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Summary
A new generation of Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensors is being operational to map, monitor and analyze the Earth: new available configurations and operational modes increase the flexibility of SAR sensors that are now able to obtain microwave 2-D images and data as well as 3-D interferometric products within a wide range of space and time resolution and coverage. This unprecedented development in the SAR sensors requires definition of new techniques and algorithms for SAR data usage as well as assessment of existing methods for SAR products exploitation. Hence, main purpose of this Special issue is to provide a reference of the SAR sensors and their operating characteristics, as well as to advance the exploitation of their data for monitoring applications.
The Special Issue is open to all researchers. Papers are solicited on:
- existing and future SAR and ISAR sensors;
- SAR data processing and simulation for 2-D images, polarimetric, interferometric and differential interferometric products;
- SAR data processing and simulation for Stripmap, Spotlight, Hybrid Strip-Spot, ScanSAR, Bistatic, operational modes;
- SAR data usage and information retrieval for application to land, ocean, urban areas, forestry, volcanoes, ice monitoring;
- SAR data elaboration, parameters estimation, and feature extraction for retrieval of value added information;
- integration of SAR data with other remote sensing products;
- use of SAR data in conjunction with demographic, social and economics data;
- comparison of SAR products with measurement on field campaigns and in situ data.
Keywords
Synthetic Aperture Radar, SAR, ISAR, Remote Sensing, Imaging Radar, Earth Observation, Spaceborne SAR, Airborne SAR, Shuttle Imaging Radar, ERS, J-ERS, SRTM, Radarsat, ASAR, ALOS, COSMO Skymed, TerraSAR
Published Papers
Wolfgang Wagner 1,*, Carsten Pathe 1, Marcela Doubkova 1, Daniel Sabel 1, Annett Bartsch 1, Stefan Hasenauer 1, Günter Blöschl 2, Klaus Scipal 3,
José Martínez-Fernández 4 and Alexander Löw 5
1 Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Gußhausstraße 27-29, 1040 Vienna, Austria; E-mails: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
2 Vienna University of Technology, Institut für Wasserbau und Ingenieurhydrologie, Karlsplatz 13/222, A-1040 Wien, Vienna, Austria; E-mail: [email protected]
3 European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, Shinfield Park, Reading RG2 9AX, United Kingdom; E-mail: [email protected]
4 Department of Geography, University of Salamanca, Cervantes 3, 37002 Salamanca, Spain; E-mail: [email protected]
5 University of Munich, Munich, University of Munich, Munich, Department of Geography, Luisenstrasse 37, 80333 Munich, Germany; E-mail: [email protected]
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 11 January 2008 / Accepted: 19 February 2008 / Published: 22 February 2008
Full Research Paper: Temporal Stability of Soil Moisture and Radar Backscatter Observed by the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR)
Sensors 2008, 8, 1174-1197 (PDF format, 1334 K)
Xian-Bin Wen 1,2,*, Hua Zhang 1,2 and Ze-Tao Jiang 3
1 School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300191, P.R. China
2 Tianjin Key Laboratory of Intelligence Computing and Novel Software Technology, Tianjin, 300191, China
3 Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang, 330034, China
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-mail: [email protected]
Received: 17 January 2008 / Accepted: 25 February 2008 / Published: 12 March 2008
Full Research Paper: Multiscale Unsupervised Segmentation of SAR Imagery Using Genetic Algorithm
Sensors 2008, 8, 1704-1711 (PDF format, 172 K)
Liang Guo 1,*, Mendao Xing 1, Yu Tang 2 and Jing Dan 2
1 The National Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi’an, P.R. China; E-mails: lguo (a) mail.xidian.edu.cn; xmd (a) xidian.edu.cn
2 The National Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi’an, P.R. China; E-mails: tangyu0905 (a) yahoo.com.cn; 411jingdan (a) 163.com
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-mail: lguo (a) mail.xidian.edu.cn
Received: 20 December 2007 / Accepted: 14 April 2008 / Published: 6 May 2008
Article: A Novel Modified Omega-K Algorithm for Synthetic Aperture Imaging Lidar through the Atmosphere
Sensors 2008, 8, 3056-3066 (PDF format, 107 K) DOI: 10.3390/s8053056
George C. Miliaresis
Geology Department, University of Patras, Rion 26504, Greece; E-mail: gmiliar (a) upatras.gr; Tel: +30-6977-047123
Received: 18 February 2008 / Accepted: 8 May 2008 / Published: 15 May 2008
Article: The Landcover Impact on the Aspect/Slope Accuracy Dependence of the SRTM-1 Elevation Data for the Humboldt Range
Sensors 2008, 8, 3134-3149 (PDF format, 4920 K) DOI: 10.3390/s8053134
José-Tomás González-Partida 1,*, Pablo Almorox-González 1, Mateo Burgos-García 1,* and Blas-Pablo Dorta-Naranjo 2
1 Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Departamento de Señales, Sistemas y Radiocomunicaciones, Av. Complutense s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain; E-mail: almorox (a) gmr.ssr.upm.es
2 Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Departamento de Señales y Comunicaciones. Edificio de Electrónica y Telecomunicaciones, 35017 Campus Universitario de Tafira, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; E-mail: pdorta (a) dsc.ulpgc.es
* Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-mails: joseto (a) gmr.ssr.upm.es; mateo (a) gmr.ssr.upm.es
Received: 12 March 2008 / Accepted: 14 May 2008 / Published: 23 May 2008
Article: SAR System for UAV Operation with Motion Error Compensation beyond the Resolution Cell
Sensors 2008, 8, 3384-3405; (PDF format, 713 K) DOI: 10.3390/s8053384
Xinhua Mao*, Daiyin Zhu , Xin Nie and Zhaoda Zhu
Department of Electronic Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 210016, China
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-mail: xinhua (a) nuaa.edu.cn
Received: 3 April 2008 / Accepted: 19 May 2008 / Published: 26 May 2008
Article: A Two Dimensional Overlapped Subaperture Polar Format Algorithm Based on Stepped-chirp Signal
Sensors 2008, 8, 3438-3446 (PDF format, 105 K) DOI: 10.3390/s8053438
Cleber Gonzales de Oliveira * and Waldir Renato Paradella
National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Remote Sensing Division (DSR). São José dos Campos, 12227- 010. São Paulo State, Brazil; E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-mail: [email protected]
Received: 15 April 2008; in revised form: 27 May 2008 / Accepted: 28 May 2008 / Published: 6 June 2008
Article: An Assessment of the Altimetric Information Derived from Spaceborne SAR (RADARSAT-1, SRTM3) and Optical (ASTER) Data for Cartographic Application in the Amazon Region
Sensors 2008, 8, 3819-3829 (PDF format, 3010 K) DOI: 10.3390/s8063819
Brynmor J. Davis, Daniel L. Marks, Tyler S. Ralston, P. Scott Carney and Stephen A. Boppart *
The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, and The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 405 North Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA; E-mails: [email protected] (B. J. D.); [email protected] (D. L. M.); [email protected] (T. S. R.); [email protected] (P. S. C.); [email protected] (S. A. B.)
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 5 June 2008; in revised form: 9 June 2008 / Accepted: 9 June 2008 / Published: 11 June 2008
Review: Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Microscopy: Computed Imaging for Scanned Coherent Microscopy
Sensors 2008, 8, 3903-3931 (PDF format, 7741 K) DOI: 10.3390/s8063903
Ioannis Kotsis 1, Charalabos Kontoes 2,*, Dimitrios Paradissis 1, Spyros Karamitsos 1, Panagiotis Elias 2 and Ioannis Papoutsis 2
1 Higher Geodesy Laboratory and Dionyssos Satellite Observatory, National Technical University of Athens, Iroon Polytexneiou 9, 15780, Zografou, Greece; E-Mails: [email protected] (I.K.); [email protected] (D.P.); [email protected] (S.K.)
2 National Observatory of Athens, Institute of Space Applications and Remote Sensing, Vas. Pavlou and Metaxa str., 15236, Palaia Penteli, Greece; E-mails: [email protected] (P.E.); [email protected] (I.P.)
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: [email protected] (C.K.)
Received: 20 March 2008; in revised form: 19 June 2008 / Accepted: 20 June 2008 / Published:10 July 2008
Article: A Methodology to Validate the InSAR Derived Displacement Field of the September 7th, 1999 Athens Earthquake Using Terrestrial Surveying. Improvement of the Assessed Deformation Field by Interferometric Stacking
Sensors 2008, 8, 4119-4134 (PDF format, 1220 K) DOI: 10.3390/s8074119
Niko E.C Verhoest 1,*, Hans Lievens 1, Wolfgang Wagner 2, Jesús Álvarez-Mozos 3, M. Susan Moran 4, Francesco Mattia 5
1 Laboratory of Hydrology and Water Management, Ghent University, Coupure links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium; E-mail: [email protected] (H.L.)
2 Christian Doppler Laboratory, Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Gusshausstraβe 27-29, 1040 Vienna, Austria;
E-mail: [email protected] (W.W.)
3 Department of Projects and Rural Engineering, Public University of Navarre, Los Tejos, Arrosadia s/n, 31006 Pamplona, Spain; E-mail: [email protected] (J. A.-M.)
4 USDA ARS Southwest Watershed Research Center, 2000 E. Allen Rd., Tucson AZ 85719, Arizona, USA; E-mail: [email protected] (S.M.M.)
5 Consiglo Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Studi sui Sistemi Intelligenti per l’Automazione (ISSIA), via Amendola 122/D, I-70126 Bari, Italy;
E-mail: [email protected] (F.M.)
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: [email protected] (N.V.)
Received: 22 May 2008; in revised form: 30 May 2008 / Accepted: 25 June 2008 / Published: 15 July 2008
Review: On the Soil Roughness Parameterization Problem in Soil Moisture Retrieval of Bare Surfaces from Synthetic Aperture Radar
Sensors 2008, 8, 4213-4248 (PDF format, 253 K) DOI: 10.3390/s8074213
Guoxiang Liu 1,*, Xiaojun Luo 1, Qiang Chen 1, Dingfa Huang 1 and Xiaoli Ding 2
1 Dept. of Surveying Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China;
E-mails: [email protected] (Guoxiang Liu); [email protected] (Xiaojun Luo); [email protected] (Qiang Chen); [email protected] (Dingfa Huang)
2 Dept. of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China; E-mail: [email protected] (Xiaoli Ding)
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 14 July 2008; in revised form: 5 August 2008 / Accepted: 13 August 2008 / Published: 19 August 2008
Article: Detecting Land Subsidence in Shanghai by PS-Networking SAR Interferometry
Sensors 2008, 8, 4725-4741 (PDF format, 4360 K) DOI: 10.3390/s8084725
Haibo Liu 1,*, Peter Q Olsson 1,2 and Karl Volz 1,2
1 Alaska Experimental Forecast Facility, University of Alaska Anchorage, 2811 Merrill Field Dr, Anchorage, Alaska 99508, USA
2 Alaska State Climate Center, Environmental and Natural Resources Institute, University of Alaska Anchorage, Alaska 99508, USA
E-mails: [email protected] (H. L.) ; [email protected] (P. Q O.) ; [email protected] (K. V.)
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; New address: [email protected]; International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), The Earth Institute at Columbia; University, 113D Monell, LDEO, 61 Route 9W, PO Box 1000, Palisades, NY 10964-8000; Tel. 845-680-4416; Fax 845-680-4864
Received: 12 July 2008; in revised form: 19 August 2008 / Accepted: 20 August 2008 / Published: 22 August 2008
Article: SAR Observation and Modeling of Gap Winds in the Prince William Sound of Alaska
Sensors 2008, 8, 4894-4914 (PDF format, 6440 K) DOI: 10.3390/s8084894
Changcheng Wang 1, Mingsheng Liao 1,* and Xiaofeng Li 2
1 State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Survey, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS), Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079, P. R. China
2 NOAA Science Center, WWBG, Room 102, 5200 Auth Road, Camp Springs, MD 20746, U.S.A.
E-Mails: [email protected] (Changcheng Wang); [email protected] (Mingsheng Liao); [email protected] (Xiaofeng Li)
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 19 June 2008; in revised form: 18 July 2008 / Accepted: 19 July 2008 / Published: 22 August 2008
Article: Ship Detection in SAR Image Based on the Alpha-stable Distribution
Sensors 2008, 8, 4948-4960 (PDF format, 1500 K) DOI: 10.3390/s8084948
Xiao-li Ding 1,*, Zhi-wei Li 2, Jian-jun Zhu 2, Guang-cai Feng 1 and Jiang-ping Long 1
1 Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China; E-mails: [email protected]; [email protected]
2 School of Info-Physics and Geomatics Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, Hunan, China; E-mails: [email protected]; [email protected]
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-mail: [email protected]
Received: 28 July 2008; in revised form: 29 August 2008 / Accepted: 29 August 2008 / Published: 3 September 2008
Review: Atmospheric Effects on InSAR Measurements and Their Mitigation
Sensors 2008, 8, 5426-5448 (PDF format, 1650 K) DOI: 10.3390/s8095426
(This paper belongs to Special Issue: “Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)” Edited by Daniele Riccio)
Othmar Frey *, Felix Morsdorf and Erich Meier
Remote Sensing Laboratories, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
E-mails: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 30 May 2008; in revised form: 29 August 2008 / Accepted: 18 September 2008 / Published: 24 September 2008
Article: Tomographic Imaging of a Forested Area By Airborne Multi-Baseline P-Band SAR
Sensors 2008, 8, 5884-5896 (PDF format, 3350 K) DOI: 10.3390/s8095884
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