Computational Intelligence in Remote Sensing: An Editorial Computational intelligence is a very active and fruitful research of artificial intelligence with a broad spectrum of applications. Remote sensing data has been a salient field of application of computational intelligence algorithms, both for the exploitation of the data and for the researchdevelopment of new data analysis tools. In this editorial paper we provide the setting of the special issue xe2x80x9cComputational Intelligence in Remote Sensingxe2x80x9d and an overview of the published papers. The 11 accepted and published papers cover a wide spectrum of applications and computational tools that we try to summarize and put in perspective in this editorial paper.

Distributed processing platform for large datasets: satellite imagery usecase For most of the programs, the most significant amount of time is spent on running a CPUintensive component, while retrieving and reading the input or formatting the output only takes an insignificant amount of time, especially if both the input and output are structured data. Thus, most of the computer science literature on distributed systems discuss the optimization of algorithms and frequently treat the IO and input preparation parts of the program execution as a much less important one for overall efficiency. That wellinformed decision of ignoring the IO part when discussing runtime optimization might change to a fault when we consider algorithms running over massive datasets that should also be retrieved at a userxe2x80x99s request. In this paper, we propose and analyze an usercentric processing platform for running algorithms over satellite imagery products, including a review of the important challenges, solutions, and opportunities on extracting valuable results from GIS products. The 4th section of the paper includes two examples of reallife usage of remote sensing for the observation of natural habitats. In the 5th section we include three practical experiments assessing different aspects of the proposed solution.