Distributed Sensors: Development and Applications
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 671
Special Issue Editors
Interests: distributed vibration sensors; distributed acoustic sensors; forward transmission distributed sensing; fiber-optic sensors; communication–sensing integration
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Interests: distributed acoustic sensors; distributed temperature sensors; phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry; Raman-based optical time-domain reflectometry; fiber-optic sensors
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are witnessing an ever-growing landscape of distributed fiber-optic sensors, with innovations in system design, signal demodulation, fiber processing, and functional materials. These include the emerging class of long-range distributed sensors based on the forward transmission of light. Recently, fiber-optic communication–sensing integration has become an important topic, which can pave the way for the cost-effective deployment of distributed sensors across a wide area or long distance.
This Special Issue therefore aims to put together original research and review articles on recent advances, technologies, solutions, applications, and new challenges in the field of distributed sensing systems.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Distributed vibration sensors;
- Distributed acoustic sensors;
- Distributed temperature sensors;
- Distributed strain sensors;
- Distributed pressure sensors;
- Distributed 3D shape sensors;
- Distributed chemical sensors;
- Phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry;
- Coherent optical frequency-domain reflectometry;
- Brillouin based optical time-domain reflectometry or analysis;
- Raman based optical time-domain reflectometry;
- Fiber grating based quasi-distributed sensing;
- Forward transmission distributed sensing;
- Hybrid-system distributed sensing;
- Machine learning-assisted distributed sensing.
Prof. Dr. George Y. Chen
Prof. Dr. Jun He
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- distributed sensing systems
- distributed fiber-optic sensors
- distributed sensors deployment
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