Dear Colleagues,

The 5^th International Electronic Conference on Remote Sensing with a focus on “Advances in experimental and theoretical studies of terrestrial atmosphere and underlying surface” will be held on 7-21 November 2023. The main aim of the conference is to present recent advances in experimental and theoretical studies of atmosphere (trace gases, atmospheric aerosol, cloudiness, precipitation, temperature, and pressure) and underlying surface with a focus on cryosphere, which has nonlinear impacts on climate change trends and the warming of our planet. The conference will promote the use of remote sensing and geospatial information technology and make it possible to exchange innovative approaches in the area of remote sensing.

This is an excellent opportunity for remote sensing scientists to communicate with their colleagues, learn from each other, and share ideas and results. It will be possible to deliver live and pre-recorded presentations simultaneously.

The main topics and sessions of the conference cover:

S1. Remote sensing systems and techniques
S1-1. Ground-based, airborne, shipborne, and spaceborne remote sensing systems
S1-2. Hyperspectral remote sensing
S1-3. Lidar remote sensing
S1-4. Radar remote sensing
S1-5. Passive remote sensing

S2. Remote sensing: physical fundamentals and inverse theory
S2-1. Electromagnetic light scattering
S2-2. Radiative transfer
S2-3. Inverse theory

S3. Remote sensing applications
S3-1. Oceanic remote sensing
S3-2. Vegetation remote sensing
S3-3. Remote sensing of land use and land cover change
S3-4. Remote sensing of snow and ice
S3-5. Remote sensing of precipitation
S3-6. Aerosol remote sensing
S3-7. Cloud remote sensing
S3-8. Remote sensing of atmospheric trace gases

All accepted abstracts will be published on the website of the conference. You are required to submit an abstract (250–500-word limit). Please see the abstract guidelines at "Instructions for Authors".

After the conference, there will be a possibility to submit selected papers to the related journal Remote Sensing (Impact Factor (2021), 5.349, 5-Year Impact Factor (2021): 5.786; Top Open Access Journal in Remote Sensing) with a 20% discount on the APCs.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I cordially invite you to join us at the 5^th International Electronic Conference on “Advances in experimental and theoretical studies of terrestrial atmosphere and underlying surface”.

Dr. Alexander Kokhanovsky
Chair of the 5th International Electronic Conference on Remote Sensing
German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany

Submissions should be submitted by the authors online by registering at https://ecrs2023.sciforum.net/, and using the “Submit Abstract” function once logged into the system.

1. Scholars interested in participating with the conference can submit their abstract (about 250–500 words covering the areas of manuscripts for the proceedings issue) online at this website up to 17 July 2023.
2. The Conference Committee will conduct a pre-evaluation, based on the submitted abstract, of whether the contribution from the authors of the abstract will be welcome for the 5^th International Electronic Conference on Remote Sensing. All authors will be notified by 3 August 2023 about the acceptance of their abstract.
3. If the abstract is accepted for this conference, the author is requested to submit the manuscript, and optionally, a poster, a slides presentation (in PDF), or a short video presentation (max. 3–5 minutes), up to the submission deadline of 8 September 2023.
4. The conference proceedings papers and presentations will be available at https://ecrs2023.sciforum.net/ for discussion during the time of the conference, 7-21 November 2023.
5. All submissions will be reviewed using the powerful text comparison tool iThenticate. This procedure aims to prevent scholarly and professional plagiarism. Submissions will then be peer-reviewed by conference committees. After the conference, all submissions will be published on sciforum.net, and only the proceeding paper (3-6 pages) will be published in the MDPI Environmental Sciences Proceedings journal ( ISSN: 2673-4931).
   Note: Publication of proceedings paper is free of charge.
   Before publication, Environmental Sciences Proceedings journal will check the plagiarism issue again. Submissions with a lack of novelty will not be published in the journal.
   
6. The open access journal Remote Sensing (Impact Factor 5.349) will publish a dedicated conference Special Issue. Conference participants are encouraged to submit a full paper to the dedicated Special Issue and will receive a 20% discount on the Article Processing Charges (APC).
   Note: The submission to the Remote Sensing journal is independent of the conference proceedings and will follow the usual process of the journal, including peer-review, APC, etc.

Proceedings Paper
Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must have the following organization:

• Title
• Full author names
• Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors’ e-mail addresses
• Abstract (250–500 words)
• Keywords
• Introduction
• Methods
• Results and Discussion
• Conclusions
• (Acknowledgements)
• References

Proceedings papers must be prepared in MS Word or any other word processor using the Proceedings template (see below) and should be converted to PDF format before submission. The proceedings paper should be at least 3 pages (incl. figures, tables, and references) and should not exceed 6 pages.

Posters will be available on this conference website during and after the event. Similarly to papers presented at the conference, participants will be able to ask questions and make comments about the posters. Posters that are submitted without a paper will not be included in the proceedings of the conference.

Presentation Slides
Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software, to be displayed online along with the manuscript. Slides can be prepared the same way as for any traditional conference. They should be converted to PDF format before submission.

Video Presentations
Authors are also encouraged to submit video presentations. This is a unique way of presenting your paper and discussing it with peers from all over the world. Videos should be no longer than 3–5 minutes and prepared with one of the following formats: .mp4 / .webm / .ogg (max size: 250Mb). They should be submitted with the full manuscript before 8 September 2023 (full submission deadline).

Potential Conflicts of Interest
It is the author’s responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state here “The authors declare no conflict of interest”. This should be conveyed in a separate “Conflict of Interest” statement preceding the “Acknowledgments” and “References” sections at the end of the manuscript. Financial support for the study must be fully disclosed under the “Acknowledgments” section.

Copyright
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe that authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting a Communication paper to this conference, you retain the copyright of your paper, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this paper online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your paper to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher (if required by that publisher).