Remote Sensing

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 1640 | 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)

Remote Sensing-Driven Digital Twins for Climate-Adaptive Cities

edited by

Hossein M. Rizeei

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1209 | 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)

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 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1119 | 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)

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 1074 | 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)

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 758 | 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)

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 724 | 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)

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 678 | 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 and Opportunities of Remote Sensing in Fire Ecology

edited by

Nikos Grammalidis

,

Kosmas Dimitropoulos

and

Panagiotis Barmpoutis

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 676 | 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)

Remote Sensing for Characterization of Fractured Rocks Masses and Landslide Monitoring

edited by

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submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 437 | 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)

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 425 | 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)

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

edited by

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submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 412 | 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)

Advances in Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Image Anomaly Detection

edited by

Huixin Zhou

,

Pei Xiang

and

Chuan Fu

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 310 | 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 293 | 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 258 | 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 230 | Submission Open

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

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

Radiative Transfer Models for Remote Sensing Land Surface Parameter Estimation

edited by Xinyan Liu,

Yichuan Ma

,

Guodong Zhang

and

Anxin Ding

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 229 | Submission Open

Keywords: radiative transfer model; surface parameter estimation; physical model; satellite product; machine learning; moderate and high resolution

(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 225 | 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)

3D Scene Perception and Reconstruction of Remote Sensing Imagery

edited by

Jun Xiao

, Haiyong Jiang,

Lupeng Liu

and

Zhengda Lu

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 200 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-modal fusion; structural reconstruction; weak supervision and semi-supervision; remote sensing; annotation efficiency

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

Earth Observations of Pre-Fire Fuel Conditions for the Prediction of Large-Scale Wildfires: Building Up Operational Systems

edited by Ju Hyoung Lee

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 178 | Submission Open

Keywords: large-scale wildfires; microwave sensors; fuel conditions; forest temperature; vegetation moisture; fire severity; fire prediction

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

Theory and Applications of Satellite Remote Sensing Fusing Lidars with Optical and Thermal Sensors in Oceanography and Limnology

edited by

Xiao Hua Wang

, Yanfang Xiao, Song Ye,

Yue Ma

and

Jian Yang

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 170 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite lidar; photon-counting lidar; oceanography and limnology; ocean color; subsurface optical/biological properties; satellite-derived bathymetry; sea surface temperature

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

Urban Remote Sensing: State-of-the-Art Reviews and Future Perspectives

edited by

Danlin Yu

submission deadline 1 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 416 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban remote sensing; land use and land cover; urban heat island; multi-sensor fusion; artificial intelligence; urban resilience; smart cities with remote observation; 3D city modeling; urban environmental health monitoring with multi-sensors; change detection; urban sustainability

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

Remote Sensing and Climate Pollutants

edited by

Shuaiyi Shi

,

Jian Xu

and Songyan Zhu

submission deadline 10 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3429 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; climate pollutants; greenhouse gases (GHGs); short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs); long-lived climate pollutants (LLCPs); scattering and absorbing aerosols

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

LEO-Augmented PNT Service

edited by

Kan Wang

,

Ahmed El-Mowafy

and

Xuhai Yang

submission deadline 12 Feb 2026 | 15 articles | Viewed by 46450 | Submission Open

Keywords: Low Earth orbit (LEO); Precise orbit determination (POD); Time and frequency transfer; Positioning; Navigation; Integrity monitoring; Quality control; Signal processing; Sensor calibration

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

Near Real-Time (NRT) Agriculture Monitoring

edited by

Liang Sun

,

Feng Gao

,

Wenbin Wu

and Peng Yang

submission deadline 12 Feb 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 25621 | Submission Open

Keywords: near real-time (NRT); early crop mapping; crop stress; crop phenology; yield prediction; soil monitoring; data fusion; time-series analysis

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

Advances in Surface Deformation Monitoring Using SAR Interferometry

edited by Yuedong Wang, Lijia He,

Honglei Yang

and Huiqiang Wang

submission deadline 12 Feb 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 13776 | Submission Open

Keywords: SAR interferometry (InSAR); wide-area InSAR; advanced methods for deformation monitoring; geohazards detection and analysis; geodetic and geophysical modeling; parameter inversion; deformation analysis

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

Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data in Hydrology and Geophysical Processes

edited by

Shiqiang Zhang

,

Yun Chen

, Qiudong Zhao and

Chang Huang

submission deadline 12 Feb 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 13481 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrologic variables; data fusion; surface water; glaciers; snow cover; hydrological process; flood monitoring

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

Remote Sensing for Groundwater Hydrology

edited by Zofia Rzepecka,

Monika Birylo

and Olga Barron

submission deadline 12 Feb 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 12832 | Submission Open

Keywords: groundwater; GRACE; GLDAS; water storage; methods of groundwater monitoring; water cycle and balance

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

Multi-Modal and Multi-Task Learning in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

edited by

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submission deadline 12 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 11324 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing data; neural networks; image fusion; image segmentation; object detection; classification; photogrammetry

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

Geological Hazard Monitoring, Identify, Predict, and Risk Assessment Using Geographic Information Science and Remote Sensing

edited by

Yan Zhao

,

Yongsheng Li

and

Yi Zhang

submission deadline 12 Feb 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 9272 | Submission Open

Keywords: geological hazards; GIS and remote sensing technology; risk management; hazard monitoring; hazard identification and prediction; multi-source data fusion

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

Advances in Spectral Imagery and Methods for Fire and Smoke Detection

edited by Eriita Jones

submission deadline 12 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 8470 | Submission Open

Keywords: fire detection; smoke detection; spectral imagery; remote sensing; environmental monitoring and management; multispectral and hyperspectral imaging; thermal imaging; machine learning; AI models; super-resolution; IOT; wildfires and aerosols

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

Advances in Computer Vision and Machine Learning Applications on Remote Sensing Images

edited by

Qiang Li

, Jing Li, Dan Wang and

Tania Stathaki

submission deadline 12 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7790 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing image processing; geospatial data analysis; computer vision; machine learning; satellite imagery; image fusion; advanced computational techniques

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

Advancements in Deep Learning for Object Detection and Segmentation in Remote Sensing Imagery

edited by

Osmar Abílio De Carvalho Júnior

and

Linlin Xu

submission deadline 12 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6530 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; object detection; image segmentation; convolutional neural networks (CNNs); generative adversarial networks (GANs); transformer models; recurrent neural networks (RNNs)

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

New Insights from Wind Remote Sensing

edited by Stefano Letizia, Peter Brugger, Matteo Puccioni and Sonia Wharton

submission deadline 12 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6310 | Submission Open

Keywords: wind lidars; wind radars; satellite imaging of wind fields; virtual remote sensing; uncertainty quantification of remote sensing; wind resource assessment; thermodynamic profiling for wind energy

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

Environment Observation Analysis Based on Remote Sensing and Geospatial Artificial Intelligence

edited by

Lei Xu

, Peyman Abbaszadeh,

Wenying Du

and

Min Huang

submission deadline 12 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5723 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; big data; GeoAI; spatiotemporal processes; disaster analysis; large-scale monitoring and prediction

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

Multi-Sensor Detecting, Monitoring, and Modelling of Volcanic Activity

edited by

Alessandro Bonforte

, Andrew J L Harris and

Letizia Spampinato

submission deadline 12 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5098 | Submission Open

Keywords: passive (visible and thermal infrared) remote sensing; active (radar) remote sensing; eruption precursors; unrest and base lines; monitoring; ash plumes; gas clouds; effusive eruptions; hydrothermal system; deformation

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

Processing Methods and Techniques of Spaceborne SAR with Ultra-High Resolution

edited by

Guangcai Sun

,

Wenkang Liu

and

Vito Pascazio

submission deadline 12 Feb 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4836 | Submission Open

Keywords: spaceborne SAR; ultra-high-resolution (UHR); focusing algorithm; interferometry; stereo SAR imaging; multi-view-angle image fusion; 3D deformation monitoring

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

Snow Water Equivalent Retrieval Using Remote Sensing

edited by Jianwei Yang,

Lingmei Jiang

,

Matias Takala

, Yan Huang and

Tao Che

submission deadline 12 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4166 | Submission Open

Keywords: microwave remote sensing; snow water equivalent (SWE); snow depth; SWE retrieving algorithm; snow forward modeling; field campaigns in cryosphere; spatiotemporal variability

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

Advanced Image Processing Algorithms for Object Detection and Tracking in Aerial and Satellite Imagery

edited by

Jun Zhou

,

Libao Zhang

, Junpeng Zhang and

Jue Zhang

submission deadline 12 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 4092 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; deep learning; object detection; object tracking; cross-modal representation learning; hyperspectral videos

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

Remote Sensing for Geo-Hydrological Hazard Monitoring and Assessment

edited by Diandong Ren and

Mervyn Lynch

submission deadline 12 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3650 | Submission Open

Keywords: geo-hydrological hazards; disaster prediction; extreme precipitation; flash floods; mudslides/landslides; earthquakes

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

Deep Learning for Spectral-Spatial Hyperspectral Image Classification (2nd Edition)

edited by

Jiayi Li

,

Maria Grazia D’Urso

,

Xian Guo

, Jie Yang and Xin Huang

submission deadline 12 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2737 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; hyperspectral imaging; spectral– spatial classification; domain adaption; attention mechanisms

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

Crop Biophysical Parameters Retrieval Using Remote Sensing Data (Second Edition)

edited by

Jiangang Liu

,

Bo Li

and

Zhenjiang Zhou

submission deadline 12 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2339 | Submission Open

Keywords: crop biophysical parameters; optical remote sensing; active remote sensing; multisource data integration; radiative transfer model; deep learning

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

Artificial Intelligence-Based Remote Sensing for Crop Information Extraction and Status Monitoring

edited by

Muhammad Moshiur Rahman

submission deadline 12 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2176 | Submission Open

Keywords: crop growth and vigour monitoring; crop phenology; crop diseases and pests; drought stress; machine learning; artificial intelligence; image processing; crop classification; yield prediction

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

Advanced Machine Learning Models for Remote Sensing Applications and Data Analysis—Recent Developments

edited by Ahmed Shaharyar Khwaja and

Filippo Biondi

submission deadline 15 Feb 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 28457 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; quantum machine learning; optical data; imaging radar data; multispectral and hyperspectral data; environment monitoring and prediction; calamity prediction and detection; agriculture monitoring and prediction; post-calamity evaluation; time-series for structural monitoring; transfer learning and one-shot learning; semi-supervised learning

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

Advances in the Application of Spaceborne and UAS-Borne Radar Remote Sensing

edited by

Neda Rojhani

,

George Shaker

,

Massimiliano Pieraccini

and

Amir Hosein Oveis

submission deadline 15 Feb 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 22666 | Submission Open

Keywords: radar technology; space-based radar technology; planetary mapping radar; remote sensing applications; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); disaster management applications; advanced signal processing; space exploration; radar technology in earth sciences

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

Estimating the Ecological Services of Urban Green Infrastructures Using Remote Sensing

edited by

Oz Kira

and

Arnon Karnieli

submission deadline 15 Feb 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 20281 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban sustainability; urban green infrastructures; urban ecological services; vegetation classification; carbon cycle; evapotranspiration; urban heat islands; shading

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

Monitoring Vegetation Response Based on Remote Sensing and Climate Data (Second Edition)

edited by

Rui Yao

and

Mario Cunha

submission deadline 15 Feb 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 13363 | Submission Open

Keywords: vegetation cover; vegetation phenology; vegetation productivity; crop yield; NDVI/EVI/LAI; climate change; human activity detection/monitoring

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

Quantitative Remote Sensing for Vegetation Phenology and Regional Landscape Patterns

edited by Ke Huang,

Jiaxing Zu

, Ning Chen and Xiaowei Tong

submission deadline 15 Feb 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 13281 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; vegetation dynamic; climate change; landscape pattern; cross-scale; vegetation phenology applications

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

SAR Monitoring of Marine and Coastal Environments

edited by Tao Xie,

Junmin Meng

,

He Wang

and Xinwei Chen

submission deadline 15 Feb 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 11046 | Submission Open

Keywords: synthetic aperture radar (SAR); marine environments; coastal hazards; remote sensing; deep learning; harsh environments; polar oceans; marine pollution; habitat mapping; climate change

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

Advancements of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in Remote Sensing

edited by Zhixi Feng, Chuang Yang, Hongyuan Zhang, Chen Yang and Yue Chang

submission deadline 15 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 11005 | Submission Open

Keywords: vision– language models (VLMs); multimodal data fusion; remote sensing VQA; automatic annotation; semantic segmentation; object detection; super-resolution reconstruction; change detection; pretraining models; multimodal retrieval

Estimating Atmospheric Aerosols and Cloud Physics with Optical and Multispectral Sensors

edited by

Yuying Wang

, Haofei Wang, Chunsong Lu and

Xiquan Dong

submission deadline 15 Feb 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7235 | Submission Open

Keywords: aerosol– cloud interactions; remote sensing; multispectral sensors; aerosol optical depth (AOD); cloud microphysical properties; cloud condensation nuclei (CCN); lidar; radiometers; satellite; machine learning

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

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