European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories

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The European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL) [1] in an organization founded in 1977 under the auspices of the European Space Agency, the Council of Europe and the European Commission. [2] [3] [4] As of 2020, EARSeL encompasses more than 250 remote sensing research laboratories across Europe. [5]

It co-sponsors the European Journal of Remote Sensing (published by Taylor & Francis), [6] the Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing book series (published by Springer Nature), [7] and the EARSeL conference proceedings series. [8]

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The European Journal of Remote Sensing (EuJRS) is an academic journal about remote sensing published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the Associazione Italiana di Telerilevamento and co-sponsored by the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL). Its editor-in-chief is Marco Marchetti; its 2018 impact factor is 1.904.

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