Remote Sensing | |
Editor: | Prasad S. Thenkabail |
Discipline: | Remote sensing, geography |
Abbreviation: | Remote Sens. |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Frequency: | Semimonthly |
History: | 2009-present |
Openaccess: | Yes |
Impact: | 4.509 |
Impact-Year: | 2019 |
Website: | http://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing |
Oclc: | 456228659 |
Eissn: | 2072-4292 |
Remote Sensing is a semimonthly 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,[1] which had received significant criticism from other scientists soon after its publication.[2] Since then, the editor-in-chief has been Prasad S. Thenkabail (United States Geological Survey).
The journal is abstracted and indexed by:According to the Journal Citation Reports 2019, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 4.118, ranking it 7th out of 29 journals in the category "Remote Sensing".[3]