Remote Sensing Open Access Journal: Leading a New Paradigm in Publishing

Remote Sensing is a pathfinding open access journal providing great opportunities for the growing community of remote sensing and geoscience scientists and practitioners to publish high quality research and practical papers expeditiously. It is a journal keeping up with the changing times we live in: open access, instant access, free access, and global access from whichever precise latitude and longitude you live in on the planet Earth or for that matter anywhere in space as long as we have internet access! So, open access journals are breaking many paradigms and setting forth new ones that will soon become the norm as we advance into the twenty-first century. The days of inordinate delays in publishing good science research articles are fast disappearing with open access journals. In remote sensing and geoscience, Remote Sensing (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/) is one of the pioneers, thanks to the vision of Dr. Shu-Kun Lin, the publisher. It started in the year 2009 with headquarters in Basel, Switzerland and a branch office in Beijing, China. It will soon complete Volume 3 by the end of 2011. When you take a look at the three volumes and 28 issues (12 issues each in 2010 and 2011 and four during 2009) published so far, you will see many outstanding articles. Many of these articles are as good as, or many times better than, the ones published in conventional remote sensing journals. Remote Sensing also brings you special issues on many topics such as global croplands you will see, these special issues are edited by some of the best people working in remote sensing science. One example is the upcoming special issue on " Remote Sensing of Biological Diversity " by Professor Gregory Asner of the Stanford University. We welcome special issues from time to time, therefore, if you have a creative idea for a special issue, please send us your proposal. An impressive feature of Remote Sensing has been the quality of its editorial board: