You may want to browse through remote sensing journals to find timely topics and research. Part of current awareness in your field is monitoring new literature, and you can do so by looking at new issues of a journal. Set up alerts about new issues of a journal, or consider using Browzine to create alerts for multiple journals.
Go to the library homepage and run a journal search in the library catalog on remote sensing, with "Journal Title" selected from the drop down menu.
In a database like Web of Science run a search on your topic, for example, "remote sensing" and (river* or stream*). Sort by number of times cited to get a sense of what journals publish heavily cited articles. (Just remember that time has to elapse before articles are cited.) Or you can click on "Analyze Results" button on the upper right, then open the drop down menu and select "Publication Titles", then scroll down to see a list by record count of the journals in which the articles from your search appear.
Helps find current articles that cite earlier work. Covers STEM, social sciences, & arts and humanities. Has an emerging sources citation index. Useful for identifying review articles Note: Web of Science generally does not include conference proceedings in search results.
Go to Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and look for the Remote Sensing category. In it you will find a ranked list of journals about remote sensing. Explore the meaning of the various metrics used to rank or evaluate a given journal. It can help to use the glossary to understand the meaning of terms in JCR.