Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

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

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. 

On the cover: The figure is from the Gold Open Access paper "Ground displacement assessment on Pico Volcano, Azores, by multitemporal InSAR data" by Lisa Beccaro et al. in the Special Section on Frontiers in Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing.

Featured Content

Special Section on Frontiers in Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing

Guest Editors: Chi Lin and Chang Wu Yu

HyperBlend leaf simulator: improvements on simulation speed, generalizability, and parameterization

Kimmo A. Riihiaho, Leevi Lind, Ilkka Pölönen

Special Section on Meeting the Challenges of Ecosystem Management using Remote Sensing

Guest Editors: Manjit Kaur, Raman Singh, Hassène Gritli

Previously Published Special Sections

from the Journal of Applied Remote Sensing


Frontiers in Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing (July-September 2023)

Guest Editors: Chi Lin and Chang Wu Yu


Meeting the Challenges of Ecosystem Management using Remote Sensing (April-June 2023)

Guest Editors: Manjit Kaur, Raman Singh, and Hassène Gritli


Unmanned Systems and Satellites: A Synergy for Added-Value Possibilities (April-June 2022)

Guest Editors: Panagiotis Partsinevelos and Hongbo Su


Coastal Zone Remote Sensing for Environmental Sustainability (January-March 2022)

Guest Editors: Shuisen Chen, Chandrasekar Nainarpandian, and Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi


Multitemporal Remote Sensing Data Processing and Applications (October-December 2021)

Guest Editors: Liangpei Zhang, Jocelyn Chanussot, Assefa M. Melesse, and Xinghua Li


Satellite Hyperspectral Remote Sensing: Algorithms and Applications (October-December 2021)

Guest Editors: Kun Tan, Xiuping Jia, and Antonio J. Plaza


Satellite Remote Sensing for Disaster Monitoring and Risk Assessment, Management, and Mitigation (July-September 2021)

Guest Editors: Hung Lung Allen Huang and Mitchell Goldberg


Hyperspectral Remote Sensing and Imaging Spectrometer Design (July-September 2021)

Guest Editors: Shen-En Qian, Robert O. Green, and Antonio J. Plaza


Representation Learning and Big Data Analytics for Remote Sensing (July-September 2020)

Guest Editors: Weifeng Liu, Yicong Zhou, Karen Panetta, Sos Agaian


Instrument Calibration and Product Validation of GOES-R (July-September 2020)

Guest Editors: Xiangqian Wu, Changyong Cao, Satya Kalluri, Jaime Daniels


Video introduction to the journal

Journal Metrics:
ISSN: 1931-3195
CiteScoreTM 2022: 3.4
Impact Factor *: 1.7
h5-index: 24 (#19 in Remote Sensing)
*Source: Journal Impact Factor TM, from Clarivate, 2023

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