Applications of Synthetic Aperture Radar to Target Detection and Tracking

Dear Colleagues,

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is an important active microwave imaging system, and it has been extensively applied in the remote sensing community, e.g., geological exploration, disaster forecast, traffic monitoring, iceberg observation, etc. due to its high resolution, all-day and all-weather imaging capability of the observation area. In recent years, with the development of many kinds of electronic technologies such as Terahertz technology and Microwave photonic technology, the SAR system can achieve ultra-high-resolution imaging, capable of delicate images of some valuable SAR targets of interest. Meanwhile, to meet the increasing requirements of surveillance systems, target detection, imaging, and tracking has been a long-standing interest subject for the SAR community, as valuable target information is important for wide area surveillance systems with limited revisit times. Therefore, SAR target detection, imaging, and tracking is very import for remote sensing. However, complicated target characteristics, complex environment/interference and complicated non-cooperative target movements have made great challenges to SAR target detection, imaging, and tracking. Along with appearances of new challenges and processing techniques, there are still many research issues on SAR target detection, tracking, and imaging, such as the characteristics modeling, clutter and interference suppression, target component information extraction, target micro-Doppler extraction and application, and combination of artificial intelligence techniques, among others.

This Special Issue aims to collect and highlight outstanding contributions that cover “Applications of Synthetic Aperture Radar to Target Detection and Tracking”, including (but not limited to):

• SAR target modeling and characteristic analysis;
• SAR target detection, tracking and imaging in ground/sea environment;
• SAR target detection, tracking and imaging in interference situation;
• SAR clutter and interference suppression technique;
• Detection and tracking using SAR images with applications in geology;
• SAR target component information extraction;
• SAR target micro-Doppler extraction and application;
• Combination of artificial intelligence techniques.

We are looking forward to receiving your contribution to this Special Issue entitled “Applications of Synthetic Aperture Radar to Target Detection and Tracking”.

Dr. Zhongyu Li
Dr. Lin Gao
Prof. Dr. Giorgio Battistelli 
Prof. Dr. Vito Pascazio 
Guest Editors

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