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The extended papers in this Special Issue cover the topics of smart energy, nuclear systems, and micro energy grids. In “Electrical Loads and Power Systems for the DEMO Nuclear Fusion Project” and “Energy Analysis for the Connection of the Nuclear Reactor DEMO to the European Electrical Grid”, the authors introduce a European DEMO project. In “Comparison and Design of Resonant Network Considering the Characteristics of a Plasma Generator” the authors present a theoretical analysis and experimental study on the resonant network of the power conditioning system (PCS). In “Techno-Economic Evaluation of Interconnected Nuclear-Renewable Micro Hybrid Energy Systems with Combined Heat and Power”, the authors conducted a sensitivity analysis to identify the impact of the different variables on the investigated systems. In “Fault Current Tracing and Identification via Machine Learning Considering Distributed Energy Resources in Distribution Networks”, the authors propose a current tracing method to model the single distribution feeder as several independent parallel connected virtual lines, with the result of tracing the detailed contribution of different current sources to the power line current. From the five extended papers, we observe that the SEGE is actively engaged in smart grid and green energy techniques. We hope that the readers enjoy this Special Issue.

Research & information: general --- Technology: general issues --- plasma generator --- LCL network --- LCCL network --- phase compensation --- ZVS control --- current tracing --- fault current --- distributed energy resources --- network model --- nuclear power plant --- renewable energy --- hybrid energy system --- combined heat and power --- nuclear fusion --- tokamak --- generation power plant --- power system --- electrical transmission grid --- balance of plant --- DEMO --- electric loads --- plasma --- power flow --- power supply --- power systems --- plasma generator --- LCL network --- LCCL network --- phase compensation --- ZVS control --- current tracing --- fault current --- distributed energy resources --- network model --- nuclear power plant --- renewable energy --- hybrid energy system --- combined heat and power --- nuclear fusion --- tokamak --- generation power plant --- power system --- electrical transmission grid --- balance of plant --- DEMO --- electric loads --- plasma --- power flow --- power supply --- power systems

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Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry (InSAR) is an important remote sensing technology used for topographic mapping and deformation monitoring, and has created a new type of radar datum that has significantly evolved during the last couple of decades. This book includes the latest InSAR studies published in the Special Issue “InSAR Signal and Data Processing” of Sensors. We hope that readers of all levels will be able to gain a better understanding of InSAR as well as the when, how, and why of applying this technology.

Research & information: general --- Geography --- time-series InSAR --- subsidence --- GNSS --- coastal urban area --- heterogeneous array --- SAR imaging --- data cross-placement --- computing resource management --- Gaofen-3 satellite --- ScanSAR --- interferometry --- interferometric coherence --- phase compensation --- DEM geolocation --- InSAR --- Qinghai-Tibet Engineering Corridor --- deformation --- permafrost --- interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) --- phase error calibration --- phase difference measurement --- under-sampling --- coherent accumulation --- SBAS-InSAR --- rock salt mine --- drilling solution mining --- time series --- phase unwrapping (PU) --- multi-baseline (MB) --- two-stage programming approach (TSPA) --- phase unwrapping max-flow/min-cut (PUMA) --- multibaseline interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) --- non-subsampled shearlet transform (NSST) --- kurtosis --- noise level eatimation --- coherence coefficient --- DEM --- DSM --- hierarchical adaptive surface fitting --- markov random field --- residue --- persistent scatterers --- polarimetric optimization --- deformation monitoring --- interferometric radar --- helicopter landing --- simulation model --- n/a

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This book addresses the true innovation in engineering design that may be promoted by blending together models and methodologies from different disciplines, and, in this book, the target was exactly to follow this approach to deliver a new disruptive architecture to deliver these next-generation mobile small cell technologies. According to this design philosophy, the work within this book resides in the intersection of engineering paradigms that includes “cooperation”, “network coding”, and “smart energy-aware frontends”. These technologies will not only be considered as individual building blocks, but re-engineered according to an inter-design approach resulting in the enabler for energy efficient femtocell-like services on the move. The book aims to narrow the gap between the current networking technologies and the foreseen requirements that are targeted at the future development of the 5G mobile and wireless communications networks in terms of the higher networking capacity, the ability to support more users, the lower cost per bit, the enhanced energy efficiency, and adaptability to new services and devices (for example, smart cities, and the Internet of things (IoT)).

History of engineering & technology --- microstrip --- tuneable filter --- microwave filter --- 5G --- MEMSs --- varactor --- 4G --- CR --- MIMO --- reconfigurable antenna --- switch --- UWB --- WiMAX --- WLAN --- wireless communications --- cooperative NOMA --- multi-points DF relaying nodes --- half-duplex --- full-duplex --- Rayleigh fading channels --- Nakagami-m fading channels --- energy harvesting --- non-orthogonal multiple access --- multiple antenna --- transmit antenna selection --- outage probability --- pattern reconfigurable --- patch antenna --- s-parameters --- frequency reconfigurable --- dual-band Doherty power amplifier --- LTE-advanced --- high-efficiency --- phase offset lines --- impedance inverter network --- phase compensation network --- High power amplifiers --- high efficiency --- Doherty power amplifier --- GaN-HEMT --- small cell --- maximum transmit power --- UE --- open-loop power control --- interference --- ergodic capacity --- non-linear energy harvesting --- NOMA --- monopole antenna --- S-parameters --- 5G, 4/4.5G --- LTE --- ISM --- WiFi --- 5G antenna --- slot antenna --- mobile terminal antenna --- MIMO antenna --- medical applications --- miniaturized antenna --- arc-shaped --- dual-band --- chiral --- Tellegen --- multilayer CPW structure --- dispersion characteristics --- full-GEMT --- Muller's method --- complex propagation constant --- acceleration procedure --- ISM 2.4 GHz --- isolation --- envelope correlation coefficient (ECC) --- channel capacity loss (CCL) --- 5G technology --- CPW-fed antenna --- diversity antenna --- future smartphones --- MIMO systems --- microstrip --- tuneable filter --- microwave filter --- 5G --- MEMSs --- varactor --- 4G --- CR --- MIMO --- reconfigurable antenna --- switch --- UWB --- WiMAX --- WLAN --- wireless communications --- cooperative NOMA --- multi-points DF relaying nodes --- half-duplex --- full-duplex --- Rayleigh fading channels --- Nakagami-m fading channels --- energy harvesting --- non-orthogonal multiple access --- multiple antenna --- transmit antenna selection --- outage probability --- pattern reconfigurable --- patch antenna --- s-parameters --- frequency reconfigurable --- dual-band Doherty power amplifier --- LTE-advanced --- high-efficiency --- phase offset lines --- impedance inverter network --- phase compensation network --- High power amplifiers --- high efficiency --- Doherty power amplifier --- GaN-HEMT --- small cell --- maximum transmit power --- UE --- open-loop power control --- interference --- ergodic capacity --- non-linear energy harvesting --- NOMA --- monopole antenna --- S-parameters --- 5G, 4/4.5G --- LTE --- ISM --- WiFi --- 5G antenna --- slot antenna --- mobile terminal antenna --- MIMO antenna --- medical applications --- miniaturized antenna --- arc-shaped --- dual-band --- chiral --- Tellegen --- multilayer CPW structure --- dispersion characteristics --- full-GEMT --- Muller's method --- complex propagation constant --- acceleration procedure --- ISM 2.4 GHz --- isolation --- envelope correlation coefficient (ECC) --- channel capacity loss (CCL) --- 5G technology --- CPW-fed antenna --- diversity antenna --- future smartphones --- MIMO systems

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This book addresses the true innovation in engineering design that may be promoted by blending together models and methodologies from different disciplines, and, in this book, the target was exactly to follow this approach to deliver a new disruptive architecture to deliver these next-generation mobile small cell technologies. According to this design philosophy, the work within this book resides in the intersection of engineering paradigms that includes “cooperation”, “network coding”, and “smart energy-aware frontends”. These technologies will not only be considered as individual building blocks, but re-engineered according to an inter-design approach resulting in the enabler for energy efficient femtocell-like services on the move. The book aims to narrow the gap between the current networking technologies and the foreseen requirements that are targeted at the future development of the 5G mobile and wireless communications networks in terms of the higher networking capacity, the ability to support more users, the lower cost per bit, the enhanced energy efficiency, and adaptability to new services and devices (for example, smart cities, and the Internet of things (IoT)).

microstrip --- tuneable filter --- microwave filter --- 5G --- MEMSs --- varactor --- 4G --- CR --- MIMO --- reconfigurable antenna --- switch --- UWB --- WiMAX --- WLAN --- wireless communications --- cooperative NOMA --- multi-points DF relaying nodes --- half-duplex --- full-duplex --- Rayleigh fading channels --- Nakagami-m fading channels --- energy harvesting --- non-orthogonal multiple access --- multiple antenna --- transmit antenna selection --- outage probability --- pattern reconfigurable --- patch antenna --- s-parameters --- frequency reconfigurable --- dual-band Doherty power amplifier --- LTE-advanced --- high-efficiency --- phase offset lines --- impedance inverter network --- phase compensation network --- High power amplifiers --- high efficiency --- Doherty power amplifier --- GaN-HEMT --- small cell --- maximum transmit power --- UE --- open-loop power control --- interference --- ergodic capacity --- non-linear energy harvesting --- NOMA --- monopole antenna --- S-parameters --- 5G, 4/4.5G --- LTE --- ISM --- WiFi --- 5G antenna --- slot antenna --- mobile terminal antenna --- MIMO antenna --- medical applications --- miniaturized antenna --- arc-shaped --- dual-band --- chiral --- Tellegen --- multilayer CPW structure --- dispersion characteristics --- full-GEMT --- Muller’s method --- complex propagation constant --- acceleration procedure --- ISM 2.4 GHz --- isolation --- envelope correlation coefficient (ECC) --- channel capacity loss (CCL) --- 5G technology --- CPW-fed antenna --- diversity antenna --- future smartphones --- MIMO systems --- n/a --- Muller's method

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The aim of this Printed Edition of Special Issue entitled "Recent Advancements in Radar Imaging and Sensing Technology” was to gather the latest research results in the area of modern radar technology using active and/or radar imaging sensing techniques in different applications, including both military use and a broad spectrum of civilian applications. As a result, the 19 papers that have been published highlighted a variety of topics related to modern radar imaging and microwave sensing technology. The sequence of articles included in the Printed Edition of Special Issue dealt with wide aspects of different applications of radar imaging and sensing technology in the area of topics including high-resolution radar imaging, novel Synthetic Apertura Radar (SAR) and Inverse SAR (ISAR) imaging techniques, passive radar imaging technology, modern civilian applications of using radar technology for sensing, multiply-input multiply-output (MIMO) SAR imaging, tomography imaging, among others.

Technology: general issues --- microwave staring correlated imaging (MSCI) --- gain–phase errors --- strip --- self-calibration --- distributed MIMO radar --- target localization --- double-sided bistatic range (BR) --- microwave staring correlated imaging --- unsteady aerostat platform --- motion parameter fitting --- position error --- radar imaging --- synthetic aperture radar --- compressed sensing --- sparse reconstruction --- regularization --- passive forward scattering radar --- chirp rate estimation --- passive radar --- forward scattering radar --- radar measurements --- time-frequency analysis --- bistatic synthetic aperture radar (SAR) --- hyperbolic approximation --- phase compensation --- modified omega-K --- ground-penetrating radar --- noise suppression --- singular value decomposition --- Hankel matrix --- window length optimization --- synthetic aperture radar (SAR) --- high resolution wide swath (HRWS) --- azimuth multichannel reconstruction --- phase center adaptation --- false targets suppression --- damped exponential (DE) model --- inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) --- radar signatures --- state–space approach (SSA) --- sparse representation --- polarimetric --- SAR tomography --- MIMO radar --- noise radar --- radar signal processing techniques --- analogue correlation --- modern radar applications --- delay line --- high pulse repetition frequency (HPRF) --- random frequency hopping (RFH) --- hypersonic aircraft --- SAR --- Synthetic Aperture Radar --- ASIFT --- Despeckling Filter --- Navigation --- Structure from Motion --- Iterative Closest Point --- radar tomography --- compressive sensing --- bistatic radar --- parameter-refined orthogonal matching pursuit (PROMP) --- orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) --- k-space tomography --- narrowband radar --- off-grid compressive sensing --- slow-time k-space --- spatial frequency --- Doppler radar tomography --- k-space augmentation --- high-resolution narrowband radar --- multiband processing --- bandwidth stitching --- multi-scale representation learning (MSRL) --- pyramid pooling module (PPM) --- compact depth-wise separable convolution (CSeConv) --- convolution auto-encoder (CAE) --- object classification --- CARABAS II --- ground scene prediction --- image stack --- multi-pass --- SAR images --- moving targets --- inverse SAR (ISAR) --- motion compensation --- hybrid SAR/ISAR --- improved rank-one phase estimation (IROPE) --- Gaofen-3 (GF-3) --- assive radar --- time-frequency reassignment