Special Issue "Microwave Remote Sensing"

Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wagner
Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (I.P.F.), Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Gusshausstraße 27-29, 1040 Vienna, Austria
Website: http://www.ipf.tuwien.ac.at/index.php/staff/58-wagner-wolfgang.html
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Interests: remote sensing; geophysical parameter retrieval; airborne laser scanning; full-waveform lidar; radar remote sensing; soil moisture

Guest Editor
Dr. Iain H. Woodhouse
Edinburgh Earth Observatory, School of GeoSciences, Geography Building, Drummond, Edinburgh EH8 9XP, UK
Website: http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/people/person.html?indv=186
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Interests: radar remote sensing; polar decomposition methods for visualising SAR data; novel visualisation techniques for the analysis of multichannel remote sensing data; DEM generation and regional scale geomorphology; synergistic remote sensing of vegetation; macroecology and telemacroscopics

Dear Colleagues,

Microwave remote sensing is a very dynamic field driven by advances in space technique and sensor design, improvements in processing techniques and retrieval algorithms, and the increasing demand of data in geosciences. The big challenges for the future are to develop global climate datasets based on microwave observations and to establish new operational monitoring services in support to various applications such as weather forecasting, oceanography or hydrology. This special issue seeks contributions from all research and development areas in microwave remote sensing – from the design of future sensors, scattering and emission theory, geophysical parameter retrieval, to the development of operational microwave products and data assimilation capabilities. Particularly welcome are contributions dealing with the generation of essential climate variables (soil moisture, biomass, snow, precipitation, ocean salinity, sea ice, etc.) and studies preparing for the launch of new spaceborne microwave sensors.

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wagner
Dr. Iain H. Woodhouse
Guest Editors

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• active and passive microwave sensors
• scattering and emission theory
• geophysical parameter retrieval and uncertainty analysis
• SAR processing
• interferometry
• polarimetry
• image and time series analysis
• operational microwave products
• applications and data assimilation