Remote Sensing

Geospatial Big Data and Remote Sensing for Urban Analysis

edited by

, Chao Sun, Shanqi Zhang and Manchun Li

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 243 | 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)

LiDAR Technology in Forest Ecosystems: Advances and Applications in Forest Management, Monitoring and Modelling

edited by Matteo Mura

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 213 | Submission Open

Keywords: LiDAR; airborne laser scanning; forest inventory; forest biometrics; large area estimation; forest management; forest monitoring

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

Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing and Advanced Computational Frameworks for Landslide Detection and Predictive Modeling

edited by

Paraskevas Tsangaratos

,

Wei Chen

and

Ioanna Ilia

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 186 | Submission Open

Keywords: earth observation data— remote sensing technology; geographic information systems; machine learning; soft computing; landslide susceptibility; hazardous; and risk mapping; explainable AI in landslide phenomena prediction

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

Advancements in Atmospheric Turbulence Remote Sensing

edited by

Andreu Salcedo-Bosch

and

Simone Lolli

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 168 | Submission Open

Keywords: turbulence; atmospheric remote sensing; wind; boundary layer; lidar; radar; clear air turbulence

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

UAV Applications for Forest Management: Wood Volume, Biomass, and Mapping (Second Edition)

edited by

Mauro Maesano

and

Federico Valerio Moresi

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 145 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAV; drone; remote sensing; forest management; forest inventory; precision forestry

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

Intelligent Processing, Mining and Application of Remote Sensing Information

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submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 24814 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing image processing; artificial intelligence; fusion of multi-sensor remote sensing data; nighttime light remote sensing; sustainable development goals; disaster and natural resource monitoring; socioeconomic remote sensing

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

Temporal Resolution, a Key Factor in Environmental Risk Assessment II - Integrating Data from Multiple Data Sources

edited by

Adrian Ursu

,

Cristian Constantin Stoleriu

and

Marian Mierlă

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 20064 | Submission Open

Keywords: time series data and projections; rapid evaluation of the impact of extreme events on the environment and society; climate change; environmental risks; land-use and land-cover changes Multispectral; hyperspectral and LiDAR data from a temporal perspective; ecosystems monitoring from RS data; history and heritage; multiple data source integrated in time evolution analysis

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

Remote Sensing in Hydrometeorology and Natural Hazards

edited by

Peng Sun

,

Linyao Dong

and Rui Yao

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 17235 | Submission Open

Keywords: warming climate; remote sensing; hydrological cycle; hydrological hazards; hydrometeorology; climatic and hydrological extremes

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

Plant Disease Detection and Recognition Using Remotely Sensed Data

edited by

Huajian Liu

and

Haiguang Wang

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 16491 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; plant disease detection; plant disease recognition; computer vision; machine learning; deep learning; image processing

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

Imagery Classification and Feature Extraction Based on Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

edited by

Xia Xu

, Sen Lei, Yuanchao Su and

Xuanwen Tao

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 11976 | Submission Open

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

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

Advancements in Thunderstorm Nowcasting and Atmospheric Electricity Monitoring by Remote Sensing

edited by

Richard Müller

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 10882 | Submission Open

Keywords: thunderstorms; convective initiation; lightning; life cycle; hazards

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

Remote Sensing Applications in Hydrology and Water Resources Management

edited by Ning Liu, Yun Yang,

Ge Sun

and

Gabriel Senay

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8999 | Submission Open

Keywords: water use; water supply; water availability; hydrologic modeling; remote sensing; water resource management

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

Remote Sensing in Earth Surface Changes and Deformations Caused by Earthquake and Landslide (Third Edition)

edited by

Yi Wang

,

Jun Hu

and

Weile Li

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8967 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; earth surface change; surface deformation; earthquakes; landslides; hazard detection; hazard mapping; hazard evaluation

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

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with Applications in Remote Sensing (Third Edition)

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submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8764 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing data; artificial intelligence; machine learning; deep learning; hyperspectral images

Remote Sensing for Mineral Exploration: Current Progress and Future Vision

edited by

Hengqian Zhao

, Zhifang Zhao,

Joana Cardoso-Fernandes

and Deshuai Yuan

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8752 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; mineral exploration; multispectral and hyperspectral; lithology; mineralization; deep learning

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

Artificial Intelligence and Big Data for Oceanography (2nd Edition)

edited by

Yongqing Li

,

Weimin Huang

and

Peng Ren

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 8526 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; oceanography; big data; remote sensing; information extraction; data mining

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

Artificial Intelligence and Remote Sensing for Geohazards

edited by

Pierluigi Confuorto

,

Silvia Bianchini

,

Chiara Martinello

and Davide Festa

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8207 | Submission Open

Keywords: modeling; monitoring; landslides; subsidence; geohazard; susceptibility; risk analysis; GIS; machine learning

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

Advances in Remote Sensing of Vegetation Structure Analysis and Forest Ecosystems Monitoring

edited by

Carlos José Novillo Camacho

and

Arrogante-Funes Patricia

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5618 | Submission Open

Keywords: LiDAR remote sensing; forest monitoring; aerial photogrammetry; vegetation structure; time series vegetation index; land cover change

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

Deep Learning for Very-High Resolution Land-Cover Mapping (Second Edition)

edited by

Lei Ma

and

Claudio Persello

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 4992 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; explainable deep learning; land-cover mapping; geo-information extraction; very high-resolution images; data augmentation; data fusion; semantic segmentation; instance segmentation; change detection; weak and semi-supervision

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

Water Quality Monitoring and Quantitative Analysis in Marine and Inland Areas Utilizing Remote Sensing Techniques

edited by Jing Tan,

Ishan Joshi

and

Zhigang Cao

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4985 | Submission Open

Keywords: ocean color; eutrophication; water quality; multi-sensor data; optical properties; atmospheric correction; marine ecosystems; remote sensing data

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

Advances in Multimodal Remote Sensing Data: Processing, Fusion and Applications

edited by Yixiang Luomei and Fa-Ming Fang

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4600 | Submission Open

Keywords: multimodal data alignment; multi-source data fusion; multimodal representation; multimodal co-learning; image interpretation; multimodal machine learning

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

Remote Sensing and Geophysical Tools for Land and Water System Analysis

edited by

Vivek Agarwal

,

Stuart Marsh

and

Anuj Tiwari

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4134 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; geophysical tools; land system analysis; water resource management; subsurface mapping; environmental monitoring; data integration and modeling

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

Development and Implementation of Early Detection and Warning Methods for Natural Hazards Utilizing Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data

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submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3629 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; reanalysis data; method development; natural hazards; early identification; monitoring and early warnings; glacier-related disasters; hill fire monitoring; flash flood; debris flow; drought; landslides

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

Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces: Observation, Modeling, and Data Assimilation

edited by

Yansong Bao

and

Fu Wang

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3429 | Submission Open

Keywords: land surface process; data assimilation; remote sensing ; land cover; soil moisture

Advanced Deep Learning Techniques for Information Extraction and Analysis of Remote Sensing Imagery

edited by Hao Zhu and Biao Hou

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3238 | Submission Open

Keywords: image fusion; image segmentation; object detection; model acceleration or compression; image matching

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

Big Data Era: AI Technology for SAR and PolSAR Image

edited by

Weidong Sun

,

Jinqi Zhao

, Yexian Ren and Weixian Tan

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3232 | Submission Open

Keywords: synthetic aperture radar image processing; radar polarimetry; microwave remote sensing; explainable artificial intelligence; deep learning; earth resource monitoring; target attribute extraction

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

Radar Sensing and Intelligent Recognitions: Algorithms, Data and Advanced Applications

edited by Wei Yang, Tiaojie Xiao,

Mou Wang

, Conghui Qi and Shiwen Lei

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2881 | Submission Open

Keywords: radar scattering characteristics; ocean remote sensing; intelligent recognitions from radar data; radar data processing; artificial intelligence-based radar perception techniques; SAR imaging

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

Remote Sensing in Monitoring Coastal and Inland Waters

edited by Xiaoyun Wan, Qun Liu,

Salem Morsy

and

Yongjun Jia

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2024 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal and inland waters; satellite remote sensing; airborne/terrestrial/mobile LiDAR; water level/quality/depth; phytoplankton; carbon fluxes and stocks; Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

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

Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Remote Sensing for Wildfire Detection, Monitoring and Management

edited by

Arnick Abdollahi

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1958 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; wildfire; bushfire risk modelling and reduction; earth and space science informatics; environmental assessment and monitoring; photogrammetry and remote sensing; natural hazards; image processing; machine learning

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

Monitoring and Assessment of Ecohydrological Evolution of River–Lake–Wetland Systems Based on Remote Sensing Big Data

edited by

Yanfeng Wu

and

Hsiang-te Kung

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1843 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing big data; ecohydrological evolution; river– lake– coastal wetland systems; ecological monitoring; hydrological assessment; machine learning; data analytics

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

Innovations in Remote Sensing Image Analysis

edited by Lu Xu,

Xianwei Lv

,

Wen Zhou

and

Gonzalo Pajares Martinsanz

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1524 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; multimodal data; object-based image analysis; image segmentation and classification; deep learning; knowledge graph

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

New Views of the Moon: Recent Advances in Lunar Remote Sensing and Applications

edited by

Lingzhi Sun

,

Yuqi Qian

, Le Qiao and Honglei Lin

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1443 | Submission Open

Keywords: the moon; lunar volatile; remote sensing; spectroscopy; lunar south pole; mineralogy

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

Advances in Remote Sensing of the Polar Ice with High Frequency (HF) to L-Band Radar

edited by

Shinan Lang

,

Xiangbin Cui

,

Bo Zhao

and Pedro Fidel Espín-López

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1226 | Submission Open

Keywords: ice sounding radar; system design; signal processing; Antarctic; Arctic; mountain glaciers; subglacial conditions; snow cover; sea ice; satellite and aerial cryosphere

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

Recent Developments in Remote Sensing Instruments, Technologies, and Results for Aerosol and Cloud Measurements (Second Edition)

edited by Matthew McGill

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1013 | Submission Open

Keywords: clouds; cloud radiative effects; aerosols; aerosol radiative effects; cloud– aerosol interactions; aerosol transport; diurnal variability; remote sensing

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

Remote Sensing-Driven Digital Twins for Climate-Adaptive Cities

edited by

Hossein M. Rizeei

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1007 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital twin frameworks; deep learning and transformer models; multi-sensor data fusion (optical; SAR; and LiDAR); urban heat island and environmental indicator mapping; feature extraction (buildings; impervious surfaces; and green spaces); spatiotemporal change detection; AI-powered decision-support systems

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

Recent Advances in Quantitative Thermal Imaging Using Remote Sensing

edited by

Susana Lagüela López

and

Iván Garrido González

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 792 | Submission Open

Keywords: thermal remote sensing; land surface temperature; sensor calibration; urban heat island; wildfire detection; multisource data fusion; artificial intelligence; UAV thermal mapping; infrastructure monitoring

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

Hyperspectral Classification in Remote Sensing: State-of-the-Art Methods and Emerging Trends

edited by

Hao Sun

, Zhigang Tu, Le Dong and

Zhitong Xiong

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 758 | Submission Open

Keywords: hyperspectral image classification; remote sensing; spectral-spatial features; feature extraction; deep learning; machine learning

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

Applications and Opportunities of Remote Sensing in Fire Ecology

edited by

Nikos Grammalidis

,

Kosmas Dimitropoulos

and

Panagiotis Barmpoutis

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 621 | Submission Open

Keywords: fire ecology; forest fire prevention; fire risk assessment and management; fire/smoke detection sensors and algorithms; fire/smoke modeling and prediction; burned area estimation; post-fire management and restoration

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

GIS and RS for Spatial Documentation, Analysis and Interpretation in Multi-Scale Archaeological Applications

edited by

Jie He

,

Fulong Chen

and

Massimiliano Pepe

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 603 | Submission Open

Keywords: GIS; remote sensing; archaeological space; archaeological application; multiple scales; archaeological documentation; spatial analysis; spatial interpretation and narrative

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

Remote Sensing in Space Geodesy and Cartography Methods (Fourth Edition)

edited by

Jinyun Guo

,

Cheinway Hwang

,

Yu Sun

and Tzu-pang Tseng

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 597 | Submission Open

Keywords: GNSS; LiDAR; satellite gravimetry; satellite altimetry; optical/multispectral/hyperspectral/SAR remote sensing; space geodetic technique; deep space detection

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

Applications of Photogrammetry and Lidar Techniques in Cultural Heritage Documentation

edited by

Filiberto Chiabrando

, Alberto Mendikute and

Dominique Rissolo

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 516 | Submission Open

Keywords: aerial/terrestrial data integration; LiDAR/photogrammetry integration; MMSs (mobile mapping systems); SLAM; hyperspectral; thermal; and multispectral sensors; different approaches in 3D modeling; scan to BIM; HBIM; memory twin/digital twin; AI base point cloud classification; AI-generated 3D models; paradata and metadata; semantic classifications; new methods and strategies for 3D surveys; three-dimensional and immersive visualization; including virtual; augmented; and mixed reality; the preservation and protection of cultural heritage; digital cultural heritage applications and services

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

Remote Sensing for Characterization of Fractured Rocks Masses and Landslide Monitoring

edited by

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submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 417 | Submission Open

Keywords: fractured rock masses; groundwater; InSAR; landslides; slope instability; UAV

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

Assessment of Climate Change Impact on Terrestrial Ecosystems in Arid Regions Using Remote Sensing Data

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submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 399 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; terrestrial ecosystems; arid regions; remote sensing; vegetation dynamics; ecosystem monitoring; land surface phenology; natural resource management; nature-based solutions (NbS)

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

Multimodal AI-Empowered Remote Sensing: Image Fusion and Analysis

edited by

Jie Guo

, F. Richard Yu and

Yinghua Li

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 397 | Submission Open

Keywords: multimodal remote sensing; cross-modal learning; remote sensing image fusion; image enhancement; domain adaptation

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

Artificial Intelligence for Coastal Remote Sensing: Dataset and Application

edited by

Chunpeng Chen

,

Panpan Xu

and Pengfei Tang

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 290 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; automated mapping; coastal wetlands; river deltas; multi-source data fusion; earth observation big data

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

Advances in Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Image Anomaly Detection

edited by

Huixin Zhou

,

Pei Xiang

and

Chuan Fu

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 274 | Submission Open

Keywords: hyperspectral image; anomaly detection; object tracking; machine learning; deep learning; remote sensing

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

Satellite Remote Sensing of Quantifying Greenhouse Gases Emissions

edited by Ruixue Lei, Xueying Yu and Leyang Feng

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 269 | Submission Open

Keywords: greenhouse gas emissions; satellite remote sensing; CO2; CH4 retrieval; inversion algorithms; data assimilation; OCO-2; TROPOMI; GOSAT; machine learning; emission monitoring; carbon flux estimation

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

Integration of Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence for Structural Health Monitoring

edited by

Bao Shu

, Xuanyu Qu,

Lei Xie

and

Mehdi Maboudi

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 235 | Submission Open

Keywords: automated displacement monitoring; damage detection; change detection in infrastructure; spatiotemporal modeling; predictive maintenance; big data analytics; novel monitoring techniques; multi-source data fusion

Global Vegetation Cover Estimated from Remote Sensing

edited by Mingzhu He and

Markus Hollaus

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 212 | Submission Open

Keywords: vegetation coverage; remote sensing; multi-sourced data; machine learning; data fusion

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

Applications of Remotely Sensed Data in Hydrology and Climatology (Third Edition)

edited by

Yuei-An Liou

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 199 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; satellite observation; water resources; global water and energy cycles; remote sensing; water reservoir monitoring; cloud; temperature; humidity; precipitation; wind; etc.

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

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