Radar Signal Processing and System Design

Dear Colleagues, 

In recent decades, radar systems have played an essential role in civil or defense applications, such as land-cover mapping, target detection, vegetation parameter estimation, and ground surface deformation monitoring. This Special Issue aims to bring high-quality, internationally leading researchers, scientists, and engineers from both academia and industry to present and discuss the latest technological developments and academic research in Radar System Modeling and Its Applications. The scope of this Special Issue is to provide an overview of innovative technologies, methods, and sensors for a practical experience with radar systems (ground-based, shipborne, and onboard drones, aircraft, and satellites) to obtain measurements of environmental features through remote sensing applications. Topics include but are not limited to:

• Innovative radar algorithms and processing methods;
• Airborne/UAV SAR data processing, such as interferometry, residual motion error correction, etc.;
• Vertical structure inversion over forest, agriculture, desert, ice and snow, and permafrost areas;
• Subcanopy topography estimation over forest areas;
• 3D model reconstruction and structural health monitoring of major infrastructures;
• Monitoring and modeling of ground surface deformation events using radar systems;
• Target classification and recognition in radar applications;
• Machine learning applications in modern radars.

Dr. Jian Yang
Prof. Dr. Qinghua Xie
Prof. Dr. Haiqiang Fu
Prof. Dr. Xing Peng
Prof. Dr. Zefa Yang
Guest Editors

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• radar signal processing
• radar system modeling
• synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
• SAR tomography (TomoSAR)
• polarimetric SAR (PolSAR)
• interferometric SAR (InSAR)
• polarimetric SAR interferometry (PolInSAR)
• differential SAR tomography (D-TomoSAR)
• inversion of biophysical parameters over forest and agricultural areas
• radiation transfer model
• light detection and ranging (LIDAR)
• light detection