Calibration and Validation of SAR Data and Derived Products
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Earth Observation Data".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2025 | Viewed by 3987
Special Issue Editors
Interests: SAR calibration and validation; SAR focusing; InSAR; SAR Tomography; Geophysical products retrieval
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the past decades, we have seen a continuous increase of SAR missions and sensors, and recently, we observed a growing tendency to move towards open and free distribution of SAR data and processors. Moreover, the high quality of the available datasets has promoted the uptake of SAR data and SAR derived geophysical products in various applications. This is expected to keep on expanding with the advent of new missions, operating at various frequency bands, and having new product families. All these stresses the importance of having sound calibration and validation approaches, reliable reference data, and multi-mission/multi-sensors inter-comparison exercises to ensure the quality and interoperability of the data. Finally, in order to fully profit from the growing collection of SAR data in a reliable manner, it is crucial to understand and track the uncertainties of the SAR measurements and their propagation into geophysical quantities.
This Special Issue aims at covering different aspects of calibration and validation of SAR data and derived geophysical products. Topics may cover anything from classical airborne and spaceborne calibration and validation methods to newly developed approaches profiting, e.g., from big data, Analysis Ready Data (ARD) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Articles may address, but are not limited to, one or more of the following topics:
- Methods and algorithms for SAR calibration and validation
- SAR calibration and validation metrics
- Uncertainty propagation for SAR
- Harmonized calibration procedures
- Fiducial Reference Measurements (FRM) for SAR and derived products
- Reference target networks and calibration databases
- Reference target design
- Calibration and validation campaigns
- Multi-mission/Multi-sensor Inter-comparison exercises
- Calibration and validation of Analysis Ready Data
- Calibration and validation of SAR derived geophysical parameters
Dr. Muriel Pinheiro
Dr. Clément Albinet
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Remote Sensing is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Dr. Muriel Pinheiro
Dr. Clément Albinet
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Remote Sensing is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- SAR
- calibration and validation
- FRM
- reference targets
- reference databases
- quality monitoring
- inter-comparison
Benefits of Publishing in a Special Issue
- Ease of navigation: Grouping papers by topic helps scholars navigate broad scope journals more efficiently.
- Greater discoverability: Special Issues support the reach and impact of scientific research. Articles in Special Issues are more discoverable and cited more frequently.
- Expansion of research network: Special Issues facilitate connections among authors, fostering scientific collaborations.
- External promotion: Articles in Special Issues are often promoted through the journal's social media, increasing their visibility.
- e-Book format: Special Issues with more than 10 articles can be published as dedicated e-books, ensuring wide and rapid dissemination.
Further information on MDPI's Special Issue polices can be found here.
