Looking for a “Normal” Issue [From The Editor]

While we wait for
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine
(
GRSM
) special issues to be completed and published later this year, this June 2024 issue contains only three technical and seven column articles. Technical articles have somehow reduced their number because most of the submissions in these months have been targeting the three open special issues. Therefore, the limited number of technical articles in this issue was somehow expected. Instead, despite the continuous efforts by many members of the
GSRM
Editorial Board, having a continuous flux of column articles from the different elements of the Society’s wide portfolio of activities has proved to be an “impossible task.” Therefore, we had to surrender to the fact that, most likely, we will never be able to get at least one column article for each column article type every four months, which was one of the targets of my editorship. It looks strange, because we are sure that there are many more activities that are performed than those that we publish in columns, but maybe their organizers are not aware of the opportunity to publish in
GRSM
and showcase their work, or maybe they are not willing to use this opportunity. This is a pity, both for them and for this magazine.