Advances in Video Satellite Remote Sensing and Moving Target Monitoring

Dear Colleagues,

Video satellite is a new type of Earth observation satellite that has rose in popularity in recent years. It can perform regional staring imaging and obtain continuous video image data of the region. Notably, it exhibits a relatively unchanged background while capturing a wealth of moving targets. Therefore, video satellite is especially suitable for regional dynamic change monitoring, such as situation change, dynamic target reconnaissance and surveillance, high dynamic disaster monitoring, wide area traffic monitoring, and attack effect evaluation. Given the extensive potential of satellite video applications, many researchers have explored related processing techniques, including target tracking, dynamic scene classification, motion object detection, video super-resolution, and video signal analysis. However, the characteristics of dim-small targets, complex lighting changes, and easily occluded targets pose significant challenges to video processing methods. In the future, new artificial intelligence and video signal processing methods will hopefully bring about new breakthroughs in satellite video applications.

This Special Issue aims to collate studies that cover novel staring video remote sensing satellites and their applications in high-dynamic target monitoring and dynamic scene understanding. Topics of interest include research on the design of new staring video satellites, video satellite networking and mission planning, satellite video data representation and signal enhancement, intelligent detection and tracking of moving targets, dynamic scene analysis, and traffic flow analysis. Hence, staring video satellite design, planning, intelligent data processing, and multifield applications, among other issues, are welcome to be focused on.

We encourage submissions of both regular research papers and reviews on topics including, but not limited to, the following:

• Satellite video data processing and application;
• Dynamic target detection and tracking;
• Dynamic scene understanding;
• Satellite video enhancement and dim-small target enhancement;
• Satellite video intrinsic decomposition and component separation;
• Use of AI methods in satellite video processing;
• Video satellite design and mission planning.

Dr. Guoming Gao
Prof. Dr. Shengyang Li
Guest Editors

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