IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine

Article	Citations
IEEE Membership	563
“The Year of SAR” Special Issue Overview [From the Guest Editor]	309
A Summer School Session on Mastering Geospatial Artificial Intelligence: From Data Production to Artificial Intelligence Foundation Model Development and Downstream Applications [Technical Committees]	301
Sustainable Transformation Through Digital Sciences: The 10th year of the Digital Belt and Road program [Conference Reports]	229
GeoPix: A multimodal large language model for pixel-level image understanding in remote sensing	189
Table of Contents	160
IEEE Proceedings	145
Better, Not Just More: Data-centric machine learning for Earth observation	142
IEEE App	134
Table of Contents	129
IEEE Access	120
IEEE Tech RXIV : Share Your Preprint Research with the World!	112
Welcome to the September 2022 Issue of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine! [From the Guest Editors]	108
Issues and Special Issues [From the Editor]	99
IEEE Feedback	96
IEEE App	83
IEEE Tech Rxiv	83
Front Cover	79
Rochester Institute of Technology’s Open Community eXperiment (ROCX) 2025	74
Federated Learning Across Decentralized and Unshared Archives for Remote Sensing Image Classification: A review	73
IEEE Proceedings	71
Progress and Perspectives of Crop Type Mapping With Remote Sensing: A review	71
Self-Supervised Learning in Remote Sensing: A review	65
2022 Earth Observation and Sustainable Development Goals Contest Winners [Technical Committees]	62
IEEE Proceedings	61

Driving Innovation and Empowering Communities to Sustain Our Living Earth [President’s Message]	61
IEEE App	61
From Insight to Impact: Empowering Our Community, Expanding Our Horizon [President’s Message]	59
Activities of the University of Southern California IEEE GRSS–AP-S–SSCS Joint Student Chapter: Winner of the 2023 Student Chapter Excellence Award [Chapters]	58
IEEE Proceedings	56
IEEE GRSS Schools: Advancing Career Development and Promoting Impactful Educational Initiatives	54
From Orbit to Ground: A comprehensive review of multimodal self-supervised learning for remote sensing	54
Remote Sensing for Understanding the Vertical Dimension of Urban Landscapes: A review on data, products, methods, and prospects	52
Deep Learning in Remote Sensing Image Fusion: Methods, protocols, data, and future perspectives	51
Table of Contents	50
Sparse Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging From Compressed Sensing and Machine Learning: Theories, applications, and trends	50
The IEEE GRSS IDEA Committee: Championing Diversity in Adversity [Women in GRSS]	49
Open Source Data Programs From Low-Earth Orbit Synthetic Aperture Radar Companies: Questions and answers [Industry Profiles and Activities]	47
IGARSS 2024 Tutorial Program: Educational and Social Impacts [Education in Remote Sensing]	46
Building Bridges in the GRSS: IDEA Events at IGARSS 2025 [Conference Reports]	46
Big Changes Ahead [Editor’s Corner]	45
2024 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest: Rapid Flood Mapping [Technical Committees]	43
Artificial Intelligence for Wildfire Monitoring in North Africa: A decade of remote sensing research (2015–2025)	42
Machine Learning in Pansharpening: A benchmark, from shallow to deep networks	41
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Photogrammetric 3D Mapping: A survey of techniques, applications, and challenges	41
To Travel or Not to Travel: The Hybrid Conference Era [President’s Message]	40
Opening the Black Box: A systematic review on explainable artificial intelligence in remote sensing	40
Front Cover	38
Staff List	37
MapInWild: A remote sensing dataset to address the question of what makes nature wild [Software and Data Sets]	36
Radio-Frequency Interference to Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Systems: Overview and Approaches to Its Management [Technical Committees]	36
IEEE Tech Rxiv: Share Your Preprint Research with the world!	35
IEEE Feedback	33
Decennial Geomorphic Transport From Archived Time Series Digital Elevation Models: A cookbook for tropical and alpine environments	32
SBG Systems	31
Interferometric Phase Linking: Algorithm, application, and perspective	31
IEEE Tech RXIV: Share Your Preprint Research with the world!	30
IEEE App	30
Front Cover	27
Awards Presented at the IGARSS 2022 Banquet [Conference Reports]	26
Radar Imaging With India’s Earth Observation Satellite-04: Earth resource monitoring using C-band synthetic aperture radar system	26
A Special Issue on Data Fusion Techniques for Oceanic Target Interpretation [From the Guest Editors]	26
Front Cover	26
IEEE Dataport	25
“What Now/What Next/What If” Or NASA Earth System Digital Twins	25
IEEE Collabratec	24
Expanding the Magazine to Six Issues With More Special Issues [Editor’s Corner]	24
Front Cover	23
Satellite Image Synthesis From Street View With Fine-Grained Spatial Textual Guidance: A novel framework	23
ODinMJ: A red, green, blue-thermal dataset for mountain jungle object detection	22
Hyperspectral Remote Sensing for Monitoring Crop Disease: Applications, challenges, and perspectives	22
Transfer Learning in Earth Observation Data Analysis: A review	21
Table of Contents	20
UNet-Like Remote Sensing Change Detection: A review of current models and research directions	20
The Microwave Monitoring of Water With Applications (MAMI WATA) MIRS Workshop: A Brief Report [Conference Reports]	20

Monitoring Results of the SAOCOM-1 Constellation: A mission overview and summary of results	20
Staff List	20
Remote Sensing Techniques for Detecting Internal Solitary Waves: A comprehensive review and prospects	19
Progress and Perspectives of Crop Yield Forecasting With Remote Sensing: A review	19
TanDEM-X: The 4D Mission Phase for Earth Surface Dynamics: Science activities highlights and new data products after 15 years of bistatic operations	19
Optimizing Collaborative Space–Air–Ground Earth Observation: A decision-making perspective	19
Full-Resolution Quality Assessment of Pansharpening: Theoretical and hands-on approaches	18
The Synergy Between Remote Sensing and Social Sensing in Urban Studies: Review and perspectives	18
Letter From the President [President’s Message]	17
Beyond Borders: Why Africa Matters for a Geospatially Connected Planet	16
A Review and a Perspective of Deep Active Learning for Remote Sensing Image Analysis: Enhanced adaptation to user conjecture	16
“Spatial Thinking” in Curriculum [Education in Remote Sensing]	16
Front Cover	14
Front Cover	13
IEEE Access	13
IEEE App	13
IEEE Feedback	13
Table of Contents	13
IEEE App	12
IEEE Proceedings	12
From Panda Land to Global GRSS: The 2025 Multidimensional Growth of the IEEE GRSS Student Branch Chapter at UESTC [Chapters]	11
Table of Contents	11
A Review of the Past Half Century of Geostationary Satellite Thermal Observations for Global Precipitation Estimation: Developments, achievements, and future prospects	11
The NASA-ISRO SAR Mission: A summary	10
Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Fusion for Ship Detection and Recognition: Current state, challenges, and future prospects	10
Masthead	10
Remote Sensing Data Fusion With Generative Adversarial Networks: State-of-the-art methods and future research directions	9
Reinforcing Our Commitment: Why DEI Matters for the IEEE GRSS [Technical Committees]	9
TechRxiv: Share Your Preprint Research With the World!	8
Table of Contents	8
TechRxiv: Share Your Preprint Research With the World!	8
IEEE Access	8
High Performance and Disruptive Computing in Remote Sensing: The Third Edition of the School Organized by the HDCRS Working Group of the GRSS Earth Science Informatics Technical Committee [Technical C	7
Table of Contents	7
An Integration of Natural Language and Hyperspectral Imaging: A review	6
Front Cover	6
How Big Data Can Help to Monitor the Environment and to Mitigate Risks due to Climate Change: A review	6
More Than Just a Journal [Editor’s Corner]	6
A Review of Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry Applications in Permafrost Regions: Current status, challenges, and trends	6
Claude Does Permanent Scatterer Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar: A tutorial for the use of large language models in replication studies	6
Table of Contents	5
In Metadata We Trust: On the central role of metadata in Earth observation datasets [Software and Data Sets]	5
IEEE Proceedings	5
Foundation Models for Remote Sensing and Earth Observation: A survey	5
Letter From the President [President’s Message]	5
IEEE MGA	5
CaBuAr: California burned areas dataset for delineation [Software and Data Sets]	5
Coupling Model- and Data-Driven Methods for Remote Sensing Image Restoration and Fusion: Improving physical interpretability	4
Vision-Language Modeling Meets Remote Sensing: Models, datasets, and perspectives	4
IEEE Tech Rxiv:Share Your Preprint Research with the World!	4
TechRxiv: Share Your Preprint Research With the World!	4
[Editor’s Corner]	4
2023 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest: Large-Scale Fine-Grained Building Classification for Semantic Urban Reconstruction [Technical Committees]	4
IEEE Connect	4
Technological Development and Application of Meteorological Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A review	4
Trustworthy Target Recognition in Space-Based Remote Sensing: Concepts, challenges, and a unified framework	4
The Second International Soil Moisture School [Conference Reports]	4
Spatiotemporal Big Data Empower Community Modeling, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Optimization for Sustainable Community Development: A review of challenges and opportunities	3
RSHub: A remote sensing hub for geophysical microwave scattering modeling	3
SSL4EO-S12: A large-scale multimodal, multitemporal dataset for self-supervised learning in Earth observation [Software and Data Sets]	3
Airborne Lidar Data Artifacts: What we know thus far	3
Evolutionary Developments of Today’s Remote Sensing Radar Technology—Right From the Telemobiloscope: A review	3
IEEE Access	3
GRSS Awards Presented at the IGARSS 2024 Banquet [Conference Reports]	3
The 2025 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Region 9 Student Chapter Chairs Meetup at Rising Stars Latin America [Chapters]	3
A Survey of Sample-Efficient Deep Learning for Change Detection in Remote Sensing: Tasks, strategies, and challenges	3
Machine Learning for Methane Detection and Quantification From Space: A survey	3
Why Does GRSM Require the Submission of White Papers? [From the Editor]	2
International Conference on Machine Intelligence for GeoAnalytics and Remote Sensing 2023: A Brief Report [Conference Reports]	2
Successes to Date and Plans for the Future [President’s Message]	2
IEEE Feedback	2
IEEE Foundation	2
Data Semantics for Earth Observation: A technical guide to ontology-based integration for environmental data monitoring	1
An Overview of Polarized Synthetic Aperture Radar Ship Detection: From traditional methods to artificial intelligence	1
Beyond Ice: NASA’s ICESat-2 spaceborne lidar mission for land and vegetation applications	1
Phase Synchronization Techniques for Bistatic and Multistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar: Accounting for frequency offset	1
IEEE Access	1
IEEE Feedback	1
Activities of Indian Institute of Technology Indore IEEE GRSS Student Chapter (2023–2024): Recipient of the 2024 GRSS Student Chapter Excellence Award [Chapters]	1
A Glimpse at the Women Mentoring Women Program From a Mentor/Mentee Perspective [Conference Reports]	1

Remote Sensing Spatiotemporal Vision–Language Models: A comprehensive survey	1
Deep Learning for Downscaling Remote Sensing Images: Fusion and super-resolution	1
The IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society “Open PocketQube Kit”: An affordable open source approach to Earth observation missions [Education in Remote Sensing]	1
Airborne Sounding Radar for Desert Subsurface Exploration of Aquifers: Desert-SEA: Mission concept study [Space Agencies]	1
FedRSCLIP: Federated learning for remote sensing scene classification using vision-language models	1
P4005 Standards and Protocols for Soil Spectroscopy in Laboratory and Field Conditions [Technical Committees]	1
The Instrumentation and Future Technology Technical Committee’s Second “Summer School”: Auckland, New Zealand [Technical Committees]	1
Unlocking the Past: A review of digital processing of historical aerial and satellite stereo analog imagery for geoscience applications	1
IEEE Connect	1
Toward Advancing Research Availability and Reproducibility: The GRSS’s ongoing efforts in open science [Software and Data Sets]	1
The Orbital X-Band Real-Aperture Side-Looking Radar of Cosmos-1500: A Ukrainian IEEE Milestone candidate	1
Distributed Spaceborne SAR: A review of systems, applications, and the road ahead	1
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine - Call for Papers	1
GAIA: A global, multimodal, multiscale vision–language dataset for remote sensing image analysis	1
Publishing With Impact: Insights From an IEEE Journal Editor-in-Chief in a Lecture Series at Chinese Universities	1
IEEE App	1
Computer Vision for Earth Observation: The Third IEEE GRSS Image Analysis and Data Fusion School	1
A Review of Technical Aspects and Challenges in Opportunistic Rainfall Estimation Using Satellite and Terrestrial Microwave Links: How wireless infrastructure can be used for rainfall monitoring	1
PANGAEA: Assessing Geospatial Foundation Models Capabilities through a Global and Inclusive Benchmark	1
IEEE Collabratec	1
Staff list	1
IEEE Feedback	1
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society European Chapter Chairs Meetup 2024 in Conjunction With EuroGEO Workshop [Chapters]	1
Evaluating Language Biases in Remote Sensing Visual Question Answering: The role of spatial attributes, language diversity, and the need for clearer evaluation	0
Staff List	0
A Review of Individual Tree Crown Detection and Delineation From Optical Remote Sensing Images: Current progress and future	0
State of the Art: High-Performance and High-Throughput Computing for Remote Sensing Big Data	0
Application of Geospatial Information Science and Technology (GIST) in ECOWAS Electoral Observation Missions: Examining GIST’s potential	0
High-Performance and Disruptive Computing in Remote Sensing: The Fourth Edition of the School Organized by the HDCRS Working Group of the GRSS Earth Science Informatics Technical Committee [Technical	0
IEEE Access	0
Quo Vadis, Quantum Machine Learning?: Quantum kernel methods meet Earth observation	0
The AIDE Toolbox: Artificial intelligence for disentangling extreme events [Software and Data Sets]	0
High-Performance and Disruptive Computing in Remote Sensing: HDCRS—A new Working Group of the GRSS Earth Science Informatics Technical Committee [Technical Committees]	0
Report on the 2025 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest: All-Weather Land Cover and Building Damage Mapping [Technical Committees]	0
44th IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2024)—Athens, Greece, 7–12 July 2024: Impressions of the first days [Conference Reports]	0
Polarimetric Roll-Invariant Features and Applications for Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Ship Detection: A comprehensive summary and investigation	0
Deep Learning Meets Object-Based Image Analysis: Tasks, challenges, strategies, and perspectives	0
Masthead	0
IEEE Connecting	0
Estimation of Surface-Level NO2 Using Satellite Remote Sensing and Machine Learning: A review	0
Toward Real-Time Earth System Intelligence Through Advancements in Onboard AI Processing: A review	0
IEEE App	0
Introducing the June Issue [From the Editor]	0
Facilitating the Golden Age of Synthetic Aperture Radar: New tools, services, and training to make synthetic aperture radar data more accessible	0
Staff List	0
Innovation in Earth Observation With the Brazil Data Cube [Space Agencies]	0
IEEE Access	0
InGARSS 2023 in Bangalore: Striking a Balance [Conference Reports]	0
Why Does the GRSS Need a Magazine? [From the Editor]	0
Wind and Sea State Signatures in Wind Scatterometry: An analysis	0
Monitoring Forest Damage Caused by Pine Wilt Disease with Remote Sensing Technologies: A review	0
Making Satellite Data Mainstream: Gaps, challenges, and opportunities for remote sensing experts [Industry Profiles and Activities]	0
Computer Vision for Earth Observation—The First IEEE GRSS Image Analysis and Data Fusion School [Technical Committees]	0
Onboard Information Fusion for Multisatellite Collaborative Observation: Summary, challenges, and perspectives	0
For All to Eat: Remote Sensing, Climate Resilience, and Food Security in Africa: The role of Earth observation [Space Agencies]	0
Letter From the President [President’s Message]	0
IEEE Foundation	0
Public Building Geometric Models From Point Clouds: A multidimensional quality evaluation framework	0
Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Statistical Inference in Deformation Measurement and Geophysical Inversion: A review	0
Staff list	0
Remote Sensing Object Detection Meets Deep Learning: A metareview of challenges and advances	0
Real-Time Semantic Segmentation: A brief survey and comparative study in remote sensing	0
Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Multitemporal Deformation Monitoring: A review of machine learning techniques	0
Strengthening Connections Within GRSS [President’s Message]	0
Microwave Photonic Synthetic Aperture Radar: Systems, experiments, and imaging processing [Technical Committees]	0
Analysis-Ready Data and FAIR-AI—Standardization of Research Collaboration and Transparency Across Earth-Observation Communities [Technical Committees]	0
Image Restoration for Remote Sensing: Overview and toolbox	0
IEEE Access	0
SAR in Archaeology (1980–2024): Forty-five years of progress and future frontiers	0
Front Cover	0
IEEE App	0
Tech RXIV: Share Your Preprint Research With the World!	0
Invertible Physics-Based Hyperspectral Signature Models: A review	0
Table of Contents	0
The 2024 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Wuhan University Student Branch Chapter Activities [Chapters]	0
Beyond Grid Data: Exploring graph neural networks for Earth observation	0
Staff List	0
Remote Sensing for Hazard Monitoring and Modeling in High Mountain Asia	0
Staff List	0
Generative Artificial Intelligence Meets Synthetic Aperture Radar: A survey	0
Establishment of the IEEE GRSS China Chapter Chairs Council: A New Milestone for Collaboration and Growth [Chapters]	0
Erratum	0
Ground Validation of Hyperspectral Earth Observation Imagery [Technical Committees]	0
Erratum	0
IEEE Access	0
IEEE Moving	0
Compact Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar for Target Detection: A review	0
Not the Usual Editorial [From the Editor]	0
Report on the IEEE GRSS Workshop on Remote Sensing Data Management Technologies in Geoscience 2022 [Technical Committees]	0
Geoinformation Harvesting From Social Media Data: A community remote sensing approach	0
Generative Artificial Intelligence and Remote Sensing: A perspective on the past and the future [Perspectives]	0
From Data to Policy: Strengthening essential climate variable monitoring with deep learning algorithms and data quality standards	0
The High-Resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar System and Signal Processing Techniques: Current progress and future prospects [Review Papers]	0
Front Cover	0
IEEE Foundation	0