IJAP
International Journal of Antennas and Propagation
1687-5877
1687-5869
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
231560
10.1155/2013/231560
231560
Editorial
Recent Advances in Synthetic Aperture Radar Data Processing and Application
Gao
Gui
1
Li
Deren
2
Frery
Alejandro C.
3
1
Department of Information Engineering
School of Electronic Science and Engineering
National University of Defense Technology
Changsha
Hunan 410073
China
nudt.edu.cn
2
Key Laboratory of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Wuhan University
Wuhan
Hubei 430079
China
whu.edu.cn
3
Laboratório de Computação Científica e Análise Numérica (LaCCAN)
Universidade Federal de Alagoas
Avendia Lourival de Melo Mota s/n
57072-900 Maceió
AL
Brazil
ufal.edu.br
2013
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12
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Copyright © 2013 Gui Gao et al.
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Spaceborne synthetic aperture Radar (SAR) sensors have been intensively applied to map, monitor, and analyze the Earth: new operational modes increase the flexibility of SAR sensors that are now able to obtain microwave 2D images as well as 3D interferometry products within a wide range of space and time resolution and coverage. However, the SAR data processing is challenging due to the changing properties of targets (such as vehicles, ships, and buildings) and terrains for the electromagnetic waves with various bands, views, polarimetric modes, and configurations. Hence, the definition of new techniques and algorithms for SAR data usage as well as assessment of existing methods for SAR products exploitation is required. Main purpose of this special issue is to provide an international forum for the researchers, as well as to advance the exploitation of their data for monitoring applications.
This special issue received twenty-two submissions, of which ten of outstanding quality were selected for publication. Among the topics covered by these contributions, the readers will find original and innovative results in image understanding included in the papers entitled “Road extraction from high-resolution SAR images via automatic local detecting and human-guided global tracking,” “Ship detection in high-resolution dual polarization SAR amplitude images,” “Characterizing the statistical properties of SAR clutter by using an empirical distribution,” “Modeling multilook magnitude and phase in extremely heterogeneous clutter,” and “junction point detection algorithm for SAR image”.
The Guest Editors wish to thank the authors for their contributions and offer this special issue to the SAR community in the hope that it constitutes a valuable venue for advances in the knowledge of this important area.
Gui Gao
Deren Li
Alejandro C. Frery