JSTARS Special Issues

Call for Special Issue Proposals

JSTARS now is accepting Special Issue Proposals for special issues to be published in 2026. Please submit your proposal: grss-nt.ocno.it/sipt/. For any questions, please contact Prof. Peifeng Ma, Editor-in-Chief-Elect, at mapeifeng@cuhk.edu.hk or  jstars_editor_in_chief@grss-ieee.org. You can also browse through our Past JSTARS Special Issues.

The Article Processing Charge (APC) for all manuscripts submitted on or after January 1, 2025, is US $1800.

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 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 “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 “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 “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 “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 “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 “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 “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 “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 “IEEE GNSS+R 2025 – Specialist Meeting on Reflectometry using GNSS and other Signals of Opportunity”

Guest Editors: Maria Paola Clarizia, Manuel Martin-Neira, Weiqiang Li, Emanuele Santi, Nazzareno Pierdicca

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

Special Issue on “WSF-M Mission and Calibration/Validation”

Guest Editors: Sayak Biswas, Shannon Brown, David Kunkee 

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

Special Issue on “Hyperspectral AI”

Guest Editors: Bei Cheng, Zhen Zhang, Yanfeng Gu, Xiuping Jia, Qingwang Wang

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

Special Issue on “Geology-1 Hyperspectral Satellite: Innovative Methods and Applications”

Guest Editors: Xiaohui Huang, Yuewei Wang, Yi Wang, Jiangtao Peng

Submission Date Start: 01 Jan 2026
Submission Date End: 31 Aug 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 “AI-Driven Multimodal Remote Sensing for Forestry Monitoring and Management”

Guest Editors: Lianhui Liang, Shaoquan Zhang, Lin He, Antonio Plaza, Paolo Gamba

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