About this journal

Aims and scope

Please note, from 2022 the Print ISSN is not in active use as this journal is no longer published in print.

GIScience & Remote Sensing  is a fully open access journal publishing original, peer-reviewed articles associated with geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing of the environment (including digital image processing), geocomputation, spatial data mining, and geographic environmental modelling. Papers reflecting both basic and applied research are published.

In support of reproducibility for all kinds of work, the journal requires that data and software used in the analysis be deposited in a repository that complies with the Open + FAIR policies of the COPDESS consortium.

Peer Review Statement

GIScience & Remote Sensing is an international, ranked, peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research contributions to scientific knowledge. The journal accepts the following type of article: research article, reviews, data notes and method articles.

All manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All articles are made freely and permanently available online through gold open access publication.

All peer review is single anonymized and submission can be made online via Submission Portal.


*Please note that GIScience & Remote Sensing converted to a full Open Access journal from Volume 59 (2022).

Journal metrics

Usage

  • 499K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 6.0 (2023) Impact Factor
  • Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
  • 7.3 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 11.2 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
  • 1.766 (2023) SNIP
  • 1.756 (2023) SJR

Speed/acceptance

  • 6 days avg. from submission to first decision
  • 61 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
  • 9 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
  • 21% acceptance rate

Editorial board

Editor in Chief

Jungho Im
, Assistant Professor,  Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology, Ulsan, South Korea

Associate Editors

Yongze Song, Senior Lecturer,  Curtin University, Perth, Australia
spatial statistics, geospatial methods, urban remote sensing, sustainable development 

Zhen Zhen, Associate Professor,  Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
remote sensing of forest, land use/land cover classification, geostatistics 

Editorial Board

Enner Alcântara, Professor,  Sao Paulo State University Julio de Mesquita Filho, Brazil
inland waters, natural hazards, environmental modeling

Nishan Bhattarai, PhD, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
hydrological remote sensing, evapotranspiration/surface energy balance, vegetation dynamics

Thomas Blaschke, Professor,  University of Salzburg, Austria
remote sensing integration, place-based GIS, object-based image analysis, geoinformatics

Linga Reddy Cenkeramaddi, Professor,  Universitetet i Agder, Grimstad, Norway
radars, sensors, sensor fusion and machine learning for remote sensing applications

Weitao Chen, Professor,  China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China
artificial intelligence, geoscience and remote sensing

Minha Choi, Professor,  Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea
remote sensing of hydrology, soil moisture, evapotranspiration

Rosa Coluzzi, PhD,  Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Tito Scalo, Italy
EO data integration, land cover and land use changes, environmental mapping and monitoring

Russell G. Congalton, Professor,  University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
spatial data quality/uncertainty/accuracy assessment, digital image classification, GIS analysis

Maria João Costa, Associate Professor,  University of Évora, Portugal
optical remote sensing of the atmosphere, satellite remote sensing of water quality

Zheng Duan, Associate Senior Lecturer,  Lunds Universitet, Sweden
remote sensing, water cycle, ecosystem, data-model fusion, machine learning

Peng Fu, Assistant Professor,  Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, Harrisburg, PA, USA
deep learning, data fusion, disaster assessment, hyperspectral and thermal remote sensing

Yongshuo Fu, Professor,  Beijing Normal University, China
climate change; vegetation phenology; terrestrial carbon and water cycles; machine learning

Peng Gong, Professor Emeritus,  University of California Berkeley, CA, USA
remote sensing applications, global land cover mapping, urban remote sensing, wetland mapping

Barry Haack, Emeritus Professor,  George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
image processing, RADAR, multi-sensor data fusion, land cover classification

Perry Hardin, Professor,  Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA
Culture and geography of Africa, hyperspectral remote sensing of urban areas

Michael E. Hodgson, Distringuished Professor Emeritus,  University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
LiDAR, terrain modeling, hazards

Bandana Kar, AAAS Science, Technology and Policy Fellow,  Department of Energy, Washington, DC, USA
hazards and damage assessment, big data integration, urban informatics

Yinghai Ke, Professor,  Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
urban monitoring, remote sensing of hydrological processes, multi-sensor data fusion, machine learning

Thomas Krumpen, Senior Researcher,  Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
sea ice thickness observations, sea ice mass balance changes, polar remote sensing

Prashant Kumar, PhD, Space Applications Centre, Ahmedabad, India
data Assimilation, Extreme Weather, NWP Model

Xiaodong Li, Professor, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology CAS, Wuhan, China
optical image analysis, data fusion, superresolution, change detection, surface water monitoring 

Jie Lin, Associate Professor,  Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China
spatial analysis; Multivariate analysis; Health geography; Areal interpolation 

Desheng Liu, Professor,  Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
digital image prcessing, multi-temporal image analysis, land use and land cover change, spatial statistics

Tao Liu, Assistant Professor,  Michigan Technological University,  Houghton, MI, USA
UAV remote sensing, artificial intelligence application

Zhenyu Lu, Senior Software Engineer,  ESRI, Redlands, CA, USA
machine learning, urban remote sensing, LiDAR

Kamlesh P. Lulla, Senior Scientist,  NASA Jon Space Center, Houston, TX, USA
satellite image processing, land terrain monitoring, water resources and water stress in vegetation, UAS technology for remote sensing applications

Deepak Mishra, Professor,  University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
remote sensing of wetlands and water quality, ocean optics and satellite oceanography, remote sensing in global climate change

Debashis Mitra, PhD,  Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun, India
remote sensing for coastal zones, coastal geology and geomorphology, coastal zone management, coastal hazards and remote sensing

Soe W. Myint, Professor and Meadows Endowed Chair, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA
urban image analysis, land use land cover change and environmental issues, agriculture mapping and water use, urban heat island

Haemi Park, PhD,  Sophia University, Chiyoda-ku, Japan
carbon monitoring, GPP, vegetation

Seonyoung Park, Professor,  Seoul National University of Science and Technology, South Korea
Artificial intelligence, natural disasters, data fusion

George P. Petropoulos, Assistant Professor,  Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
Earth observation modeling, geospatial analysis techniques, natural hazards

Robert Pontius Jr, Professor,  Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA
error assessment, land change science, dynamic simulation models

Xingwen Quan, Associate Professor,  University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
remote sensing, wildfire danger assessment, active fire detection, fire severity, machine learning

Parinaz Rahimzadeh-Bajgiran, Associate Professor,  University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
optical remote sensing, multispectral, hyperspectral, forest 

R. Douglas Ramsey, Professor,  Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA
landscape monitoring, rangeland ecology, landscape modeling

Víctor Rodríguez-Galiano, Professor,  University of Seville, Spain
remote sensing of vegetation, remote sensing of phenology, land cover mapping, machine learning, time series analysis 

Elif Sertel, Professor,  Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
remote sensing, GeoAI, Earth Observation, LULC

Prashant K. Srivastava, Assistant Professor,  Banaras Hindu University Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development, Varanasi, India
microwave remote sensing, hyperspectral remote sensing, artificial intelligence, physical model

Douglas A. Stow, Professor Emeritus,  San Diego State University, CA, USA
remote sensing change detection, remote sensing of wildfire, post-disturbance vegetation recovery, post-hazard damage assessment

Weiwei Sun, Professor,  Ningbo University, Jiangbei, Ningbo, China
hyperspectral, remote sensing, machine learning, coastal wetland, multi-modal geospatial data

Sasai Takahiro, Assistant Professor, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
terrestrial carbon cycle, diagnostic-type biosphere model , Earth system models

Jason A. Tullis, Professor,  University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA
Provenance and replicability in GIScience, ecosystem services, Mars observation

Qihao Weng, Professor,  The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong
remote sensing, urban climatology, urban ecology, GIScience

Frank Witmer, Associate Professor,  University of Alaska, Anchorage, AK, USA
remote sensing of violent conflict, nighttime lights satellite data, spatial statistical analysis

Wei Wu, Associate Professor,  University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, USA
spatial modeling and statistics, remote sensing in hydrology and ecology, Bayesian hierarchical modeling

Chaowei Yang, Professor,  George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
spatial cloud computing, spatiotemporal big data, geospatial cyberinfrastructure, geospatial semantics

Kang Yang, Professor,  Nanjing University, China
remote sensing of cryosphere, remote sensing of hydrology, satellite image analysis

Cheolhee Yoo, Research Assistant Professor,  The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
thermal remote sensing, urban climate, machine learning 

Stephen R. Yool, Professor Emeritus,  University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
spectral modeling and time series analysis, wildland fire modeling, infectious disease modeling

Tianjie Zhao,PhD, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
microwave remote sensing; SAR; Microwave radiometry; Hydrology; Cryosphere

Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
John R. Jensen

Abstracting and indexing

Indexing

GIScience & Remote Sensing is currently indexed in:

  • CABI
  • Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
  • CSA Sustainability Science ABstacts
  • DOAJ
  • Ecology Abstracts
  • Water Resources Abstracts
  • EBSCOhost
  • GeoRef
  • Elsevier BV
  • GEOBASE
  • Scopus
  • Online Computer Library Centre
  • Ovid
  • ProQuest
  • Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
  • Web of Science
  • Wildlife Review Abstracts

Open access

GIScience & Remote Sensing is an open access journal and only publishes open access articles. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.

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  1. Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
  2. Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
  3. Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
  4. Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
  5. Rigorous peer review for every open access article

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