Remote Sensing (journal)

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, which had received significant criticism from other scientists soon after its publication. Since then, the editor-in-chief has been Prasad S. Thenkabail (United States Geological Survey).

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed by: • AGORA

• Astrophysics Data System

• CAB Abstracts

• COMPENDEX

• Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences

• EBSCO

• INSPEC

• Science Citation Index Expanded

• Scopus 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".