The 34 thAsian Conference on Remote Sensing（ ACRS） was held during October 20— 24

2013

in Bali

Indonesia.The theme of ACRS was"Bridging Sustainable Asia". Based on the conference proceedings

we analyzed and summarized the 970 a bstracts from 52 countries and regions

then conducted a thorough review of the current situation of technological development in terms of current progress trends and research directions for remote sensor

data processing

and remote sensing applications.A thorough literature review of the conference proceedings was carried out to identify the current progress and future research directions of remote sensing technologies and applications. Based on the contents of the conference abstracts

papers presented at the conference were grouped into three categories: sensor technology

data processing

and application. Then we provided an overview of the current status and future research directions in the three areas.Results indicated that the conference articles were extremely rich

including dynamic and basic academic disciplines representing cutting-edge remote sensing science and technology. This review also found that Asian countries illustrated significant achievements in remote sensing technology development and applications. China（ including Taiwan and Hong Kong） contributed the most abstracts to this conference

indicating that China is now an academic powerhouse in Asian remote sensing research.A total of 702 conference abstracts elaborated on the theme of remote sensing applications

accounting for 72% of the total a mount of papers. These applications mainly concentrated in the research of marine

agriculture

disaster

cities

forests

watersheds

and land use monitoring. A total of 226 abstracts elaborated on the theme of remote sensing technology

accounting for 23%of the total amount of conference papers that focused on data processing

LIDAR

satellite launch

UAV

and software and hardware d evelopment. This review also found some hot topics

such as Small Satellites and Big Data. However

these topics were not d iscussed much at this conference

suggesting that they may need more attention at future events.