Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Editor-in-Chief: Qian (Jenny) Du, of Mississippi State University, USA

The Journal of Applied Remote Sensing (JARS) optimizes the communication of concepts, information, and progress within the remote sensing community to improve the societal benefit for monitoring and management of natural disasters, weather forecasting, agricultural and urban land-use planning, environmental quality monitoring, ecological restoration, and numerous other commercial and scientific applications. 

On the cover: The figure is from "Water body extraction based on multi-scale attention from synthetic aperture radar images" by Linglong Zhu et al. in Vol. 18, Issue 3.

Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief

Mississippi State University
USA

Senior Editors

Technical University of Crete, Greece

Expertise: UAVs/drones, autonomous navigation, image processing  

Wuhan University, China

Expertise: image processing, image fusion and data assimilation, remote sensing application and mapping, regional and global environmental change

Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

Expertise: laser scanning, point cloud processing, land cover classification

Associate Editors

Italian Naval Academy
Italy

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Expertise: hyperspectral and multispectral remote sensing applications, precision agriculture concerning pests and diseases

East China Normal University, China

Expertise: multimodal data fusion and gap filling, environmental modeling via machine learning, big Earth data analytics

Fondazione Bruono Kessler, Italy

Expertise: multitemporal image processing, time series analysis, change detection, deep learning in temporal domain, SAR

Univ. degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Italy

Expertise: synthetic aperture radar, tomography

University of Palermo
Italy

University of Lethbridge, Canada

Expertise: remote sensing physics (energy/surface interactions – BRDF), hyperspectral remote sensing, calibration/validation

Research Institute for Geo-hydrological Protection
Italy

Italian Naval Academy, Italy

Expertise: hyperspectral image analysis, target detection

Ocean University of China, China

Expertise: ocean remote sensing, SAR data processing

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
USA

Michigan Technological University, USA

Expertise: photogrammetry, object-based image analysis, geospatial cyberinfrastructure

Shenyang Aerospace University, China

Expertise: hyperspectral image analysis, deep learning

Tongji University, China

Expertise: data fusion, change detection

University of Genova
Italy

National Research Council of Italy, Italy

Expertise: hyperspectral image processing, target and anomaly detection 

Air Force Research Laboratory, USA

Expertise: spaceborne infrared imaging, data fusion and analytics, space sensor development

University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Expertise: GeoAI, complex modeling/geo-computing, machine learning and soft-computing applications, natural hazards, environmental modeling

Canadian Space Agency, Canada

Expertise: optical instruments/payloads for space missions, satellite image/data processing, hyperspectral remote sensing

Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell'Ambiente, Italy

Expertise: SAR, SAR interferometry, differential SAR interferometry, SAR tomography, persistent scatterers interferometry, landslide monitoring

University of Wyoming, USA

Expertise: land cover mapping and changes, water and flood mapping/monitoring, data pre-processing

Florida Atlantic University, USA

Expertise: thermal infrared remote sensing, UAV applications, deep learning

Hohai University, China

Expertise: hyperspectral image processing and application

Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

Expertise: machine learning and methods, remote sensing image analysis, hyperspectral image classification, dimensionality reduction, SAR data analysis 

Finnish Geospatial Research Institute, Finland

Expertise: LiDAR, forest, biodiversity, climate change

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA

Expertise: satellite instrument calibration

Mississippi State University, USA

Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey 

Expertise: image fusion, image classification, point cloud processing

Colorado School of Mines, USA

Expertise: geohazards, InSAR, GIS and GeoInformatics

University of Montana, USA

Expertise: hyperspectral, radar, drones, unmanned aircraft systems

Past Editors-in-Chief

Wei Gao, Founding Editor-in-Chief, 2007-2013
Ni-Bin Chang, 2013-2023

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