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Integrating Deep Learning with Image Perception for Advanced Remote Sensing Applications
edited by Xin He, Yushi Chen, Jinghui Yang and
submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5768 | Submission Open
Keywords: deep learning; remote sensing data analysis; hyperspectral classification; multimodal remote sensing data fusion; deep learning-based SAR methods
(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
Latest Improvements and Applications of Ground Deformation Monitoring Based on Remote Sensing Data (Second Edition)
edited by , Jordi J. Mallorquí, and
submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4897 | Submission Open
Keywords: synthetic aperture radar (SAR); interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR); persistent scatterer interferometry (PSI); global navigation satellite system (GNSS); data fusion; land subsidence analysis; geophysics and geology; structural health monitoring
(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering Remote Sensing)
Advances in Radiative Transfer Modeling: Applications in Natural, Urban, and Emerging Environments
edited by Yingjie Wang, , Biao Cao and Tiangang Yin
submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2374 | Submission Open
Keywords: radiative transfer models; quantitative remote sensing; forest parameters estimation; vegetation functioning; urban heat island; inversion; 3D construction
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Remote Sensing of Clouds and Aerosols: Techniques and Applications
edited by , and Yasmin Aboel Fetouh
submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1795 | Submission Open
Keywords: clouds; precipitation; cloud pollution; remote sensing; radiative transfer; light scattering; atmospheric ice crystals; aerosol remote sensing; air quality; climate change
(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)
Mapping and Monitoring of Agricultural Land Subtypes with Remote Sensing Technologies
edited by Peng Zhang, , Pengfei Tang and
submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1487 | Submission Open
Keywords: fine-scale agricultural land classification; paddy field mapping; agricultural facility detection; aquaculture monitoring; pastic mulch identification; hyperspectral remote sensing; multi-sensor data fusion; time-series analysis; machine learning; land use policy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)
Advances in Miniaturized Radar Systems for Close-Range Sensing
edited by , , and Zhe Zhang
submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1017 | Submission Open
Keywords: miniaturized radar systems; close-range remote sensing; mobile and embedded platforms; radar-based scene understanding
(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering Remote Sensing)
Landslide Studies Integrating Remote Sensing and Geophysical Data (Second Edition) submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 526 | Submission Open
Keywords: joint remote sensing and geophysical surveys; geophysical landslide monitoring; 3D data integration models; cross-validation of RS; ground-based; and subsurface information; visualization in extended reality
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Upcoming Positioning, Navigation and Timing: GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou (Second Edition)
edited by Shengyue Ji, and
submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 464 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban navigation; smartphone; ocean navigation; multipath; sensor integration
(This special issue belongs to the Section Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration)
Artificial Intelligence and Remote Sensing Applied to Forest Management: Advances in Machine Learning and Deep Learning Applications submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 424 | Submission Open
Keywords: multispectral; hyperspectral; lidar; radar; photogrammetry; UAV; deep learning; machine learning; neural networks
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biogeosciences Remote Sensing)
Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence for Structural Health Monitoring
edited by Xiangdong An, Fan Zhang, , and Vassilis Gikas
submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 330 | 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)
Quantitative Inversion and Validation of Satellite Remote Sensing Products
edited by , Jian Yang, , Hailiang Gao and
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 35213 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing products; quantitative inversion; validation; space infrastructure; remote sensing applications
Oceanographic Lidar in the Study of Marine Systems
edited by , , Junwu Tang and
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 16386 | 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 submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 12410 | 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 submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 10901 | 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 , Marcos Portabella, and Zorana Jelenak
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7266 | 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 submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 213 | 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
submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 10544 | 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 and
submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1605 | 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)
Using Remote Sensing Technology to Quantify Greenhouse Gas Emissions
edited by , and Tianqi Shi
submission deadline 28 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4073 | 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)
Innovations in Hyperspectral Image Processing: Advancing Image Generation, Denoising, Fusion Techniques and Beyond
edited by Jiangjun Peng, Xiangyong Cao, , and
submission deadline 28 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2795 | 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)
Advances in Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing for Vegetation Monitoring
edited by and
submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5687 | 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)
Underwater Remote Sensing: Status, New Challenges and Opportunities
edited by and
submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3171 | 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)
Remote Sensing of Water Dynamics in Permafrost Regions
edited by Zeyong Gao and Lingxiao Wang
submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2961 | 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)
Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images Based on Artificial Intelligence
edited by , Xiyang Zhi, and
submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2394 | 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)
Array and Signal Processing for Radar (Second Edition)
edited by Haowei Zhang, , Junpeng Shi, Weijian Liu and Yuan Liu
submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1841 | 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)
Algorithms Exploration of Land Surface Temperature Retrieval from Satellites Data
edited by Caixia Gao
submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 650 | 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)
Revolutionizing Earth Observation: Convolutional Neural Networks Innovations in Remote Sensing and Environmental Monitoring
edited by , Massimiliano Gargiulo, and
submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 356 | 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)
Advances in Remote Sensing for Glacier Preservation
edited by Feiteng Wang, Chunhai Xu and
submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 319 | 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)
Image Analysis for Forest Environmental Monitoring (2nd Edition) submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 130 | 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 submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 19 articles | Viewed by 50481 | 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) submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 22547 | 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) submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 13988 | 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 and Giorgio Antonino Licciardi
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8592 | 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 submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7521 | 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)
Advances in Remote Sensing Video Data Processing: Theories, Technologies and Applications
edited by , Ying Zhang and
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7491 | 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)
Remote Sensing and Modelling of Terrestrial Ecosystems Functioning submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7038 | 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)
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 6703 | 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)
Machine Learning and Remote/Proximal Sensing for Rock Mass Characterization and Slope Analyses submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6277 | 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) submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6067 | 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 submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4616 | 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)
Advances in Remote Sensing Image Target Detection and Recognition
edited by
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4239 | 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)
Satellite Remote Sensing for Meteorological Disaster Monitoring and Forecasting submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3510 | 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 , Jinfang Yin, , and
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3448 | 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)
Remote Sensing and Machine Learning Applications in Atmospheric Physics, Weather, and Air Quality submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3316 | Submission Open
Keywords: Remote sensing; Machine learning; Air-quality; Aerosols; Weather; Cloud dynamics; Fires
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, and Gaia Pavoni
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1995 | 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)
New Perspectives in Plant Phenotyping: Satellite-Based Multispectral Remote Sensing
edited by Luwei Feng, and Yan Zhao
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 443 | 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 Large Visual Language Model
edited by Fan Liu, Tianjin Huang and
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 283 | 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 , Quanyi Huang, Jaroslaw Tęgowski, and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 14 articles | Viewed by 59480 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)
Glacial Lakes and Related Hazards: Mapping, Monitoring, and Risk Assessment submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 36743 | Submission Open
Keywords: novel lake mapping approaches/algorithms of remote sensing; glacial lake mapping and change; glacier and lake interactions; glacial lake outburst floods; reconstruct historical GLOFs; cascading geohazard related to glacial lake dynamics; GLOF risk assessment; social– economic impact of GLOFs; optical SAR-UAV-based monitoring
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Remote Sensing Image Classification and Semantic Segmentation (Second Edition) submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 12 articles | Viewed by 32759 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; deep learning; semantic segmentation; classification; cross-domain; earth observation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
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