About MIGARS

With the tremendous developments in remote sensing technology, data acquisitions, and sensing platforms, geospatial data have grown leaps and bounds to stream and is too big by volume, variety, and veracity. The challenge is handling, processing, and automating geo-data from various sources, such as multi-platform remote sensors and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, sensor networks, informing decision-making and monitoring at the levels of on-the-fly local to planetary levels.

A self-motivated group of members of IEEE, contributing significantly in the fields of Geoscience, Remote Sensing, and Machine Intelligence, have come together to promote the research towards the applications of Machine Intelligence for GeoAnalytics and Remote Sensing (MIGARS) in the form of an annual international conference. MIGARS had three successful editions: 2023 in Hyderabad, India, 2024 in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, and 2025 in Bucharest, Romania. The MIGARS explores interfaces of machine intelligence approaches with geosciences, spatial analytics, and remote sensing.

The last three editions of the MIGARS conference focused on connecting researchers from various disciplines, including computation/artificial intelligence, engineering, remote sensing, hydrology, agriculture, and geosciences, and on exploring the potential use of intelligent computational approaches for geo-data-based applications and serving society at large.

All editions of MIGARS were well attended by many researchers, academicians and industry personal and received research paper submisions from various parts of the globe. A total of 174 high quality papers were accepted and published in IEEE Xplore, and this Special Stream is an opportunity for their authors to expand their contributions and publish more comprehensive results.

MIGARS 2023: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/10064385/proceeding

MIGARS 2024: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/10543250/proceeding

MIGARS 2025: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/11231793/proceeding

• Alejandro C. Frery, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

• Avik Bhattacharya, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India

• B.S. Daya Sagar, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI)– Bangalore Centre, Bangalore, India

• N. Rama Rao, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, India

• Mihai Datcu, CEO SpaceTech, University Politechnica of Bucharest, Romania Earth Observation Center, German Aerospace Center, Germany

• Swagatam Das, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, India

• Jaya Sreevalsan Nair, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India

• Saroj K. Meher, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI)– Bangalore Centre, Bangalore, India

• T. Hitendra Sarma, Vasavi College of Engineering (VCE), Hyderabad, India (convener).

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