Remote Sensing

Remote Sensing Monitoring for Arctic Region

edited by

Tonghua Wu

, Florent Garnier,

Lin Liu

and

Yubao Qiu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 12 articles | Viewed by 13341 | Submission Open

Keywords: cryosphere; sea ice; ice sheet; glacier; snow; permafrost; vegetation; ecology; arctic ocean

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

Remote Sensing for Surface Biophysical Parameter Retrieval

edited by

Shengbiao Wu

,

Baodong Xu

,

Gaofei Yin

and

Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 10 articles | Viewed by 11909 | Submission Open

Keywords: radiative transfer modeling; biophysical parameter estimation; high-resolution satellite; cloud-computing technique; machine learning; multi-source data fusion/integration

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

Remote Sensing of Invasive Alien Species—towards Effective Monitoring and Management

edited by

Barbara Tokarska-Guzik

and

Sylwia Szporak-Wasilewska

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 6 articles | Viewed by 11693 | Submission Open

Keywords: Spatial and spectral resolutions; Data fusion; Classification algorithms; Spectral discrimination; Invasive species; Distribution mapping; Invasion monitoring; Early detection; Risk assessment; Landscape dynamics; Multitemporal analysis; Multiscale assessment; Management planning; Invasive species control programs

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

Microwave Remote Sensing for Object Detection

edited by

Guangcai Sun

, Jiang Qian,

Lei Yang

and

Jinsong Zhang

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 8 articles | Viewed by 11246 | Submission Open

Keywords: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR); airborne and satellite systems; objection detection and recognition; machine learning; compressive sensing; deep neural network sand few sample learning; ground moving target indication (GMTI); change detection in SAR images; generative adversarial networks (GANs); ship detection and ship traffic

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

Advances in Satellite and Ground-Based Polarimetric Remote Sensing and Applications in Atmosphere, Ocean and Land Surface Detections

edited by

Li Li

,

Zhengqiang Li

and Jin Hong

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 9 articles | Viewed by 11146 | Submission Open

Keywords: light scattering theory and polarized radiative transfer; satellite-based polarimetric remote sensing; ground-based polarimetric remote sensing; calibration and data validation; polarimetric data processing; advanced retrieval algorithms; applications of polarimetric remote sensing

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

Multispectral Image Acquisition, Processing and Analysis—2nd Edition

edited by

Benoit Vozel

,

Vladimir Lukin

and

Yakoub Bazi

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 8 articles | Viewed by 10911 | Submission Open

Keywords: Imaging sensors and platforms; Cooperative sensing; Multispectral data analysis; Multispectral data processing; Multisource data fusion; Deep learning strategies

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

Applications of Remote Sensing and GIS Integration in Natural Resources and Environmental Science

edited by

Jian Yang

and

Le Yu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 8 articles | Viewed by 10906 | Submission Open

Keywords: Integration of remote sensing and GIS; Geoprocessing of remote sensing data; Natural resource mapping; Remote sensing of environment; Land surface processes; Landscape approach; Ecosystem modeling; Spatial analysis; System integration

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

Vegetation Dynamics Revealed by Remote Sensing and Its Feedback to Regional and Global Climate Ⅱ

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submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 8 articles | Viewed by 10047 | Submission Open

Keywords: vegetation type; vegetation phenology; change detection; model simulation; response to climate change; feedback to climate change

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

LEO-Augmented PNT Service

edited by

Kan Wang

,

Ahmed El-Mowafy

and

Xuhai Yang

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 5 articles | Viewed by 10044 | Submission Open

Keywords: Low Earth orbit (LEO); Precise orbit determination (POD); Time and frequency transfer; Positioning; Navigation; Integrity monitoring; Quality control; Signal processing; Sensor calibration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration)

Remote Sensing of Vegetation: Mapping, Trend Analysis, and Drivers of Change

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submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 8 articles | Viewed by 9653 | Submission Open

Keywords: vegetation dynamics; vegetation mapping; time-series analysis; change detection; change drivers; machine learning; cloud computing; climate change

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

Remote Sensing for Maritime Monitoring and Vessel Identification

edited by

Emanuele Salerno

,

Claudio Di Paola

and

Angelica Lo Duca

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 9 articles | Viewed by 9366 | Submission Open

Keywords: maritime traffic monitoring; ship classification; remote sensing platforms/sensors; ship behavior analysis; data fusion; machine learning; artificial intelligence

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

Remote Sensing of Primary Production

edited by

Xiaobin Guan

,

Xing Li

, Zhaoying Zhang and

Xinyao Xie

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8401 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; primary productivity; terrestrial ecosystem carbon cycle; vegetation index; solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence; light use efficiency models; process-based models; machine learning; climate change

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

Remote Sensing of Climate-Related Hazards

edited by

Raffaele Albano

,

Dimitrios D. Alexakis

,

Maria Ferentinou

and

Christos Polykretis

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8107 | Submission Open

Keywords: floods and droughts; natural hazards monitoring and mapping; soil erosion; landslides; risk management and assessment; adaptation and resilience strategies; operational services; UAVs and drones; earth observations; climate change; sustainability and sustainable development; early warning

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

Applications and New Trends in Metrology for Radar/LiDAR-Based Systems II

edited by

Silvia Liberata Ullo

,

Alfonso Farina

, Yu Yao,

Harun Taha Hayvaci

and Pia Addabbo

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7997 | Submission Open

Keywords: radar and LiDAR systems; radar and LiDAR data measurements and processing; remote sensing applications; land-based; shipborne; and on board of drones; aircraft; and satellites; cognitive radars; human-in-the-loop aspects in radar systems; dual-function radar communications; waveform diversity and design; adaptive radar waveform design; radar detection theory; radar signal processing: theory; algorithms; and applications (RTAA)

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

Advancement of Remote Sensing in Landslide Susceptibility Assessment

edited by

Zhijie Zhang

and

Yaning Yi

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7927 | Submission Open

Keywords: landslide susceptibility; slope instability; susceptibility modeling; earth observation; machine learning; artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Observation for Emergency Management)

Vegetation Structure Monitoring with Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data

edited by

Shanshan Wei

,

Tiangang Yin

,

Hao Tang

and

Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7598 | Submission Open

Keywords: vegetation structure; multiplatform remote sensing; LiDAR; radiative transfer model; RADAR; biomass; multi-sensor fusion; vegetation dynamics

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

Radar for Planetary Exploration

edited by

Roberto Orosei

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7510 | Submission Open

Keywords: planetary radar; radar sounder; solar system; planets; asteroids; comets; moon

(This special issue belongs to the Section Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration)

Thermal Remote Sensing for Monitoring Terrestrial Environment

edited by

Jie Cheng

and

Qiao Wang

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7243 | Submission Open

Keywords: thermal environment; urban heat island; heatwave; geological mapping; land cover classification; landscape thermal responses; thermal anomaly; coal fire; warm water discharge; active fire detection; anthropogenic heat emission; land surface temperature and emissivity; air temperature; water vapor; surface radiation and energy budget

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

Spectral Imaging Technology for Crop Disease Detection

edited by

Marian-Daniel Iordache

and

Stephanie Delalieux

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7202 | Submission Open

Keywords: crop disease; spectral imaging; multispectral data; hyperspectral data; machine learning; spectral-spatial methods; classification; spatial-temporal monitoring; satellite data; airborne data (including UAS)

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

Applications of GNSS Reflectometry for Earth Observation III

edited by

Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez

,

Mary Morris

and

Joan Francesc Munoz-Martin

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 7 articles | Viewed by 7136 | Submission Open

Keywords: GNSS-R; cryosphere; near-surface ocean wind vector; soil moisture; terrestrial hydrology; biomass; ship detection; oil slick detection; neural networks; classification; downscaling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Observation Data)

Remote Sensing and Numerical Simulation for Tidal Dynamics

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submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 7 articles | Viewed by 6911 | Submission Open

Keywords: tidal dynamics; barotropic tides; internal tides; tidal mixing; tidal modeling with data assimilation; tidal effects on ocean environment

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

Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Imaging and Processing

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submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 7 articles | Viewed by 6507 | Submission Open

Keywords: spectral imaging; hyperspectral image processing; data fusion; change detection; machine learning; feature extraction; target detection and identification

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

Agricultural Applications Using Hyperspectral Data

edited by

María Luisa Pérez-Bueno

and

Gregorio Egea

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5645 | Submission Open

Keywords: hyperspectral imaging; precision agriculture; remote sensing; machine learning; plant imaging phenotyping; vegetation health monitoring

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

Satellite Observations of Air Pollution, Analyses with Models and Applications

edited by

Zhe Jiang

,

Chi Li

and

Benjamin Gaubert

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5606 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite remote sensing; air pollution; chemistry transport models; data assimilation; machine learning; emissions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Observation for Emergency Management)

Beidou/GNSS Precise Positioning and Atmospheric Modeling II

edited by

Yunbin Yuan

and

Baocheng Zhang

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 6 articles | Viewed by 5603 | Submission Open

Keywords: GNSS; PPP/RTK; ionosphere/troposphere; time and frequency transfer; LEO/navigational satellite orbit determination

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

Remote Sensing in Viticulture II

edited by

Luís Pádua

,

Emanuel Peres

and

Raul Morais dos Santos

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5590 | Submission Open

Keywords: precision viticulture; vineyard management; vineyard mapping and classification; machine and deep learning; decision support; phenological modelling and yield prediction; estimation of biophysical and geometrical parameters; intelligent monitoring; multi-temporal analysis

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

Applications of Remote Sensing in Oceanography: Prospects and Challenges II

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submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 6 articles | Viewed by 5247 | Submission Open

Keywords: SWOT; artificial intelligence; big remotely sensed data; sustainability; climate change; ocean numerical modeling; data assimilation

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

Remote Sensing for Land System Mapping and Monitoring

edited by

Danfeng Sun

,

Qiangqiang Sun

and

Wei Wei

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5192 | Submission Open

Keywords: land cover; soil mapping; structural and functional land system; remote sensing mapping; time series analysis; assessment; simulated prediction; land use management

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

Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Urbanization Using GIS and Remote Sensing

edited by

Tomaž Podobnikar

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4723 | Submission Open

Keywords: time series; spatio-temporal data; spatio-spatial analysis; spatio-temporal statistics; spatio-temporal concept in GIS; spatio-temporal visual data exploration; spatio-temporal urbanization patterns; movement analysis; GIS; remote sensing; geospatial

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

Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture and the Dynamics of Soil–Vegetation Systems

edited by

Ankur Srivastava

,

Mauro Holzman

and

Facundo Carmona

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4394 | Submission Open

Keywords: vegetation water stress; surface and sub-surface soil moisture; solar-thermal spectra; evapotranspiration; arid and semi-arid ecosystems; vegetation productivity; water deficit in agricultural lands

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

Remote Sensing for Geology and Mapping

edited by

Chao Chen

,

Tao Chen

and

Yanni Dong

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 6 articles | Viewed by 4242 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; surveying; mapping; geographic information system

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

Geospatial Foundation Model in Urban Environments: Challenges and New Technologies

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submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4149 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban environments; urban human mobility; urban socioeconomic sustainability; urban crime; SDGs; carbon neutrality; deep learning; foundation models; CNN; transformer model; GNN

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

Novel Applications of UAV Imagery for Forest Science

edited by

Ehsan Khoramshahi

and

Francisco Javier Mesas Carrascosa

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4003 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest inventory; UAV; deforestation; forest planning; structure from motion; 3D point cloud; hyper-spectral imaging

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

Remote Sensing Based Monitoring of Terrestrial Ecosystem Service Bundles, Trade-Offs and Synergies II

edited by

Jeroen Meersmans

,

Toby Waine

and

Jian Peng

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3875 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecosystem service bundles; food security; climate regulation; water supply; flood control; soil conservation

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

Advancing Machine Learning for Remote Sensing to Enhance Spatio-Temporal Generalizability

edited by

Xiaowei Jia

,

Kuishuang Feng

and Yiqun Xie

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3778 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; model generalizability; spatial-aware learning; fairness; meta learning; spatiotemporal deep learning; knowledge-guided machine learning

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

Air Quality Mapping via Satellite Remote Sensing

edited by

Xuewei Hou

,

Bin Zhu

,

Kanike Raghavendra Kumar

,

Alok Pandey

and

Kainan Zhang

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3769 | Submission Open

Keywords: air pollution; satellite remote sensing; atmospheric chemistry; aerosols; urban climate; extreme weather; air quality and health; climate change; air pollution and climate policies

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

Remote Sensing for Sustainability and Durability of Transportation Infrastructures

edited by

Wendy Zhou

,

Thomas Oommen

and

Linan Liu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3518 | Submission Open

Keywords: tunneling-induced ground subsidence; landslide monitoring along transportation corridors; rockfalls along roadcuts; rock mass and fault zone characterization for transportation alignment selection; airfield ground subsidence; bridge monitoring; ground deformation time series; parametric analysis of ground subsidence or deformation

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

Applications of Satellite Altimetry in Ocean Observation

edited by

Antonio Sánchez-Román

,

Bàrbara Barceló-Llull

and

Juan M. Sayol

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3445 | Submission Open

Keywords: radar altimetry; ocean circulation; sea level variability; mesoscale and sub-mesoscale features; large-scale processes; sea surface currents; coastal ocean monitoring; in situ observations; ocean waves; new altimeters

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

Remote Sensing of Arid/Semiarid Lands II

edited by

Hooman Latifi

,

Nikos Koutsias

and

Hamed Naghavi

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3354 | Submission Open

Keywords: arid woody vegetation; semi-arid woody vegetation; remote sensing; UAV photogrammetry; coppice structure; burned area mapping; tree detection and delineation; spatial ecology

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

New Advances in Hyperspectral–Multispectral Image Classification and Fusion Applications

edited by Sen Jia and

Federico Santini

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3255 | Submission Open

Keywords: multispectral/hyperspectral remote sensing; image classification; information fusion; feature extraction; machine learning/deep learning; applications in remote sensing

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

Advances and Challenges on Multisource Remote Sensing Image Fusion: Datasets, New Technologies, and Applications

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and Zhihua Hu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3237 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing image data; multisource remote sensing image processing; data fusion; deep learning; remote sensing image-based application; computer vision

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

Earth Observation in Support of Sustainable Water Resources Management

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submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3122 | Submission Open

Keywords: active and passive remote sensing; coastal erosion; desertification; droughts; forest fires; heat waves; integrated water resources management; machine and deep learning; multisensory analysis; water; water adaptation to climate change; water management; water quality modelling; water– energy nexus; water footprint; water stress; water-use efficiency

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

Remote Sensing for Forest Characterisation and Monitoring

edited by

Irfan A. Iqbal

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2695 | Submission Open

Keywords: laser scanning (aerial; terrestrial; and mobile); data fusion (LiDAR; photogrammetry; and satellite observations); forest characterisation and monitoring; individual tree detection; area-based inventory; estimation of forest structural variables and upscaling; commercial/strategic forest inventory

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

Advances in Remote Sensing of Phytoplankton Optical Properties and for Studies in Marine Biology

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submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2578 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine optics; marine biology; phytoplankton communities; phytoplankton biomass; phytoplankton pigments

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

Applying Laser Scanning in Precision Forestry

edited by

Guillermo Palacios-Rodríguez

and

Inmaculada Clavero-Rumbao

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2322 | Submission Open

Keywords: precision forestry; remote sensing; LiDAR; terrestrial Laser Scanner; RPAS; forest management; forest inventory; forest monitoring; biomass; carbon sequestration; modeling/algorithms

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

Ocean Observation Using Lidar

edited by

Xiaomei Lu

and

Davide Dionisi

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2317 | Submission Open

Keywords: Lidar; backscatter; ocean phytoplankton; bathymetry

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

New Insights into the Application of Remote Sensing and GIS Technology for Monitoring Coastal Ecosystems

edited by

Kurt McLaren

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2253 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; GIS; coastal environments; coastal wetlands; benthic ecosystems; spatiotemporal mapping

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

Remote Sensing of Wildland Fires, Emissions, and Impacts

edited by

Kristofer Lasko

and

Krishna Vadrevu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2076 | Submission Open

Keywords: emissions; active fire; burned area; fuel load; aerosol; data fusion; VIIRS; air quality

(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Observation for Emergency Management)

Microwave Tomography: Advancements and Applications

edited by

Giovanni Ludeno

,

Livia Lantini

and

Ilaria Catapano

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2010 | Submission Open

Keywords: microwave and radar imaging; signal processing; microwaves sensors; radar systems; inverse scattering; Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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

Air-Sea Interaction and Climate Variability in the Ocean: Observations and Modeling Based on Remote Sensing Techniques

edited by

Yuhong Zhang

,

Xiaomei Liao

and

Vladimir N. Kudryavtsev

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1902 | Submission Open

Keywords: air-sea interactions; climate variability; oceanic dynamics; small- and meso-scale processes; remote sensing observations; high-resolution modeling

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

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