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  • Editorial
  • Open Access
1 Citations
8,099 Views
65 Pages

19 January 2020

The editorial team greatly appreciates the reviewers who have dedicated their considerable time and expertise to the journal’s rigorous editorial process over the past 12 months, regardless of whether the papers are finally published or not.[...]

  • Review
  • Open Access
259 Citations
32,572 Views
21 Pages

1 November 2010

Remote sensing, the science of obtaining information via noncontact recording, has swept the fields of ecology, biodiversity and conservation (EBC). Several quality review papers have contributed to this field. However, these papers often discuss the...

  • Correction
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,211 Views
1 Page

16 December 2014

Due to an error on our part, the pagination and the doi number of this manuscript [1] were missing during updating. The correct pagination is 9600–9652, and the doi number is 10.3390/rs6109600. Here is the correct version:[...]

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,441 Views
20 Pages

17 November 2021

One recent trend in optical remote sensing is to increase observation frequencies. However, there are still challenges on the night side when sunlight is not available. Due to their powerful capabilities in low-light sensing, nightlight satellite sen...

  • Review
  • Open Access
281 Citations
23,763 Views
31 Pages

Transformers in Remote Sensing: A Survey

  • Abdulaziz Amer Aleissaee,
  • Amandeep Kumar,
  • Rao Muhammad Anwer,
  • Salman Khan,
  • Hisham Cholakkal,
  • Gui-Song Xia and
  • Fahad Shahbaz Khan

30 March 2023

Deep learning-based algorithms have seen a massive popularity in different areas of remote sensing image analysis over the past decade. Recently, transformer-based architectures, originally introduced in natural language processing, have pervaded com...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,159 Views
6 Pages

Snow cover is an essential climate variable directly affecting the Earth’s energy balance. Snow cover has a number of important physical properties that exert an influence on global and regional energy, water, and carbon cycles. Remote sensing...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
37 Citations
9,852 Views
16 Pages

A Prototype Network for Remote Sensing Validation in China

  • Mingguo Ma,
  • Tao Che,
  • Xin Li,
  • Qing Xiao,
  • Kai Zhao and
  • Xiaoping Xin

24 April 2015

Validation is an essential and important step before the application of remote sensing products. This paper introduces a prototype of the validation network for remote sensing products in China (VRPC). The VRPC aims to improve remote sensing products...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,435 Views
11 Pages

From Geometric-Optical Remote Sensing Modeling to Quantitative Remote Sensing Science—In Memory of Academician Xiaowen Li

  • Qinhuo Liu,
  • Guangjian Yan,
  • Ziti Jiao,
  • Qing Xiao,
  • Jianguang Wen,
  • Shunlin Liang,
  • Jindi Wang,
  • Crystal Schaaf and
  • Alan Strahler

8 November 2018

The academician Xiaowen Li devoted much of his life to pursuing fundamental research in remote sensing. A pioneer in the geometric-optical modeling of vegetation canopies, his work is held in high regard by the international remote sensing community....

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
205 Citations
18,303 Views
6 Pages

Remote Sensing of Landslides—A Review

  • Chaoying Zhao and
  • Zhong Lu

11 February 2018

Triggered by earthquakes, rainfall, or anthropogenic activities, landslides represent widespread and problematic geohazards worldwide. In recent years, multiple remote sensing techniques, including synthetic aperture radar, optical, and light detecti...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,882 Views
14 Pages

Progress in Remote Sensing of Heavy Metals in Water

  • Xiaoling Xu,
  • Jiayi Pan,
  • Hua Zhang and
  • Hui Lin

19 October 2024

This review article details the advancements in detecting heavy metals in aquatic environments using remote sensing methodologies. Heavy metals are significant pollutants in aquatic environment, and their detection and monitoring are crucial for pred...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
43 Citations
7,802 Views
10 Pages

Archaeological remote sensing is not a novel discipline. Indeed, there is already a suite of geoscientific techniques that are regularly used by practitioners in the field, according to standards and best practice guidelines. However, (i) the technol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
5,011 Views
26 Pages

30 April 2020

Total phosphorus (TP) concentration is one of the indicators for surface water quality evaluation. In this study, an indirect algorithm was proposed to retrieve TP concentration. This algorithm retrieves the TP concentration in urban waters based on...

  • Review
  • Open Access
130 Citations
26,462 Views
25 Pages

The Potential and Uptake of Remote Sensing in Insurance: A Review

  • Jan De Leeuw,
  • Anton Vrieling,
  • Apurba Shee,
  • Clement Atzberger,
  • Kiros M. Hadgu,
  • Chandrashekhar M. Biradar,
  • Humphrey Keah and
  • Calum Turvey

7 November 2014

Global insurance markets are vast and diverse, and may offer many opportunities for remote sensing. To date, however, few operational applications of remote sensing for insurance exist. Papers claiming potential application of remote sensing typicall...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
9,667 Views
34 Pages

Optical and Thermal Remote Sensing for Monitoring Agricultural Drought

  • Qiming Qin,
  • Zihua Wu,
  • Tianyuan Zhang,
  • Vasit Sagan,
  • Zhaoxu Zhang,
  • Yao Zhang,
  • Chengye Zhang,
  • Huazhong Ren,
  • Yuanheng Sun and
  • Cong Zhao
  • + 1 author

15 December 2021

By effectively observing the land surface and obtaining farmland conditions, satellite remote sensing has played an essential role in agricultural drought monitoring over past decades. Among all remote sensing techniques, optical and thermal remote s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
49 Citations
11,325 Views
29 Pages

An Overview of Coastline Extraction from Remote Sensing Data

  • Xixuan Zhou,
  • Jinyu Wang,
  • Fengjie Zheng,
  • Haoyu Wang and
  • Haitao Yang

8 October 2023

The coastal zone represents a unique interface between land and sea, and addressing the ecological crisis it faces is of global significance. One of the most fundamental and effective measures is to extract the coastline’s location on a large s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
68 Citations
16,912 Views
25 Pages

A Review of Ocean/Sea Subsurface Water Temperature Studies from Remote Sensing and Non-Remote Sensing Methods

  • Elahe Akbari,
  • Seyed Kazem Alavipanah,
  • Mehrdad Jeihouni,
  • Mohammad Hajeb,
  • Dagmar Haase and
  • Sadroddin Alavipanah

14 December 2017

Oceans/Seas are important components of Earth that are affected by global warming and climate change. Recent studies have indicated that the deeper oceans are responsible for climate variability by changing the Earth’s ecosystem; therefore, assessing...

  • Review
  • Open Access
431 Citations
30,858 Views
36 Pages

A Review of Wetland Remote Sensing

  • Meng Guo,
  • Jing Li,
  • Chunlei Sheng,
  • Jiawei Xu and
  • Li Wu

5 April 2017

Wetlands are some of the most important ecosystems on Earth. They play a key role in alleviating floods and filtering polluted water and also provide habitats for many plants and animals. Wetlands also interact with climate change. Over the past 50 y...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,563 Views
5 Pages

Remote Sensing of Urban Forests

  • Giovanni Sanesi,
  • Vincenzo Giannico,
  • Mario Elia and
  • Raffaele Lafortezza

15 October 2019

Urban forests and green infrastructures at large are of critical importance for contemporary cities as they provide a wide range of ecosystem services (ESS) that enhance the quality of life of urban dwellers. Remote sensing technologies have greatly...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,412 Views
5 Pages

Remote Sensing in Vessel Detection and Navigation

  • Henning Heiselberg and
  • Andrzej Stateczny

15 October 2020

The Special Issue (SI) “Remote Sensing in Vessel Detection and Navigation” highlighted a variety of topics related to remote sensing with navigational sensors. The sequence of articles included in this Special Issue is in line with the la...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
21,663 Views
20 Pages

The Function of Remote Sensing in Support of Environmental Policy

  • Jan De Leeuw,
  • Yola Georgiadou,
  • Norman Kerle,
  • Alfred De Gier,
  • Yoshio Inoue,
  • Jelle Ferwerda,
  • Maarten Smies and
  • Davaa Narantuya

12 July 2010

Limited awareness of environmental remote sensing’s potential ability to support environmental policy development constrains the technology’s utilization. This paper reviews the potential of earth observation from the perspective of environmental pol...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,992 Views
5 Pages

Water Optics and Water Colour Remote Sensing

  • Yunlin Zhang,
  • Claudia Giardino and
  • Linhai Li

9 August 2017

The editorial paper aims to highlight the main topics investigated in the Special Issue (SI) “Water Optics and Water Colour Remote Sensing”. The outcomes of the 21 papers published in the SI are presented, along with a bibliometric analysis in the sa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,504 Views
27 Pages

Research on Photon-Integrated Interferometric Remote Sensing Image Reconstruction Based on Compressed Sensing

  • Jiawei Yong,
  • Kexin Li,
  • Zhejun Feng,
  • Zengyan Wu,
  • Shubing Ye,
  • Baoming Song,
  • Runxi Wei and
  • Changqing Cao

8 May 2023

Achieving high-resolution remote sensing images is an important goal in the field of space exploration. However, the quality of remote sensing images is low after the use of traditional compressed sensing with the orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) al...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,103 Views
25 Pages

A Review of Visual Grounding on Remote Sensing Images

  • Ziyan Wang,
  • Lei Liu,
  • Gang Wan,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Binjian Zhong,
  • Haiyang Chang,
  • Xinyi Li,
  • Xiaoxuan Liu and
  • Guangde Sun

Remote sensing visual grounding, a pivotal technology bridging natural language and high-resolution remote sensing images, holds significant application value in disaster monitoring, urban planning, and related fields. However, it faces critical chal...

  • Entry
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,612 Views
11 Pages

Ionospheric Remote Sensing with GNSS

  • YuXiang Peng and
  • Wayne A. Scales

22 November 2021

The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) plays a pivotal role in our modern positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) technologies. GNSS satellites fly at altitudes of approximately 20,000 km or higher. This altitude is above an ionized layer of...

  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
11,665 Views
39 Pages

Application of Deep Learning in Multitemporal Remote Sensing Image Classification

  • Xinglu Cheng,
  • Yonghua Sun,
  • Wangkuan Zhang,
  • Yihan Wang,
  • Xuyue Cao and
  • Yanzhao Wang

3 August 2023

The rapid advancement of remote sensing technology has significantly enhanced the temporal resolution of remote sensing data. Multitemporal remote sensing image classification can extract richer spatiotemporal features. However, this also presents th...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,067 Views
3 Pages

27 March 2019

This Special Issue of Remote Sensing continues a long line of related research papers covering the use of optical and laser remote sensing for quantitative measurement and imaging of chemical species and physical parameters of the atmosphere [...]

  • Review
  • Open Access
662 Citations
58,143 Views
51 Pages

Remote Sensing of Mangrove Ecosystems: A Review

  • Claudia Kuenzer,
  • Andrea Bluemel,
  • Steffen Gebhardt,
  • Tuan Vo Quoc and
  • Stefan Dech

27 April 2011

Mangrove ecosystems dominate the coastal wetlands of tropical and subtropical regions throughout the world. They provide various ecological and economical ecosystem services contributing to coastal erosion protection, water filtration, provision of a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
9,858 Views
20 Pages

Remote Sensing of Urban Poverty and Gentrification

  • Li Lin,
  • Liping Di,
  • Chen Zhang,
  • Liying Guo and
  • Yahui Di

9 October 2021

In the past few decades, most urban areas in the world have been facing the pressure of an increasing population living in poverty. A recent study has shown that up to 80% of the population of some cities in Africa fall under the poverty line. Other...

  • Review
  • Open Access
118 Citations
24,960 Views
26 Pages

A Review of Crop Water Stress Assessment Using Remote Sensing

  • Uzair Ahmad,
  • Arturo Alvino and
  • Stefano Marino

17 October 2021

Currently, the world is facing high competition and market risks in improving yield, crop illness, and crop water stress. This could potentially be addressed by technological advancements in the form of precision systems, improvements in production,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
97 Citations
17,489 Views
20 Pages

Mapping Paddy Rice with Satellite Remote Sensing: A Review

  • Rongkun Zhao,
  • Yuechen Li and
  • Mingguo Ma

7 January 2021

Paddy rice is a staple food of three billion people in the world. Timely and accurate estimation of the paddy rice planting area and paddy rice yield can provide valuable information for the government, planners and decision makers to formulate polic...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,109 Views
6 Pages

Computational Intelligence in Remote Sensing: An Editorial

  • Manuel Graña,
  • Michal Wozniak,
  • Sebastian Rios and
  • Javier de Lope

23 January 2020

Computational intelligence is a very active and fruitful research of artificial intelligence with a broad spectrum of applications. Remote sensing data has been a salient field of application of computational intelligence algorithms, both for the exp...

  • Review
  • Open Access
142 Citations
15,753 Views
40 Pages

Review of Remote Sensing Applications in Grassland Monitoring

  • Zhaobin Wang,
  • Yikun Ma,
  • Yaonan Zhang and
  • Jiali Shang

17 June 2022

The application of remote sensing technology in grassland monitoring and management has been ongoing for decades. Compared with traditional ground measurements, remote sensing technology has the overall advantage of convenience, efficiency, and cost...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,979 Views
19 Pages

Remote Sensing Monitoring of Pine Wilt Disease Based on Time-Series Remote Sensing Index

  • Lin Long,
  • Yuanyuan Chen,
  • Shaojun Song,
  • Xiaoli Zhang,
  • Xiang Jia,
  • Yagang Lu and
  • Gao Liu

6 January 2023

Under the strong influence of climate change and human activities, the frequency and intensity of disturbance events in the forest ecosystem both show significant increasing trends. Pine wood nematode (Bursapherenchus xylophilus, PWN) is one of the m...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,393 Views
28 Pages

Remote Sensing Precursors Analysis for Giant Landslides

  • Hengxing Lan,
  • Xiao Liu,
  • Langping Li,
  • Quanwen Li,
  • Naiman Tian and
  • Jianbing Peng

4 September 2022

Monitoring and early warning systems for landslides are urgently needed worldwide to effectively reduce the losses of life and property caused by these natural disasters. Detecting the precursors of giant landslides constitutes the premise of landsli...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,158 Views
4 Pages

Remote Sensing for Precise Nutrient Management in Agriculture

  • Tayyaba Samreen,
  • Sidra Tahir,
  • Samia Arshad,
  • Sehrish Kanwal,
  • Faraz Anjum,
  • Muhammad Zulqernain Nazir and
  • Sidra-Tul-Muntaha

Agricultural sustainability and food security are adversely affected by nutrient deficiency in the soil that in turn reduces crop yield. To restore soil fertility, precision agriculture (PA) techniques are highly encouraged. The PA techniques include...

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