Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Applications in Earth, Moon and Planetary Exploration (Second Edition)
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Engineering Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 29 October 2025 | Viewed by 727
Special Issue Editor
Interests: near surface geophysics; ground penetrating radar; electrical resistivity imaging; potential field geophyscis; tectonophysics
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Dear Colleagues,
Thank you all for your efforts and support in making our previous Special Issue: ‘Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Applications in Earth, Moon and Planetary Exploration (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/4H6INC0WMJ)’ a success. We are pleased to announce a new volume in the open access journal Remote Sensing.
Ground penetrating radar (GPR) is an established technology for high-resolution detection in near-subsurface geophysics, and has been widely used in numerous studies. The first radar sounder, the Apollo Lunar Sounder Experiment (ALSE), was aimed at the Moon in the early 1970s. Since then, increasingly large GPR data sets are efficiently collected, processed, and interpreted not only on Earth but also on the Moon, Mars, comets, and other objects of exploration.
This Special Issue aims to report studies covering the latest applications of GPR surveys conducted in a wide variety of applications (Earth, Moon, Mars, etc.). Examples of the development of GPR systems, simulation, data processing, inversion of physical parameters, novel scientific achievements, and reviews of development in Earth and planetary exploration are welcome.
In particular, we invite researchers to contribute papers on any innovative aspects in terms of enhanced efficiency or increased potential to extract novel information from GPR measurements. A few examples of challenges and questions are listed below, but the topics are not limited to these.
- GPR applications in Moon and planetary exploration, for example, research based on China’s Yutu-1 rover, Yutu-2 rover and Zhu Rong rover.
- GPR applications on the Earth for detection or monitoring in civil engineering, environment, archaeology, cultural heritage, agriculture, emerging fields, etc.
Dr. David Gomez-Ortiz
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ground-penetrating radar (GPR)
- planetary radar
- subsurface structure
- earth
- moon
- mars
- system, simulation, signal processing, imaging, interpretation, etc.
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