IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine

Article	Citations
IEEE Membership	549
“The Year of SAR” Special Issue Overview [From the Guest Editor]	297
A Summer School Session on Mastering Geospatial Artificial Intelligence: From Data Production to Artificial Intelligence Foundation Model Development and Downstream Applications [Technical Committees]	292
GeoPix: A multimodal large language model for pixel-level image understanding in remote sensing	221
Sustainable Transformation Through Digital Sciences: The 10th year of the Digital Belt and Road program [Conference Reports]	187
Table of Contents	151
IEEE Proceedings	135
Progress and Perspectives of Crop Type Mapping With Remote Sensing: A review	132
IEEE App	128
Table of Contents	118
IEEE Access	117
Welcome to the September 2022 Issue of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine! [From the Guest Editors]	106
Issues and Special Issues [From the Editor]	103
IEEE Feedback	93
IEEE App	92
IEEE Tech Rxiv	78
Front Cover	77
Better, Not Just More: Data-centric machine learning for Earth observation	71
IEEE Tech RXIV : Share Your Preprint Research with the World!	71
IEEE Proceedings	69
Self-Supervised Learning in Remote Sensing: A review	68
Rochester Institute of Technology’s Open Community eXperiment (ROCX) 2025	68
IEEE App	59
Federated Learning Across Decentralized and Unshared Archives for Remote Sensing Image Classification: A review	59
IEEE Proceedings	59

2022 Earth Observation and Sustainable Development Goals Contest Winners [Technical Committees]	59
Driving Innovation and Empowering Communities to Sustain Our Living Earth [President’s Message]	58
From Insight to Impact: Empowering Our Community, Expanding Our Horizon [President’s Message]	56
From Orbit to Ground: A comprehensive review of multimodal self-supervised learning for remote sensing	54
Activities of the University of Southern California IEEE GRSS–AP-S–SSCS Joint Student Chapter: Winner of the 2023 Student Chapter Excellence Award [Chapters]	52
IEEE Proceedings	52
IEEE GRSS Schools: Advancing Career Development and Promoting Impactful Educational Initiatives	50
Deep Learning in Remote Sensing Image Fusion: Methods, protocols, data, and future perspectives	49
Sparse Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging From Compressed Sensing and Machine Learning: Theories, applications, and trends	49
Table of Contents	48
Open Source Data Programs From Low-Earth Orbit Synthetic Aperture Radar Companies: Questions and answers [Industry Profiles and Activities]	45
The IEEE GRSS IDEA Committee: Championing Diversity in Adversity [Women in GRSS]	45
Big Changes Ahead [Editor’s Corner]	44
IGARSS 2024 Tutorial Program: Educational and Social Impacts [Education in Remote Sensing]	44
Building Bridges in the GRSS: IDEA Events at IGARSS 2025 [Conference Reports]	43
2024 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest: Rapid Flood Mapping [Technical Committees]	42
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Photogrammetric 3D Mapping: A survey of techniques, applications, and challenges	41
Opening the Black Box: A systematic review on explainable artificial intelligence in remote sensing	40
Machine Learning in Pansharpening: A benchmark, from shallow to deep networks	40
To Travel or Not to Travel: The Hybrid Conference Era [President’s Message]	38
Front Cover	37
Staff List	37
Interferometric Phase Linking: Algorithm, application, and perspective	36
Decennial Geomorphic Transport From Archived Time Series Digital Elevation Models: A cookbook for tropical and alpine environments	36
MapInWild: A remote sensing dataset to address the question of what makes nature wild [Software and Data Sets]	36
IEEE Feedback	34
Radio-Frequency Interference to Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Systems: Overview and Approaches to Its Management [Technical Committees]	34
SBG Systems	32
IEEE Tech Rxiv: Share Your Preprint Research with the world!	32
IEEE Tech RXIV: Share Your Preprint Research with the world!	30
Awards Presented at the IGARSS 2022 Banquet [Conference Reports]	29
Front Cover	29
IEEE App	29
A Special Issue on Data Fusion Techniques for Oceanic Target Interpretation [From the Guest Editors]	27
Monitoring Results of the SAOCOM-1 Constellation: A mission overview and summary of results	26
IEEE Dataport	25
Front Cover	24
“What Now/What Next/What If” Or NASA Earth System Digital Twins	23
Radar Imaging With India’s Earth Observation Satellite-04: Earth resource monitoring using C-band synthetic aperture radar system	23
Expanding the Magazine to Six Issues With More Special Issues [Editor’s Corner]	23
UNet-Like Remote Sensing Change Detection: A review of current models and research directions	22
Hyperspectral Remote Sensing for Monitoring Crop Disease: Applications, challenges, and perspectives	22
IEEE Collabratec	20
ODinMJ: A red, green, blue-thermal dataset for mountain jungle object detection	20
Front Cover	20
Transfer Learning in Earth Observation Data Analysis: A review	20
Table of Contents	19
Satellite Image Synthesis From Street View With Fine-Grained Spatial Textual Guidance: A novel framework	19
The Microwave Monitoring of Water With Applications (MAMI WATA) MIRS Workshop: A Brief Report [Conference Reports]	19
Staff List	19

Beyond Borders: Why Africa Matters for a Geospatially Connected Planet	18
Optimizing Collaborative Space–Air–Ground Earth Observation: A decision-making perspective	18
Letter From the President [President’s Message]	18
“Spatial Thinking” in Curriculum [Education in Remote Sensing]	17
Remote Sensing Techniques for Detecting Internal Solitary Waves: A comprehensive review and prospects	17
A Review and a Perspective of Deep Active Learning for Remote Sensing Image Analysis: Enhanced adaptation to user conjecture	17
Progress and Perspectives of Crop Yield Forecasting With Remote Sensing: A review	17
The Synergy Between Remote Sensing and Social Sensing in Urban Studies: Review and perspectives	16
TanDEM-X: The 4D Mission Phase for Earth Surface Dynamics: Science activities highlights and new data products after 15 years of bistatic operations	16
Full-Resolution Quality Assessment of Pansharpening: Theoretical and hands-on approaches	16
Front Cover	15
Table of Contents	13
Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Fusion for Ship Detection and Recognition: Current state, challenges, and future prospects	12
IEEE Feedback	12
IEEE App	12
Front Cover	12
IEEE Access	11
The NASA-ISRO SAR Mission: A summary	11
IEEE Proceedings	11
From Panda Land to Global GRSS: The 2025 Multidimensional Growth of the IEEE GRSS Student Branch Chapter at UESTC [Chapters]	11
IEEE App	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	10
Reinforcing Our Commitment: Why DEI Matters for the IEEE GRSS [Technical Committees]	9
Masthead	9
Remote Sensing Data Fusion With Generative Adversarial Networks: State-of-the-art methods and future research directions	9
Table of Contents	8
Table of Contents	8
TechRxiv: Share Your Preprint Research With the World!	8
IEEE Access	8
TechRxiv: Share Your Preprint Research With the World!	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
Front Cover	6
An Integration of Natural Language and Hyperspectral Imaging: A review	6
More Than Just a Journal [Editor’s Corner]	6
Claude Does Permanent Scatterer Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar: A tutorial for the use of large language models in replication studies	6
IEEE Proceedings	5
Letter From the President [President’s Message]	5
How Big Data Can Help to Monitor the Environment and to Mitigate Risks due to Climate Change: A review	5
IEEE MGA	5
[Editor’s Corner]	5
A Review of Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry Applications in Permafrost Regions: Current status, challenges, and trends	5
Foundation Models for Remote Sensing and Earth Observation: A survey	5
Table of Contents	5
Technological Development and Application of Meteorological Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A review	4
CaBuAr: California burned areas dataset for delineation [Software and Data Sets]	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
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
2023 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest: Large-Scale Fine-Grained Building Classification for Semantic Urban Reconstruction [Technical Committees]	4
Machine Learning for Methane Detection and Quantification From Space: A survey	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
Evolutionary Developments of Today’s Remote Sensing Radar Technology—Right From the Telemobiloscope: A review	3
GRSS Awards Presented at the IGARSS 2024 Banquet [Conference Reports]	3
IEEE Tech Rxiv:Share Your Preprint Research with the World!	3
The 2025 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Region 9 Student Chapter Chairs Meetup at Rising Stars Latin America [Chapters]	3
Airborne Lidar Data Artifacts: What we know thus far	3
The Second International Soil Moisture School [Conference Reports]	3
TechRxiv: Share Your Preprint Research With the World!	3
A Survey of Sample-Efficient Deep Learning for Change Detection in Remote Sensing: Tasks, strategies, and challenges	2
Why Does GRSM Require the Submission of White Papers? [From the Editor]	2
SSL4EO-S12: A large-scale multimodal, multitemporal dataset for self-supervised learning in Earth observation [Software and Data Sets]	2
IEEE Access	2
Airborne Sounding Radar for Desert Subsurface Exploration of Aquifers: Desert-SEA: Mission concept study [Space Agencies]	2
RSHub: A remote sensing hub for geophysical microwave scattering modeling	2
IEEE Feedback	2
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine - Call for Papers	1
Remote Sensing Spatiotemporal Vision–Language Models: A comprehensive survey	1
GAIA: A global, multimodal, multiscale vision–language dataset for remote sensing image analysis	1
International Conference on Machine Intelligence for GeoAnalytics and Remote Sensing 2023: A Brief Report [Conference Reports]	1
IEEE App	1
Deep Learning for Downscaling Remote Sensing Images: Fusion and super-resolution	1
Unlocking the Past: A review of digital processing of historical aerial and satellite stereo analog imagery for geoscience applications	1
Toward Advancing Research Availability and Reproducibility: The GRSS’s ongoing efforts in open science [Software and Data Sets]	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
Beyond Ice: NASA’s ICESat-2 spaceborne lidar mission for land and vegetation applications	1
Staff list	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
Data Semantics for Earth Observation: A technical guide to ontology-based integration for environmental data monitoring	1
P4005 Standards and Protocols for Soil Spectroscopy in Laboratory and Field Conditions [Technical Committees]	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
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 Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society European Chapter Chairs Meetup 2024 in Conjunction With EuroGEO Workshop [Chapters]	1
FedRSCLIP: Federated learning for remote sensing scene classification using vision-language models	1
IEEE Foundation	1
An Overview of Polarized Synthetic Aperture Radar Ship Detection: From traditional methods to artificial intelligence	1
Successes to Date and Plans for the Future [President’s Message]	1
The Instrumentation and Future Technology Technical Committee’s Second “Summer School”: Auckland, New Zealand [Technical Committees]	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 Connect	1
PANGAEA: Assessing Geospatial Foundation Models Capabilities through a Global and Inclusive Benchmark	1
IEEE Feedback	1
IEEE Collabratec	1
Public Building Geometric Models From Point Clouds: A multidimensional quality evaluation framework	0
Table of Contents	0
OpenEarthMap-SAR: A benchmark synthetic aperture radar dataset for global high-resolution land cover mapping [Software and Data Sets]	0
Application of Geospatial Information Science and Technology (GIST) in ECOWAS Electoral Observation Missions: Examining GIST’s potential	0
Generative Artificial Intelligence Meets Synthetic Aperture Radar: A survey	0
Monitoring Forest Damage Caused by Pine Wilt Disease with Remote Sensing Technologies: A review	0
Staff List	0
Toward Real-Time Earth System Intelligence Through Advancements in Onboard AI Processing: A review	0
Better, Not Just More: Data-centric machine learning for Earth observation	0
IEEE Access	0
Remote Sensing Object Detection Meets Deep Learning: A metareview of challenges and advances	0
The 2024 IEEE GRSS China Chapter Chairs Meeting and Lectures [Chapters]	0
IEEE Connecting	0
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Awards Presented at the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 2025 Awards Reception and Ceremony [Conference Reports]	0
Estimation of Surface-Level NO2 Using Satellite Remote Sensing and Machine Learning: A review	0
IEEE App	0
Real-Time Semantic Segmentation: A brief survey and comparative study in remote sensing	0
Staff List	0
IEEE Access	0
Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Statistical Inference in Deformation Measurement and Geophysical Inversion: A review	0
Analysis-Ready Data and FAIR-AI—Standardization of Research Collaboration and Transparency Across Earth-Observation Communities [Technical Committees]	0
Innovation in Earth Observation With the Brazil Data Cube [Space Agencies]	0
Invertible Physics-Based Hyperspectral Signature Models: A review	0
Front Cover	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
Microwave Photonic Synthetic Aperture Radar: Systems, experiments, and imaging processing [Technical Committees]	0
A Review of Individual Tree Crown Detection and Delineation From Optical Remote Sensing Images: Current progress and future	0
Staff List	0
Tech RXIV: Share Your Preprint Research With the World!	0
IEEE Foundation	0
Establishment of the IEEE GRSS China Chapter Chairs Council: A New Milestone for Collaboration and Growth [Chapters]	0
Erratum	0
Image Restoration for Remote Sensing: Overview and toolbox	0
IEEE Journal on Miniaturization for Air and Space Systems Best Paper Award and the 2025 Winning Paper Overview [Chapters]	0
Masthead	0
Letter From the President [President’s Message]	0
Report on the 2025 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest: All-Weather Land Cover and Building Damage Mapping [Technical Committees]	0
Strengthening Connections Within GRSS [President’s Message]	0
Ionospheric Error Correction Methods for InSAR Measurements: A systematic review	0
Making Satellite Data Mainstream: Gaps, challenges, and opportunities for remote sensing experts [Industry Profiles and Activities]	0
From Data to Policy: Strengthening essential climate variable monitoring with deep learning algorithms and data quality standards	0
Wind and Sea State Signatures in Wind Scatterometry: An analysis	0
Staff List	0
Deep Learning Meets Object-Based Image Analysis: Tasks, challenges, strategies, and perspectives	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
SAR in Archaeology (1980–2024): Forty-five years of progress and future frontiers	0
The 2024 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Wuhan University Student Branch Chapter Activities [Chapters]	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
The AIDE Toolbox: Artificial intelligence for disentangling extreme events [Software and Data Sets]	0
Beyond Grid Data: Exploring graph neural networks for Earth observation	0
Onboard Information Fusion for Multisatellite Collaborative Observation: Summary, challenges, and perspectives	0
IEEE Access	0
Not the Usual Editorial [From the Editor]	0
Polarimetric Roll-Invariant Features and Applications for Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Ship Detection: A comprehensive summary and investigation	0
Staff list	0
Evaluating Language Biases in Remote Sensing Visual Question Answering: The role of spatial attributes, language diversity, and the need for clearer evaluation	0
Geology-1 : The First Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Microsatellite in China for Geological Resource and Environmental Survey and Monitoring [Space-Agencies]	0
IEEE Moving	0
IEEE Foundation	0
Compact Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar for Target Detection: A review	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
44th IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2024)—Athens, Greece, 7–12 July 2024: Impressions of the first days [Conference Reports]	0
Introducing the June Issue [From the Editor]	0
Remote Sensing for Hazard Monitoring and Modeling in High Mountain Asia	0
Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Multitemporal Deformation Monitoring: A review of machine learning techniques	0
Facilitating the Golden Age of Synthetic Aperture Radar: New tools, services, and training to make synthetic aperture radar data more accessible	0
The High-Resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar System and Signal Processing Techniques: Current progress and future prospects [Review Papers]	0
IEEE App	0
Front Cover	0
Ground Validation of Hyperspectral Earth Observation Imagery [Technical Committees]	0
State of the Art: High-Performance and High-Throughput Computing for Remote Sensing Big Data	0