Remote Sensing

New Trends on Remote Sensing Applications to Mineral Deposits (Third Edition)

edited by

Joana Cardoso-Fernandes

,

Ana Cláudia Teodoro

and

Alexandre Lima

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 212 | Submission Open

Keywords: mineral exploration; multispectral and hyperspectral data; sar data; machine learning; deep learning; satellite data; raw materials

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

Advancements in Satellite and Ground-Based Retrievals for Aerosol and Cloud Characterization

edited by

Deaconu Lucia

and

Haipeng Zhang

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 205 | Submission Open

Keywords: aerosols; clouds; satellite remote sensing; ground-based measurements; aerosol– cloud interactions; validation; machine learning; retrieval algorithms

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

State of the Art and Future Developments: Short-Range Radar (2nd Edition)

edited by

Yanhua Wang

,

Liang Zhang

and Shichao Chen

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 202 | Submission Open

Keywords: short-range radar; object detection; recognition; and tracking; radar imaging; sensor integration and data fusion; signal processing

Beidou/GNSS Positioning, Navigation and Timing: Methods and Technology (Third Edition)

edited by

Baocheng Zhang

and

Robert Odolinski

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 194 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-frequency and multi-constellation GNSS; BDS; POD/LEO; navigation and timing; geodesy and geophysics; the advance of high-precision products

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

Satellite Measurements and the Monitoring of Ionosphere and Space Weather (Second Edition)

edited by Fuyang Ke,

Wang Li

,

Lei Liu

and

Dongsheng Zhao

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 147 | Submission Open

Keywords: ionospheric modeling; deep learning; ionospheric disturbance; ionospheric tomography; severe space event; ionospheric scintillation

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

Monitoring of Volcanoes and Earthquakes with SAR and Satellite

edited by

Alfredo Falconieri

and

Valeria Satriano

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 144 | Submission Open

Keywords: volcano monitoring; earthquake monitoring; thermal anomalies; ground deformation; geohazards; machine learning for geohazards

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

Remote Sensing Imagery for Agricultural Monitoring and Precision Farming

edited by Lang Xia and

He Li

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 137 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing imagery; artificial intelligence (AI); precision farming; crop health; crop mapping; yield prediction; sustainable agriculture; multi-sensor fusion; real-time monitoring; farmland infrastructure

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

High-Precision Calibration and Polarimetric and Interferometric Image Processing Technology

edited by

Fengli Zhang

, Kun Li and Chang Liu

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 100 | Submission Open

Keywords: novel calibration algorithms; polarimetric and interferometric calibration models; application of big data and artificial intelligence for SAR calibration; calibration strategies for ongoing and upcoming SAR missions; multi-source data processing with physical modeling and deep learning techniques; quantitative applications of calibrated SAR data

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

Remote Sensing Applications Along the Dead Sea Fault: From the Red Sea to Anatolia

edited by

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submission deadline 1 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9555 | Submission Open

Keywords: Dead Sea Fault; earth surface deformation; submarine groundwater discharge; multispectral analysis; InSAR; photogrammetry; machine-learning-based remote sensing analysis; vegetation patterns; land use; geomorphology

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

Signal Processing Theory and Methods in Remote Sensing (Third Edition)

edited by

Shaohui Mei

, Junhui Hou, Kun Hu, Mingyang Ma and Fan Li

submission deadline 1 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 154 | Submission Open

Keywords: signal processing; remote sensing; image processing; deep learning; information fusion; time-series analysis

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

Advances in GNSS for Time Series Analysis

edited by Junping Chen,

Alfonso Vitti

, Weijie Tan and Nannan Guo

submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 16420 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-linear crustal deformation; common mode error; independent component analysis; noise analysis; mass loadings

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

Machine Learning for Intelligent Processing and Applications of Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data

edited by

Wei Li

, Haiyong Gan,

Heng-Chao Li

and Wenshuai Hu

submission deadline 14 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 24826 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-source remote sensing data; intelligent processing; earth observation applications; registration; data fusion; feature extraction; classification; object detection; advanced machine learning methods; lightweight designs

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

Applications of Remote Sensing Technology in Volcano Hazard Monitoring

edited by

Emanuela De Beni

, Cristina Proietti,

Gaetana Ganci

and

Simona Scollo

submission deadline 14 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 11930 | Submission Open

Keywords: volcano monitoring and analysis; remote sensing systems; estimation of eruption parameters; ground-based; satellite; and UAS sensors; GIS

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

Monitoring and Early Warning for Heavy Precipitation, Flash Floods and Waterlogging Disasters Using Remote Sensing

edited by Youcun Qi,

Zhe Zhang

,

Zhanfeng Zhao

, Donghuan Li and Bong-Chul Seo

submission deadline 14 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8712 | Submission Open

Keywords: weather radars; satellites; flash floods and waterlogging; quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE); remote sensing data assimilation; extreme weather and hydrological events; artificial intelligence and machine (deep) learning; application of remote sensing equipment in geological disaster; disastrous weather analysis; and observation of hydrometeorological extremes; weather and hydrological forecast

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

Remote Sensing Interpretation Systematic Engineering for Natural Resources Monitoring and Management (Second Edition)

edited by

Dongping Ming

,

Jagannath Aryal

and

Kasturi Devi Kanniah

submission deadline 14 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8708 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-source data fusion; sample database construction; object based image analysis; GeoAI; region/parcel partition on different scales; land cover/use classification; land cover/use change monitoring/projection/modelling; thematic information extraction; advanced image processing techniques (machine learning and deep learning); authenticity verification; cloud based intelligent remote sensing application; GIS for land use/cover management; Impact of land use/cover on environment

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

Investigating State-of-the-Art Machine Learning Approaches in Vegetation Analysis through Earth Observation Data

edited by

Arnick Abdollahi

and

Chandrama Sarker

submission deadline 14 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5764 | Submission Open

Keywords: CNNs; RCNN; deep reinforcement learning; machine learning algorithms; ensemble algorithms; random forest; support vector machines; Gaussian Bayes; decision tree classifier; vegetation mapping; monitoring; trend analysis

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

Advancements in LiDAR Technology and Applications in Remote Sensing

edited by Luis Miguel González de Santos

submission deadline 14 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 5007 | Submission Open

Keywords: LiDAR; point cloud processing; UAV; infrastructure monitoring; machine learning; power lines inspection

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

Advances in CubeSat Missions and Applications in Remote Sensing

edited by

Pedro Orgeira Crespo

and Fernando Aguado-Agelet

submission deadline 14 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2403 | Submission Open

Keywords: CubeSat; remote sensing; payload; artificial intelligence; earth observation; planetary exploration

Remote Sensing for Digital Twins in Forestry: Applications and Future Perspectives

edited by Juan Suarez-Minguez and Jacqueline Rosette

submission deadline 14 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2229 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital twins; earth observation; forestry; AI; tree growth models; high-resolution remote sensing

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

Advances in Drone-Based Multi-Sensor Image Translation and Augmentation

edited by Min Sun and

Yong Wang

submission deadline 14 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 540 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-sensor image translation; drone image augmentation; image super-resolution; complex target classification; air-ground collaboration; multi-type sensor image fusion; image quality evaluation; UAV AI applications

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

Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Applied to Deep Space Exploration

edited by

Bin Liu

,

Mao Ye

and Philipp Gläser

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 24527 | Submission Open

Keywords: moon; Mars; remote sensing; photogrammetry; planetary mapping; planetary geodesy

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

Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture and the Dynamics of Soil–Vegetation Systems

edited by

Ankur Srivastava

,

Mauro Holzman

and

Facundo Carmona

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 16349 | Submission Open

Keywords: vegetation water stress; surface and sub-surface soil moisture; solar-thermal spectra; evapotranspiration; arid and semi-arid ecosystems; vegetation productivity; water deficit in agricultural lands

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

Advances in Methods and Techniques for Satellite Image Processing and Analysis

edited by

Ali Jamali

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 16329 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; computer vision; machine learning; image processing; remote sensing; image analysis

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

Remote Sensing in Applied Ecology (Second Edition)

edited by

Jun Ma

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8637 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecological applications; remote sensing data; spatio-temporal scales; ecosystems; sustainable development

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

Advances in Exploring the Moon, Mars, and Asteroids Based on In-Situ and Remote Sensing Measurements

edited by Simone Pirrotta,

Francesca Esposito

, Alice Lucchetti and

Maurizio Pajola

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8263 | Submission Open

Keywords: geological features; study of the environment; resources; robotic and human exploration; innovative strategies; remote sensing dataset analyses; new instrumentation concepts; smallsat concepts

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

Coastal Environment Monitoring Based on Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence

edited by

Scot Smith

and

Kamal Darwish

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7689 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; remote sensing; coastal monitoring; LiDAR; satellite imagery

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

Integrating Deep Learning with Image Perception for Advanced Remote Sensing Applications

edited by Xin He, Yushi Chen, Jinghui Yang and

Aili Wang

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4052 | 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

Sen Du

, Jordi J. Mallorquí,

Feng Zhao

and

Joaquín Escayo Menéndez

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3702 | 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,

Jonathan Leon-Tavares

, Biao Cao and Tiangang Yin

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1745 | 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

Alexander Kokhanovsky

,

Linlu Mei

and Yasmin Aboel Fetouh

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1559 | 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,

Quanlong Feng

, Pengfei Tang and

Won-Ho Nam

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1033 | 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)

Remote Sensing for Modeling and Understanding Land-Atmosphere Interaction Processes

edited by

Ren Wang

, Dagang Wang and

Wenbin Zhu

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 902 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; land-atmosphere interaction; evapotranspiration; soil moisture; vegetation ecosystem; land use/land cover change; land surface model; hydrological modeling; machine learning

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

Landslide Studies Integrating Remote Sensing and Geophysical Data (Second Edition)

edited by

Veronica Pazzi

,

Anne-Sophie Mreyen

and

Sebastian Uhlemann

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 497 | 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,

Sukhjit Sehra

and

Antonio Tupek

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 402 | 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

edited by

Pablo Crespo-Peremarch

and

Juan Pedro Carbonell-Rivera

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 317 | 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,

Rong Qu

,

Yilin Xie

and Vassilis Gikas

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 243 | 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)

Advances in Miniaturized Radar Systems for Close-Range Sensing

edited by

Yangyang Wang

,

Tianjiao Zeng

,

Xiaoling Zhang

and Zhe Zhang

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 228 | 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)

Applications of Multimodal Remote Sensing Models in Ecological Environment Monitoring

edited by

R. Douglas Ramsey

,

Jin Wu

and Jing Wang

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 178 | Submission Open

Keywords: multimodal remote sensing; ecological monitoring; data fusion; vegetation assessment; land cover classification; environmental change detection; machine learning; AI; geospatial analysis; sustainable resource management

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

Quantitative Inversion and Validation of Satellite Remote Sensing Products

edited by

Xingfa Gu

, Jian Yang,

Xiangqin Wei

, Hailiang Gao and

Fernando Camacho

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 31244 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing products; quantitative inversion; validation; space infrastructure; remote sensing applications

Oceanographic Lidar in the Study of Marine Systems

edited by

Peng Chen

,

Cédric Jamet

, Junwu Tang and

Martin A. Montes

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 15077 | 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

edited by

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submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10662 | 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

edited by

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submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9308 | 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

Mark Bourassa

, Marcos Portabella,

Lucrezia Ricciardulli

and Zorana Jelenak

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6117 | 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

edited by

Sébastien Gadal

and

Gintautas Mozgeris

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 168 | 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

Timo Tokola

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8796 | 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

Zhijun Li

and

Lilong Zou

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 988 | 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)

Innovations in Hyperspectral Image Processing: Advancing Image Generation, Denoising, Fusion Techniques and Beyond

edited by Jiangjun Peng, Xiangyong Cao,

Shuang Xu

,

Jing Yao

and

Gemine Vivone

submission deadline 28 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2344 | 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)

Using Remote Sensing Technology to Quantify Greenhouse Gas Emissions

edited by

Ge Han

,

Simit Raval

and Tianqi Shi

submission deadline 28 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1640 | 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)

Advances in Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing for Vegetation Monitoring

edited by

Shan Lu

and

Chunying Ren

submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2802 | 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

Yuri Rzhanov

and

Elias Fakiris

submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2298 | 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)

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