SAR, Interferometry and Polarimetry Applications in Geoscience II

Dear Colleagues,

Due to the overwhelming support and interest in the previous Special Issue (SI), we are introducing a 2nd edition on “SAR, Interferometry and Polarimetry Applications in Geoscience”. I would like to thank all the authors and co-authors who made contributions to the success of the 1st edition of this SI.

The SEASAT satellite was launched in 1978, carrying the first civilian synthetic aperture radar (SAR). Despite its short operation time of 105 days, the pioneering SEASAT-SAR provided a wealth of land and sea information and initiated many spaceborne SAR programs using not only the basic image intensity data but also the new technologies of interferometric SAR (InSAR), polarimetric SAR (PolSAR), Inverse SAR (ISAR), and innovative algorithms. Furthermore, artificial intelligence (AI) such as deep learning has attracted much attention in recent years for image processing and analysis of SAR data. To date, a large number of spaceborne and airborne SARs have become available, and remote sensing based on these technologies and their data has made substantial contribution to Earth’s environment. In the present Special Issue, focus is placed on the recent progress in these technologies and applications to various fields of geoscience in the solid earth, lithosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere. We welcome your contribution to this Special Issue.

The aim of this present Special Issue is to provide recent research progress on the applications of SAR remote sensing and related technologies in geoscience.

Contributions are welcome for the following topics:

• Applications of SAR, InSAR, and PolSAR;
• Geoscience;
• Artificial intelligence;
• Data fusion;
• Change detection;
• Target detection;
• Image classification;
• DEM;
• Solid earth, Seismology;
• Glaciology;
• Agriculture;
• Forestry;
• Oceanography;
• Surface Deformation;
• Volcanology;
• Disaster Monitoring.

Dr. Kazuo Ouchi
Prof. Dr. Masanobu Shimada
Guest Editors

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• SAR, InSAR, and PolSAR
• artificial intelligence
• data fusion
• time series analyses
• earth environment
• solid earth
• biosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere

• SAR, Interferometry and Polarimetry Applications in Geoscience in Remote Sensing (12 articles)