Remote Sensing (journal)

*Remote Sensing*
Discipline	Remote sensing, geography
Language	English
Edited by	Prasad S. Thenkabail
Publication details
History	2009-present
Publisher	MDPI
Frequency	Semimonthly
Open access	Yes
Impact factor	4.509 (2019)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Remote Sens.
Indexing;
ISSN	2072-4292;
OCLC no.	456228659
Links
	Journal homepage;

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).

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".^[3]