Since you are reading this editorial, you are well aware that this journal is quite different than the other ones published by the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS). Indeed, it is a magazine, which implies that it has some specific features. In the past two issues I introduced how the technical contents of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine ( GRSM ) are selected and how authors may submit their contributions. In these few paragraphs I would like to highlight the specificity of a magazine as opposed to a technical journal and provide a more general explanation about the rationale for the choices innerving these procedures.

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为什么 GRSS 需要一本杂志？ [来自编辑]

既然您正在阅读这篇社论，您就很清楚该期刊与 IEEE 地球科学与遥感协会 (GRSS) 出版的其他期刊有很大不同。事实上，它是一本杂志，这意味着它有一些特定的特征。上两期我介绍了如何进行技术内容IEEE 地球科学与遥感杂志 ( GRSM ）的选择以及作者如何提交他们的贡献。在这几段中，我想强调杂志相对于技术期刊的特殊性，并对涉及这些程序的选择的基本原理提供更一般的解释。