GRSM Special Issue Calls
Authors interested in proposing special issues as guest editors are encouraged to contact the GRSM editor-in-chief (EiC) directly (see www.grss-ieee.org/publications/geoscience-and-remote-sensing-magazine/).
A proposal submission template is available here.
The EiC will assign any received proposal to a special-issue review team composed by an AE and one external reviewer. The appointed team will evaluate the proposal and provide a recommendation with a target reply date of 30 days. If the proposal is rejected after this review procedure, it may be submitted again, but only once.
Open special issues
- Special issue on “Earth Observation Foundation Models: Multimodal Learning, Agentic Intelligence, and Trustworthiness”
Guest editors: Dr. Zhitong Xiong, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany. (zhitong.xiong@tum.de)
Prof. Xiaoxiang Zhu, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany. (xiaoxiang.zhu@tum.de)
Prof. Jocelyn Chanussot, Universite Grenoble Alpes, Inria-CNRS-Grenoble INP-LJK, Grenoble, France. (jocelyn.chanussot@grenoble-inp.fr)
Prof. Yansheng Li, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China. (yansheng.li@whu.edu.cn)
Prof. Kourosh Khoshelham, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. (k.khoshelham@unimelb.edu.au)
Dr. Jielu (Jenny) Zhang, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. (jielu_zhang@fas.harvard.edu)
White Paper Submission Deadline: June 8, 2026
[Call for Papers] - Special issue on “AI for Hyperspectral Remote Sensing”
Guest editors: Jun Li, Mario Parente, Bing Zhang, Lianhui Liang, Jocelyn Chanussot
White Paper Submission Deadline: April 15, 2026 (Extended Deadline) - Special issue on “UAV remote sensing”
Guest editors: Congzheng Han, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS (c.han@mail.iap.ac.cn), Qinghua Guo, Peking University (guo.qinghua@pku.edu.cn), Hongbin Chen, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS (chb@mail.iap.ac.cn), Hanwen Yu, Univ. of Electronic Science and Technology of China (yuhanwenxd@gmail.com)
White Paper Submission Deadline: August 31, 2025
Closed special issues
- Special issue on “Vision Language Models in Remote Sensing”
Guest Editors: Xiang Li, Xiao Xiang Zhu, Gui-Song Xia, Sherrie Wang, Timo Balz, Mohamed Elhoseiny
White Paper Submission deadline : October 31, 2024 - Special issue on “Hyperspectral imaging”
Guest Editors: Mario Parente, John Kerekes, Rob Heylen
White Paper Submission deadline : August 31, 2017 - Special issue on “Data Fusion for Oceanic Target Interpretation”
Guest Editors: Gui Gao, Hanwen Yu, Maurizio Migliaccio, Xi Zhang
White Paper Submission deadline : August 1, 2023
[Call for papers] - Special issue on “The year of SAR”
Guest Editors: Paul Siqueira, Hanwen Yu, Michael Inggs
White Paper Submission deadline: January 5, 2024 - Special issue on “AI meets Remote Sensing Image Understanding”
Guest Editors: Gong Cheng, Jun Li, Xian Sun, Zhongling Huang, Mihai Datcu, Antonio Plaza
White Paper Submission Deadline: January 31, 2024 (Extended Deadline)
