Introduction to the special issue on analysis of multitemporal remote sensing data

Ten years after the first special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), focusing on both theory and applications in the analysis of multitemporal remote sensing images, the time is ripe for a new special issue on the recent advances in these topics. This special issue addresses the problem of the analysis of multitemporal remote sensing data, by describing the most advanced methodological and application-oriented developments of multitemporal data analysis. It is composed of 24 papers selected according to the standard review process of the TGRS. The issue is organized in three sections. The first one (13 papers) is devoted to Methods for the Analysis of Image Time Series, the second one (5 papers) deals with Change Detection Techniques, and the last one presents papers on Applications of Multitemporal Images and Time Series (6 papers).