Remote Sensing Applications-Society and Environment

Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment (RSASE) is a hybrid journal from Elsevier, launched in 2015 as part of the Remote Sensing of Environment family, devoted to applied remote sensing with an emphasis on environmental and societal issues, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 4.9.《遥感应用：社会与环境》（Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment，RSASE）由（Elsevier）出版，2015 年创刊，是（Remote Sensing of Environment）系列期刊之一，专注以环境与社会议题为重点的遥感应用研究，2025 年期刊影响因子为 4.9。

Scope

• Global and climate change studies cover greenhouse gas concentrations, CO2 emissions, carbon balance and mitigation, and the effect of energy systems on social and environmental systems.全球变化与气候变化研究涵盖温室气体浓度、二氧化碳排放、碳平衡与碳减排，以及能源系统对社会与环境系统的影响。
• Ecological and environmental issues include biodiversity, ecosystem dynamics, land degradation, air and water pollution, urban footprint, ecosystem management and natural hazards such as earthquakes, typhoons, floods and landslides.生态与环境议题包括生物多样性、生态系统动态、土地退化、大气与水污染、城市足迹、生态系统管理，以及地震、台风、洪涝、滑坡等自然灾害。
• Natural resource studies span land use, biomass estimation, forests, agricultural land, plantations, soils, coral reefs, wetlands and water resources.自然资源研究涵盖土地利用、生物量估算、森林、农地、种植园、土壤、珊瑚礁、湿地与水资源。
• Agriculture, food production systems and food security outcomes are named areas, treated through the lens of Earth observation.农业、食物生产系统与粮食安全结果是明确列出的领域，并以对地观测视角加以研究。
• Socio-economic issues cover urban systems and growth, public health, epidemics, land-use transition and land-use conflicts.社会经济议题涵盖城市系统与城市增长、公共卫生、流行病、土地利用转型与土地利用冲突。
• Oceanography and coastal zone studies include sea-level rise projections, coastline change and the ocean-land interface.海洋学与海岸带研究包括海平面上升预估、海岸线变化与海陆交界带。
• Regional technical challenges such as cloud screening and atmospheric correction in the tropics are in scope, as is interdisciplinary work that combines remote sensing with household surveys, field measurements and models.热带地区的云检测与大气订正等区域性技术难题在范围内，把遥感与家户调查、野外观测和模型结合的交叉研究同样受欢迎。

History

• Volume 1 appeared in July 2015, with papers on scenario-based land-cover modelling in Iran, snowmelt runoff in the eastern Himalaya, Landsat mapping of vegetation clearing in Queensland and spectral unmixing for impervious surfaces.第 1 卷于 2015 年 7 月出版，刊载伊朗情景式土地覆盖模拟、东喜马拉雅融雪径流、（Landsat）影像的昆士兰植被清除制图与不透水面光谱解混等论文。
• Elsevier created it as a companion title in the Remote Sensing of Environment family, aimed at regional and local studies with global significance.（Elsevier）将其作为（Remote Sensing of Environment）系列中的姊妹刊创办，面向具有全球意义的区域与地方研究。
• The journal has kept its name and a single online ISSN, 2352-9385, and has no print edition.刊物名称始终未变，只有单一的在线（ISSN 2352-9385），没有纸本版。
• Output grew quickly, from two volumes in 2015 and 2016 to four volumes a year from 2017, reaching volumes 41 to 44 in 2026.发文量增长迅速，2015 与 2016 年各 2 卷，2017 年起每年 4 卷，2026 年为第 41 至 44 卷。
• It is a hybrid journal, so subscription publication remains available while open access costs USD 2,620.该刊为混合期刊，保留订阅发表途径，开放获取的文章处理费为 2620 美元。
• It is indexed in ESCI, Scopus, SJR and SNIP, and its 2025 CiteScore is 8.1.刊物被（ESCI）、（Scopus）、（SJR）与（SNIP）收录，2025 年（CiteScore）为 8.1。
• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 4.9, up from 4.5 in 2024, ranking 20 of 66 in remote sensing and 128 of 395 in environmental sciences, both Q2.2025 年期刊影响因子为 4.9，高于 2024 年的 4.5，在遥感类别排名 20/66，在环境科学类别排名 128/395，均属（Q2）。

Editors

• Three co-editors-in-chief lead the journal: Xiao-Li Ding of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Ana Claudia Teodoro of the University of Porto and George Xian of the US Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center.刊物由三位共同主编主持：（The Hong Kong Polytechnic University）的（Xiao-Li Ding）、（University of Porto）的（Ana Claudia Teodoro），以及（US Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center）的（George Xian）。
• Seventeen associate editors cover Earth observation, land-cover mapping, thermal infrared remote sensing, LiDAR, hydrology, natural hazards, urban climate and precision agriculture.十七位副编辑的分工覆盖对地观测、土地覆盖制图、热红外遥感、（LiDAR）、水文学、自然灾害、城市气候与精准农业。
• The board has 36 editors and members from 17 countries, with the largest groups coming from China and the United States.编委会由来自 17 个国家的 36 位编辑与委员组成，其中中国与美国的学者人数最多。
• Handling is fast: five days to a first decision, 57 days to a decision after review and 143 days from submission to acceptance.处理速度较快，首次决定中位时间为 5 天，外审后决定为 57 天，从投稿到录用为 143 天。
• Authors are encouraged to combine remote sensing with survey data, field measurements and models, and to document the social, political, environmental or economic impact of the application.刊物鼓励作者把遥感与调查数据、野外观测和模型结合，并说明应用在社会、政治、环境或经济系统中的实际影响。
• As a title in the Remote Sensing of Environment family, it asks authors to frame work around a specific application topic with environmental or societal relevance.作为（Remote Sensing of Environment）系列的一员，刊物要求作者围绕具体的应用议题展开，并体现环境或社会意义。