Optical Remote Sensing Satellites and Their Applications: More Views of the Earth, and New Ways to See
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2024) | Viewed by 6033
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Optical remote sensing has long been the domain of a few large space agencies launching a handful of large, expensive instruments each year. Mission timelines were 10+ years from concept to launch, and most users of satellite data had no option but to wait and hope that the next big satellites would provide the data they hoped for.
However, new technologies have created a different landscape. Rapid drops in launch costs, the availability of affordable radiation-hardened electronics and high-performance computing compatible with low-Earth orbit (LEO), and rapid increases in communication options and bandwidth are all making LEO accessible to many more organizations.
Today, we are seeing the emergence of new approaches to optical remote sensing stimulated by these changes. Smart satellites can use artificial intelligence to look, identify, and respond to what they see, rather than simply recording images. A flurry of higher-resolution (both spectral and spatial) imagers are making far more nuanced views available than ever before, challenging end users to develop new algorithms to interpret the data and raising new questions about data fusion and interoperability between instruments with very different but complementary characteristics.
This Special Issue addresses the challenges posed by this new era of agile and application-specific remote sensing, and the innovations that will drive the next wave of remote sensing satellites and constellations.
This Special Issue overlaps with the topical sections of Sensors, including Remote Sensors, Optical Sensors, and Sensing and Imaging, as well as many others. Moreover, the rapid increase in activity in optical remote sensing makes this an exciting topic where extreme requirements (size, weight, power, and reliability) force, at once, innovative and very reliable solutions to meet the incredibly challenging problems associated with imaging the Earth from LEO. Finally, EO satellites have an outsized impact on many research and tech fields: many young engineers and scientists are now involved in space instrument projects through universities and startup companies, allowing many new space innovations to find their way into other industries.
Dr. Stephen Gensemer
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- remote sensing
- hyperspectral
- infrared
- multispectral
- satellite remote sensing
- optical instrumentation
- satellite imaging
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