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Among these technologies, LoRa (Long Range) has emerged as a prominent communication technology due to its combination of long-range communication, low energy consumption, and affordability, making it particularly suitable for remote and infrastructure-limited environments. Its adaptability is further enhanced through the use of open-source hardware, renewable energy sources, and intelligent algorithms. Despite LoRa\u2019s limitations in bandwidth and data rate, recent innovations enabled increasingly data-intensive applications, including image transmission. This review critically examines recent advances in image transmission over LoRa networks, synthesising approaches across four interconnected strategies: image compression, packetisation and reliability, communication optimisation, and application-specific techniques. The analysis evaluates trade-offs among image size, transmission latency, energy consumption, coverage, and reconstructed image quality. These considerations are particularly relevant for environmental sensing applications, including water quality assessment, air pollution monitoring, wildlife tracking, and underground mining. This review synthesises recent advances in LoRa-based environmental and visual sensing and highlights persistent challenges, including duty-cycle restrictions, limited throughput, and energy constraints, that must be addressed for broader adoption in data-intensive sensing applications. 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