Applications and Challenges in Sonar Signal Processing
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Circuit and Signal Processing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 February 2024) | Viewed by 7921
Special Issue Editors
Interests: compressed sensing; adaptive signal processing; channel estimation and equalizer design
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Interests: underwater acoustic communication and network; UWA channel estimation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sonar signal processing plays a crucial role in various underwater applications, ranging from marine exploration and navigation to defense and environmental monitoring. This Special Issue aims to highlight the latest advancements, applications, and challenges in sonar signal processing techniques and methodologies.
The aim of this Special Issue of Electronics is to invite original research articles, review papers, and case studies that address the following topics:
- Sonar signal processing algorithms: Novel algorithms for sonar data acquisition, processing, and analysis, including beamforming, target detection, classification, imaging, tracking, communications, and localization;
- Advanced signal processing techniques: Innovative approaches in signal processing to enhance the performance of sonar systems, such as adaptive filtering, time–frequency analysis, compressive sensing, machine learning, and deep learning;
- Sonar applications in marine exploration: Studies showcasing the use of sonar signal processing in underwater mapping, underwater archaeological surveys, marine resource exploration, and underwater robotics;
- Sonar systems in defense and security: Contributions to sonar technologies for naval warfare, submarine detection and tracking, anti-submarine warfare, mine detection and classification, and underwater surveillance;
- Sonar signal processing for environmental monitoring: Research focusing on the application of sonar systems for assessing marine ecosystems, studying marine life, underwater noise analysis, and pollution detection in underwater environments;
- Challenges and future directions: Discussions on the emerging challenges, limitations, and future trends in sonar signal processing, including issues related to noise, interference, underwater communications, data fusion, and integration with other sensing modalities;
Researchers, engineers, and practitioners from academia, industry, and government institutions are encouraged to contribute to this Special Issue. The aim is to provide a comprehensive overview of the latest developments and applications in sonar signal processing and to address the key challenges in this field.
Submission guidelines and additional information will be available on the journal's website. We welcome high-quality submissions that present original research and contribute to the advancement of sonar signal processing techniques and their applications.
Technical Program Committee Members:
Name: Prof. Dr. Longyu Jiang
Email: [email protected]
Affiliation: School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
Research Interests: underwater acoustic signal and image processing; artificial intelligence and big data
Name: Dr. Lianyou Jing
Email: [email protected]
Affiliation: Ocean Institute, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 215400, China
Research Interests: underwater acoustic channel estimation; channel equalization; novel underwater acoustic communication methods; adaptive underwater acoustic communication
Dr. Feiyun Wu
Prof. Dr. Feng Tong
Prof. Dr. Yougan Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sonar signal processing
- underwater acoustics
- beamforming
- target detection
- target classification
- imaging sonar
- sonar tracking
- sonar localization
- adaptive filtering
- time-frequency analysis
- compressive sensing
- machine learning in sonar
- deep learning in sonar
- underwater mapping
- underwater archaeology
- marine resource exploration
- underwater robotics
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