Call for Papers

Special Issue on “Advancing Urban Remote Sensing for Sustainable and Resilient Cities”

Guest Editors: Riadh Abdelfattah, Nesrine Chehata, Hannes Taubenböck, Monika Kuffer, Clément Mallet, Eleanor Stokes

Submission Date Start: 01 Sep 2025
Submission Date End: 20 Dec 2025

 Special issue on “Data Quality Issues and Solutions in AI-based Remote Sensing Applications”

Guest editors: Yang Li, Li Li, Joel Rodrigues, Yudong Zhang

Submission Date Start: 01 Mar 2025
Submission Date End: 31 Dec 2025

 Special issue on “Deep Learning based Remote Sensing Small Target Detection and Recognition”

Guest editors: Hu Zhu, Yansheng Li, Shu Liu, Christopher Jefferson

Submission Date Start: 01 Apr 2025
Submission Date End: 31 Dec 2025

 Special issue on “LiDAR Technology and Applications in Coastal and Island/Reef Zone”

 Guest editors: Xin Ma, Yifu Chen, Xiao Hua Wang, Yuan Le, Zhen Liu 

Submission Date Start: 01 Jun 2025
Submission Date End: 31 Dec 2025

 Special issue on “Advances in Real-Time Image and Video Processing Techniques for Remote Sensing Applications”

 Guest editors: Muhammad Attique Khan, Ali Kashif Bashir, Sambit Bakshi, Robertas Damasevicius

Submission Date Start: 01 Jul 2025
Submission Date End: 31 Dec 2025

 Special issue on “Digital Technologies Facilitate Urban Sustainable Development”

 Guest editors: Zhongchang Sun, Jie Chen, Liang Hong, Chao Yang, Xiang Zhang

Submission Date Start: 01 May 2025
Submission Date End: 31 Dec 2025

 Special issue on “Advances in Urban Remote Sensing for Monitoring Global Urban Environmental Changes”

 Guest editors: Jun Yang, Xiangming Xiao, Zhi Qiao, Xiao Liu

Submission Date Start: 01 May 2025
Submission Date End: 31 Dec 2025

Special issue on “Perception-Driven Enhancement and Detection Methods for Remote Sensing Images in Non-Ideal Environments”

 Guest Editors: Jingchun Zhou, Edmond Q. Wu, Naoto Yokoya, Ghulam Muhamma, Leyuan Fang

Submission Date Start: 01 May 2025
Submission Date End: 31 Dec 2025

Special issue on “Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Technology: Innovations and Cutting-Edge Trends”

Guest editors: Zhibin Wang, Qingjun Zhang, Yan Yan, Hanwen Yu)

Submission Date Start: 01 Apr 2025
Submission Date End: 31 Dec 2025

Special issue on “Recent Advancements in Weakly Supervised Multimodal Learning for Earth Observation Data Analysis”

 Guest editors: Wei Liu, Yongtao Yu, Haiyan Guan, Jose Marcato Junior, George Petropoulos, Jonathan Li

Submission Date Start: 01 Apr 2025
Submission Date End: 31 Dec 2025

Special issue on “Al for Remote Sensing”

Guest editors: Qingwang Wang, Zhen Zhang, Tian Gan, Yanfeng Gu, Xiuping Jia

Submission Date Start: 01 Mar 2025
Submission Date End: 31 Dec 2025

 Special issue on “Space-Air-Ground Collaborative Monitoring and Network Computing: Architectures and Solutions”

 Guest editors: Di Zhou, Zunyi Xie, Wenjie Zhang, Bakhtiyor Pulatov

Submission Date Start: 01 Jun 2025
Submission Date End: 30 Jan 2026

Special Issue on “Advances in Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Science, Technology and Applications”

Guest Editors: Nectaria Diamanti, Xavier Dérobert, Antonios Giannopoulos, Evert Slob

Submission Date Start: 15 Oct 2025
Submission Date End: 31 Jan 2026

Special Issue on “IEEE 2025 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2025)

Guest Editors: Jagannath Aryal, Jocelyn Chanussot, Xiuping Jia, Jasmeet Judge, Dongryeol Ryu, Jeffery Walker, Jun Zhou, Qiming Zhou

Submission Date Start: 15 Sep 2025
Submission Date End: 31 Jan 2026

Special Issue on “Agro-Geoinformatics in Applied Earth Observation and Remote Sensing”

Guest Editors: Chen Zhang, Cenlin He, Cecilia Masemola, Pengyu Hao

Submission Date Start: 01 Sep 2025
Submission Date End: 31 Jan 2026

 Special issue on “the 2025 Latin American GRSS & ISPRS Remote Sensing (LAGIRS 2025) conference”

 Guest editors: Paolo Gamba, Veraldo Liesenberg, Carlos Lopez Martinez, Rafael Lemon Paes, Maria Victoria Marinelli

Submission Date Start: 15 Jan 2026
Submission Date End: 31 Mar 2026

 Special issue on “GNSS Ionosphere Remote Sensing: Modelling, Monitoring, Mitigation and Innovative Applications”

 Guest editors: Lei Liu, Yibin Yao, Daniel Okoh, Xiaolong Mi, Prayitno Abadi, Rezy Pradipata

Submission Date Start: 01 Oct 2025
Submission Date End: 31 Mar 2026

Special Issue on “Multimodal Reasoning Models in Remote Sensing”

Guest Editors: Haifeng Li, Hanwen Yu, Lefei Zhang, Zhitong Xiong, Xiang Li

Submission Date Start: 01 Nov 2025
Submission Date End: 30 Apr 2026

Special Issue on “Marine Target and Image Interpretation based on Ocean Remote Sensing Technique”

Guest Editors: Jiahua Zhu, Ferdinando Nunziata, Weijian Liu, Xiaotao Huang, Jianguo Liu

Submission Date Start: 01 Oct 2025
Submission Date End: 30 Apr 2026

Special Issue on “Generative AI for Remote Sensing Image Processing”

Guest Editors: Yong Chen, Wei He, Xi-Le Zhao, Naoto Yokoya

Submission Date Start: 01 Dec 2025
Submission Date End: 31 May 2026

Special Issue on “Large Language Models-Enhanced Low-Altitude Remote Sensing: Advances, Applications, and Challenges”

Guest Editors: Yang Li, Qian Shi, Joel Rodrigues, Muhammad Khurram Khan, Yudong Zhang

Submission Date Start: 01 Nov 2025
Submission Date End: 31 May 2026

Special Issue on “Artificial Intelligence in Coastal Wetlands Remote Sensing”

Guest Editors: Huiying Li, Jinyan Tian, Zhaohui Xue, Xiao Huang, Nishan Bhattarai

Submission Date Start: 01 Dec 2025
Submission Date End: 31 May 2026

Special Issue on “Noise-Aware Remote Sensing: Modeling, Mitigation and Utilization”

Guest Editors: Xuelong Li, Junyu Gao, Zhiyuan Zhao, Chuang Yang, Cong Zhang

Submission Date Start: 01 Nov 2025
Submission Date End: 31 May 2026

Special Issue on “Advanced Signal Processing Techniques for Spaceborne Sensors: Innovations and Applications”

Guest Editors: Yan Huang, Bobo Xi, Qingwang Wang, Xiaomin Tan, Xiang-Gen Xia, Yunsong Li

Submission Date Start: 01 Dec 2025
Submission Date End: 31 May 2026

Special issue on “IEEE India Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (InGARSS 2025)”

Guest editors: Avik Bhattacharya, Antonio Plaza, Susmita Ghosh, Paolo Gamba

Submission Date Start: 01 Feb 2026
Submission Date End: 31 May 2026

Special Issue on “AI-Driven Hyperspectral Remote Sensing: From Algorithms to Applications”

Guest Editors: Jiaxin Li, Lianhui Liang, Juan M. Haut, Xudong Kang, Jocelyn Chanussot

Submission Date Start: 01 Jan 2026
Submission Date End: 30 Jun 2026

Special Issue on “Cross-Sphere Near-Surface Processes: Remote Sensing–Based Retrieval and Modeling”

Guest Editors: Ning Lu, Hong Wang, Che Wang

Submission Date Start: 01 Dec 2025
Submission Date End: 30 Jun 2026

Special Issue on “Synergistic Change Detection with Multimodal Remote Sensing: Algorithms, Challenges, and Applications”

Guest Editors: Jiahui Qu, Wenqian Dong, Yunsong Li, Xikun Hu, Qian Du

Submission Date Start: 01 Dec 2025
Submission Date End: 30 Jun 2026

Special Issue on ”Advances in Multimodal Transfer Learning for Remote Sensing: Theories, Methods, and Applications”

Guest Editors: Zhenqi Liu, Long Yu, Lyuzhou Gao, Yinghong Jing, Jun Zhou, Jocelyn Chanussot

Submission Date Start: 01 Mar 2026
Submission Date End: 31 Aug 2026

Special Issue on “Recent Advances in Automatic Multimodal Remote Sensing Image Registration”

Guest Editors: Yuanxin Ye, Xinhua Li, Zhitao Fu, Yuming Xiang, Liaozhi Li

Submission Date Start: 01 Mar 2026
Submission Date End: 30 Sep 2026