This study explores the development of explainable artificial intelligence (xAI) methods for scene classification problems in remote sensing (RS). To investigate the suitability of directly applying xAI methods and evaluation metrics developed in computer vision (CV) to remote sensing, we conducted methodological and experimental analyses by applying five feature attribution methods (Occlusion, LIME, GradCAM, LRP, and DeepLIFT) and ten explanation metrics to three remote sensing (RS) datasets.