Foreword to the Special Issue on Advances in Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing

The papers in this special section were presented at the Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing (PRRS) Workshop. The technical committee for pattern recognition in remote sensing (PRRS) and mapping (TC7) of the international association for pattern recognition (IAPR) organizes a biennial workshop on PRRS. This workshop series has been a popular forum for experts of both communities, pattern recognition and remote sensing, and accordingly there is co-sponsoring from IAPR, IEEE-GRSS, and ISPRS. In particular, the intercommission working group for pattern analysis in remote sensing (ICWG II/III) of the ISPRS is closely cooperating. The latest workshops have been very successfully held in December 2016 in Cancun, Mexico, and in August 2018 in Beijing, China. Additionally, TC7 compiles special issues on PRRS in journals such as IEEE-JSTARS or Pattern Recognition Letters [items 1)-6) in Related Works]. The issue at hand fits in this series. Contained are 29 papers, including some work of authors that have participated and published preceding work in the 2016 PRRS in Cancun.