Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (GRSL)

The IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS is a quarterly publication for short papers (maximum length 5 pages) addressing new ideas and formative concepts in remote sensing as well as important new and timely results and concepts.
Papers should relate to the theory, concepts, and techniques of science and engineering as applied to sensing the earth, oceans, atmosphere, and space, and the processing, interpretation, and dissemination of this information.
The technical content of papers must be both new and significant. Experimental data must be complete and include sufficient description of experimental apparatus, methods, and relevant experimental conditions. GRSL encourages the incorporation of “extended objects” or “multimedia” such as animations to enhance the shorter papers. As soon as papers are accepted and materials are available at IEEE, they will appear online through the IEEE digital library Xplore. A paper version of each paper will appear in January, April, July, and October.

Editor Information

rufEditor: Prof. Paolo Gamba
Institution: University of Pavia
Country: Italy
Contact: paolo.gamba@unipv.it
Bio: Paolo Gamba is currently Associate Professor of Telecommunications at the University of Pavia, Italy. He received the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering “cum laude” from the University of Pavia, Italy, in 1989, and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from the same University in 1993. See Full Bio »

GRSL Impact Factor
GRSL has a 2010 Impact Factor of 1.42 and an average turnaround time close to 30 days. Moreover, as soon as papers are accepted and materials are available at IEEE, they will appear online through the IEEE digital library Xplore.

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Exploiting Sparsity in Hyperspectral Image Classification via Graphical Models

A significant recent advance in hyperspectral image (HSI) classification relies on the observation that the spectral signature of a pixel can be represented by a sparse linear combination of training spectra from an overcomplete dictionary. A spatiospe…

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Detection of the Madden–Julian Oscillation in the Indian Ocean From Satellite Altimetry

The role of air–sea interaction on Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) propagations across the tropical Indian Ocean is analyzed using integrated multimission satellite measurements of sea surface height and outgoing longwave radiation (OLR)….

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New Discrimination Features for SAR Automatic Target Recognition

We propose new features and a redundancy-free feature selection scheme for discriminating targets from clutter in high-resolution synthetic aperture radar imagery. These were found to be very useful for discriminating targets from clutter and well comb…

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Estimation of the Sea-Surface Slope Variance Based on the Power Spectrum Width of a Radar Scatterometer

In this letter, we introduce the possibility of the sea-surface slope measurements using second-order statistics of return waveforms from sea surface in a continuous-wave radar scatterometer. It has been shown that the estimation of the variance of sea…

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An Inductive Approach to Simulating Multispectral MODIS Surface Reflectance Time Series

In this letter, a first-order Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer time-series simulator, which uses a colored simple harmonic oscillator, is proposed. The simulated data can be used to augment data sets so that data intensive classification a…

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Monochromatic Noise Removal via Sparsity-Enabled Signal Decomposition Method

Monochromatic noise always interferes with the interpretation of the seismic signals and degrades the quality of subsurface images obtained by further processes. Conventional methods suffer from several problems in detecting the monochromatic noise aut…

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Effect of Different MODIS Emissivity Products on Land-Surface Temperature Retrieval From GOES Series

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service is developing an operational land-surface temperature (LST) product from the U.S. Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (G…

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Sparse Self-Calibration Imaging via Iterative MAP in FM-Based Distributed Passive Radar

Distributed passive radar imaging systems based on illuminators of opportunity such as frequency-modulation-based stations exhibit poor imaging performance owing to the narrow bandwidth of the radiated signals and the small number of illuminators. More…

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    There will be voluntary page charges of $110/page assessed for the first 3 pages and a $200/page mandatory page charge for pages 4 and 5 for GRSL publication. Papers longer than 5 printed pages will not be published in GRSL but can be turned over to TGARS.

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    Prospective authors should submit their manuscripts electronically to: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/grsl

    Instructions for creating new user accounts, if necessary, are available on the login screen. Please indicate that your submission is intended for GRSL by choosing “Letters” in pull down menu for manuscript type. Questions concerning the submission process should be addressed to tgrs-editor@ieee.org. Inquiries concerning subject material for GRSL should be sent to Prof. Paolo Gamba at: paolo.gamba-at-unipv.it.

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