Themes

IGARSS 2025 Special Scientific Themes

  • SP: Special Scientific Themes

    • SP.1: Natural disasters and disaster management
    • SP.2: Geoscience and remote sensing in developing countries
    • SP.3: Remote sensing for sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region
    • SP.4: Remote sensing for barrier reef conservation
    • SP.5: Global warming, climate records and climate change analysis
    • SP.6: Data security in remote sensing
    • SP.7: Al for on-board satellite analytics
    • SP.8: GIS development and remote sensing
    • SP.9: Wave propagation and remote sensing
General Themes

  • T/S: SAR Imaging and Processing Techniques

    • T/S.1: Interferometry: Along and Across
    • T/S.2: Differential SAR Interferometry
    • T/S.3: Multi-Channel DBF Imaging Techniques
    • T/S.4: PolSAR and PolInSAR
    • T/S.5: Bistatic SAR
    • T/S.6: Tomography
    • T/S.7: Sub-surface sensing

  • T/D: Data Analysis

    • T/D.8: Feature Extraction and Reduction
    • T/D.9: Image Segmentation
    • T/D.10: 3D mapping
    • T/D.11: Object Detection and Recognition
    • T/D.12: Classification and Clustering
    • T/D.13: Inversion Techniques
    • T/D.14: Change Detection and Temporal Analysis
    • T/D.15: Hyperspectral Data Processing and Analysis
    • T/D.16: RFI Detection and Mitigation
    • T/D.17: Data Fusion
    • T/D.18: External Calibration

  • T/A: AI and Big Data

    • T/A.19: Data Management Systems and Computing Platforms in Remote Sensing
    • T/A.20: IoT in Geoscience and Remote Sensing
    • T/A.21: Spatio-temporal Data Harmonization
    • T/A.22: Data Analytics and AI Techniques in Remote Sensing

  • T/M: Modeling

    • T/M.23: Electromagnetic Modeling
    • T/M.24: EM Emission Modeling
    • T/M.25: EM Scattering Modeling
    • T/M.26: EM Polarimetric Scattering and Emission Modeling
    • T/M.27: EM Modeling for Signals of Opportunity (e.g. GNSS-R)

  • C: Cryosphere

    • C.1: Snow Cover
    • C.2: Ice Sheets and Glaciers
    • C.3: Sea Ice
    • C.4: Permafrost

  • L: Land Applications

    • L.1: Land Use Applications
    • L.2: Land Cover Dynamics
    • L.3: Forest and Vegetation: Application and Modelling
    • L.4: Forest and Vegetation: Biomass and Carbon Cycle
    • L.5: Agriculture
    • L.6: Urban and Built Environment
    • L.7: Topography, Geology and Geomorphology
    • L.8: Soils and Soil Moisture
    • L.9: Wetlands
    • L.10: Inland Waters
    • L.11: Geology and Geomorphology

  • M: Atmosphere Applications

    • M.1: Precipitation and Clouds
    • M.2: Numerical Weather Prediction and Data Assimilation
    • M.3: Atmospheric Sounding
    • M.4: Aerosols and Atmospheric Chemistry
    • M.5: Ionospheric Remote Sensing

  • O: Oceans

    • O.1: Ocean Biology (Color) and Water Quality
    • O.2: Ocean Surface Winds and Currents
    • O.3: Ocean Temperature and Salinity
    • O.4: Coastal Zones
    • O.5: Ocean Altimetry

  • P: Remote Sensing of Planetary and other Celestial Bodies

    • P.1: Moon
    • P.2: Mars
    • P.3: Other Celestial Bodies
    • P.4: Moons
    • P.5: Planets

  • S/M: Mission, Sensors and Calibration

    • S/M.1: Spaceborne SAR Missions
    • S/M.2: Spaceborne Passive Microwave Missions
    • S/M.3: Spaceborne GNSS-R Missions
    • S/M.4: Spaceborne Hyperspectral Missions
    • S/M.5: Spaceborne LIDAR Missions
    • S/M.6: Exploration Missions (other Planets)
    • S/M.7: New Space Missions
    • S/M.8: UAV and Airborne Platforms
    • S/M.9: Ground based Systems
    • S/M.10: High Altitude Platforms

  • S/I: Sensors, Instruments and Calibration

    • S/I.11: Sensors Using Signals of Opportunity (e.g. GNSS-R)
    • S/I.12: Lidar Sensors
    • S/I.13: Passive Optical Multi- and Hyperspectral Sensors and Calibration
    • S/I.14: SAR Instrument
    • S/I.15: Advanced Future Instrument Concepts
    • S/I.16: Microwave Radiometer Calibration
    • S/I.17: SAR and Radar Instrument Calibration
    • S/I.18: Microwave Radiometer Instruments
    • S/I.19: Ground Penetrating Radar
    • S/I.20: Onboard Signal Processing
    • S/I.21: Scatterometer, Clouds and Rain Radar

  • D/E: Education and Policy

    • D/E.1: Data Management and Systems
    • D/E.2: Remote Sensing Data and Policy Decisions
    • D/E.3: Education and Remote Sensing

  • D/S: Societal Engagement and Impacts

    • D/S.4: Citizen and Open Science
    • D/S.5: Risk and Disaster Management (Extreme Weather, Earthquakes, Volcanoes, etc)
    • D/S.6: Food security
    • D/S.7: Remote Sensing for Sustainable Development
    • D/S.8: Standardization in Remote Sensing
    • D/S.9: Remote Sensing for Climate Change Impacts