The 6th International Electronic Conference on Remote Sensing
The 6th International Electronic Conference on Remote Sensing
Global Perspectives for the Next-Generation in Earth Observation
Event's Timezone: Central European Summer Time
18 June 2026
17 July 2026
13 October 2026
Remote Sensing, Multi-sensor Integration, Satellite Constellations, Spatio-temporal Intelligence, Data Fusion, Target Recognition
Welcome from the Chair
- SAR Remote Sensing;
- Remote Sensing in Semi-Arid and Arid Areas;
- Remote Sensing in Tropical Areas;
- Remote Sensing in Urban Areas;
- Remote Sensing of the Environment;
- Remote Sensing for Cultural Heritage Protection;
- RSVQA—Remote Sensing Visual Question Answering.
Event Chair
The State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS), Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
Timo Balz was born in Stuttgart, Germany. He received the Diploma degree (Dipl.-Geogr.) in geography and the Doctoral degree (Dr.-Ing.) in aerospace engineering and geodesy from the University Stuttgart, Stuttgart, in 2001 and 2007, respectively. From fall 2001 to the end of 2007, he was a Research Assistant with the Institute for Photogrammetry, University Stuttgart. Between 2004 and 2005, he was a Visiting Scholar with Wuhan University, Wuhan, China. From 2008-2010, he has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS), Wuhan University. From 2010-2015 he was Associate Professor for Radar Remote Sensing with LIESMARS. Since 2015 he is Full Professor with LIESMARS. Since 2021, he is Vice-Director of the International Academy of GeoInformation, Wuhan University. He serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine and MDPI’s Remote Sensing. He is member of the editorial board of Geo-Spatial Information Science and the Journal of Digital Earth. Since 2016 he is Chair of an ISPRS Commission I Working Group on SAR from 2016-2022 and again from 2022-2026. He has authored and co-authored more than 150 scientific articles in journals, books, and conference proceedings. Timo Balz’s research interests include surface motion estimation with SAR, data visualization, SAR geodesy, and the use of SAR data to support archaeological prospections.
Event Committee
Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China
Peng Liu(Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in signal processing from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2004 and 2009, respectively. From May 2012 to May 2013, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA. He has long been engaged in research on intelligent information processing of remote sensing images. Focusing on practical applications, he has proposed effective solutions to key issues in remote sensing data acquisition, image classification, observation models, regularization methods, and multi-source information fusion. These research results have been applied to the ground processing systems of many satellites. He is among the first in the international community to propose the research concept of Active Deep Learning in the field of remote sensing. He also proposed the bidirectional-drive model in the field of remote sensing image fusion. He has published more than 100 academic papers, including IEEE TGRS, ISPRS PHOTO, IEEE JSTARS, IJDE etc. He has also served as an associate editor for several well-known international journals.
remote sensing image fusion; information extraction on remote sensing image; remote sensing big data; applications of artificial intelligence in remote sensing field
School of Electronic, Information, and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Prof. Zenghui Zhang is currently affiliated with the School of Automation and Sensing at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where he leads a research group focused on SAR image analysis, multi-source image fusion, and radar imaging techniques. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers in journals such as IEEE GRSM, TGRS, TSP, and TAES, with more than 70 being SCI-indexed. Prof. Zhang serves as an Associate Editor, Editorial Board Member, or Guest Editor for several prestigious international journals, including Remote Sensing and Journal of Radars of China. He is the IEEE GRSS Shanghai Chapter Chair, a member of the Radar Committee of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, and a member of the Specialized Committee on Microwave Imaging of the China Society of Image and Graphics.
deep learning for SAR image analysis; multi-source image fusion; radar imaging techniques
Department of Physics, Center for Sci-Tech Research in Earth System and Energy (CREATE), School of Science and Technology, University of Évora, 700-671 Évora, Portugal
Dr. Daniele Bortoli graduated at the Alma Mater Studiorum University in Bologna - Italy and completed his PHD in Atmospheric and Climate Physics in 2005 at the University of Evora (UE) - Portugal . He is currently a Professor at the Department of Physics of the UE, teaching Physics and Electronic. He is senior researcher at the Center for sci-tech Research in EArth sysTem and Energy - CREATE. Main fields of research: physics and chemistry of atmospheric compounds at high/midlatitudes, ozone hole in Arctic/Antarctic regions, characterization of solar radiation and development, use and maintenance of optical instrumentation. Dr. Bortoli has coordinated and participated in numerous national and international research projects, as well as intensive international field campaigns in mid-latitude and Antarctic regions. He has supervised a significant number of PHD, Master and BSc students. He published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in international journals with a h-index of 22 (SCOPUS) and ed more than 150 works published in conference proceedings.
atmospheric sciences; air pollution control; differential optical absorption spectroscopy (DOAS); ozone hole; optoelectronic remote sensing instrumentation; LIDAR techniques
Department of Engineering and Geology (InGeo), "G. d’Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara, Viale Pindaro, 42, 65127 Pescara, Italy
Massimiliano Pepe is Associate Professor in the Department of “Engineering and Geology” at “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara in Geomatics and Director of GEOMATICS for Architecture, Engineering and Construction (G4AEC) laboratory specialising in 3D surveying and modelling. He is the author of more than 100 publications in the field of photogrammetry and remote sensing. He participates in the editorial board of the following journals: Remote Sensing (MDPI), Survey Review (Taylor and Francis) and Helyion (Elsevier); in addition, he was editor of special issues in Heritage, Drones, Remote Sensing and ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information Journals. He is P.I. of the “Living forever the Past through a 3Digital world” (Lip3D) project, the European Digital Programme; in addition, he responsible for some activities or coordinator in several national and European projects concerning surveying, modelling and parametric in the field of built heritage.
photogrammetry; terrestrial laser scanner; remote sensing; geographic information system; UAV; cultural heritage; heritage; building information modeling
Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Rome, Italy
Francesca Cigna is a research director specialised in Earth observation at the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC) of the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy. She holds a PhD in Earth sciences, an MSc and a BSc in environment engineering, and has extensive experience in acquisition, processing, interpretation and validation of satellite imagery. Her key areas of interest are satellite radar, Interferometric SAR (InSAR), Persistent Scatterers Interferometry (PSI), Small Baseline Subset (SBAS) and change detection methods, for mapping and monitoring of natural and anthropogenic hazards in urban and rural environments, shallow geological processes, ground instability and land changes, landscape archaeology and cultural heritage.
landscape evolution; geophysical hazards; archaeology; cultural heritage; remote sensing; earth observation; InSAR; landslides; land subsidence; ground instability
Sessions
S2. SAR Remote Sensing
S3. Remote Sensing in Semi-Arid and Arid Areas
S4. Remote Sensing in Tropical Areas
S5. Remote Sensing in Urban Areas
S6. Remote Sensing of the Environment
S7. Remote Sensing for Cultural Heritage Protection
S8. RSVQA - Remote Sensing Visual Question Answering
Registration
The registration for ECRS 2026 will be free of charge! The registration includes attendance to all conference sessions.
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Please note that the submission and registration are two separate parts. Only scholars who registered can receive a link to access the conference live streaming. The deadline for registration is 13 October 2026.
Instructions for Authors
The 6th International Electronic Conference on Remote Sensing - Global Perspectives for the Next-Generation in Earth Observation will accept abstracts only.
The accepted abstracts will be available on the ECRS 2026 conference official website during and after the conference.
2. Abstract acceptance notification: 17 July 2026.
2. All abstracts should be submitted and presented in clear, publication-ready English with accurate grammar and spelling.
3. The same author can submit a maximum of two abstracts. However, only one abstract will be selected for oral presentation.
4. The abstracts submitted to this conference must be original and novel, without prior publication in any journals or it will not be accepted to this conference.
1. The submitting author must ensure that all co-authors are aware of the contents of the abstract.
2. Please ensure that all co-author information is thoroughly completed when submitting your abstract to prevent any omissions.
3. The requirements for full affiliation include:
(1) Department/School/Faculty/Campus;
(2) University/Company/Institute;
(3) City;
(4) Post/ZIP code or equivalent, where available;
(5) Country.
4. Please select only one presenter for each submission. If you would like to change the presenter after submission, please email us accordingly.
Note: We only accept live presentations.
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- Examples of successful submissions can be viewed here at the following links: (1), (2), (3).
- You can use our free template to create your poster.
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Publication Opportunities
Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a full manuscript to the conference's Special Issue (to be updated), published in Remote Sensing (ISSN: 2072-4292, IF: 4.1), with a 10% discount on the publication fee. Please note, if you have IOAP/association discounts, conference discounts will be combined with IOAP/association discounts. Conference discounts cannot be combined with reviewer vouchers. All submitted papers will undergo MDPI’s standard peer-review procedure. The abstracts should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper.
All accepted abstracts will be published in the 6th International Electronic Conference on Remote Sensing - Global Perspectives for the Next-Generation in Earth Observation in Environmental and Earth Sciences Proceedings (ISSN: 3042-5743); if you wish to publish an extended proceeding paper (4-8 pages), please submit it to the same journal after the conference. Authors are asked to disclose that it is a proceeding paper of the ECRS 2026 conference paper in their cover letter. Carefully read the rules outlined in the 'Instructions for Authors' on the journal’s website and ensure that your submission adheres to these guidelines.
Publication of the proceedings will be free of charge. Proceedings submission deadline: 5 December 2026.
Title
Full author names
Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses
Abstract
Keywords
Introduction
Methods
Results and Discussion
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References.
Event Awards
To acknowledge the support of the conference's esteemed authors and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, we are pleased to announce that the conference will provide 6 awards including Best Oral Presentation Awards and Best Poster Awards.
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 6
The Best Poster Awards are given to the submission judged to make the most significant and interesting poster for the conference.
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Ms. Amiee Shi
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