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In keeping with IEEE’s continued commitment to providing options to support the needs of all authors, IEEE has transformed the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing into an Open Access Journal for the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS).

 
We invite you to have your article peer-reviewed and published in in our IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (J-STARS). This is an exciting opportunity for your research to benefit from the high visibility and interest the journal’s marketing launch will generate. Your work will also be exposed to 5 million monthly users of the acclaimed IEEE Xplore® Digital Library.

The Open Access J-STARS journal is sponsored by the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society. It will draw on the expert technical community to continue IEEE’s commitment to publishing the most highly-cited content. The editor-in-chief of the journal is the distinguished Professor Jun Li, with the School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, China. The goal of the journal is to publish very quickly—our rapid peer review process is now targeting a publication time frame of 10 weeks for most accepted papers. This journal is now fully open (since January 2020) and compliant with funder mandates, including Plan S.

For some time, GRSS is subsidizing the Article Processing Charge (APC) to offer
a special rate of US$1250 for each accepted paper. This offer cannot be combined
with any discounts.

This journal reflects the growing interest in application themes in several IEEE
conferences. Many papers are part of special issues that result from GRSS-sponsored
(or technically co-sponsored) symposia, workshops and similar initiatives. Some
special issue topics, particularly those in the applications area, will now be published
by the new open access J-STARS. We welcome individual articles and proposals for
thematic issues or special issues on topics that are relevant to J-STARS.

The following defines the range of topics that are appropriate for J-STARS: “Papers
should address current issues and techniques in applied remote and in situ sensing,
their integration, and applied modeling and information creation for understanding the
Earth. Applications are for the Earth, oceans and atmosphere. Topics can include
observations, derived information such as forecast data, simulated information, data
assimilation and Earth information techniques to address science and engineering
issues of the Earth system. The technical content of papers must be both new and
significant.”

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Jun Li

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Prof. Jun Li

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Prof. Jun Li (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in geographic information systems from Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China, in 2004, the M.E. degree in remote sensing from Peking University, Beijing, China, in 2007, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, in 2011. She is a Full Professor with Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, where she founded her own research group: Hyperspectral Calibration and Learning (HCL) in 2013. Since then, she has obtained several prestigious funding grants at the national and international level. She has published more than 160 journal citation report (JCR) papers (more than 100 in IEEE GRSS journals), 60 international conference papers, and a book chapter. She has received a significant number of citations to her published works, with many papers distinguished as “Highly Cited Papers” in Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science Essential Science Indicators (WoS-ESI). She was elevated to IEEE Senior Member status in 2016 and to IEEE Fellow status in 2020 “for contributions in hyperspectral image processing“. She has received other important awards and distinctions, including the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Early Career Award in 2017.

Prof. Li has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (since 2019). She served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (2014- 2018). She has been a Guest Editor for several journals, including the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, the Proceedings of the IEEE, and the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing and Remote Sensing. She has also been an active reviewer for several journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Optical Engineering, Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, and Inverse Problems and Imaging. She is a GRSS Distinguished Lecturer since 2018. She was distinguished as a Best Reviewer of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (in 2018) and the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (in 2015). She is currently an elected member of IEEE GRSS AdCom (2020- 2022) and was the Chair of the IEEE GRSS Fellow and Senior Member Search Committee in 2018 and 2019. She was a member of the IEEE GRSS Special Award Committee. She is the President of the GRSS Guangzhou Chapter (established in 2019). She assisted in the organization of GRSS Summer Schools (GR4S) in 2018 and 2019. She was a member of the IGARSS Student Paper Competition evaluation panel (in 2019), and was responsible for the allocation of Travel Grants for the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) in 2019. She has given several talks under the IEEE GRSS Distiguished Lecture Program. She has been a Keynote Speaker in numerous GRSS-related conferences/symposia, and presented invited Keynote Talks and different GRSS events. In January 2021, she starts her term as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE J-STARS.