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Land Surface Temperature Estimation Using Remote Sensing II
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9675 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biogeosciences Remote Sensing)
State of the Art of GNSS and SAR/InSAR Techniques for Geomatic Applications
edited by Claudia Pipitone and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8306 | Submission Open
Keywords: geomatic applications; SAR/InSAR; GNSS time series; deformation analysis; fault/crustal property; active tectonics; multi-source data integration; seismic activities; stability modeling; time series analysis; landslides; hazard mapping
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)
Observations of Atmospheric and Oceanic Processes by Remote Sensing
edited by , , Xiaofeng Zhao and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7551 | Submission Open
Keywords: ocean– atmosphere interaction; atmospheric processes; oceanic monitoring; climate change monitoring; microwave remote sensing; satellite observations; observation methods; observation instruments; artificial intelligence in remote sensing; emerging remote sensing technologies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)
Study on Hydrological Hazards Based on Multi-Source Remote Sensing
edited by Jun Zhang, Shaonan Zhu and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7409 | Submission Open
Keywords: multi-source remote sensing; hydrological hazards; flood monitoring; drought assessment; landslide risk; remote sensing data fusion; machine learning; climate change
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Coastal and Marine Monitoring and Restoration Mapping Using UAS and Remote Sensing Systems
edited by , and Matthew Brolly
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7192 | Submission Open
Keywords: UAVs; remote sensing; blue carbon; coastal vegetated systems; saltmarsh; seagrass; kelp; marine mammals; birds
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)
Machine Learning and Deep Learning Applied to Remote Sensing Image Analysis
edited by Sen Lei, and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6938 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; machine learning; deep learning; generative models; multimodal learning; multispectral; hyperspectral; synthetic aperture radar
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
Uncertainty in Remote Sensing Image Analysis (Second Edition)
edited by Penglin Zhang, and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6546 | Submission Open
Keywords: image processing and uncertainty analysis; uncertainty in remote sensing applications; uncertainty quantification; uncertainty suppression/control; error or uncertainty modeling; process or mechanism of uncertainty propagation; data quality; reliability; the impact of uncertainty on decision making; geospatial statistics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
Advancing Hydrological Monitoring and Prediction Through Multisource Geodetic Observations
edited by , Daocheng Yu and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6052 | Submission Open
Keywords: satellite geodesy; hydrological geodesy; land water storage; joint inversion; machine learning; hydrological monitoring and predication
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)
Advanced Techniques for Water-Related Remote Sensing (Second Edition)
edited by , , Jianhua Guo, and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5435 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; water-related optics; sensing/imaging techniques; sensors/platforms; deep learning; signal processing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
Advanced Satellite Earth Observing Technologies for Weather and Climate Resilience
edited by , , , and Longjiang Li
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5357 | Submission Open
Keywords: satellite Earth observations; GNSS atmospheric monitoring; International GNSS Service data and products; severe weather forecasting; climate risks assessment; environmental monitoring; numerical weather prediction model; artificial intelligence (AI)-empowered climate model; GNSS tropospheric tomography; miscellaneous advanced methodologies and applications
(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)
Deep Learning and Foundation Models: Advancing Remote Sensing Applications submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5270 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; deep learning; data analysis; modeling; machine vision; artificial intelligence
(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering Remote Sensing)
Advanced Techniques of Spaceborne Surveillance Radar
edited by , Weiwei Wang, Yanhong Xu and Yuhong Zhang
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5164 | Submission Open
Keywords: spaceborne radar system; spaceborne antenna technique; array signal processing; moving target detection; non-homogeneity clutter suppression; jamming suppression; multi-target tracking
(This special issue belongs to the Section Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration)
Application of Remote Sensing in Snow and Ice Monitoring
edited by Qian Yang, , Yanli Zhang and Yuwen Pang
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4239 | Submission Open
Keywords: snow cover; lake ice; ice dynamics; sea ice; climate change; multi-sensor and multi-source data; change detection; remote sensing applications; resources assessment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)
Remote Sensing Applications in Natural Hazards and Sustainable Development
edited by , Bo Yu and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4218 | Submission Open
Keywords: natural hazards; risk; sustainable development goals; resilience; flood; earthquake; geology; landslide; ecology; fire; sustainably
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Recent Advances in SAR: Signal Processing and Target Recognition
edited by Dahai Dai and Fengming Hu
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4182 | Submission Open
Keywords: synthetic aperture radar; signal processing; target recognition; machine learning; radar system; SAR feature extraction and processing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
Advances in Detection-Oriented Multi-Sensor Fusion Beyond the Visible Spectrum
edited by , , Yimian Dai, Fei Zhou and Xingchen Zhang
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3938 | Submission Open
Keywords: image fusion; target detection; anomaly detection; change detection; SAR
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
Microwave Remote Sensing for Object Detection (2nd Edition)
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3790 | Submission Open
Keywords: synthetic aperture radar (SAR); airborne and satellite systems; objection detection and recognition; machine learning; compressive sensing; deep neural network sand few sample learning; ground moving target indication (GMTI); change detection in SAR images; generative adversarial networks (GANs); ship detection and ship traffic
Applications of Radar Remote Sensing in Earth Observation
edited by Guoman Huang, , , and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3605 | Submission Open
Keywords: SAR; InSAR; land cover and land use mapping; forest canopy height; aboveground biomass estimation; land hazard and risk monitoring; earth system; deep learning; machine learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Advances in Remote Sensing of Aerosol Optical Properties and the Effects on Radiation submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3303 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; interaction aerosol radiation; aerosol radiative forcing; aerosol properties; solar radiation; atmospheric radiative transfer
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Remote Sensing)
High-Resolution Remote Sensing Image Processing and Applications
edited by Kai Xu, Yixiang Chen and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3213 | Submission Open
Keywords: high-resolution remote sensing; deep learning; image processing; image fusion; object detection; semantic segmentation; change detection; remote sensing vision– language model.
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
Advances of Ocean Circulation and Air-Sea Interaction Using Remote Sensing Techniques
edited by Xiang Wang, , Ronghua Zhang, and Jingtao Yu
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2806 | Submission Open
Keywords: ocean circulation; air-sea interaction; remote sensing; satellite oceanography; ocean climate change; data assimilation; artificial intelligence; machine learning; multi-sensor observations
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)
Advancements in Autonomous UAVs for Infrastructure Inspection and Monitoring
edited by , Samer Karam and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2753 | Submission Open
Keywords: UAV; UAS; and drones; autonomous; SLAM; path planning; big data; infrastructure; civil engineering; machine learning and deep learning; three-dimensional mapping; navigation; data fusion; LiDAR; RGB-D; mapping; real-time; graph-based; Kalman filter; active exploration
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)
Advances in Remote Sensing and AI for Monitoring and Mitigating Land Subsidence and Secondary Geohazards
edited by Jing Wang, , and Xiwei Fan
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2562 | Submission Open
Keywords: land subsidence; InSAR; GNSS deformation monitoring; 3D deformation analysis; machine learning/deep learning; subsidence modeling; GPS optical image urban monitoring
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)
Remote Sensing for Maritime Monitoring
edited by Peng Liu, and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2507 | Submission Open
Keywords: marine pollution detection; ship monitoring; maritime traffic situation awareness; multi-source remote sensing; image process and analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)
Recent Advances in Remote Sensing Products for Water and Environment Monitoring submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2481 | Submission Open
Keywords: water resources; water fluxes; hydrologic modeling; Earth observations; environmental monitoring; hydroinformatics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Multiplatform and Multisensor Applications for Landslide Characterization and Monitoring
edited by , Marco Mulas, Giuseppe Ciccarese and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2362 | Submission Open
Keywords: landslide detection; landslide characterization; landslide monitoring; data fusion; remote sensing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)
Spatial Analysis and Modeling in Urban Remote Sensing
edited by and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2350 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; urban environment monitoring and modeling; unmanned aerial vehicles; lidar; hyperspectral sensor; imaging spectroscopy; social sensing; GeoAI; image processing algorithm; land use/land cover mapping and change analysis; socio-economic applications; public health applications; urban planning practices; environmental modeling; environmental impacts
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Remote Sensing)
Advances in Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data Fusion and Analysis submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2288 | Submission Open
Keywords: multi-source remote sensing data; deep learning; multi-source image fusion; pansharpening; classification; change detection; anomaly detection; target detection
(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Observation Data)
Precise Orbit Determination for Gravity Field Investigations
edited by , Gael Cascioli and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2273 | Submission Open
Keywords: precise orbit determination; radio science; interplanetary missions; planetary science; satellite geodesy; planetary interiors; gravity fields
(This special issue belongs to the Section Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration)
Remote Sensing Image Change Detection and Feature Enhancement Based on Deep Learning
edited by Kaimin Sun, Wenzhuo Li, , and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2161 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing change detection; feature enhancement; feature fusion; semantic segmentation; deep learning; multi-model image analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
Cutting-Edge PolSAR Imaging Applications and Techniques
edited by Dapeng Tao, , , and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2020 | Submission Open
Keywords: multitemporal SAR/PolSAR; polarimetric target decomposition; change detection; PolInSAR; deep learning for PolSAR image; land coverage mapping and classification
(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Observation Data)
Advancements in Deep Learning for Remote Sensing: Exploring Planetary and Earth Observation Applications submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2009 | Submission Open
Keywords: deep learning; earth observation; planetary science; feature detection; mapping; super-resolution; classification
(This special issue belongs to the Section Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration)
Solar System Remote Sensing: Planetary Science and Exploration
edited by Jason (Jay) Laura and Ross A. Beyer
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1959 | Submission Open
Keywords: solar system remote sensing; planetary science; planetary exploration; surface analysis; planetary atmosphere; planetary geology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration)
Ecologically Vulnerable Zones (EVZs) in Focus: Remote Sensing and AI for Sustainable Futures
edited by , Jianli Ding, Yuemin Yue and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1925 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; ecologically vulnerable zones; AI/ML applications; climate change; land degradation; biodiversity monitoring; disaster resilience; sustainable development; multi-source data fusion; environmental forecasting
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
AI-Enhanced Remote Sensing and Land Surface Modeling for Terrestrial Hydrology and Climate Systems
edited by , and Qing Yang
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1902 | Submission Open
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence (AI); land surface model; remote sensing data assimilation; hydroclimatic extremes; climate modeling; human– environment interactions; hydrometeorological variables monitoring
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Monitoring and Managing Environmental Sustainability Using Remote Sensing (Second Edition)
edited by and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1848 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; environmental sustainability; land use/cover change; habitat health; climate change monitoring; satellite imagery; environmental monitoring; ecosystem assessment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biogeosciences Remote Sensing)
Advanced in Space-Air-Ground-Sea Integrated Remote Sensing: Intelligent Processing and Applications
edited by , Chenchen Jiang and Huazhong Ren
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1774 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; space– air– ground– sea integration; artificial intelligence; data processing; modeling; mapping
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)
Advances in Machine Learning Algorithms for Atmospheric Remote Sensing
edited by Alqamah Sayeed, Ahmed Khan Salman and Siddharth Chaudhary
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1751 | Submission Open
Keywords: machine learning; atmospheric remote sensing; hyperspectral data analysis; air quality prediction; aerosols and trace gases; urban pollution modeling; climate adaptation; human epidemiology; crop health monitoring; advanced time-series analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)
Satellite Remote Sensing for Ocean and Coastal Environment Monitoring (Second Edition) submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1712 | Submission Open
Keywords: sea level rise; ocean tides; model assimilation; sea surface temperature; sea surface salinity; chlorophyll; water transparency; sea waves; mesoscale eddy; ocean dynamics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)
Spatio-Temporal Land Surface Temperature Retrieval Based on Ground-Based, Satellite Observations and Artificial Intelligence
edited by , Xiangyang Liu and Tian Hu
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1700 | Submission Open
Keywords: land surface temperature (LST); retrieval algorithm; complex terrain; urban area; ground-based observation; artificial intelligence; validation; reconstruction of data under clouds; temporal scale expansion
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Ship Imaging, Detection and Recognition for High-Resolution SAR
edited by , , , Lijia Huang and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1600 | Submission Open
Keywords: SAR; ship imaging; ship detection; ship recognition; motion estimation; clutter suppression; maritime surveillance
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
Forest Disturbance Monitoring with Optical Satellite Imagery
edited by Antoine Masse and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1586 | Submission Open
Keywords: forest disturbance; optical remote sensing; forest degradation; forest monitoring multi-source data fusion; data calibration and validation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Remote Sensing)
Satellite Soil Moisture Estimation, Assessment, and Applications (Second Edition)
edited by , Lun Gao, and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1291 | Submission Open
Keywords: surface and root-zone soil moisture; passive and active microwaves; SMOS/SMAP/AMSR2/CIMR; vegetation optical depth; evaluation/intercomparison; data assimilation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)
Advances in Remote Sensing Approaches for Agricultural Monitoring at Field and Regional Scale (Second Edition)
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1265 | Submission Open
Keywords: precision agriculture; photogrammetry; UAV; yield monitoring; crop monitoring; agricultural monitoring; artificial intelligence
(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)
The Applications of Remote Sensing, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning in Atmospheric Radiative Transfer submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1086 | Submission Open
Keywords: atmospheric radiative transfer; remote sensing detection; machine learning; deep learning; parameterization of physical processes; collaborativeinversion of multi-source
(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)
Ecological Change with Multi-Scale Spatial-Temporal Remote Sensing Data
edited by , Wei Tang and Deqin Fan
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 934 | Submission Open
Keywords: ecological structure and function; remote sensing; ecological networks; multi-source data fusion; ecological dynamics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecological Remote Sensing)
Advances in Deep Learning in the Retrieval of Key Parameters of Agrometeorological Remote Sensing (Second Edition)
edited by , and Jongmin Park
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 846 | Submission Open
Keywords: surface temperature; near-surface air temperature; surface emissivity; soil moisture; vegetation moisture content; water vapor content; precipitation; LAI; drought and flood
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
High-Precision Urban Positioning: GNSS and Multi-Sensor Fusion Technologies
edited by Hongjuan Zhang and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 841 | Submission Open
Keywords: global navigation satellite system; GNSS/INS integration; simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM); multi-source fusion; urban positioning; deep learning-based positioning; urban location-based services
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Remote Sensing)
Remote Sensing for Hydrological Management submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 764 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; hydrological monitoring; hydrological extremes; hydrological models; soil moisture; water quality; water management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
Remote Sensing in Maritime Navigation and Transportation submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 761 | Submission Open
Keywords: safety of maritime navigation; maritime traffic monitoring; environmental monitoring; vessel tracking and coastal surveillance; GNSS-based maritime navigation and transportation; synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and satellite imagery; navigation systems; port operations optimisation; maritime transportation efficiency; dynamic positioning; polar navigation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration)
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