Editor-in-Chief: Ni-Bin Chang, University of Central Florida
The Journal of Applied Remote Sensing (JARS) is an online journal that 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.

Special Section on Optics in Atmospheric Propagation and Adaptive Systems
Guest Editors: Karin Stein, Szymon Gladysz, Christian Eisele, and Vladimir Lukin
Special Section on Advances in Agro-Hydrological Remote Sensing for Water Resources Conservation
Guest Editors: Antonino Maltese and Christopher M. U. Neale
Special Section on Advances in Remote Sensing for Air Quality Management
Guest Editors: Barry Gross, Klaus Schäfer, Philippe Keckhut
September 2018
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