Remote Sensing of Environment

Remote Sensing of Environment is a monthly journal published by Elsevier, founded in 1969 and covering the theory, science, applications and technology of remote sensing of the Earth, indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Scopus, with a 2025 impact factor of 12.3Remote Sensing of Environment 是 Elsevier 出版的月刊，1969 年创刊，涵盖对地遥感的理论、科学、应用与技术，被科学引文索引扩展版与 Scopus 收录，2025 年影响因子为 12.3。

Scope

• Land cover mapping, vegetation species identification and the retrieval of biophysical and quantitative properties涵盖土地覆盖制图、植被物种识别，以及生物物理与定量属性的反演。
• Land surface energy and water balance, disturbance such as fire, insects and harvesting, and agricultural, forest and rangeland productivity涉及陆面能量与水分平衡，火灾、虫害与采伐等扰动，以及农业、森林与牧场生产力。
• Ecological applications and ecosystem services, urban applications, the terrestrial carbon cycle and soil properties涉及生态应用与生态系统服务、城市应用、陆地碳循环与土壤属性。
• Geology, hydrology and water resources, inland and coastal waters, oceanography, the cryosphere and atmospheric science涉及地质、水文与水资源、内陆与沿海水体、海洋学、冰冻圈与大气科学。
• Technical advances such as feature extraction, radiative transfer modelling, machine learning, data assimilation, satellite time series and sensor calibration涉及特征提取、辐射传输建模、机器学习、数据同化、卫星时间序列与传感器定标等技术进展。

History

• The journal was founded in 1969 by the American Elsevier Publishing Company and was the third journal devoted to remote sensing该刊 1969 年由 American Elsevier 出版公司创办，是第三本专门从属遥感的期刊。^[1]
• Its early editors included George Zissis from 1971 to 1977 and Freeman Hall from 1978 to 1980该刊早期主编包括 1971 至 1977 年的 George Zissis 与 1978 至 1980 年的 Freeman Hall。
• Marvin E. Bauer then led the journal from 1980 to 2014, after which it has been guided by a team of co-editors-in-chief此后 Marvin E. Bauer 自 1980 至 2014 年主持该刊，其后由一组共同主编负责。
• It has been published by Elsevier throughout its history and appears monthly, having been bimonthly during the 1980s该刊始终由 Elsevier 出版，现为月刊，1980 年代曾为双月刊。

Editors

• The journal has three co-editors-in-chief, Jing M. Chen of the University of Toronto in Canada, Menghua Wang of NOAA NESDIS in the United States, and Marie Weiss of INRAE in France该刊有三位共同主编，即加拿大大多伦多大学的 Jing M. Chen、美国 NOAA NESDIS 的 Menghua Wang 与法国 INRAE 的 Marie Weiss。
• The editorial board has about eighty-five members from seventeen countries, with the largest groups in the United States and China, alongside some thirty associate editors编委会约有 85 位成员，来自 17 个国家，其中美国与中国人数最多，另有约 30 位副编辑。
• Manuscripts are assessed under a single anonymized model with at least two independent referees and final decisions by the editors, and special issue proposals are welcome稿件以单匿名方式评审，至少送两位独立评审，由编辑终审，并欢迎专刊提案。
• It is a hybrid open access journal, with an article processing charge of about 4310 US dollars for open access publication该刊为混合开放获取期刊，选择开放获取发表需支付约 4310 美元的版面费。