IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine

Article	Citations
“The Year of SAR” Special Issue Overview [From the Guest Editor]	320
A Summer School Session on Mastering Geospatial Artificial Intelligence: From Data Production to Artificial Intelligence Foundation Model Development and Downstream Applications [Technical Committees]	247
Sustainable Transformation Through Digital Sciences: The 10th year of the Digital Belt and Road program [Conference Reports]	200
GeoPix: A multimodal large language model for pixel-level image understanding in remote sensing	165
Table of Contents	158
IEEE Proceedings	138
IEEE App	128
Table of Contents	124
IEEE Access	117
IEEE Tech RXIV : Share Your Preprint Research with the World!	102
Welcome to the September 2022 Issue of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine! [From the Guest Editors]	100
Issues and Special Issues [From the Editor]	92
IEEE Feedback	84
IEEE App	75
IEEE Tech Rxiv	73
Front Cover	72
Rochester Institute of Technology’s Open Community eXperiment (ROCX) 2025	70
IEEE Proceedings	66
Better, Not Just More: Data-centric machine learning for Earth observation	65
Deep Learning for Synthetic Aperture Radar Automatic Target Recognition in Complex Environmental Interference: A review	65
Federated Learning Across Decentralized and Unshared Archives for Remote Sensing Image Classification: A review	64
Progress and Perspectives of Crop Type Mapping With Remote Sensing: A review	64
2022 Earth Observation and Sustainable Development Goals Contest Winners [Technical Committees]	63
Self-Supervised Learning in Remote Sensing: A review	63
IEEE Proceedings	61

Remote Sensing for Understanding the Vertical Dimension of Urban Landscapes: A review on data, products, methods, and prospects	56
IEEE App	56
Activities of the University of Southern California IEEE GRSS–AP-S–SSCS Joint Student Chapter: Winner of the 2023 Student Chapter Excellence Award [Chapters]	53
Driving Innovation and Empowering Communities to Sustain Our Living Earth [President’s Message]	53
IEEE Proceedings	51
IEEE GRSS Schools: Advancing Career Development and Promoting Impactful Educational Initiatives	49
From Insight to Impact: Empowering Our Community, Expanding Our Horizon [President’s Message]	49
Deep Learning in Remote Sensing Image Fusion: Methods, protocols, data, and future perspectives	48
From Orbit to Ground: A comprehensive review of multimodal self-supervised learning for remote sensing	48
Sparse Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging From Compressed Sensing and Machine Learning: Theories, applications, and trends	47
Table of Contents	46
The IEEE GRSS IDEA Committee: Championing Diversity in Adversity [Women in GRSS]	45
Open Source Data Programs From Low-Earth Orbit Synthetic Aperture Radar Companies: Questions and answers [Industry Profiles and Activities]	43
IGARSS 2024 Tutorial Program: Educational and Social Impacts [Education in Remote Sensing]	41
Building Bridges in the GRSS: IDEA Events at IGARSS 2025 [Conference Reports]	40
Big Changes Ahead [Editor’s Corner]	40
Artificial Intelligence for Wildfire Monitoring in North Africa: A decade of remote sensing research (2015–2025)	39
2024 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest: Rapid Flood Mapping [Technical Committees]	38
Machine Learning in Pansharpening: A benchmark, from shallow to deep networks	34
To Travel or Not to Travel: The Hybrid Conference Era [President’s Message]	34
Opening the Black Box: A systematic review on explainable artificial intelligence in remote sensing	34
Front Cover	33
Staff List	33
IEEE Feedback	31
IEEE Tech Rxiv: Share Your Preprint Research with the world!	31
MapInWild: A remote sensing dataset to address the question of what makes nature wild [Software and Data Sets]	30
Interferometric Phase Linking: Algorithm, application, and perspective	29
Evaluating Machine Learning Emulators for Atmospheric Radiative Transfer: The Atmospheric Machine Learning Emulation Challenge	29
Radio-Frequency Interference to Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Systems: Overview and Approaches to Its Management [Technical Committees]	29
Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle-Based Ground-Penetrating Radar for 3D Subsurface Imaging: Electromagnetic modeling, tomographic processing, and open challenges	29
SBG Systems	28
IEEE App	27
IEEE Tech RXIV: Share Your Preprint Research with the world!	27
Front Cover	26
Awards Presented at the IGARSS 2022 Banquet [Conference Reports]	26
A Special Issue on Data Fusion Techniques for Oceanic Target Interpretation [From the Guest Editors]	24
IEEE Collabratec	24
Front Cover	24
Expanding the Magazine to Six Issues With More Special Issues [Editor’s Corner]	23
Front Cover	23
IEEE Dataport	23
Monitoring Results of the SAOCOM-1 Constellation: A mission overview and summary of results	23
ODinMJ: A red, green, blue-thermal dataset for mountain jungle object detection	22
Transfer Learning in Earth Observation Data Analysis: A review	21
“What Now/What Next/What If” Or NASA Earth System Digital Twins	21
Hyperspectral Remote Sensing for Monitoring Crop Disease: Applications, challenges, and perspectives	20
UNet-Like Remote Sensing Change Detection: A review of current models and research directions	20
Satellite Image Synthesis From Street View With Fine-Grained Spatial Textual Guidance: A novel framework	20
Staff List	20
Radar Imaging With India’s Earth Observation Satellite-04: Earth resource monitoring using C-band synthetic aperture radar system	20

The Microwave Monitoring of Water With Applications (MAMI WATA) MIRS Workshop: A Brief Report [Conference Reports]	19
Table of Contents	18
Beyond Borders: Why Africa Matters for a Geospatially Connected Planet	17
Letter From the President [President’s Message]	17
Optimizing Collaborative Space–Air–Ground Earth Observation: A decision-making perspective	16
A Review and a Perspective of Deep Active Learning for Remote Sensing Image Analysis: Enhanced adaptation to user conjecture	15
“Spatial Thinking” in Curriculum [Education in Remote Sensing]	15
Remote Sensing Image Intelligent Interpretation From a Language-Centered Perspective: Principles, methods, and challenges	14
IEEE App filler	14
Progress and Perspectives of Crop Yield Forecasting With Remote Sensing: A review	14
The Synergy Between Remote Sensing and Social Sensing in Urban Studies: Review and perspectives	13
TanDEM-X: The 4D Mission Phase for Earth Surface Dynamics: Science activities highlights and new data products after 15 years of bistatic operations	13
Front Cover	12
Remote Sensing Techniques for Detecting Internal Solitary Waves: A comprehensive review and prospects	12
Full-Resolution Quality Assessment of Pansharpening: Theoretical and hands-on approaches	12
IEEE Feedback	11
Front Cover	11
Table of Contents	11
IEEE App	11
Table of Contents	9
IEEE Access	9
IEEE App	9
IEEE Proceedings	9
The NASA-ISRO SAR Mission: A summary	8
From Panda Land to Global GRSS: The 2025 Multidimensional Growth of the IEEE GRSS Student Branch Chapter at UESTC [Chapters]	8
Masthead	8
A Review of the Past Half Century of Geostationary Satellite Thermal Observations for Global Precipitation Estimation: Developments, achievements, and future prospects	8
Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Fusion for Ship Detection and Recognition: Current state, challenges, and future prospects	8
Table of Contents	7
IEEE Standards filler	7
TechRxiv: Share Your Preprint Research With the World!	7
TechRxiv: Share Your Preprint Research With the World!	7
Reinforcing Our Commitment: Why DEI Matters for the IEEE GRSS [Technical Committees]	7
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	6
Claude Does Permanent Scatterer Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar: A tutorial for the use of large language models in replication studies	6
IEEE Access	6
More Than Just a Journal [Editor’s Corner]	6
IEEE Collabratec filler	6
Table of Contents	6
Front Cover	6
Foundation Models for Remote Sensing and Earth Observation: A survey	5
A Review of Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry Applications in Permafrost Regions: Current status, challenges, and trends	5
Table of Contents	5
An Integration of Natural Language and Hyperspectral Imaging: A review	5
IEEE Proceedings	5
How Big Data Can Help to Monitor the Environment and to Mitigate Risks due to Climate Change: A review	5
[Editor’s Corner]	4
Technological Development and Application of Meteorological Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A review	4
Letter From the President [President’s Message]	4
In Metadata We Trust: On the central role of metadata in Earth observation datasets [Software and Data Sets]	4
Trustworthy Target Recognition in Space-Based Remote Sensing: Concepts, challenges, and a unified framework	4
The Second International Soil Moisture School [Conference Reports]	3
TechRxiv: Share Your Preprint Research With the World!	3
2023 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest: Large-Scale Fine-Grained Building Classification for Semantic Urban Reconstruction [Technical Committees]	3
Spatiotemporal Big Data Empower Community Modeling, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Optimization for Sustainable Community Development: A review of challenges and opportunities	3
IEEE Connect	3
Vision-Language Modeling Meets Remote Sensing: Models, datasets, and perspectives	3
GRSS Awards Presented at the IGARSS 2024 Banquet [Conference Reports]	3
IEEE Tech Rxiv:Share Your Preprint Research with the World!	3
CaBuAr: California burned areas dataset for delineation [Software and Data Sets]	3
Airborne Lidar Data Artifacts: What we know thus far	2
IEEE Access	2
SSL4EO-S12: A large-scale multimodal, multitemporal dataset for self-supervised learning in Earth observation [Software and Data Sets]	2
Evolutionary Developments of Today’s Remote Sensing Radar Technology—Right From the Telemobiloscope: A review	2
Machine Learning for Methane Detection and Quantification From Space: A survey	2
The 2025 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Region 9 Student Chapter Chairs Meetup at Rising Stars Latin America [Chapters]	2
RSHub: A remote sensing hub for geophysical microwave scattering modeling	2
A Survey of Sample-Efficient Deep Learning for Change Detection in Remote Sensing: Tasks, strategies, and challenges	2
Unlocking the Past: A review of digital processing of historical aerial and satellite stereo analog imagery for geoscience applications	1
IEEE Connect	1
A Glimpse at the Women Mentoring Women Program From a Mentor/Mentee Perspective [Conference Reports]	1
Distributed Spaceborne SAR: A review of systems, applications, and the road ahead	1
P4005 Standards and Protocols for Soil Spectroscopy in Laboratory and Field Conditions [Technical Committees]	1
Beyond Ice: NASA’s ICESat-2 spaceborne lidar mission for land and vegetation applications	1
GAIA: A global, multimodal, multiscale vision–language dataset for remote sensing image analysis	1
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine - Call for Papers	1
International Conference on Machine Intelligence for GeoAnalytics and Remote Sensing 2023: A Brief Report [Conference Reports]	1
An Overview of Polarized Synthetic Aperture Radar Ship Detection: From traditional methods to artificial intelligence	1
Why Does GRSM Require the Submission of White Papers? [From the Editor]	1
The Instrumentation and Future Technology Technical Committee’s Second “Summer School”: Auckland, New Zealand [Technical Committees]	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
IEEE Feedback filler	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
The Orbital X-Band Real-Aperture Side-Looking Radar of Cosmos-1500: A Ukrainian IEEE Milestone candidate	1
Computer Vision for Earth Observation: The Third IEEE GRSS Image Analysis and Data Fusion School	1
IEEE Collabratec	1
Data Semantics for Earth Observation: A technical guide to ontology-based integration for environmental data monitoring	1
FedRSCLIP: Federated learning for remote sensing scene classification using vision-language models	1
Publishing With Impact: Insights From an IEEE Journal Editor-in-Chief in a Lecture Series at Chinese Universities	1
Remote Sensing Spatiotemporal Vision–Language Models: A comprehensive survey	1
IEEE Foundation	1
IEEE App	1
Deep Learning for Downscaling Remote Sensing Images: Fusion and super-resolution	1
Taking Artificial Intelligence Into Space Through Objective Selection of Hyperspectral Earth Observation Applications: To bring the “brain” close to the “eyes” of satellite missions	1
IEEE Feedback	1
Toward Advancing Research Availability and Reproducibility: The GRSS’s ongoing efforts in open science [Software and Data Sets]	1
IEEE Feedback	1
IEEE Access	1
A Survey of Intelligent Change Detection Techniques for Hyperspectral Images Under Varying Supervision: Reliable reference points for method evaluation	1
Successes to Date and Plans for the Future [President’s Message]	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
Earth Embeddings: Toward artificial intelligence-centric representations of our planet	1
IEEE Feedback	1
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society European Chapter Chairs Meetup 2024 in Conjunction With EuroGEO Workshop [Chapters]	1
Phase Synchronization Techniques for Bistatic and Multistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar: Accounting for frequency offset	1
Compact Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar for Target Detection: A review	0
Deep Learning Meets Object-Based Image Analysis: Tasks, challenges, strategies, and perspectives	0
Not the Usual Editorial [From the Editor]	0
Why Does the GRSS Need a Magazine? [From the Editor]	0
Staff list	0
Toward Real-Time Earth System Intelligence Through Advancements in Onboard AI Processing: A review	0
Masthead	0
IEEE Moving	0
The AIDE Toolbox: Artificial intelligence for disentangling extreme events [Software and Data Sets]	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
Application of Geospatial Information Science and Technology (GIST) in ECOWAS Electoral Observation Missions: Examining GIST’s potential	0
Staff List	0
InGARSS 2023 in Bangalore: Striking a Balance [Conference Reports]	0
Beyond Grid Data: Exploring graph neural networks for Earth observation	0
Establishment of the IEEE GRSS China Chapter Chairs Council: A New Milestone for Collaboration and Growth [Chapters]	0
Analysis-Ready Data and FAIR-AI—Standardization of Research Collaboration and Transparency Across Earth-Observation Communities [Technical Committees]	0
IEEE Access	0
The 2024 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Wuhan University Student Branch Chapter Activities [Chapters]	0
Innovation in Earth Observation With the Brazil Data Cube [Space Agencies]	0
Remote Sensing Monitoring of Marine Plastic Litter: From macroplastics to microplastics	0
Remote Sensing for Hazard Monitoring and Modeling in High Mountain Asia	0
Wind and Sea State Signatures in Wind Scatterometry: An analysis	0
Ionospheric Error Correction Methods for InSAR Measurements: A systematic review	0
Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Multitemporal Deformation Monitoring: A review of machine learning techniques	0
December 2024 Issue [President’s Message]	0
Erratum	0
Facilitating the Golden Age of Synthetic Aperture Radar: New tools, services, and training to make synthetic aperture radar data more accessible	0
IEEE Access	0
State of the Art: High-Performance and High-Throughput Computing for Remote Sensing Big Data	0
Real-Time Semantic Segmentation: A brief survey and comparative study in remote sensing	0
IEEE Connecting	0
Making Satellite Data Mainstream: Gaps, challenges, and opportunities for remote sensing experts [Industry Profiles and Activities]	0
Remote Sensing Object Detection Meets Deep Learning: A metareview of challenges and advances	0
Estimation of Surface-Level NO2 Using Satellite Remote Sensing and Machine Learning: A review	0
Monitoring Forest Damage Caused by Pine Wilt Disease with Remote Sensing Technologies: A review	0
Ground Validation of Hyperspectral Earth Observation Imagery [Technical Committees]	0
Public Building Geometric Models From Point Clouds: A multidimensional quality evaluation framework	0
IEEE App	0
IEEE Access	0
Microwave Photonic Synthetic Aperture Radar: Systems, experiments, and imaging processing [Technical Committees]	0
Front Cover	0
Front Cover	0
IEEE Tech Rxiv filler	0
Invertible Physics-Based Hyperspectral Signature Models: A review	0
The High-Resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar System and Signal Processing Techniques: Current progress and future prospects [Review Papers]	0
Polarimetric Roll-Invariant Features and Applications for Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Ship Detection: A comprehensive summary and investigation	0
Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Statistical Inference in Deformation Measurement and Geophysical Inversion: A review	0
IEEE Foundation	0
IEEE Foundation	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
Table of Contents	0
Full-Waveform Lidar Remote Sensing for Shallow-Water Detection: Systems, signal processing algorithms, and applications	0
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
Strengthening Connections Within GRSS [President’s Message]	0
From Data to Policy: Strengthening essential climate variable monitoring with deep learning algorithms and data quality standards	0
IEEE Access	0
M3T-UAV: Vision-based UAV geolocalization in multimodal, multiscene, and multitemporal scenarios	0
A Review of Individual Tree Crown Detection and Delineation From Optical Remote Sensing Images: Current progress and future	0
Letter From the President [President’s Message]	0
Tech RXIV: Share Your Preprint Research With the World!	0
Staff List	0
The Third China International Synthetic Aperture Radar Symposium [Conference Reports]	0
IEEE App	0
Generative Artificial Intelligence and Remote Sensing: A perspective on the past and the future [Perspectives]	0
Computer Vision for Earth Observation—The First IEEE GRSS Image Analysis and Data Fusion School [Technical Committees]	0
Data-Driven Vision-Language Models for Remote Sensing: A survey	0
SAR in Archaeology (1980–2024): Forty-five years of progress and future frontiers	0