A Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGARS) devoted to Data Archiving and Distribution has been approved recently by the TGARS Editorial Board.

The field of remote sensing has developed a range of interesting imaging approaches for a variety of applications. Through wall and through building sensing are relatively new areas that involve the process of remotely detecting, classifying, and locating objects inside buildings or other structures. “Seeing” optically obscured stationary and moving objects behind obstacles such as walls, doors, and other visually opaque materials is a powerful tool for a variety of civilian, law enforcement, and military applications. Accurate sensing and imaging can allow a police force to get an accurate description of a building in a hostage crisis, or allow firefighters to locate people trapped inside a burning building. It has been recently sought out in other rescue missions, such as searching for earthquakes and avalanche victims and survivals. The goal of this new technology is to provide vision into otherwise obscured areas.

The technologies covered by this Special Issue include active and passive RF technology as well as acoustics and ultrasound. Papers for this issue should deal with sensing of stationary and/or moving targets inside aboveground or underground manmade structures. The papers should address the following related areas: Analytical and Numerical Methods for the forward problem, phenomenological studies for Modeling of Wall Effects and Signal Dispersion, Target Detection and Tracking, Beamforming and High-Resolution Imaging, Noncoherent Approaches for Target Localization, Estimation of Internal Building Layouts, Airborne and Ground-Based SAR Imaging, Autofocussing Techniques, Sensor Fusion, Polarization-based Imaging, Doppler and MicroDoppler Signature Estimation for Target Classification, Ultra wideband Radars, MIMO and Waveform Design and Diversity, Experimentations and Proof of Concept.

Prospective authors should follow the regular guidelines of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, as listed in the back cover of the Transactions. Authors should submit their manuscripts electronically to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tgrs. Instructions for creating new accounts, if necessary, are available on the login screen. Please indicate in your submission that the paper is intended for Special Issue by selecting “RSBI Special Issue” from the pull-down menu for manuscript type. Questions concerning the submission process should be addressed to tgars-editor@ieee.org. Inquiries concerning the Special Issue should be directed to the Guest Editors:

Professor Moeness Amin
Director, Center for Advanced Communications
800 Lancaster Avenue
Villanova University
Villanova, Pa 19085, USA
E-mail: moeness.amin@villanova.edu

Professor Kamal Sarabandi
Director of Radiation Laboratory
EECS Department
The University of Michigan
1301 Beal Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122
E-mail: saraband@eecs.umich.edu

Submission Deadline: May 5th, 2008