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.
Editor-in-Chief: Ni-Bin Chang, University of Central Florida

Special Section on Advances in Remote Sensing for Forest Structure and Functions
Guest Editors: Lin (Tony) Cao, Yunsheng Wang, and Hao Tang
Special Section on Representation Learning and Big Data Analytics for Remote Sensing
Guest Editors: Weifeng Liu, Yicong Zhou, Karen Panetta, Sos Agaian
Generation of high-quality digital elevation models by assimilation of remote sensing-based DEMs
Ashutosh Bhardwaj, Kamal Jain, and Rajat S. Chatterjee
September 2019
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Target detection in synthetic aperture radar imagery: a state-of-the-art survey
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Comprehensive survey of deep learning in remote sensing: theories, tools, and challenges for the community
John E. Ball, Derek T. Anderson, Chee Seng Chan (2017)
Validation of DigitalGlobe WorldView-3 Earth imaging satellite shortwave infrared bands for mineral mapping
Fred A. Kruse, William M. Baugh, Sandra L. Perry (2015)
Mapping rice areas of South Asia using MODIS multitemporal data
Murali Krishna Gumma, Andrew Nelson, Prasad S. Thenkabail, Amrendra N. Singh (2011)
Spatiotemporal changes of snow cover over the Tibetan plateau based on cloud-removed moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer fractional snow cover product from 2001 to 2011
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New method for ship detection in synthetic aperture radar imagery based on the human visual attention system
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Rapid broad area search and detection of Chinese surface-to-air missile sites using deep convolutional neural networks
Richard A. Marcum, Curt H. Davis, Grant J. Scott, Tyler W. Nivin (2017)
Economic impacts of climate change on agriculture: the AgMIP approach
Jacques Delincé, Pavel Ciaian, Heinz-Peter Witzke (2015)
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