Scale is a fundamental and crucial issue in remote sensing studies and image analysis gis and remote sensing scientists use various scaling techniques depending on the types of remotely sensed images and geospatial data used scaling techniques affect show all. Edited by a prominent authority in the geographic information science community scale issues in remote sensing offers an extensive examination of the fundamental theories of scale issues along with current scaling techniques studies scale issues from three interrelated perspectives land surface properties patterns and processes addresses the impact of new frontiers in earth observation technology high resolution hyperspectral lidar sensing and their synergy with existing . At present remote sensing technology has entered an era of quantitative analysis thus the . With the rapid development of remote sensing technology this special issue focuses on scale issues in remote sensing analysis processing and modeling potential topics include but are not limited to the following scale effects of remotely sensed products upscaling and downscaling modelling approaches