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Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Wei Gao, Colorado State University
Editor-in-Chief

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The Journal of Applied Remote Sensing (JARS) covers the concepts, information, and progress of the remote sensing community. Topics covered by the journal include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

  • Remote sensing theory and applications in the atmosphere, oceans, ecosystems, climate, agriculture, land cover/change, space, solar, ice/snow, hazard, fire, pollution, hydrology, and other environmental areas
  • Program and experiment concepts
  • Surveys of remote sensing user requirements
  • Numerical weather prediction
  • Environmental monitoring
  • Satellite instrument calibration requirements
  • Remote sensing validation problems and methods for resolution
  • Satellite mission requirements and implementation
  • On-board and on-ground data receiving and processing
  • Systems engineering for data
  • Pre- and post-launch systems and instrumentation
  • Space technology development and transfer
  • Orbital measurement concepts
  • Sensor technology development
  • Spacecraft and instrument navigation
  • Coupled numerical modeling
  • Data acquisition
  • System integration
  • Algorithm development
  • Product applications
  • Information analysis, mining, and management

Karolyn S. Labes, Managing Editor
SPIE
tel: +1 360 676 3290
journals@spie.org

Facts and Figures

E-ISSN: 1931-3195
Publisher: SPIE
Frequency: Annual (1 volume/year); articles published continuously throughout the year.
Format: Online only
Impact Factor: 0.818*
Subject Category Rankings: 15th out of 24 journals in Remote Sensing; 11th out of 21 journals in Imaging Science & Photographic Technology; 166th out of 205 journals in Environmental Sciences*
h5-index: 17

* From the 2011 Science Edition of Thomson Reuters' Journal Citation Report®
h5-index is the h-index for articles published in the last 5 complete years. It is the largest number h such that h articles published in 2007-2011 have at least h citations each (from Google Scholar)

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