Papers are solicited for a Special Issue of IEEE J-STARS on Interoperability architectures and arrangements for multi-disciplinary Earth Observation systems and applications. The papers considered for this special issue will address recent breakthroughs in the science and technology useful for implementing multidisciplinary interoperability. They will include the introduction and discussion of new or advanced multi-disciplinary interoperability solutions (e.g. multi-disciplinary data models, vocabularies, discovery & access service protocols, encoding languages, etc.), as well as the description of innovative multi-disciplinary systems and applications (e.g. Earth System Science applications or multi-disciplinary Observatory Systems).

