Advanced Spaceborne SAR Processing Techniques for Target Detection
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensing Image Processing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2025 | Viewed by 1265
Special Issue Editors
Interests: spanning signal processing for radar remote sensing; automotive synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Joint Communication & Sensing (JC&S); drone-based SAR; autofocusing algorithms for SAR imaging; SAR Interferometry (InSAR); SAR calibration
Interests: advanced radar signal processing algorithms; MIMO radars; passive radar systems and micro-Doppler analysis; extraction and classification
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Interests: bi/multi-static radar; passive radar; radar signal processing; SAR and Inverse SAR
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The last few years have seen a dramatic increase in the availability of spaceborne SAR data. The increase in temporal and spatial resolutions of the available data opens the way for their exploitation over remote sensing, such as man-made target detection for enhanced surveillance applications.
In this regard, this Special Issue aims at representing the latest advances in spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) processing techniques with a primary focus on enhancing target detection capabilities. This Special Issue brings together cutting-edge research and methodologies aimed at improving the awareness capability provided by spaceborne SAR sensors in both land and maritime domains. Contributions explore novel processing techniques to mitigate challenging aspects of SAR, such as speckle noise, low contrast, and complex background interference, to enhance the detection of man-made targets, encompassing aspects such as image formation, autofocusing, ambiguity detection and suppression, waveform design for enhanced target detection, detection-before-focusing, machine learning approaches, and more.
The interdisciplinary nature of the Special Issue encourages collaboration between experts in radar technology, signal processing, and artificial intelligence. Ultimately, this collection of research articles contributes to the advancement of SAR technology, addressing key challenges and opening new avenues for effective target detection in complex environments.
Dr. Marco Manzoni
Dr. Carmine Clemente
Dr. Fabrizio Santi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- spaceborne SAR
- autofocusing
- hybrid SAR/ISAR
- target detection
- moving target indication
- ground moving target indication (GMTI)
- space time adaptive processing (STAP)
- displaced phase center antenna (DPCA)
- clutter mitigation
- detect-before-focusing
- deep learning
- machine learning
- SAR image intelligent processing
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