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Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Applications in Earth, Moon and Planetary Exploration (Second Edition)

edited by

David Gomez-Ortiz

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4711 | Submission Open

Keywords: ground-penetrating radar (GPR); planetary radar; subsurface structure; earth; moon; mars; system; simulation; signal processing; imaging; interpretation; etc.

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

Application of Remote Sensing in Landscape Ecology

edited by

Wayne Myers

and

Douglas Miller

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3797 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; landscape ecology; image analysis; environmental indicators; lidar; radar; ecosystem services; spatial analysis; machine learning; drones; multispectral; digital elevation model; UAV; satellite imagery; radiotracking; digital sound recording; landscape fragmentation

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

Point Cloud Data Analysis and Applications

edited by

Ruijin Ma

Tarig Ali

and

Maolin Chen

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3569 | Submission Open

Keywords: point clouds processing; geospatial digital twin modeling; data fusion

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

Remote Sensing and GIS for Monitoring Urbanization and Urban Health (Second Edition)

edited by

and

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2367 | Submission Open

Keywords: urbanization and health both regionally and globally; urban landscape; urban ecological system; and health; territorial spatial planning and health city; urbanization speed and acceleration; spatial– temporal analysis of urbanization; green space/blue space/gray space remote sensing monitoring; map of urban development and evolution; urban environment changes and health effects; remote sensing GIS big data and urban health; remote sensing and GIS monitoring; simulating; and predicting of infectious diseases; such as COVID-19

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

Remote Sensing of Climate Change Influences on Urban Ecology

edited by

and

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1775 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban ecology; climate change; nature-based solutions; urban wetlands; green infrastructure; environmental justice; urban forestry; remote sensing; ecosystem services; urban sustainability; urban biodiversity

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

Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing Synergies for Flood Hazard Monitoring and Geomorphic Analysis

edited by

Marina Zingaro

Domenico Capolongo

and

Alberto Refice

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 710 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-sensor remote sensing; flood hazard; geomorphology; flood geomorphic dynamics monitoring; process coupling; data fusion; risk assessment

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

Remote Sensing Applications for Environmental Monitoring and Land Changes

edited by

Krystyna Michałowska

Ewa Glowienka

Eva Savina Malinverni

and

Eufemia Tarantino

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 576 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing and environmental monitoring; AI and machine learning for remote sensing; land use and land cover change analysis; hyperspectral; lidar; optical and radar applications; climate change impact and disaster risk management; big data; cloud-based geospatial processing; data fusion in geospatial analysis; sustainable land management and policy applications

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

Advances in Remote Sensing for Burned Area Mapping

edited by

Giandomenico De Luca

Giuseppe Modica

and

Lorenzo Arcidiaco

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 560 | Submission Open

Keywords: burn areas’ detection and mapping; geo-informatics; fire severity; fire regime; biomass loss; wildland– urban interface (WUI) fires; three-dimensional modeling; image processing

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

Advances in High-Resolution Crop Mapping at Large Spatial Scales

edited by

Lingbo Yang

and Pengliang Wei

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 514 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-resolution crop mapping; remote sensing for agriculture; large-scale crop monitoring; multi-source satellite data; crop classification; machine learning in agriculture; temporal dynamics of crops; agricultural change detection; precision agriculture; remote sensing applications in food security

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

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

edited by

Kyungil Lee

Eunbeen Park

and

Hyun-Woo Jo

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 299 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-resolution remote sensing; satellite imagery; pixel-wise classification; time-series image analysis; machine learning applications; deep learning applications; multi-source feature fusion; domain adaptation

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

Remote Sensing and GIS for Environmental Analysis and Cultural Heritage (2nd Edition)

edited by

Caterina Balletti

Valentina Alena Girelli

and

Francesca Matrone

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 256 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change and CH site preservation; advanced change detection techniques for CH; monitoring of CH sites; 3D mapping and M Modeling for CH preservation; mapping hazards; risk mapping; geospatial standards; GIS-BIM integration

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

Applications of Remote Sensing in Hydrology and Ecology: Observations, Methods, and Innovations

edited by

Jingkai Xie

Jiaqi Tian

and

Keqi He

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 139 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; hydrological modelling; data assimilation; machine learning; climate extremes monitoring; ground water storage; surface water dynamics

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

Remote Sensing of Lithosphere–Atmosphere–Ionosphere Coupling Prior to Earthquakes and Other Natural Hazards: Second Edition

edited by

Dedalo Marchetti

Essam Ghamry

and Cristiano Fidani

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 113 | Submission Open

Keywords: earthquake; precursors; LAIC; ground-based observations; satellite observations; ionospheric disturbances; volcano eruptions; extreme weather; geomagnetic storms/substorms; natural hazards

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

Artificial Intelligence and Satellite Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring

edited by

Ioannis Kakogeorgiou

Katerina Kikaki

and

Konstantinos Karantzalos

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 99 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; deep learning; environmental monitoring; ocean remote sensing; marine pollution; water quality monitoring; phytoplankton phenology monitoring; land use/land cover; coastline changes mapping; maritime target detection; hazards; floating material detection

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

Remote Sensing and In-Situ Characterization of Desert Dust Outbreaks: From Sources to Climate Impact

edited by

Alejandro Rodríguez-Gómez

Alessia Sannino

and

Constantino Muñoz-Porcar

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 81 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; desert dust; atmospheric aerosols; climate change; sensing techniques; dust outbreak; health effects; nutrient transport; trace elements transport

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

Image Processing and Analysis: Trends in Registration, Data Fusion, 3D Reconstruction, and Change Detection (Fourth Edition)

edited by

Riccardo Roncella

Mattia Previtali

and Luca Perfetti

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 70 | Submission Open

Keywords: image registration; change detection; 3D reconstruction; deep learning; hyperspectral; image matching; data/sensor fusion; object-based image analysis; pattern recognition; volume rendering

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

Multimodal GeoAI for Spatial Fusion: Multi-Source Geotagged Images, Video and Sound

edited by

Haosheng Huang

Fangli Guan

and

Zhixiang Fang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 55 | Submission Open

Keywords: multimodal geospatial data; street-view imagery; UAV-perspective data; cross-domain learning and transfer; vision language models for geospatial data fusion; urban built environment; urban governance and smart cities; urban health and wellbeing; disaster response

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

Deep Learning for Maritime Target Interpretation in Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery

edited by Nan Xu,

Jiaqi Yao

and Shijin Li

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 50 | Submission Open

Keywords: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR); deep learning; maritime monitoring; small target detection; anchor-free detection; multimodal data fusion

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

3D Computer Vision for Remote Sensing: Point Clouds, Reconstruction and Scene Understanding

edited by

Hanyun Wang

, Li Li, Qi Dong and

Yao Wei

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; computer vision; LiDAR; point clouds; 3D synthesis and reconstruction; scene understanding; multimodal data fusion; deep generative models; large vision– language models; 3D remote sensing applications

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

Urban Sprawl and Urban Sustainability: High-Resolution Remote-Sensing Image Analytics

edited by

Runyu Fan

Xuecao Li

and Yan Zhang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; deep learning; multi-sensor/ multi-modal data fusion; image classification; change detection; time-series image analysis; semantic segmentation; urban sustainability

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

Advanced Remote Sensing for Hydro-Climatic Extremes: Modeling, Characterization, and Risk Analysis

edited by

Guy Jean Pierre Schumann

William Straka

and Dimitrios Stampoulis

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrological modeling; earth observation (EO); machine learning (ML); GeoAI; hydro-climatic extremes; water resources management

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

Remote Sensing with Radar or Lidar for Multi-Scale Atmospheric Observation

edited by

Zhifeng Shu

and

Zhiqiu Gao

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Submission Open

Keywords: radar remote sensing; lidar atmospheric sensing; multi-scale atmospheric observation; atmospheric boundary layer observation; atmospheric parameter retrieval; energy meteorology observation; wind field detection; cloud and precipitation detection; radar/lidar data assimilation; machine learning

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

Emulation and Surrogate Modeling in Remote Sensing: Advances, Challenges and Applications

edited by

Jochem Verrelst

and

Jorge Vicent

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Submission Open

Keywords: emulation; surrogate modeling; radiative transfer models; machine learning/deep learning; uncertainty quantification; atmosphere; vegetation; and land surface retrievals; hyperspectral and multispectral data; data assimilation; cloud computing and HPC

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

Advances in Video Satellite Remote Sensing and Moving Target Monitoring

edited by

Guoming Gao

and Shengyang Li

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite video; dynamic target detection; dynamic target tracking; dynamic scene understanding; video enhancement and super-resolution; dim-small target; video intrinsic decomposition; deep leaning; video satellite design

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

Neural Networks and Deep Learning for Satellite Image Processing

edited by Jinsong Chen,

Shanxin Guo

Yanfei Zhong

and Yue Xu

submission deadline 15 Jul 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2187 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest canopy structure or parameter retrieval; deep learning; land cover and land use mapping; transfer learning; matric learning; transferability assessment; cloud removal; spatial-temporal image fusion; parameter efficient fine-tuning; change detection; object recognition; super resolution

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

Remote Sensing Applications in Urban Environment and Climate

edited by

Jia Hu

Yuyu Zhou

, Ying-Bao Yang and Zhengyuan Zhu

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7384 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use/cover change; urban climate; urban sustainability; urban extreme events; environmental inequality; human– environmental interactions; urban ecology; building energy use

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

Root-Zone Soil Moisture Retrieval and Applications from Remote Sensing Measurements

edited by

David Fairbairn

, Bertrand Bonan and

Luca Brocca

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6603 | Submission Open

Keywords: root-zone; soil moisture; data assimilation; machine learning; remote sensing; observations; vegetation

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

Deep Learning Techniques and Applications of MIMO Radar Theory

edited by

Chen Zhao

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6575 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; MIMO radar; signal processing; target detection and classification; target tracking; parameter estimation; data fusion; multi-sensor collaboration; generative model and LLM; image reconstruction; super resolution

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

Applications of Unmanned Aerial Remote Sensing in Precision Agriculture

edited by Erica Isabella Parisi and

Fabiana Di Ciaccio

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4800 | Submission Open

Keywords: precision agriculture; unmanned aerial systems (UASs); remote sensing; crop monitoring; soil analysis; irrigation management; multi-spectral imaging; hyper-spectral imaging; thermal imaging; machine learning; environmental impact; data fusion

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

Remote Sensing and Non-Destructive Testing Solutions for Sustainable Development and Urban Resilience

edited by

Livia Lantini

, Atiyeh Ardakanian and

Enzo Rizzo

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1507 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; non-destructive testing; urban resilience; sustainable development; environmental monitoring; disaster preparedness; urban infrastructure; climate adaptation; resource management; smart cities

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

Observation of Optical and Radiative Properties of Atmospheric Aerosols by Ground-Based Remote Sensing Measurements

edited by

Disong Fu

, Kai Wu, Hongrong Shi and

Yu Zheng

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 752 | Submission Open

Keywords: atmospheric aerosols; ground-based remote sensing; aerosol optical properties; radiative transfer modeling; lidar measurements; radiative forcing; sun photometry; long-term monitoring; data validation

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

Remote Sensing Modelling and Measuring Snow Cover and Snow Albedo

edited by

Donghang Shao

Alexander Kokhanovsky

Zhiguang Tang

and

Anxin Ding

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 462 | Submission Open

Keywords: snow cover; snow albedo; light-absorbing particles; radiative forcing; Earth radiation budget

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

Remote Sensing and Smart Forestry (Third Edition)

edited by

and

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 400 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; smart forestry; intelligent forestry; forestry technology; virtual reality; artificial intelligence; image processing; remote sensing classification; LiDAR application in forestry

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

Atmospheric Environmental Remote Sensing, Data Assimilation and Numerical Simulation

edited by

Bin Zhu

Hanqing Kang

and

Yuying Wang

submission deadline 15 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 12 | Submission Open

Keywords: atmospheric remote sensing; data assimilation; numerical simulation; air quality; aerosol– cloud– radiation interaction; emission estimation; data fusion; machine learning

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

Advances in Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Image Processing: 2nd Edition

edited by

Xudong Kang

and

Mingmin Chi

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9233 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; hyperspectral image; feature extraction; image processing; image analysis; artificial intelligence; image classification; information fusion

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

Precipitation Estimations Based on Satellite Observations

edited by

Yuanwei Wang

and

Francisco J. Tapiador

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3899 | Submission Open

Keywords: precipitation estimation; satellite observations; remote sensing; algorithm development; validation and calibration; climate applications

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

Multi-Source Atmospheric Remote Sensing: Enabling High-Precision Meteorological Monitoring and Forecasting

edited by

Xiefei Zhi

, Donglian Sun, Yonghong Zhang,

Yan-An Liu

and

Wen Huo

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3301 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-source atmospheric remote sensing; meteorological monitoring; high-resolution vertical sounding; data fusion and assimilation; AI-driven analytics; extreme weather prediction; low-altitude economy meteorology; air quality monitoring; numerical weather prediction

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

Advanced Remote Sensing Approaches for Multi-Scale Atmospheric Components Monitoring and Impact Assessment

edited by

, Bing Chen,

and

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2906 | Submission Open

Keywords: aerosols; clouds; trace gases; multi-scale remote sensing; lidar; satellite; radiative transfer; atmospheric inversion; multi-source data fusion

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

Remote Sensing Satellites Calibration and Validation: 2nd Edition

edited by Yonghua Jiang,

Mingjun Deng

and Litao Li

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1536 | Submission Open

Keywords: new calibration method; accuracy of satellite calibration; challenge of satellite calibration

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

Application of Satellite Data for Lightning Mapping

edited by

Adonis Ferreira Raiol Leal

and

Dongshuai Li

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 245 | Submission Open

Keywords: lightning; lightning climatology; spaceborne sensors; forecasting; nowcasting; GLM; LMI; LI; lightning mapping

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

Advances in Far-to-Near Infrared Quantitative Spectroscopy and Application to Remote Sensing, in Honor of Prof. Carmine Serio

edited by

Guido Masiello

, Tiziano Maestri and

Giuliano Liuzzi

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | Submission Open

Keywords: radiative transfer of Earth and planetary atmospheres; far and thermal infrared spectroscopy and applications; remote sensing of surface and atmospheric parameters (including clouds and aerosols); greenhouse gases assessment from satellite; air quality; forward models; inverse problems; instrument characterization

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

Emerging Remote Sensing Technologies in Coastal Observation

edited by

Anselme Muzirafuti

and

Andrew Clive Banks

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 554 | Submission Open

Keywords: AI foundation model; deep learning; machine learning; shoreline; coastal erosion; coastline; earth observation; satellite-derived shoreline; marine science; coastal vulnerability; sea level rise; tidal modeling

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

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