IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (GRSL) is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS), founded in 2004 and devoted to short rapid communications of new ideas and results in geoscience and remote sensing, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 4.8《IEEE 地球科学与遥感快报》（GRSL）是电气与电子工程师协会（IEEE）为其地球科学与遥感学会（GRSS）出版的月刊同行评审期刊，2004 年创刊，专注快速发表地球科学与遥感领域的新思想与新成果，2025 年影响因子为 4.8。

Scope

• The journal specialises in short papers of no more than five printed pages that address new ideas and formative concepts in remote sensing and Earth observation, together with significant new and timely results本刊专攻不超过五个印刷页的短论文，发表遥感与地球观测领域的新思想与成形概念，以及重要而及时的新成果。
• Papers should relate to the theory, concepts and techniques of science and engineering as applied to sensing the land, oceans, atmosphere and space and to the processing, interpretation and dissemination of this information论文应涉及应用于感知陆地、海洋、大气与空间的科学和工程理论、概念与技术，以及此类信息的处理、解译与传播。
• Synthetic aperture radar topics form the largest block, including SAR polarimetry, interferometry, tomography, calibration and radar target detection合成孔径雷达方向构成最大板块，包括（SAR）极化、干涉、层析、定标与雷达目标探测。
• Optical and hyperspectral imaging, thermal infrared sensing and LiDAR are core areas alongside image classification and change detection光学与高光谱成像、热红外遥感与激光雷达是核心方向，图像分类与变化检测同属重点。
• Passive microwave radiometry, satellite oceanography, ocean colour and atmospheric sounding extend coverage to the ocean and atmosphere被动微波辐射测量、卫星海洋学、海洋水色与大气探测将覆盖范围延伸至海洋与大气。
• Machine learning and deep learning for Earth observation, data fusion and multimodal image interpretation are actively encouraged面向地球观测的机器学习与深度学习、数据融合与多模态图像解译受到积极鼓励。
• GNSS reflectometry, seismic signal processing and ground-penetrating radar broaden the remit beyond classical imaging remote sensing全球导航卫星系统反射测量、地震信号处理与探地雷达将收稿范围拓展至经典成像遥感之外。
• Authors are encouraged to embed extended objects such as animations and multimedia to enhance the short format期刊鼓励作者嵌入动画与多媒体等扩展对象，以充实短论文的呈现。

History

• The journal traces its origin to April 2003, when GRSS began publishing short letters as Part II of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, and it became a standalone journal in January 2004本刊渊源可溯至 2003 年 4 月，当时（GRSS）开始以《IEEE 地球科学与遥感学报》快报部分的形式出版短文，2004 年 1 月正式独立成刊。
• William Emery of the University of Colorado Boulder served as founding Editor-in-Chief from 2004 to 2008, followed by Paolo Gamba (2009-2013), Alejandro Frery (2014-2018), Avik Bhattacharya (2019-2023) and the current Editor-in-Chief Ronny Haensch (since 2024)科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的（William Emery）于 2004 至 2008 年任创刊主编，其后依次为（Paolo Gamba）（2009 至 2013 年）、（Alejandro Frery）（2014 至 2018 年）与（Avik Bhattacharya）（2019 至 2023 年），现任主编为（Ronny Haensch）（2024 年起）。
• The founding mandate prioritised speed, with a target submission-to-publication turnaround of about thirty days, and the journal has kept a monthly rhythm of twelve issues a year创刊纲领以速度为先，目标投稿至发表周期约三十天，期刊并保持每年十二期的月刊节奏。
• Papers have been handled by a large board of associate editors rather than a single editor, a structure introduced at the launch to accelerate processing稿件自始即由庞大的副编辑编委会而非单一编辑处理，此结构自创刊时引入以加快流程。
• The journal is part of the IEEE Transparent Peer Review programme, under which opted-in review reports and decision letters are published openly本刊加入（IEEE）透明同行评审项目，选择加入的评审报告与决定函将被公开发布。
• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 4.8, against 4.4 in 2024, 5.343 in 2022 and 3.966 in 20212025 年影响因子为 4.8，2024 年为 4.4，2022 年为 5.343，2021 年为 3.966。

Editors

• The Editor-in-Chief is Ronny Haensch of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), whose research covers radar remote sensing and Earth observation data processing现任主编为德国航空航天中心（DLR）的（Ronny Haensch），研究领域涵盖雷达遥感与地球观测数据处理。
• He is supported by more than seventy associate editors from universities and research institutes in Italy, China, Spain, France, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, India, Japan, Sweden, the United States and beyond七十余位副编辑来自意大利、中国、西班牙、法国、加拿大、荷兰、德国、印度、日本、瑞典、美国等国家和地区的大学与研究机构。
• Associate editor portfolios span SAR and polarimetry, hyperspectral imaging, thermal infrared, ocean and atmosphere remote sensing, LiDAR, seismic processing and deep learning for Earth observation副编辑的分管方向覆盖（SAR）与极化、高光谱成像、热红外、海洋与大气遥感、激光雷达、地震处理及面向地球观测的深度学习。
• Submissions go directly to the editorial office without a pre-submission enquiry, and the journal aims to return a first decision within about thirty days投稿直接送交编辑部，无须投稿前询问，期刊目标在约三十天内给出首次决定。
• Voluntary page charges apply to the first three pages, while corresponding authors who are GRSS members are exempted from charges for the fourth and fifth pages前三页适用自愿版面费，通讯作者为（GRSS）会员者可免除第四页与第五页的费用。
• The journal publishes original short papers, and expanded versions of conference papers are acceptable as submissions本刊仅发表原创短论文，会议论文的扩展版本可以投稿。