IEEE TGRS Call For Papers: Special Issue on Recent Advances in C-band Scatterometry

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CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Special Issue on Recent Advances in C-band Scatterometry

Focus

On 19^th October 2006 Europe launched the first satellite in its operational polar EPS system Metop. EPS consists of a series of three satellites which shall provide continuous, long-term data sets in support of operational meteorological and environmental forecasting and global climate monitoring for a minimum of 14 years. Onboard Metop is the advanced scatterometer ASCAT. ASCAT is a C-band real aperture radar which builds on the heritage of the scatterometer instruments flown on-board ERS-1 and ERS-2 since the early 1990s.

The prime objective of ASCAT is to measure wind speed and direction over the oceans. In addition, the instrument proved useful in a variety of additional applications including soil moisture, land freeze/thaw, polar sea ice extent and tropical vegetation monitoring. Apart from the irreplaceable value for operational meteorological and environmental forecasting, C-band scatterometry today also offers a unique tool for long-term climate studies by providing an archive of more then 20 years of continuous global data. Today activities are underway for the definition of Europe’s follow-on polar system Metop-Second Generation (Metop-SG). The system will replace the current satellite system in the 2020 timeframe and ensure the continuation of the European scatterometer programme.

To support this development we would like to invite the scientific community to provide their latest research results and to identify future challenges in C-band scatterometry.  Although the special issue has an emphasis on C-band scatterometry we invite the contribution of the broader scatterometer community. In particular we invite contributions of unpublished original research covering:

• Geophysical parameter retrieval from scatterometer data.
• Calibration, validation and sensor inter-calibration.
• Sensor developments in Europe, the US, China and India.
• Innovative new applications of scatterometry.

Submission Guidelines

Prospective authors should follow the regular guidelines of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), as listed on the inside of 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 the Special Issue by selecting “Recent advances in C-band scatterometry” from the pull-down menu for manuscript type. Questions concerning the submission process should be addressed to tgrs-editor@ieee.org. For this Special Issue, authors are encouraged to contribute to the voluntary page charges.

Guest Editors of the Special Issue are

Hans Bonekamp

European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, EUMETSAT

Klaus Scipal

European Space Agency, ESA

Dieter Klaes

European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, EUMETSAT

Mark Drinkwater

European Space Agency, ESA

Simon Yueh

California Institute of Technology – Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Inquires concerning the Special Issue should be directed to:

Klaus Scipal

European Space Agency

Klaus.Scipal@esa.int

Tel  +31 71 565 5836

Submission Deadline: May 13, 2011, with final publication in the July 2012 issue.