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This book covers different topics in the framework of remote sensing of the oceans. Latest research advancements and brand-new studies are presented that address the exploitation of remote sensing instruments and simulation tools to improve the understanding of ocean processes and enable cutting-edge applications with the aim of preserving the ocean environment and supporting the blue economy. Hence, this book provides a reference framework for state-of-the-art remote sensing methods that deal with the generation of added-value products and the geophysical information retrieval in related fields, including: Oil spill detection and discrimination; Analysis of tropical cyclones and sea echoes; Shoreline and aquaculture area extraction; Monitoring coastal marine litter and moving vessels; Processing of SAR, HF radar and UAV measurements.

Research & information: general --- ocean modeling --- counter-flow --- vertical migration --- Kuroshio intrusion --- marine economy --- storm surge --- tropical cyclone size (TC size) --- ideal test --- marine-economic effects --- Northern East China Sea (NECS) --- surface currents --- HF radar --- eddy detection algorithms --- general compact polarimetry --- hybrid dual-polarization --- oil spill discrimination --- target decomposition --- ocean environment --- oil spill --- Synthetic Aperture Radar --- polarimetric decomposition --- superpixel --- convolutional neural networks --- unmanned-aerial-vehicles --- UAVs --- anthropogenic-marine-debris --- AMD --- beached-marine-litter --- BML --- marine-protected-areas --- MPA --- ortho-photo --- marine-pollution --- accumulation-rate --- synthetic aperture radar (SAR) --- moving vessel --- multicomponent polynomial phase signal(mc-PPS) --- adaptive joint time-frequency (AJTF) decomposition --- co-evolutionary particle swarm optimization --- airborne HF/VHF radar --- sea echo --- mathematical model --- radar cross section --- marine raft aquaculture --- Sentinel-1 --- nonsubsampled contourlet transform --- semantic segmentation --- fully convolutional network --- SAR images --- shoreline extraction --- geometric active contour model --- SAR --- sentinel-1 --- low-backscattering areas --- azimuth autocorrelation function --- n/a

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This book covers different topics in the framework of remote sensing of the oceans. Latest research advancements and brand-new studies are presented that address the exploitation of remote sensing instruments and simulation tools to improve the understanding of ocean processes and enable cutting-edge applications with the aim of preserving the ocean environment and supporting the blue economy. Hence, this book provides a reference framework for state-of-the-art remote sensing methods that deal with the generation of added-value products and the geophysical information retrieval in related fields, including: Oil spill detection and discrimination; Analysis of tropical cyclones and sea echoes; Shoreline and aquaculture area extraction; Monitoring coastal marine litter and moving vessels; Processing of SAR, HF radar and UAV measurements.

Research & information: general --- ocean modeling --- counter-flow --- vertical migration --- Kuroshio intrusion --- marine economy --- storm surge --- tropical cyclone size (TC size) --- ideal test --- marine-economic effects --- Northern East China Sea (NECS) --- surface currents --- HF radar --- eddy detection algorithms --- general compact polarimetry --- hybrid dual-polarization --- oil spill discrimination --- target decomposition --- ocean environment --- oil spill --- Synthetic Aperture Radar --- polarimetric decomposition --- superpixel --- convolutional neural networks --- unmanned-aerial-vehicles --- UAVs --- anthropogenic-marine-debris --- AMD --- beached-marine-litter --- BML --- marine-protected-areas --- MPA --- ortho-photo --- marine-pollution --- accumulation-rate --- synthetic aperture radar (SAR) --- moving vessel --- multicomponent polynomial phase signal(mc-PPS) --- adaptive joint time-frequency (AJTF) decomposition --- co-evolutionary particle swarm optimization --- airborne HF/VHF radar --- sea echo --- mathematical model --- radar cross section --- marine raft aquaculture --- Sentinel-1 --- nonsubsampled contourlet transform --- semantic segmentation --- fully convolutional network --- SAR images --- shoreline extraction --- geometric active contour model --- SAR --- sentinel-1 --- low-backscattering areas --- azimuth autocorrelation function --- ocean modeling --- counter-flow --- vertical migration --- Kuroshio intrusion --- marine economy --- storm surge --- tropical cyclone size (TC size) --- ideal test --- marine-economic effects --- Northern East China Sea (NECS) --- surface currents --- HF radar --- eddy detection algorithms --- general compact polarimetry --- hybrid dual-polarization --- oil spill discrimination --- target decomposition --- ocean environment --- oil spill --- Synthetic Aperture Radar --- polarimetric decomposition --- superpixel --- convolutional neural networks --- unmanned-aerial-vehicles --- UAVs --- anthropogenic-marine-debris --- AMD --- beached-marine-litter --- BML --- marine-protected-areas --- MPA --- ortho-photo --- marine-pollution --- accumulation-rate --- synthetic aperture radar (SAR) --- moving vessel --- multicomponent polynomial phase signal(mc-PPS) --- adaptive joint time-frequency (AJTF) decomposition --- co-evolutionary particle swarm optimization --- airborne HF/VHF radar --- sea echo --- mathematical model --- radar cross section --- marine raft aquaculture --- Sentinel-1 --- nonsubsampled contourlet transform --- semantic segmentation --- fully convolutional network --- SAR images --- shoreline extraction --- geometric active contour model --- SAR --- sentinel-1 --- low-backscattering areas --- azimuth autocorrelation function

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The Special Issue on “Remote Sensing in Agriculture: State-of-the-Art” gives an exhaustive overview of the ongoing remote sensing technology transfer into the agricultural sector. It consists of 10 high-quality papers focusing on a wide range of remote sensing models and techniques to forecast crop production and yield, to map agricultural landscape and to evaluate plant and soil biophysical features. Satellite, RPAS, and SAR data were involved. This preface describes shortly each contribution published in such Special Issue.

Technology: general issues --- History of engineering & technology --- Environmental science, engineering & technology --- feature selection --- spectral angle mapper --- support vector machine --- support vector regression --- hyperspectral imaging --- UAV --- cross-scale --- yellow rust --- spatial resolution --- winter wheat --- MODIS --- northern Mongolia --- remote sensing indices --- spring wheat --- yield estimation --- UAV-based LiDAR --- biomass --- crop height --- field phenotyping --- oasis crop type mapping --- Sentinel-1 and 2 integration --- statistically homogeneous pixels (SHPs) --- red-edge spectral bands and indices --- recursive feature increment (RFI) --- random forest (RF) --- unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) --- remote sensing (RS) --- thermal UAV RS --- thermal infrared (TIR) --- precision agriculture (PA) --- crop water stress monitoring --- plant disease detection --- vegetation status monitoring --- Landsat --- data blending --- crop yield prediction --- gap-filling --- volumetric soil moisture --- synthetic aperture radar (SAR) --- Sentinel-1 --- soil moisture semi-empirical model --- soil moisture Karnataka India --- reflectance --- digital number (DN) --- vegetation index (VI) --- Parrot Sequoia (Sequoia) --- DJI Phantom 4 Multispectral (P4M) --- Synthetic Aperture Radar --- SAR --- lodging --- Hidden Markov Random Field --- HMRF --- CDL --- corn --- soybean --- crop Monitoring --- crop management --- apple orchard damage --- polarimetric decomposition --- entropy --- anisotropy --- alpha angle --- storm damage mapping --- economic loss --- insurance support

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Radar-related technology is mainly processed within the time and frequency domains but, at the same time, is a multi-dimensional integrated system including a spatial domain for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic waves. As a result of the enormous technological advancements of the pioneers actively discussed in this book, research and development in multi-dimensional undeveloped areas is expected to continue. This book contains state-of-the-art work that should guide your research.

History of engineering & technology --- inverse synthetic aperture ladar (ISAL) --- maneuvering target --- integral cubic phase function (ICPF) --- fractional Fourier transform (FRFT) --- non-uniform fast Fourier transform (NUFFT) --- CLEAN technique --- simultaneous polarimetric radar --- constant modulus sequences --- correlation properties --- doppler tolerance --- saliency preprocessing LLC --- saliency detection --- image processing --- scene classification --- antenna array --- automatic guided vehicle --- DoA/DoD estimation --- MIMO radar --- direct position determination --- Doppler --- Doppler rate --- maximum likelihood estimator --- coherent pulse trains --- single moving sensor --- Cramer–Rao lower bound --- bistatic MIMO radar --- DOD/DOA estimation --- mutual coupling --- off-grid sparse problem --- unmanned aerial vehicle --- clustering methods --- man-made targets --- synthetic aperture radar (SAR) --- inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) --- polarimetric decomposition --- Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) --- microwave imaging --- constitutive parameters --- conductivity --- permittivity --- tomography --- RF MEMS --- switch --- analytical approach --- low control voltage --- high switching speed --- high reliability --- radar echo cancellation --- frequency shifting modulation --- interrupted sampling --- radar jamming --- deception jamming --- remote sensing --- SAR --- radon transform --- speckle noise filtering --- maritime traffic monitoring --- wake detection and analysis --- synthetic aperture radar --- differential SAR tomography --- squinted SAR --- 3-D deformation --- 2-D PPS --- maneuvering target detection --- coherent integration --- motion parameter estimation --- second-order phase difference (SoPD) --- time-frequency analysis --- image fusion --- sparse representation --- hyperbolic tangent function --- guided filter --- narrowband interference separation --- block sparse Bayesian learning --- sensing matrix optimization --- block coherence measure --- bistatic inverse synthetic aperture radar --- linear geometry distortion --- prior information --- least square error --- lunar penetrating radar --- local correlation --- SNR --- K-L transform --- seislet transform --- generative adversarial nets --- through-wall radar imaging --- multipath ghost suppression --- generator and discriminator --- ultrahigh resolution --- spaceborne --- curved orbit --- series reversion --- singular value decomposition (SVD) --- deramping-based approach --- crosshole ground penetrating radar (GPR) --- Bayesian inversion --- Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) --- forward model --- modeling error --- discrete cosine transform (DCT) --- through-wall imaging --- contrast target detection --- clutter reduction --- entropy thresholding --- low-rank approximation --- S-transformation --- ISAR --- micro-Doppler --- synchrosqueezing --- PBR (passive bistatic radar) --- clutter suppression --- non-uniform grid --- dilation morphology --- passive bistatic radar --- phased array radar --- parameter estimation --- aircraft surveillance --- GPR --- seasonal permafrost --- electromagnetic wave attribute --- relative water content --- marine radar --- wind direction retrieval --- small wind streak --- local gradient method --- adaptive reduced method --- energy spectrum method --- metamaterial absorber --- double negative --- dual-band --- FMCW radio altimeter --- methodological error --- critical height --- altitude measurement accuracy --- height pulses --- ultra-wide frequency deviation --- sparse recovery --- wideband noise interference --- dechirping --- subspace extraction --- denoising detection --- orthogonal matching pursuit --- pulse radar --- rotating target --- micro-motion feature extraction --- interrupted transmitting and receiving (ITR) --- dual-polarized radar --- DOA estimation --- atomic norm --- comprehensive SAR --- multiparametric SAR observation --- discrete scatterer model --- n/a --- Cramer-Rao lower bound

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Radar-related technology is mainly processed within the time and frequency domains but, at the same time, is a multi-dimensional integrated system including a spatial domain for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic waves. As a result of the enormous technological advancements of the pioneers actively discussed in this book, research and development in multi-dimensional undeveloped areas is expected to continue. This book contains state-of-the-art work that should guide your research.

History of engineering & technology --- inverse synthetic aperture ladar (ISAL) --- maneuvering target --- integral cubic phase function (ICPF) --- fractional Fourier transform (FRFT) --- non-uniform fast Fourier transform (NUFFT) --- CLEAN technique --- simultaneous polarimetric radar --- constant modulus sequences --- correlation properties --- doppler tolerance --- saliency preprocessing LLC --- saliency detection --- image processing --- scene classification --- antenna array --- automatic guided vehicle --- DoA/DoD estimation --- MIMO radar --- direct position determination --- Doppler --- Doppler rate --- maximum likelihood estimator --- coherent pulse trains --- single moving sensor --- Cramer-Rao lower bound --- bistatic MIMO radar --- DOD/DOA estimation --- mutual coupling --- off-grid sparse problem --- unmanned aerial vehicle --- clustering methods --- man-made targets --- synthetic aperture radar (SAR) --- inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) --- polarimetric decomposition --- Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) --- microwave imaging --- constitutive parameters --- conductivity --- permittivity --- tomography --- RF MEMS --- switch --- analytical approach --- low control voltage --- high switching speed --- high reliability --- radar echo cancellation --- frequency shifting modulation --- interrupted sampling --- radar jamming --- deception jamming --- remote sensing --- SAR --- radon transform --- speckle noise filtering --- maritime traffic monitoring --- wake detection and analysis --- synthetic aperture radar --- differential SAR tomography --- squinted SAR --- 3-D deformation --- 2-D PPS --- maneuvering target detection --- coherent integration --- motion parameter estimation --- second-order phase difference (SoPD) --- time-frequency analysis --- image fusion --- sparse representation --- hyperbolic tangent function --- guided filter --- narrowband interference separation --- block sparse Bayesian learning --- sensing matrix optimization --- block coherence measure --- bistatic inverse synthetic aperture radar --- linear geometry distortion --- prior information --- least square error --- lunar penetrating radar --- local correlation --- SNR --- K-L transform --- seislet transform --- generative adversarial nets --- through-wall radar imaging --- multipath ghost suppression --- generator and discriminator --- ultrahigh resolution --- spaceborne --- curved orbit --- series reversion --- singular value decomposition (SVD) --- deramping-based approach --- crosshole ground penetrating radar (GPR) --- Bayesian inversion --- Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) --- forward model --- modeling error --- discrete cosine transform (DCT) --- through-wall imaging --- contrast target detection --- clutter reduction --- entropy thresholding --- low-rank approximation --- S-transformation --- ISAR --- micro-Doppler --- synchrosqueezing --- PBR (passive bistatic radar) --- clutter suppression --- non-uniform grid --- dilation morphology --- passive bistatic radar --- phased array radar --- parameter estimation --- aircraft surveillance --- GPR --- seasonal permafrost --- electromagnetic wave attribute --- relative water content --- marine radar --- wind direction retrieval --- small wind streak --- local gradient method --- adaptive reduced method --- energy spectrum method --- metamaterial absorber --- double negative --- dual-band --- FMCW radio altimeter --- methodological error --- critical height --- altitude measurement accuracy --- height pulses --- ultra-wide frequency deviation --- sparse recovery --- wideband noise interference --- dechirping --- subspace extraction --- denoising detection --- orthogonal matching pursuit --- pulse radar --- rotating target --- micro-motion feature extraction --- interrupted transmitting and receiving (ITR) --- dual-polarized radar --- DOA estimation --- atomic norm --- comprehensive SAR --- multiparametric SAR observation --- discrete scatterer model --- inverse synthetic aperture ladar (ISAL) --- maneuvering target --- integral cubic phase function (ICPF) --- fractional Fourier transform (FRFT) --- non-uniform fast Fourier transform (NUFFT) --- CLEAN technique --- simultaneous polarimetric radar --- constant modulus sequences --- correlation properties --- doppler tolerance --- saliency preprocessing LLC --- saliency detection --- image processing --- scene classification --- antenna array --- automatic guided vehicle --- DoA/DoD estimation --- MIMO radar --- direct position determination --- Doppler --- Doppler rate --- maximum likelihood estimator --- coherent pulse trains --- single moving sensor --- Cramer-Rao lower bound --- bistatic MIMO radar --- DOD/DOA estimation --- mutual coupling --- off-grid sparse problem --- unmanned aerial vehicle --- clustering methods --- man-made targets --- synthetic aperture radar (SAR) --- inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) --- polarimetric decomposition --- Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) --- microwave imaging --- constitutive parameters --- conductivity --- permittivity --- tomography --- RF MEMS --- switch --- analytical approach --- low control voltage --- high switching speed --- high reliability --- radar echo cancellation --- frequency shifting modulation --- interrupted sampling --- radar jamming --- deception jamming --- remote sensing --- SAR --- radon transform --- speckle noise filtering --- maritime traffic monitoring --- wake detection and analysis --- synthetic aperture radar --- differential SAR tomography --- squinted SAR --- 3-D deformation --- 2-D PPS --- maneuvering target detection --- coherent integration --- motion parameter estimation --- second-order phase difference (SoPD) --- time-frequency analysis --- image fusion --- sparse representation --- hyperbolic tangent function --- guided filter --- narrowband interference separation --- block sparse Bayesian learning --- sensing matrix optimization --- block coherence measure --- bistatic inverse synthetic aperture radar --- linear geometry distortion --- prior information --- least square error --- lunar penetrating radar --- local correlation --- SNR --- K-L transform --- seislet transform --- generative adversarial nets --- through-wall radar imaging --- multipath ghost suppression --- generator and discriminator --- ultrahigh resolution --- spaceborne --- curved orbit --- series reversion --- singular value decomposition (SVD) --- deramping-based approach --- crosshole ground penetrating radar (GPR) --- Bayesian inversion --- Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) --- forward model --- modeling error --- discrete cosine transform (DCT) --- through-wall imaging --- contrast target detection --- clutter reduction --- entropy thresholding --- low-rank approximation --- S-transformation --- ISAR --- micro-Doppler --- synchrosqueezing --- PBR (passive bistatic radar) --- clutter suppression --- non-uniform grid --- dilation morphology --- passive bistatic radar --- phased array radar --- parameter estimation --- aircraft surveillance --- GPR --- seasonal permafrost --- electromagnetic wave attribute --- relative water content --- marine radar --- wind direction retrieval --- small wind streak --- local gradient method --- adaptive reduced method --- energy spectrum method --- metamaterial absorber --- double negative --- dual-band --- FMCW radio altimeter --- methodological error --- critical height --- altitude measurement accuracy --- height pulses --- ultra-wide frequency deviation --- sparse recovery --- wideband noise interference --- dechirping --- subspace extraction --- denoising detection --- orthogonal matching pursuit --- pulse radar --- rotating target --- micro-motion feature extraction --- interrupted transmitting and receiving (ITR) --- dual-polarized radar --- DOA estimation --- atomic norm --- comprehensive SAR --- multiparametric SAR observation --- discrete scatterer model