Foreword to the Special Issue on “GeoVision: Computer Vision for Geospatial Applications”

The nine papers in this special section focus on the development of new computer vision techniques for the interpretation of remote sensing images. These papers represent a follow-up of two workshops held in conjunction with the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2015, that was held in Boston, MA, EARTHVISION 2015 and MSF 2015. The purpose of both workshops and of this special issue is to foster fruitful collaboration of computer vision, Earth observation, and geospatial analysis communities.