The key importance of radar remote sensing for civil applications has been recognized for decades, and enormous scientific and technical developments have been carried out in the last years. SAR satellite constellations consisting of two or more satellites are getting the “new normal” in SAR remote sensing. The present availability of the high-resolution sensors CosmoSkyMed, TerraSAR-X/TanDEMX, RadarSat-2, SAOCOM-CS and the Copernicus sensors Sentinel-1 A and B, supplying a continuous stream of free imagery, offers an unprecedented amount of high quality SAR data, suitable for a variety of applications provided proper data processing methodology are applied. Future concepts, like a geosynchronous SAR or the use of non-traditional orbits for fast revisiting times over areas of interest are also important concepts for the future development of SAR remote sensing. Therefore, this wide technological availability stimulates methodological advances and innovative concepts, and new applications are opened or the already established ones are benefiting of a sort of second life.
![]() Prof. Dr.-Ing. Timo Balz, LIESMARS, Wuhan University. |
This Workshop aims to bring together researchers involved in different topics related to SAR, from the constellations, to the methodology and algorithms and to the thematic and geometric applications.