Advances in Synthetic Aperture Radar Data Processing and Application (Third Edition)
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Earth Observation Data".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 8
Special Issue Editors
Interests: radar imaging; synthetic aperture radar; remote sensing by radar; convolutional neural nets; image classification
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Interests: radar signal processing; high-resolution SAR imaging method
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Interests: radar singal processing; radar system design
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is the third edition of the Special Issue titled “Advances in Synthetic Aperture Radar Data Processing and Application”. After the resounding success of our first and second edition, we are thrilled to launch this edition.
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is an active high-resolution microwave imaging technique. Compared with typical optical systems, it has all-time and all-weather surveillance capability and is hence widely used in military, mapping, agriculture, and disaster monitoring applications. Recently, SAR has entered a stage of vigorous development. More and more SAR satellites have been launched, providing rich data support for its application in many fields. In addition, with the help of UAV performance advantages such as its low cost, easy and rapid deployment, and miniaturization, UAV-borne SAR has also entered a stage of rapid development and plays an increasingly important role in several applications such as reconnaissance and mapping.
The main objective of this Special Issue is to provide a communication platform for the latest advanced SAR data processing technology and applications, so that researchers can gain a clear understanding of the development of this field. This Special Issue aims to provide a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art technologies on SAR data processing and application.
The topics of research articles, or reviews, submitted to this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
SAR data processing:
- High-resolution/wide-swath/squint/multi-aspect/multi-frequency SAR imaging;
- SAR image generation, enhancement, motion compensation, autofocusing;
- 3D/4D SAR imaging (tomography, D-tomography, holography, etc.);
- ISAR data processing;
- Moving target imaging;
- Advanced SAR data processing techniques.
- SAR applications;
- SAR data and image-based urban, land, ocean, ice, soil, and vegetation applications;
- Disaster monitoring;
- Other applications.
Prof. Dr. Hui Bi
Prof. Dr. Daiyin Zhu
Dr. Jingjing Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
- SAR data processing
- 3D/4D SAR imaging
- ISAR imaging
- moving target imaging
- SAR applications
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