Remote Sensing | Selected Editor’s Choice Articles Published in 2025: Environmental and Biogeoscience Research (III)
The goal of the Editor’s Choice Articles project is to promote high-quality articles published in Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). Below is a list of articles carefully selected by the journal’s academic editors, which we believe will be of interest to you.
This announcement is the third and final part of a three-part series covering all 2025 Editor’s Choice Articles. It focuses on articles from the following Sections: “Environmental Remote Sensing” and “Biogeosciences Remote Sensing”. It completes the 2025 Editor’s Choice collection together with the first two announcements.
We invite you to read these contributions, and of course to share your own findings with our community. The full list of Editor’s Choice Articles can be viewed at the following link:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/editors_choice.
1. “Inversion of Water Quality Parameters from UAV Hyperspectral Data Based on Intelligent Algorithm Optimized Backpropagation Neural Networks of a Small Rural River”
by Manqi Wang, Caili Zhou, Jiaqi Shi, Fei Lin, Yucheng Li, Yimin Hu and Xuesheng Zhang
Remote Sensing 2025, 17(1), 119; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17010119
2. “Random Cross-Validation Produces Biased Assessment of Machine Learning Performance in Regional Landslide Susceptibility Prediction”
by Chandan Kumar, Gabriel Walton, Paul Santi and Carlos Luza
Remote Sensing 2025, 17(2), 213; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17020213
3. “Spatiotemporal Changes in Evapotranspiration and Its Influencing Factors in the Jiziwan Region of the Yellow River from 1982 to 2018”
by Wenting Liu, Rong Tang, Ge Zhang, Jiacong Xue, Baolin Xue and Yuntao Wang
Remote Sensing 2025, 17(2), 252; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17020252
4. “Surveying Nearshore Bathymetry Using Multispectral and Hyperspectral Satellite Imagery and Machine Learning”
by David Hartmann, Mathieu Gravey, Timothy David Price, Wiebe Nijland and Steven Michael de Jong
Remote Sensing 2025, 17(2), 291; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17020291
5. “Statewide Forest Canopy Cover Mapping of Florida Using Synergistic Integration of Spaceborne LiDAR, SAR, and Optical Imagery”
by Monique Bohora Schlickmann, Inacio Thomaz Bueno, Denis Valle, William M. Hammond, Susan J. Prichard, Andrew T. Hudak, Carine Klauberg, Mauro Alessandro Karasinski, Kody Melissa Brock, Kleydson Diego Rocha et al.
Remote Sensing 2025, 17(2), 320; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17020320
6. “Quantifying the Impact of Crude Oil Spills on the Mangrove Ecosystem in the Niger Delta Using AI and Earth Observation”
by Jemima O'Farrell, Dualta O'Fionnagáin, Abosede Omowumi Babatunde, Micheal Geever, Patricia Codyre, Pearse C. Murphy, Charles Spillane and Aaron Golden
Remote Sensing 2025, 17(3), 358; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17030358
7. “Forest Stem Extraction and Modeling (FoSEM): A LiDAR-Based Framework for Accurate Tree Stem Extraction and Modeling in Radiata Pine Plantations”
by Muhammad Ibrahim, Haitian Wang, Irfan A. Iqbal, Yumeng Miao, Hezam Albaqami, Hans Blom and Ajmal Mian
Remote Sensing 2025, 17(3), 445; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17030445
8. “Early Detection of Water Stress in Kauri Seedlings Using Multitemporal Hyperspectral Indices and Inverted Plant Traits”
by Mark Jayson B. Felix, Russell Main, Michael S. Watt, Mohammad-Mahdi Arpanaei and Taoho Patuawa
Remote Sensing 2025, 17(3), 463; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17030463
9. “Key Governance Practices That Facilitate the Use of Remote Sensing Information for Wildfire Management: A Case Study in Spain”
by Ana I. Prados and Mackenzie Allen
Remote Sensing 2025, 17(4), 649; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17040649
10. “The Application of Remote Sensing Technology in Inland Water Quality Monitoring and Water Environment Science: Recent Progress and Perspectives”
by Lei Chen, Leizhen Liu, Shasha Liu, Zhenyu Shi and Chunhong Shi
Remote Sensing 2025, 17(4), 667; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17040667
11. “Large-Scale Soil Organic Carbon Estimation via a Multisource Data Fusion Approach”
by Eleni Kalopesa, Nikolaos Tziolas, Nikolaos L. Tsakiridis, José Lucas Safanelli, Tomislav Hengl and Jonathan Sanderman
Remote Sensing 2025, 17(5), 771; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17050771
12. “Snow Cover Variability and Trends over Karakoram, Western Himalaya and Kunlun Mountains During the MODIS Era (2001–2024)”
by Cecilia Delia Almagioni, Veronica Manara, Guglielmina Adele Diolaiuti, Maurizio Maugeri, Alessia Spezza and Davide Fugazza
Remote Sensing 2025, 17(5), 914; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17050914
13. “Plastic Litter Detection in the Environment Using Hyperspectral Aerial Remote Sensing and Machine Learning”
by Marco Balsi, Monica Moroni and Soufyane Bouchelaghem
Remote Sensing 2025, 17(5), 938; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17050938
14. “Vision Transformer-Based Unhealthy Tree Crown Detection in Mixed Northeastern US Forests and Evaluation of Annotation Uncertainty”
by Durga Joshi and Chandi Witharana
Remote Sensing 2025, 17(6), 1066; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17061066
15. “Changes in the Distribution of Thermokarst Lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau from 2015 to 2020”
by Rongrong Wei, Xia Hu and Shaojie Zhao
Remote Sensing 2025, 17(7), 1174; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17071174
16. “An Optimized Detection Approach to Subsurface Coalfield Spontaneous Combustion Areas Using Airborne Magnetic Data”
by Qingfa Meng, Guoqing Ma, Lili Li and Jingyu Li
Remote Sensing 2025, 17(7), 1185; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17071185
17. “How Urban Expansion and Climatic Regimes Affect Groundwater Storage in China's Major River Basins: A Comparative Analysis of the Humid Yangtze and Semi-Arid Yellow River Basins”
by Weijing Zhou and Lu Hao
Remote Sensing 2025, 17(7), 1292; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17071292
18. “Application of Optical Remote Sensing in Harmful Algal Blooms in Lakes: A Review”
by Simeng Wang and Boqiang Qin
Remote Sensing 2025, 17(8), 1381; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17081381
19. “Retrieving Inland Water Quality Parameters via Satellite Remote Sensing: Sensor Evaluation, Atmospheric Correction, and Machine Learning Approaches”
by Mohsen Ansari, Anders Knudby, Meisam Amani and Michael Sawada
Remote Sensing 2025, 17(10), 1734; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17101734
20. “A Review of Machine Learning Applications in Ocean Color Remote Sensing”
by Zhenhua Zhang, Peng Chen, Siqi Zhang, Haiqing Huang, Yuliang Pan and Delu Pan
Remote Sensing 2025, 17(10), 1776; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17101776
21. “Utilizing Remote Sensing for Sponge City Development: Enhancing Flood Management and Urban Resilience in Karachi”
by Asifa Iqbal, Lubaina Soni, Ammad Waheed Qazi and Humaira Nazir
Remote Sensing 2025, 17(11), 1818; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17111818
22. “A Global Coseismic InSAR Dataset for Deep Learning: Automated Construction from Sentinel-1 Observations (2015–2024)”
by Xu Liu, Zhenjie Wang, Yingfeng Zhang, Xinjian Shan and Ziwei Liu
Remote Sensing 2025, 17(11), 1832; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17111832
23. “Harnessing Geospatial Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning for Landslide Inventory Mapping: Advances, Challenges, and Emerging Directions”
by Xiao Chen, Wenwen Li, Chia-Yu Hsu, Samantha T. Arundel and Bretwood Higman
Remote Sensing 2025, 17(11), 1856; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17111856
24. “Soil Moisture Prediction Using Remote Sensing and Machine Learning Algorithms: A Review on Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities”
by Manoj Lamichhane, Sushant Mehan and Kyle R. Mankin
Remote Sensing 2025, 17(14), 2397; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17142397
25. “Integrating Drone Truthing and Functional Classification of Remote Sensing Time Series for Supervised Vegetation Mapping”
by Giacomo Quattrini, Simone Pesaresi, Nicole Hofmann, Adriano Mancini and Simona Casavecchia
Remote Sensing 2025, 17(2), 330; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17020330
26. “Evaluation of Satellite-Based Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS-R) Soil Moisture Products in Complex Terrain: A Case Study of the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau”
by Yixiao Liu, Yong Wang, Jingcheng Lai, Yunjie Lin and Leyan Shi
Remote Sensing 2025, 17(5), 887; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17050887
27. “Modeling Dynamics of Water Balance for Lakes in the Northwest Tibetan Plateau with Satellite-Based Observations”
by Jiaheng Yan, Yanhong Wu, Yongkang Ren, Siqi Zheng, Hao Chen and Xuankai Teng
Remote Sensing 2025, 17(9), 1618; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17091618
28. “Land Cover Types Drive the Surface Temperature for Upscaling Surface Urban Heat Islands with Daylight Images”
by Julien Radoux, Margot Dominique, Andrew Hartley, Céline Lamarche, Audric Bos and Pierre Defourny
Remote Sensing 2025, 17(16), 2815; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17162815