Multistatic and Bistatic SAR: State of Affairs and Way Forward
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 October 2019) | Viewed by 4856
Special Issue Editors
Interests: SAR; InSAR; bistatic SAR
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Bistatic and multistatic architectures have been placed at the center of several major developments in SAR remote sensing over the past fifteen years. With the improvement in the understanding of specific bistatic SAR techniques, the centroid around bistatic and multistatic SAR has transitioned from a technological perspective to being increasingly application-driven. The start in 2010 of the TanDEM-X mission, and its consistent operation ever since, marks an age of maturity for bistatic SAR paving the way to the development of more recent and drastically bistatic mission concepts such as Tandem-L, SAOCOM-CS or, more recently, STEREOID. In this Special Issue we want to provide an overview of the state of affairs in bistatic and multistatic SAR, including the current directions in which it is developing. Papers included in the SI shall provide a balanced overview of the following areas:
- On the technology front, we will attempt at collecting an overview of instrument architectures, processing approaches and technical solutions to bistatic-specific technical challenges, such as synchronization approaches.
- Experimental results, including results obtained with TanDEM-X data, airborne campaigns, and receivers of opportunity.
- Bistatic scattering characteristics and forward models.
- Bistatic and multistatic SAR applications, covering single-pass InSAR and TomoSAR applications, as well as other applications exploiting bistatic radiometry and the geometrical diversity provided by multistatic systems.
- Future bistatic and multistatic SAR mission concepts, including on-going missions and long-term concepts.
This special issue will be also an outlet for extended versions of papers presented at the Bi and Multistatic SAR Systems and Applications workshop, co-organized by the European Space Agency and Delft University of Technology, which will take place in the period between 19 and 21 March, 2019, in Delft, The Netherlands.
Dr. Paco Lopez-Dekker
Dr. Marc Rodriguez-Cassola
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Bistatic SAR, multistatic SAR, bistatic radar
- Bistatic SAR processing and applications
- Future missions
- Bistatic Scattering Models
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