Remote Sensing

Advanced Remote Sensing for Next-Generation Smart Agriculture: Innovations, Integration, and Applications

edited by

Fenghua Yu

,

Hao Yang

, Qiaomin Chen and

Xiaobo Sun

submission deadline 23 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1901 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart agriculture; remote sensing; Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs); satellite imagery; Hyperspectral & Multispectral Imaging; LiDAR; Artificial Intelligence (AI); crop monitoring; yield prediction

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

Remote Sensing-Based Assessments in the Forest Fire Disturbance Continuum

edited by

José Manuel Fernández-Guisuraga

submission deadline 28 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4667 | Submission Open

Keywords: wildfires; fire severity; burned area; multispectral/hyperspectral; LiDAR; SAR; unmanned aerial vehicles; fuel mapping; fire impacts on vegetation and soils; fire regime

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

AI-Driven Mapping Using Remote Sensing Data

edited by

Li Fang

,

Jian Yang

and

Yu Feng

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 12724 | Submission Open

Keywords: AI-driven remote sensing; image interpretation; change detection; urban modeling; spatially explicit AI; crowdsourced label

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

Advanced Lidar Remote Sensing for Atmosphere, Vegetation, and Ocean Observations

edited by Boming Liu, Zhiyu Zhang,

Hui Zhou

,

Xin Ma

and

Yue Ma

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6888 | Submission Open

Keywords: lidar remote sensing; aerosol and clouds; boundary layer; leaf and canopy; lidar bathymetry; photon-counting lidar; high-spectral-resolution lidar

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

Multi-Source Remote Sensing for Environmental Component Monitoring and Target Detection

edited by

Tao Luo

, Juhua Luo,

Jianfeng Sun

and

Jianfeng Chen

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4486 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental component monitoring; atmospheric detection; target detection; lidar; floating platform; satellite; airborne; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); collaborative observation; data assimilation

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

Advances in Remote Sensing for Soil Property Mapping

edited by Miao Lu, Shangrong Wu and

Feng Liu

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3920 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil quality; soil properties; soil mapping; crop responses; crop growth/yield

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

Integrating Remote Sensing, Machine Learning, and Process-Based Modelling for Monitoring Environmental and Agricultural Landscapes Under Climate Change

edited by Michael Gbenga Ogungbuyi and

Dimitrios D. Alexakis

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2638 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; machine learning; artificial intelligence; deep learning; process-based models; biophysical modelling; climate change impacts; environmental monitoring; agricultural landscapes; adaptive management

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

Linking Landscapes, Landsliding, and Ecosystem Diversity and Functioning: New Insights from Remote Sensing

edited by

Carla Restrepo

and

Miles R. Silman

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2349 | Submission Open

Keywords: biodiversity; functional diversity; ecosystem function; ecosystem services; landscape function; spatial diversity; mountainscapes; landsliding

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

AI-Empowered Remote Sensing Monitoring and Geospatial Analysis for Ocean and Coastal Environments

edited by Gang Yang,

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submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2122 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal ocean modeling; coastal ocean remote sensing; coastal and ocean environment monitoring; coastal ocean forecasting; biodiversity; ecological process and risk assessment; artificial intelligence (AI); deep learning; UAV; radar; digital twin; ocean and coastal scenario— simulation

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

Recent Advances in Hyperspectral Remote Sensing: Theories, Technologies and Applications

edited by

Jiaxin Li

,

Lianru Gao

and Ke Zheng

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2113 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; hyperspectral remote sensing; image processing; hyperspectral applications; artificial intelligence

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

Remote Sensing for Landscape Dynamics

edited by

Peipei Wang

, Wei Han,

Yuanyuan Zhao

and

Xinqi Zheng

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2063 | Submission Open

Keywords: landscape dynamics; land use/land cover change; landscape pattern analysis; remote sensing; machine learning; time series analysis; landscape resilience; land degradation and recovery; geospatial modeling; multi-sensor data fusion; vegetation monitoring; large language models

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

Advances in Remote Sensing of the Inland and Coastal Water Zones (3rd Edition)

edited by

Jacek Lubczonek

,

Paweł Terefenko

,

Katarzyna Bradtke

and

Marta Wlodarczyk-Sielicka

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 589 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal zone; coastal geomorphology; inland waters; shoreline change/erosion; ecosystem; water parameters; water level; bathymetry; topo-bathymetry; geodata processing; data fusion; LIDAR; spatial big data; satellite remote sensing; algal blooms; 3D modelling; spatial mapping; image processing and analysis; machine learning; digital elevation/bathymetric models

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

Remote Sensing in Water Quality Monitoring

edited by

Xuejiao Hou

,

Shangbo Yang

and

Jilin Men

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 539 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; water quality; water clarity; eutrophication; water turbidity; atmospheric correction; algal bloom; climate change; multi-source integrated observation; inherent/apparent optical properties

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

Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring in Cold and Arid Regions: Advances and Perspectives

edited by

Lihui Luo

,

Jie Xue

, Miao Zhang and Mingyang Lv

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 489 | Submission Open

Keywords: cold and arid region; frozen soil monitoring; glacier monitoring; desert monitoring; data fusion; spatial modeling

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

Applications of Artificial Intelligence Methods to Agroforestry Remote Sensing

edited by

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Shukor Sanim Mohd Fauzi

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 485 | Submission Open

Keywords: agricultural remote sensing; forestry remote sensing; multi-sensor fusion; deep learning; computer vision; crop monitoring; precision agriculture; sustainable forest management; internet of things; biomass estimation; algorithm improvement

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

Emerging Technologies in Hyperspectral Image 3A—Acquisition, Analysis and Application

edited by Jie Chen, Shumin Liu, Min Zhao, Shuaikai Shi and Xiuheng Wang

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 365 | Submission Open

Keywords: image processing; hyperspectral data acquisition; computational imaging; spectral and spatial analysis; AI-tools; hyperspectral applications; deep learning

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

Reviews in Remote Sensing Image Processing: Methods, Architectures, and Applications

edited by Qi Wang

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 297 | Submission Open

Keywords: image processing; remote sensing; review; survey

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

Remote Sensing for Cryospheric Hazards

edited by

Yao Li

, Jiansheng Hao and Chenchen Qiu

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 287 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing detection; climate change; glacierized regions; glacier retreat; cryospheric hazards; ice-rock avalanche; GLOF; glacial debris flow; susceptibility mapping; risk assessment

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

Innovative Remote Sensing Methods and Applications for Smart Cities

edited by

Tingting Xu

, Biao He and

Jay Gao

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 284 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban remote sensing; smart city applications; artificial intelligence in remote sensing; multisensor data fusion; urban monitoring and management

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

Evaluation of Ecological Environment Quality Using Remote Sensing

edited by

Qifei Zhang

,

Gonghuan Fang

and

Shuhua Zhang

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 250 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing technology; ecological environment quality; vegetation dynamics; land use/cover change (LUCC); ecosystem monitoring; ecological model

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

Recent Advances and Future Vision for Remote Sensing of Cultural and Natural Heritage

edited by

Athanasios V. Argyriou

and

Dante Abate

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 238 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; cultural heritage; natural heritage; natural hazards; cutting-edge technologies; disaster risk reduction; preservation; change detection; machine learning; decision support systems

High-Resolution Multisource Remote Sensing of Vegetation: Biomass, Structure, and Carbon Dynamics

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submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 234 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-spatial-resolution vegetation remote sensing product; carbon dynamic; biomass; vegetation structure parameters; vegetation monitoring; lidar based vegetation products

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

Multi-Object Detection and Feature Extraction of Remote Sensing Images

edited by

Yu Zhang

, Yan Zhang, Zhiguang Shi and Ruigang Fu

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 201 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing imagery; multi-object detection; feature extraction; deep learning; transformer-based architectures; multi-modal fusion

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

Geospatial Big Data and Remote Sensing for Urban Analysis

edited by

Chen Zhou

, Chao Sun, Shanqi Zhang and Manchun Li

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 151 | 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)

High Earth Orbit Spaceborne SAR Systems, Technologies, and Applications (2nd Edition)

edited by

Jianlai Chen

,

Yu Li

, Yongkang Li and

Mengdao Xing

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 151 | Submission Open

Keywords: new imaging mechanism and theory; high Earth orbit spaceborne SAR; moving target indication; interference suppression; SAR image recognition and interpretation; antenna technologies for high Earth orbit spaceborne SAR; artificial intelligence in SAR applications; L-SAR4

Ground- and Satellite-Based Remote Sensing for Air Quality Monitoring

edited by Patrizio Tratzi and

Cristiana Bassani

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 143 | Submission Open

Keywords: ground-based remote sensing; DOAS; air quality monitoring; tropospheric pollution; long-term observations

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

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 119 | 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 106 | 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 Ionospheric Research: Remote Sensing, Space Weather Impacts, and Machine Learning

edited by

Bo Xiong

and

Biqiang Zhao

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 101 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing techniques; ionospheric modeling; ionospheric disturbances due to ionospheric irregularities; geomagnetic storms; solar flares; and solar eclipses

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

Advancements in Atmospheric Turbulence Remote Sensing

edited by

Andreu Salcedo-Bosch

and

Simone Lolli

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 94 | 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 88 | 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 21264 | 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 | 5 articles | Viewed by 14912 | 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)

Plant Disease Detection and Recognition Using Remotely Sensed Data

edited by

Huajian Liu

and

Haiguang Wang

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 12274 | 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)

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 11780 | 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)

Advancements in Thunderstorm Nowcasting and Atmospheric Electricity Monitoring by Remote Sensing

edited by

Richard Müller

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9283 | Submission Open

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

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

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 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8702 | 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)

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 7071 | 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)

edited by

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submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5654 | Submission Open

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

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

edited by

Yongqing Li

,

Weimin Huang

and

Peng Ren

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 5250 | Submission Open

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

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

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 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5008 | 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)

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 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4768 | 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)

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 4299 | 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)

Artificial Intelligence and Remote Sensing for Geohazards

edited by

Pierluigi Confuorto

,

Silvia Bianchini

,

Chiara Martinello

and Davide Festa

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4150 | Submission Open

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

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental 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 3906 | 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 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2709 | 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 Luomei Yixiang and Fa-Ming Fang

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2509 | 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)

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 2340 | 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)

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 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2130 | 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 1862 | 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)

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