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CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine

Special issue on
"Earth Science Satellite Applications: Current
and Future Prospects"

The observational capability from space by satellite remote sensing of various environmental variables
(such as surface water, precipitation, atmospheric composition, land cover, ocean/estuarine dynamics or
content) is now being increasingly recognized as a necessary component for building durable societal
applications to better manage earth's resources. New research programs and research on technology
transfer of satellite remote sensing systems are also appearing in literature today. Because many recent
satellite remote sensing applications have successfully crossed the research environment to an
operational stage (for flood forecasting, fire detection, land cover management; crop and famine
management), it is very critical for the end-user community to find key literature as a special collection on
earth science satellite applications. This special issue will present contributions on how satellite remote
sensing of earth's resources can be (or have recently been) translated into durable societal applications.
Topics of Interest include (but not limited to):
1) Agricultural Management
2) Water Resources Management
3) Energy and Carbon Management
4) Public Health
5) Disaster Management
6) Forest and Land Management
7) Ecological Forecasting
8) Capacity Building
Format and preliminary schedule.
Articles submitted to this special issue of the IEEE GRSS Magazine must contain significant
relevance to geoscience and remote sensing and societal applications and should have
noteworthy tutorial value in tell a story for a wide audience. Selection of invited papers will be done on
the basis of 4-page white papers, submitted in double column format. These papers must discuss the
foreseen objectives of the paper, the importance of the addressed topic, the impact of the
contribution, and the authors' expertize and past activities on the topic. Contributors selected on the
basis of the white papers will be invited to submit full manuscripts. Manuscripts should be submitted
online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/grsm using the Manuscript Central interface.
Prospective authors should consult the site http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/servlet/opac?punumber=6245518
for guidelines and information on paper submission. Submitted articles should not have been published or
be under review elsewhere. All submissions will be peer reviewed according to the IEEE and Geoscience
and Remote Sensing guidelines.
Schedule
White paper submission deadline: May 15, 2015
Full paper Invitation notification: June 15, 2015
Full paper submission deadline: August 31, 2015
Review notification: December 15, 2015
Revised manuscript due: March 15, 2016
Final acceptance notification: June 15, 2016
Final manuscript due: July, 15, 2016
Publication date: September, 2016
Guest editors. The special issue will be edited by Faisal Hossain (University of Washington), Francis J
Turk (JPL/CalTech) and Ashutosh Limaye (NASA Marshall Space Center).
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MGRS.2014.2376452
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/grsm http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/servlet/opac?punumber=6245518
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