An Interdisciplinary Journal

Remote Sensing of Environment serves the remote sensing community with the publication of results on the theory, science, applications, and technology of remote sensing of Earth Resources and Environment. Thoroughly interdisciplinary, RSE publishes on terrestrial, oceanic and atmospheric sensing. The emphasis is on biophysical and quantitative approaches to remote sensing at local to global scales. In addition to original research papers, comprehensive, state-of-the-art review articles are welcome. Brief papers containing significant new data or techniques may be published as Short Communications.

Before Submission. Please carefully check the latest issues of Remote Sensing of Environment to see whether your article is appropriate for the journal.

Submission of Papers. Contributions are accepted on the understanding that authors have obtained the necessary authority for publication. Submission of an article must be accompanied by a statement that the article is original and unpublished and is not being considered for publication elsewhere. Upon acceptance of an article by the journal, the author(s) will be asked to transfer the copyright of the article to the publisher. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information.

Manuscript Preparation. All material should be typed, double-spaced, allowing ample margins using 8½ x 11 paper size format. Pages must be numbered; in addition, line numbering is preferred. Flexibility of presentation is allowed, but authors are asked to arrange the subject matter clearly under headings such as Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, etc. All contributions should include a concise, informative Abstract. All equations, tables, and figure legends should be numbered consecutively and separately throughout the paper. The International System (SI) of units should be used. Language: Papers are to be submitted in and will be published in English. Table numbers and captions should be placed directly above each table. Figure numbers and legends, if possible, should be placed directly below each figure.

All manuscripts are to be submitted electronically; no hard copies should be submitted. Editorial Manager accepts files in the following formats: Word, Wordperfect, LaTeX2e, TIFF, GIF, JPEG, EPS, Postscript, Excel and Powerpoint. Submit your original files. DO NOT upload your manuscript in PDF file format; the system builds one PDF file from all of your submitted files, and your original files are stored on the server for editorial office and publisher access. When you upload your manuscript, you will be required to upload your abstract separately. Please upload your title page and abstract under the ABSTRACT category. The MANUSCRIPT category should include the rest of your manuscript, including references. Tables and figures can be included in the entire manuscript, or uploaded separately under the TABLE and FIGURE categories. If you are unable to upload the figures as one file because of size, you can upload each one as a separate file.

For revised manuscripts, a "Response to Reviews and Summary of Changes" is required. Upload this file under the category "RESPONSE TO REVIEWS AND SUMMARY OF CHANGES".

Before building your PDF file, put your files in the following order: Response to Reviews and Summary of Changes (only for revised papers), Abstract, Manuscript, Tables, Figures. View your submission for accuracy, and approve it.

Illustrations. Line drawings should be in a form suitable for reproduction. If color figures are included, the publisher will forward an estimate of cost to the author before beginning color reproduction. Further artwork preparation guidelines can be found at: http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions.

References. References should be cited in the text by the name(s) of the author(s), followed by the year of publication in parentheses, e.g., Baret and Guyot (1991). When the same author and year are cited again, these references should have the year followed by (a), (b), etc. The reference list should be typed alphabetically, according to the following examples:
Journal: Baret, F., & Guyot, G. (1991). Potentials and limits of vegetation indices for LAI and APAR assessment. Remote Sensing of Environment, 35, 161-173
Book: Schott, J.R. (1997). Remote Sensing: The Image Chain Approach. (pp. 52-62). New York: Oxford University Press
Edited Book: Kaufman, Y.J. (1989). The atmospheric effect on remote sensing and its corrections. In G. Asrar (Ed.), Theory and Applications of Optical Remote Sensing (pp. 336-428). New York: Wiley
Reports, Theses, and Other Work: Style as a journal article with as much source information as possible.

Supplementary Data. Elsevier accepts supplementary material to support and enhance your scientific research. Supplementary files offer the author additional possibilities to publish supporting applications, movies, animation sequences, high-resolution images, background datasets, sound clips and more. Supplementary files supplied will be published online alongside the electronic version of your article in Elsevier Web products, including ScienceDirect: http://www.sciencedirect.com. In order to ensure that your submitted material is directly usable, please ensure that data is provided in one of our recommended file formats. Authors should submit the material in electronic format together with the article and supply a concise and descriptive caption for each file. For more detailed instructions please visit our artwork instruction pages at http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions.

Proofs. Authors will receive proofs that they are requested to correct and return as soon as possible. Corrections must be returned in one communication, as late corrections cannot be made. No new material may be inserted in the text at the time of proofreading.

Offprints. The corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided with a PDF file of the article via e-mail or, alternatively, 25 free paper offprints. The PDF file is a watermarked version of the published article and includes a cover sheet with the journal cover image and a disclaimer outlining the terms and conditions of use.

Page Charges. Except for colour figures, there are no page charges for publication. If colour artwork is paid for, an additional 100 offprints are provided to the corresponding author.

Author Inquiries. For inquiries relating to the submission of articles, please contact Betty Schiefelbein, Managing Editor at rse@umn.edu. You can track accepted articles at http://www.elsevier.com/trackarticle and set up e-mail alerts to inform you of when an article's status has changed, as well as copyright information, frequently asked questions and more. Contact details for questions arising after acceptance of an article, especially those relating to proofs, are provided after registration of an article for publication.