Special Issue "Deep Learning on the Landsat Archive"

Dear Colleagues,

Landsat observations offer global, consistent coverage spanning more than fifty years. They have been instrumental in a wide range of studies in land cover and land use, allowing for, in addition, the assessment of natural hazards, urbanization, biodiversity, and climate, among other areas. Landsat’s standing as the workhorse of environmental remote sensing reflects its significant impact. There exists a vast amount of data, freely available and consistently processed, which is ready to offer more discoveries. The application of deep learning (DL) has emerged as a compelling methodology for use to analyze and extract knowledge from this large data archive.  DL has found fruitful ground in a wide range of data-intensive knowledge discovery tasks, e.g., in medical, automotive and security applications.

The goal of this Special Issue is to collect studies that integrate DL methods with the lengthy Landsat observational record. Submissions must use DL methods and be applied on Landsat observations. Non-DL methodologies and non-Landsat observations are also welcome in the context of comparison and calibration/validation, respectively, but not as standalone studies.

We invite manuscripts in:

• both pixel and patch-based analysis, for example supervised/semi-supervised/unsupervised classification, segmentation, scene labeling and object detection,
• fusion with other sensors of different spectral and spatial resolutions and/or signal types (e.g., optical, radar, lidar) and super-resolution tasks,
• the effect and support of reference data types and availability (e.g., sampling strategies, transfer learning),
• image preprocessing methods, such as sensor calibration/validation and atmospheric correction,
• time series analysis (e.g., monitoring, forecasting, anomaly detection) and change detection,
• reviewing collections of validation data appropriate for integration with the Landsat archive.

Prof. Dr. Giorgos Mountrakis
Dr. Pete Doucette
Dr. Neal J. Pastick
Guest Editors

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• Landsat classification
• deep learning
• time series analysis
• image fusion
• image preprocessing
• classification sampling
• image segmentation