Advances in Lunar Ground Penetrating Radar (LGPR) Signal Processing and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

The exploration of the internal structure of Moon has been ongoing since the first moon landing in the 1960s. Lunar Ground Penetrating Radar, a form of remote sensing, is a leading candidate technology for future lunar missions aimed at investigating the geologic subsurface of the Moon to few kilometers depth.

Characterizing the Moon’s subsurface will provide vital information on lunar geology, including the regolith, bedrock and possibility of ice deposits, crucial for future lunar exploration and potential human outposts.

In order to investigate the geologic subsurface of the Moon, a number of missions to the planet, notably the Chang’e 3 lander, Apollo Lunar Sounder and Lunar Radar Sounder, have used different versions of Ground Penetrating Radar technology.

Despite the significant progress made by the scientific community in lunar subsurface exploration, the Moon’s interior geological structure and the distribution of geological features are poorly understood. Further exploration of geological structures on the Moon using LGPR will provide a better understanding of its evolution history and future opportunities for human outer space exploration.

This Special issue aims to invite papers focusing on recent advances in design, development and production of Lunar Ground Penetrating Radar systems, and addressing lunar specific aspects of processing and analysis of GPR data.

Specific topics interest includes but are not limited to the following:

• Mapping of lunar regolith and detection of subsurface geologic structures.
• Lunar regolith modelling
• Design, development of LGPR systems and antennas
• GPR data processing and analysis
• Modelling and simulation for GPR
• GPR Imaging approaches and 3D visualisation
• Applications of GPR in the geosciences
• New data processing algorithms
• Combined use of GPR and complementary non-destructive techniques
• Acquisition and interpretation of subsurface geological information on the Moon

Dr. Canicious Abeynayake
Dr. Fok Hing Chi Tivive
Guest Editors

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• lunar penetrating radar
• Chang’e-3 mission
• moon rover
• lunar reconnaissance orbiter
• ground penetrating radar
• lunar infrastructure
• lunar missions
• lunar geology
• moon subsurface