r/remotesensing

14k members
r/remotesensing is a subreddit with 14k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses hiring, remote sensing, satellite imagery, data, and mapping.
For all things related to Remote Sensing of the planet from space or from aircraft/UAVs. History, raw data, beautiful images, news, software, tutorials, questions, it's all welcome.

Popular Themes in r/remotesensing

#1
Advice Requests
: "Free Courses"
19 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Free tool for monitoring forest health and fire risk from satellite — curious if foresters would actually use this"
8 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "6 months, 200+ applications, 0 luck. Is the "Modern GIS" market in Europe actually dead?"
3 posts
#4
Ideas
: "🛰️ Introducing Awesome-Remote-Sensing-Agents: The Largest Curated Collection of Intelligent Remote Sensing Agents"
2 posts
#5
Self-Promotion
: "I built a free tool that lets you click anywhere on a map and get weather, terrain, vegetation, and hazard data. Looking for honest feedback from GIS professionals"
1 post

Popular Topics in r/remotesensing

#1

Hiring

7 posts
#2

Remote Sensing

: "Rising HS junior interested in RS"
7 posts
#3

Satellite Imagery

3 posts
#4

Data

3 posts
#5

Mapping

: "Looking for feedback on a land-cover Mapping platform I'm building"
3 posts
#6

Earth Observation

3 posts
#7

Multispectral

2 posts
#8

Jobs

2 posts
#9

Data Space

2 posts
#10

Credit System

2 posts

Flair Used in r/remotesensing

#1
Satellite
: "Nepal - modelling the Bhote Koshi floods using all the data I could find"
18 posts
#2
ImageProcessing
: "6 months, 200+ applications, 0 luck. Is the "Modern GIS" market in Europe actually dead?"
12 posts
#3
Python
: "My first Python package for Sentinel-2 data processing"
8 posts
#4
Course
: "Free Courses"
7 posts
#5
MachineLearning
: "looking to get into Remote Sensing — what areas are still underexplored?"
5 posts
#6
Optical
: "Visual localization from satellite imagery as a GNSS fallback for drones is possible?"
4 posts
#7
SAR
: "Mapped 🥭 Mango Orchards in Multan (Pakistan) using satellite data | changes from 2018 to 2025 🛰️"
3 posts
#8
Aerial
: "AI Edit models works surprisingly pretty well with aerial imagery. Here's a demo with the "AI edit" plugin in QGIS"
3 posts
#9
UAV
: "Forest Health Monitoring"
2 posts
#10
Announcement
: "Seeking PhD position in geoinformatics / remote sensing — supervisor recommendations welcome"
1 post

Member Growth in r/remotesensing

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+3k members(26.9%)

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Last updated: September 3, 2026