Radar for Planetary Exploration (Second Edition)
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 360
Special Issue Editors
Interests: planetary science; Mars; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); ground penetrating radar (GPR); electromagnetic propagation simulation; signal processing
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Interests: bistatic spaceborne SAR imaging technology; high-resolution spaceborne SAR systems and data processing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Radars have been used in the study of solar system bodies since the first echoes from the Moon were recorded by ground-based antennas in 1946. Ground-based radars have imaged the surfaces of the Moon, Venus, and Mars and have been used to precisely measure the motion and produce images of asteroids. Space-borne radar experiments have probed the subsurface of the Moon and Mars, revealed the interior structure of a comet nucleus, and measured the depth of methane seas on Titan. Quantitative analysis of radar data has allowed the identification of ice deposits in permanently shadowed craters of the Moon and the detection of liquid water on Mars, as well as the measurement of the structure and thickness of the lunar regolith. Planetary radars have spurred the development of novel technological solutions to perform in environments unlike the Earth and provided new data processing and analysis methods to estimate physical parameters that are not measured by Earth-orbiting radars. This Special Issue aims at documenting recent developments in a field that has characteristics that set it apart from radars used in Earth observations, from the design to the building, operations, data processing, and analysis of both Earth-based and space-borne planetary radars.
Dr. Roberto Orosei
Prof. Dr. Robert Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- planetary radar
- radar sounder
- solar system
- planets
- asteroids
- comets
- Moon
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