Remote Sensing of Environment (RSE) serves the Earth observation community with the publication of results on the theory, science, applications, and technology of studies contributing to advance the science of remote sensing. Thoroughly interdisciplinary, RSE publishes on terrestrial, oceanic and atmospheric sensing. The emphasis of the journal is on biophysical and quantitative approaches to remote sensing at local to global scales and covers a wide range of applications and techniques:

Applications
Land cover mapping, vegetation species identification and mapping
Land surface energy and water balance
Disturbance (fire, insect, harvest)
Agriculture (crop mapping, yield prediction, phenology, soil properties, management practices)
Forest and rangeland productivity and inventories
Ecological applications & Ecosystem services (wetland, biodiversity, habitat, animal population, etc.)
Urban applications (mapping, energy consumption, population, etc.)
Terrestrial ecosystem productivity and carbon cycles
Soil properties (moisture, organic matter, texture, structure, etc.)
Geological Applications (minerals, landslide, subsidence, geomorphology, earth quake, etc.)
Hydrology and water resources
Inland and coastal waters
Oceanography and marine science
Cryosphere, mapping and modelling
Atmospheric science and meteorology
Snow, ice and glaciers


Techniques & Methods
Feature extraction from RS images: segmentation and classification, surface structural, biochemical or physiological traits estimation from RS data
Radiative transfer modelling
Machine and deep learning for RS data analysis
RS Data assimilation
Satellite time series analysis & change detection
Satellite data fusion (spectral, spatial and temporal)
Satellite sensor systems characterization including radiometric and geometric calibration
New remote sensing missions and systems


Original Research Articles should describe important significant new results or methods that will advance the science or application of remote sensing. The main contribution should be the remote sensing component, rather than investigation of an environmental problem in which remote sensing does not play a major role. Papers dealing with single study sites are welcome, although the sites should be representative of broad conditions suitable for drawing conclusions of interest to the international audience of this journal. Studies based on close-range sensing (hand-held, IoT, UAV) are welcome if they show sufficient advances in RS methodology which can be generalized for large-area applications.

Review Articles should provide a thorough review of the current state-of-the-art of an important subject in remote sensing, by providing insights and perspectives on the trends, with a synthesis of previous work beyond literature compilation or bibliometric studies.

Short Communications are intended to publish significant new techniques, data, or results in a timely manner where expansion to a full-length paper may cause delay of their availability to the research or user community (5000 words).

Original Research Articles
Review Articles
Short Communications

Editors-in-Chief
Jing. M. Chen
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Emilio Chuvieco
University of Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain
Menghua Wang
NOAA National Environment Satellite Data and Information Service, College Park, Maryland, United States
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Marvin Bauer
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Journal Manager
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Associate Editors
Aida Alvera-Azcarate
University of Liege, Liege, Belgium
Joseph Awange
Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
John Gamon
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Geoffrey Henebry
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Eric Kasischke
University of Maryland at College Park, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Tiit Kutser
Estonian Marine Institute Department of Remote Sensing and Marine Optics, Tallinn, Estonia
Eric Leuliette
Center for Satellite Applications and Research Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry, College Park, Maryland, United States
Tim McVicar
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australia
Frédéric Mélin
European Commission Joint Research Centre Ispra Sector, Ispra, Italy
Youngryel Ryu
Seoul National University Department of Landscape Architecture and Rural Systems Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Jiancheng Shi
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Christiaan van der Tol
University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
Andrés Vina
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States
James Vogelmann
US Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
Marie Weiss
French National Institute for Agricultural Research Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Avignon cedex 9, France
Jean-Pierre Wigneron
Soil Plant Atmosphere Interaction, Villenave d'Ornon, France
Ping Yang
Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, Texas, United States
Marta Yebra
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Pablo Zarco-Tejada
University of Melbourne Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Kaiguang Zhao
The Ohio State University School of Environment and Natural Resources - Wooster Campus, Wooster, Ohio, United States
Zhe Zhu
University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States
Editorial Board
C. Albergel
National Centre for Meteorological Research, Toulouse, France
G. Asner
Carnegie Institution Department of Global Ecology, Stanford, California, United States
M.E. Brown
University of Maryland at College Park, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
J.W. Campbell
University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, United States
G.A. Carter
University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, Ocean Springs, Mississippi, United States
M.J. Chopping
Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, United States
M.L. Clark
Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California, United States
W.B. Cohen
USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, Oregon, United States
P.E. Dennison
The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
C. Derksen
Environment and Climate Change Canada Ontario Region, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
R. Dubayah
University of Maryland at College Park, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
J.L. Dungan
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, United States
M. Falkowski
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
G.M. Foody
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
A. French
USDA Agricultural Research Service Administrative and Financial Management, Maricopa, Arizona, United States
M. Friedl
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
J.A. Gamon
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
A.A. Gitelson
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
S.J. Goetz
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
S.N. Goward
University of Maryland at College Park, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
L. Guanter
Helmholtz Centre Potsdam German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
F.G. Hall
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, United States
E. Hestir
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
E.J. Hochberg
Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, St George's, Bermuda
X. Huang
Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
A. Hudak
USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
A.R. Huete
University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
R. Hunt
USDA-ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, Maryland, United States
S. Jacquemoud
University Paris 7 Denis Diderot Faculty of Life Sciences, Paris, France
D. M. Johnson
USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, Washington, District of Columbia, United States
R. Kennedy
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States
I. Korpela
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Y. Liu
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology School of Remote Sensing and Geomatics Engineering, Nanjing, China
H. Lu
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
R.E. McRoberts
USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, United States
P.J. Minnett
Miami University Department of Ocean Sciences, Miami, Florida, United States
F. Morsdorf
University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
E. Naesset
Norwegian University of Life Sciences Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Aas, Norway
F. Paul
University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
J. Peñuelas
Autonomous University of Barcelona Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications, Barcelona, Spain
D. Pflugmacher
Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, GermanyW.D. Philpot
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States
J. Pisek
Tartu Observatory, Tõravere, Estonia
D.A. Quattrochi
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, United States
J.A. Richards
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
V.V. Salomonson
The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
W. Schroeder
University of Maryland at College Park Department of Geography, Maryland, Maryland, United States
S.V. Stehman
State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States
J. Verbesselt
Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
W. Verhoef
University of Twente Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Enschede, Netherlands
J. White
J.-L. Widlowski
European Commission Joint Research Centre Ispra Sector, Ispra, Italy
E.F. Wood
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States
M.A. Wulder
Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
H. Xie
University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States
Y.Q. Zhang
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China