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CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine

Special Issue on
"Data Fusion in Remote Sensing"	
  

Data fusion is one of the fast moving areas of remote sensing image analysis. Fusing data coming from different
sensors, at different resolutions, and of different quality is compulsory to meet the needs of society, which requires enduser products reflecting environmental problems that are naturally spatial, multiscale, evolving in time and observed at a
discontinuous frequency.
This special issue will present a series of overview and tutorial-like papers about the latest advances in remote sensing
data fusion. The focus of the contributions to the special issue will be on reviewing the current progress, on highlighting
the latest trends that have been proposed in the literature to answer the needs of multisensory processing, and on
pointing out the strategies to be thought to answer the information deluge which will come with the latest missions
launched (or to be launched). Particular attention will be paid to the questions of multiresolution, multisensor, and
multitemporal processing, while still covering the problems of missing data reconstruction and data assimilation with
physical models. Consistently with the approach and style of the Magazine, the contributors to the special issue will pay
strong attention to tuning the discussion level to a correct trade-off between ensuring scientific depth and disseminating
to a wide public that would encompass remote sensing scientists, practitioners, and students, and include non-datafusion specialists.
The topics of interest include (but are not limited to)
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Multisensor, multimodal, and multiresolution fusion
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Missing data reconstruction
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Multimodal interaction
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Data assimilation
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Application to urban studies, 3D reconstruction, vegetation modelling, climate change, ...
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Valorisation of future missions providing complementary sensors
Format and preliminary schedule
Articles submitted to this special issue of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine must contain
significant relevance to geoscience and remote sensing and data fusion and should have noteworthy tutorial
value. 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 Society guidelines.
Schedule

October 1, 2014
October 15, 2014
December 15, 2014
February 15, 2015
April 1, 2015
April 30, 2015
May 15, 2015
September 15, 2015

White paper submission deadline
Invitation notification
Full paper submission deadline
Review notification
Revised manuscript due
Final acceptance notification
Final manuscript due (strict)
Publication date

Guest editors
Dr. Gabriele Moser, University of Genoa, Italy (gabriele.moser@unige.it)
Dr. Devis Tuia, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (devis.tuia@epfl.ch)

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MGRS.2014.2346732
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/grsm http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/servlet/opac?punumber=6245518
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