open

Keywords: image analysis applications to remote sensing; image segmentation; image classification; image edge detection; change detection; image processing and pattern recognition; mathematical morphology; object based image analysis; feature extraction; remote sensing applications; microwave remote sensing; SAR

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

Geodesy for Geohazards with AI Techniques

edited by

Yunlong Wu

,

Xiang Zhang

and

Yulong Zhong

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 32 | Submission Open

Keywords: GNSS; gravity; InSAR; geodetic observations; geohazards; extreme events; artificial intelligence

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

State-of-the-Art Remote Sensing Technologies for Environmental Monitoring (Second Edition)

edited by

Monica Rivas Casado

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 26 | Submission Open

Keywords: emerging technologies; robots; autonomous systems; environmental assessment; advanced statistics; data analysis; unmanned aerial systems; autonomous underwater vehicles; remotely operated vehicles

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

Application of Remote Sensing in Antarctic Ice Sheet Monitoring

edited by Ian Brown and

Andreas J. Dietz

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 24 | Submission Open

Keywords: antarctica; ice shelves; altimetry; synthetic aperture radar; climate change; sea ice

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

New Advances in High-Resolution Remote Sensing Applied for Land Use/Land Cover and Forest Succession Monitoring

edited by

Marta Szostak

and

Beata Calka

submission deadline 1 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1339 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-resolution remote sensing; land use/land cover (LULC); forest evolution; image classification; artificial intelligence; spatiotemporal analysis; environmental impact assessment; data fusion and integration

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

Recent Advances in Water Quality Monitoring

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submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9738 | Submission Open

Keywords: water quality assessment; marine pollution; eutrophication; phytoplankton; HABs; marine litter; oil spills; dumping of dredge spoil; eddies and ecosystem dynamics in open waters

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

3D Virtual Reconstruction for Cultural Heritage (Second Edition)

edited by

Sara Gonizzi Barsanti

submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2337 | Submission Open

Keywords: virtual reality; augmented reality; cultural heritage; 3D reconstruction; 3D modelling; reality-based modelling; integration of data; multi-source data; hidden cultural heritage; digital twin in cultural heritage; virtual tourism; virtual tour; virtual devices; storytelling

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

Advances in Remote Sensing Used in Mineral Exploration

edited by Hai Li and

Zhenwei Guo

submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1469 | Submission Open

Keywords: mineral exploration; geospatial analysis; data integration; geological mapping; machine learning; hyperspectral imaging

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

Remote Sensing Measurements of Land Use and Land Cover

edited by

Victor Mesev

submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1359 | Submission Open

Keywords: image classification; change detection; image processing; urban sprawl; environmental science

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

Deep Learning-Driven Remote Sensing Image Processing for Object Detection and Localization

edited by

Jong-Eun Ha

and

Hyoseok Hwang

submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1093 | Submission Open

Keywords: object detection/tracking/localization; data fusion; weakly supervised object detection; artificial intelligence; deep learning; computer vision; convolutional neural networks; feature extraction; image segmentation; image processing

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

Remote Sensing of Floods: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities (Second Edition)

edited by

A. K. M. Azad Hossain

,

Xiaobo Chao

and

Taufique Mahmood

submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 872 | Submission Open

Keywords: floods; flood monitoring; flood impact; flood damage; remote Sensing; progress; challenges; and opportunities; inland flooding; urban flooding; flash flooding; coastal flooding; optical remote sensing; RADAR remote sensing; hyperspectral remote sensing; spatial resolution; high/moderate/low spatial resolution; temporal resolution; high/moderate/low temporal resolution; space-borne remote sensing; air-borne remote sensing; drone/UAV; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); light detection and ranging (LIDAR); unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); rainfall and runoff; hydrology; geospatial technology; spatial analysis; numerical model; hydrodynamic model; spatial decision support systems (SDSS); watershed model

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

Multi-Source Data Fusion and Feature Extraction for Underwater Target Detection

edited by

Min Fu

and Salah Bourennane

submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 102 | Submission Open

Keywords: target detection; multi-modal fusion; feature extraction; underwater data classification; multispectral imaging; multi-sensor systems; data fusion; signal processing; underwater sensing; acoustic– optical fusion

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

Time-Series Mapping and Analysis of Land Surface Parameters and Changes Using Remote Sensing Data

edited by

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submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4817 | Submission Open

Keywords: time-series mapping; time-series analysis; change detection; dynamic monitoring; data pre-processing; data fusion; land surface parameters; vegetation structure parameters; vegetation biochemical parameters; land cover mapping; land disturbance; forest disturbance; remote sensing

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

Advances in Deep Learning and Machine Learning for Remote Sensing Image Analysis

edited by

Keshav D. Singh

,

Abdul Bais

and

Saeid Homayouni

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 48 | Submission Open

Keywords: imagery data analysis; remote sensing; machine learning; deep learning; computer vision; exploiting big data; HPC and predictive analytics; multi-source/sensor data fusion; object detection and recognition; image segmentation; large language models; generative AI

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

Remote Sensing-Based Assessments in the Forest Fire Disturbance Continuum

edited by

José Manuel Fernández-Guisuraga

submission deadline 28 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3616 | 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

,

Jian Yang

and

Yu Feng

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8518 | 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)

Advanced Lidar Remote Sensing for Atmosphere, Vegetation, and Ocean Observations

edited by Boming Liu, Zhiyu Zhang,

Hui Zhou

,

Xin Ma

and

Yue Ma

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4352 | Submission Open

Keywords: lidar remote sensing; aerosol and clouds; boundary layer; leaf and canopy; lidar bathymetry; photon-counting lidar; high-spectral-resolution lidar

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

Advances in Remote Sensing for Soil Property Mapping

edited by Miao Lu, Shangrong Wu and

Feng Liu

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 911 | 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)

Integrating Remote Sensing, Machine Learning, and Process-Based Modelling for Monitoring Environmental and Agricultural Landscapes Under Climate Change

edited by Michael Gbenga Ogungbuyi and

Dimitrios D. Alexakis

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 682 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; machine learning; artificial intelligence; deep learning; process-based models; biophysical modelling; climate change impacts; environmental monitoring; agricultural landscapes; adaptive management

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

Remote Sensing for Landscape Dynamics

edited by

Peipei Wang

, Wei Han,

Yuanyuan Zhao

and

Xinqi Zheng

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 427 | 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)

Remote Sensing in Water Quality Monitoring

edited by

Xuejiao Hou

,

Shangbo Yang

and

Jilin Men

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 333 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; water quality; water clarity; eutrophication; water turbidity; atmospheric correction; algal bloom; climate change; multi-source integrated observation; inherent/apparent optical properties

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

Recent Advances in Hyperspectral Remote Sensing: Theories, Technologies and Applications

edited by

Jiaxin Li

,

Lianru Gao

and Ke Zheng

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 324 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; hyperspectral remote sensing; image processing; hyperspectral applications; artificial intelligence

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

Remote Sensing for Cryospheric Hazards

edited by

Yao Li

, Jiansheng Hao and Chenchen Qiu

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 218 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing detection; climate change; glacierized regions; glacier retreat; cryospheric hazards; ice-rock avalanche; GLOF; glacial debris flow; susceptibility mapping; risk assessment

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

Applications of Artificial Intelligence Methods to Agroforestry Remote Sensing

edited by

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Shukor Sanim Mohd Fauzi

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 212 | Submission Open

Keywords: agricultural remote sensing; forestry remote sensing; multi-sensor fusion; deep learning; computer vision; crop monitoring; precision agriculture; sustainable forest management; internet of things; biomass estimation; algorithm improvement

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

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

edited by

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submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 105 | Submission Open

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

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

Evaluation of Ecological Environment Quality Using Remote Sensing

edited by

Qifei Zhang

,

Gonghuan Fang

and

Shuhua Zhang

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 101 | 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)

Geospatial Big Data and Remote Sensing for Urban Analysis

edited by

Chen Zhou

, Chao Sun, Shanqi Zhang and Manchun Li

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 44 | Submission Open

Keywords: geospatial big data; remote sensing; multi-source geographical data fusion; urban planning; AI-driven modeling; decision support; real-time monitoring

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

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