SAR Remote Sensing of Arid Regions

Dear Colleagues,

Thanks to the Sentinel-1 mission, high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing data with high temporal and spatial resolution have become freely available for almost all regions of the earth, providing complementary information to optical remote sensing systems. This extensive data archive and the planned continuation of the mission open up new perspectives for the recognition, observation, and analysis of land surface dynamics, especially in arid landscapes, and offer a high potential for physiogeographic research.

For this Special Issue, contributions are sought which demonstrate applications of radar remote sensing to problems in physical geography and geomorphology, especially for hyper-arid, arid, or semi-arid regions. We are looking for contributions from all fields of physical–geographical research using data from radar remote sensing systems (e.g., Sentinel-1, TerraSAR-X, Radarsat-2). The focus can be, but is not limited to: the fusion of optical and radar data in mapping and classification of the land surface, the derivation of motion rates and surface changes by feature tracking and/or interferometry, coherence and/or amplitude change detection, and the identification/quantification of morphological dynamics by time series analysis.

Dr. Georg Stauch
Dr. Tobias Ullmann
Guest Editors

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