JSTARS Special Issues

Call for Special Issue Proposals

JSTARS now is accepting Special Issue Proposals for special issues to be published in 2024. Please submit your proposal: grss-nt.ocno.it/sipt/. For any questions, please contact Prof. Jun Li, Editor-in-Chief-Elect, at lijuncug@cug.edu.cn or  jstars_editor_in_chief@grss-ieee.org. You can also browse through our Past JSTARS Special Issues.

Notice that, the APC for manuscripts submitted in 2024 is US $1496, which is US $1800 for those submitted since Jan 1 2025.

Open special issues

Special issue on “Challenges and Recent Progress in Remote Sensing of Nighttime Light”

Guest editors: Kaifang Shi, Gang Xu, Zuoqi Chen, Yuanzheng Cui

Submission Date Start: 01 Jun 2024
Submission Date End: 31 Jan 2025

Special issue on “Foundation and Large Vision Models for Remote Sensing”

Guest editors: Saurabh Prasad, Biplab Banerjee, Salman Khan, Levente Klein

Submission Date Start: 01 Jul 2024
Submission Date End: 31 Jan 2025

Special issue on “Applications of Remote Sensing Techniques in Forest Mensuration”

Guest editors: Chinsu Lin, Wenzhi Liao, Akemi Itaya, Hee Han

Submission Date Start: 01 Jun 2024
Submission Date End: 28 Feb 2025

Special issue on “Deep Generative Models for Multi-Sensor Image Fusion and Reconstruction for Earth observation and monitoring”

Guest editors: C. Krishna Mohan, Silvia Liberata Ullo, Linga Reddy Cenkeramaddi, Miguel Garcia-Torres, Rajeshreddy Datla

Submission Date Start: 01 Jul 2024
Submission Date End: 28 Feb 2025

Special issue on “Sensing and Remote Sensing in the Poles”

Guest editors: Amit Kumar Mishra,Tao Che, Adrian Bruce McCallum, Marc De Vos

Submission Date Start: 01 Jul 2024
Submission Date End: 28 Feb 2025

Special issue on “Remote Sensing for Monitoring Fluvial Geomorphic Changes and Disaster Risk Reduction Planning”

Guest editors: Shakeel Mahmood, Sofiane Bensefia, Helen Muhammad Abdul Hussein AL-Badiri, Muhammad Irfan Ahamad

Submission Date Start: 01 Oct 2024
Submission Date End: 31 Mar 2025

Special issue on “UAV Remote Sensing Monitoring and Applications”

Guest editors: Qingwang Wang, Zhen Zhang, Wenguan Wang, Nan Su, Junshi Xia

Submission Date Start: 01 Aug 2024
Submission Date End: 30 Apr 2025

Special issue on “IEEE 2024 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2024)”

Guest editors: George Choumos, Charalampos (Haris) Kontoes, Konstantinos Karantzalos, Iphigenia Keramitsoglou, Vito Pascazio, Nikolaos Stathopoulos

Submission Date Start: 01 Oct 2024
Submission Date End: 30 Apr 2025

Special issue on “Advanced SAR/InSAR technologies for surface deformation change”

Guest editors: Peifeng Ma, Hanwen Yu, Oriol Monserrat, Pietro Milillo, Zherong Wu

Submission Date Start: 01 Jun 2024
Submission Date End: 31 May 2025

Special issue on “Digital Twin and Spatio-temporal Remote Sensing Analysis for Disaster Management”

Guest editors: Amrit Mukherjee, Amrit Gandomi, Qin Xin, Uttam Ghosh, Mohammad Reza Nikoo

Submission Date Start: 01 Aug 2024
Submission Date End: 31 May 2025

Special issue on “Enhancing Remote Sensing of Coastal Areas through Multi-Sensor Data Fusion”

Guest editors: Alireza Sharifi, Hadi Mahdipour, Khilola Amankulova

Submission Date Start: 01 Oct 2024
Submission Date End: 30 Jun 2025

Special issue on “Intelligent Sensing and Navigation Technologies for 6G”

Guest editors: Xingwang Li, Arumugam Nallanathan, Shuanggen Jin, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Zhiyong Feng, Chau Yuen

Submission Date Start: 01 Oct 2024
Submission Date End: 30 Jun 2025

 Special issue on “Deep learning-based techniques for Radar imaging in remote sensing applications”

 Guest editors: Junjie Wu, Ronny Hänsch, Wei Pu, Mihai Datcu, Ying Luo,

Submission Date Start: 01 Dec 2024
Submission Date End: 30 Jun 2025

 Special issue on “Remote sensing information processing and dynamic monitoring in agriculture”

Guest editors: Hao Wu, Qiangyi Yu, Zhuo Li, Rashid Shariff, Chemura Abel

Submission Date Start: 01 Nov 2024
Submission Date End: 31 Jul 2025

 Special issue on “Scene Analysis and Understanding in the Intelligent Transportation for Urban Area”

 Guest editors: Qiang Li, Qi Wang, Qiangqiang Yuan, Naoto Yokoya, Yi Wang, Jian Yang, Miguel Ángel Fernández Torres

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

 Special issue on “Monitoring of Urban Infrastructure Stability with Radar Interferometry from Space to Ground”

 Guest editors: Bochen Zhang, Songbo Wu, Chisheng Wang, Honglei Yang, Jordi J. Mallorqui

Submission Date Start: 01 Dec 2024
Submission Date End: 31 Aug 2025

 Special issue on “Multi-temporal and Multi-angle Remote Sensing: Data Processing, Applications, and Challenges”

 Guest editors: Peng Wang, Ying Zhang, Daiyin Zhu, Shou Feng, Henry Leung, Jocelyn Chanussot

Submission Date Start: 01 Dec 2024
Submission Date End: 31 Aug 2025

 Special issue on “Recent Advances in PolSAR and PolInSAR Scattering Interpretation and Its Application in Agricultural Crop Monitoring”

Guest editors: Hong Zhang, Juan Manuel Lopez-Sanchez, Shangrong Wu, Lingli Zhao, Qinghua Xie, Han Gao

Submission Date Start: 01 Jan 2025
Submission Date End: 31 Oct 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 Muhammad, Leyuan Fang

Submission Date Start: 01 Feb 2025
Submission Date End: 31 Oct 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 “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