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About the Remote Sensing format

Remote Sensing is a peer-reviewed journal published by MDPI, covering Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Remote-Sensing Image Classification. Over its lifetime it has published 42,576 papers, which have received 1,112,297 citations.

PublisherMDPI
Reference styleNumbered (MDPI)
Numbered — [1], [2] in the text
1. Smith, A.; Jones, B.; Lee, C. A Representative Article Title. Remote Sensing 2023, 12, 45–58.

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Abbreviation (ISO-4)Remote Sens.
Publishes research inRemote Sensing in Agriculture Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications Remote-Sensing Image Classification Land Use and Ecosystem Services Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques
ISSN2072-4292
Citation impact (2-yr)4.51
h-index270
i10-index24,187
Article processing charge$2,707
Open accessYes — indexed in DOAJ
Top institutions publishing hereChinese Academy of Sciences
Journal websitewww.mdpi.com
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Papers published in Remote Sensing per year

593
2014
788
2015
1K
2016
1.4K
2017
2.1K
2018
3.1K
2019
4.2K
2020
5.2K
2021
6.5K
2022
5.7K
2023
4.7K
2024
4.1K
2025

Citation impact of Remote Sensing by publication year

41.5K
2014
52.7K
2015
62.7K
2016
74.6K
2017
104.2K
2018
139.2K
2019
169K
2020
137.1K
2021
123.1K
2022
74.4K
2023
35K
2024
11.7K
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Remote Sensing

A Spatial-Temporal Attention-Based Method and a New Dataset for Remote Sensing Image Change Detection

Hao Chen, Zhenwei Shi · 22 May 2020

Remote sensing image change detection (CD) is done to identify desired significant changes between bitemporal images. Given two co-registered images taken at different times, the illumination variations and misregistration errors overwhelm the real object changes. Exploring the relationships among different spatial–temporal pixels may improve the performances of CD methods. In our work, we propose a…

1,731 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Reconstructing Three Decades of Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Brazilian Biomes with Landsat Archive and Earth Engine

Carlos Souza, Julia Z. Shimbo, Marcos Reis Rosa et al. · 25 Aug 2020

Brazil has a monitoring system to track annual forest conversion in the Amazon and most recently to monitor the Cerrado biome. However, there is still a gap of annual land use and land cover (LULC) information in all Brazilian biomes in the country. Existing countrywide efforts to map land use and land cover lack regularly…

1,649 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
An Easy-to-Use Airborne LiDAR Data Filtering Method Based on Cloth Simulation

Wuming Zhang, Jianbo Qi, Peng Wan et al. · 15 Jun 2016

Separating point clouds into ground and non-ground measurements is an essential step to generate digital terrain models (DTMs) from airborne LiDAR (light detection and ranging) data. However, most filtering algorithms need to carefully set up a number of complicated parameters to achieve high accuracy. In this paper, we present a new filtering method which only…

1,526 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Applications of Remote Sensing in Precision Agriculture: A Review

Rajendra P. Sishodia, Ram L. Ray, Sudhir Kumar Singh · 24 Sep 2020

Agriculture provides for the most basic needs of humankind: food and fiber. The introduction of new farming techniques in the past century (e.g., during the Green Revolution) has helped agriculture keep pace with growing demands for food and other agricultural products. However, further increases in food demand, a growing population, and rising income levels are…

1,377 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Spectral–Spatial Classification of Hyperspectral Imagery with 3D Convolutional Neural Network

Ying Li, Haokui Zhang, Qiang Shen · 13 Jan 2017

Recent research has shown that using spectral–spatial information can considerably improve the performance of hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. HSI data is typically presented in the format of 3D cubes. Thus, 3D spatial filtering naturally offers a simple and effective method for simultaneously extracting the spectral–spatial features within such images. In this paper, a 3D convolutional…

1,281 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

Remote Sensing template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the Remote Sensing format?
In DocuGuru you write your manuscript in a normal editor — no LaTeX setup required — and select the Remote Sensing template. When you export, DocuGuru compiles the paper into the official MDPI format and hands you a submission-ready PDF along with the editable LaTeX source.
What reference style does Remote Sensing use?
Remote Sensing uses Numbered (MDPI) references, shown as numbered [1], [2] markers in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: 1. Smith, A.; Jones, B.; Lee, C. A Representative Article Title. Remote Sensing 2023, 12, 45–58.
Do I need to know LaTeX to submit to Remote Sensing?
No. DocuGuru generates the mdpi LaTeX class and compiles the PDF for you in the background, so you get a MDPI-ready Remote Sensing document without writing any LaTeX. If you do want it, the LaTeX source is included in the export.
Can I import an existing draft into the Remote Sensing template?
Yes. Paste or upload your current manuscript — Word, LaTeX, Markdown, or plain text — and DocuGuru reflows it into the Remote Sensing format with correct headings, figures, tables, and numbered citations.
What is Remote Sensing?
Remote Sensing (Remote Sens.) - MDPI Journal. It is a multidisciplinary journal, published by MDPI.
Can I export a submission-ready Remote Sensing PDF?
Yes — DocuGuru produces a PDF built with the official Remote Sensing template (the mdpi class) that is ready to submit to MDPI, together with the matching LaTeX source files.
How much does the Remote Sensing template cost?
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