Optical Remote Sensing Payloads, from Design to Flight Test

Dear Colleagues,

The development of optical remote sensing systems has a long history; however, with the progress of materials, processing, detection technology, and sensor technology, new optical remote sensing systems continue to emerge. The rich application scenarios are also constantly promoting the technical progress of new optical remote sensors. Particularly in recent years, miniaturized UAVs and micro-nano satellites are being applied to operational remote sensing services, which establishes new requirements for the cost performance, power consumption, size, and weight of optical remote sensing systems. This generates new challenges for the entitre process of remote sensing system development, from design to flight tests.

This Special Issue aims to optimize the design and flight testing of different optical remote sensing systems. This includes decomposition from the breakdown analysis of top requirements, system optimization and performance testing, ground and in-flight calibration, system performance verification, flight test methods and results analysis, lessons learned, etc. The types of remote sensing systems include high resolution, multispectral, hyperspectral, infrared, etc. The platform types are not limited.

Articles may address, but are not limited, the following topics:

• Advanced high-resolution systems
• Multispectral and Hyperspectral systems
• Ultraviolet and Infrared remote sensing systems
• Atmospheric composition observation remote sensing systems
• Laser ranging and LiDAR systems
• Stereo mapping remote sensing systems
• Polarization remote sensing systems
• Interferometric remote sensing system
• Next-generation remote sensing systems

Dr. Xing Zhong
Prof. Pierre Rochus
Prof. Dr. Fei Xing
Prof. Dr. Xiuqing Hu
Guest Editors

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