Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing ( JSTARS) (ISSN 1939-1404) jstars is now open access! J-STTAR RS will beccomee a fulllyy open-access journnal as of Jannuary 1, 20 020. Authhorr puublicaatiion cost (APC)) iss $1250 0 foor each acceppted manuscrript, whhich iss in parrt suupporttedd by thhe IEE EE GRSSS. what are the new features? Review Process Each manuscript is allowed to revise once (either major or minor). No decision of "reject & resubmit". A rejected paper is allowed to resubmit twice (after extensive revision). A manuscript with major revision decision has 4 weeks to complete revision, and a manuscript with minor revision decision has 2 weeks to complete. Reviewers are given 3 weeks to complete review for a paper after major revision, and 2 weeks for a paper after minor revision. For any question, please contact the Editor-In-Chief (EiC) at: du@ece.msstate.edu Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MGRS.2019.2937418 Special Issues (SIs) No limitation on the number of SIs to be published per year. An SI paper is published immediately after acceptance without waiting for other SI papers. After all the accepted SI papers are published, Guest Editors (GEs) will publish an editorial for the SI. Each SI can have 3 free papers per GEs' discretion. A template for SI proposal can be found at: http://www.grss-ieee.org/jstars-specialissues/http://www.grss-ieee.org/jstars-special-issues http://www.grss-ieee.org/jstars-special-issues