Proceedings from APSAR 2013 coincides with APSAR 2015

IEEE Xplore Abstract - Foreword to the Special Issue on Advances in SAR and Radar Technology
Hirose, A.; Rosen, P.A.; Yamada, H.; Zink, M., "Foreword to the Special Issue on Advances in SAR and Radar Technology," in Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, IEEE Journal of , vol.8, no.8, pp.3748-3750, Aug. 2015
doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2475455

Abstract: The twenty-five articles in this special issue focus on the latest advances in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and radar technology. These papers were presented at the Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (APSAR) 2013, an International Conference devoted to SAR and radar technology, held in Tsukuba, Japan, on September 23???27, 2013. 

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[APSAR 2013 Tsukuba Japan 23 - 27 September 2013]

Participants in APSAR 2013 Tsukuba enjoyed active discussion widely on synthetic aperture radar, its applications and future technology. On the conference first day, keynote lectures were given by Dr. Masanobu Shimada of JAXA, Prof. Wen Hong of MITL-IECAS, Prof. Young Kil Kwag of Korea Aerospace University, Dr. Manfred Zink of DLR, Mr. Robertus Heru Triharjanto of LAPAN and Prof. Wolfgang-Martin Boerner of UIC as priming stimuli on technology advancement as well as scientific/engineering policy. The following technical sessions were held in 3 or 4-parallel style. They included 7 special sessions of SAR Application - Natural Disaster Monitoring I, II, ALOS-2 Global Observation I, II, Polarimetric SAR Methods and Applications I, II, and Tandem-X and Next Generation SAR, and also 22 regular sessions on various SAR and radar areas such as systems, applications (vegetation, ocean, soil, etc.), signal/information processing and data analysis. The statistics shows:

• Participants: 236 from 22 countries (Japan 62%, Asia-Pacific except Japan 22%, Other 16%)
• Papers: 163 (Oral 128 incl. Keynote 6, Poster 41) (Japan 51%, Asia-Pacific except Japan 32%, Other 17%), submission 233
• Exhibition: 17 companies and institutes
• Proceedings: APSAR 2013 organizing committee (IEEE GRSS JC / IEICE ES), accessible in IEEE Xplore.

Related/Background:

• APSAR 2013 Tsukuba Japan 23 - 27 September 2013 
• The 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar 
• IEEE Xplore - Conference Table of Contents