Abbreviated title (ISO 4) Rem. Sens. Edited by Prasad S. Thenkabail Publication history 2009-present | Language English | |
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Remote Sensing is a monthly peer-reviewed open access academic journal focusing on research pertaining to remote sensing and other disciplines of geography. It was established in 2009 and is published by MDPI. The founding editor-in-chief was Wolfgang Wagner (Vienna University of Technology) until September 2, 2011, when he resigned over the journal's publication of a paper co-authored by Roy Spencer, which had received significant criticism from other scientists soon after its publication. Since then, the editor-in-chief has been Prasad S. Thenkabail (United States Geological Survey).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed by:
According to the Journal Citation Reports 2015, the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 3.180, ranking it 5th out of 27 journals in the category "Remote Sensing".