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The Institute of Acoustic has previously held four successful international conferences on Synthetic Aperture Sonar and Radar. These drew together people from both communities to discuss the developments in both fields and to establish where there are common areas of interest and where cross-fertilization may prove beneficial.
Traditional Sonar and Radar both emerged during the early parts of the 20th century and it was recognised there were many areas of common interest. These include; detection, classification, localisation and tracking of targets against a background of reverberation, noise or clutter, using either acoustic or electromagnetic energy.
Over the past few decades there have been significant advances in both domains in the use of synthetic aperture imaging techniques – in radar for high resolution imaging from aircraft and satellites, for defence surveillance purposes, for geophysical and oceanographic remote sensing and for environmental monitoring. In Sonar it has been applied in high resolution imaging of objects on the seabed (including clutter) for the offshore industry and maritime mine countermeasures.
Despite these common goals there had previously been very little cross-fertilization between the two communities and the first four IOA conferences on this topic were held in order to try and address this.
The aim of this 2 ½ day conference is to build on the success of the previous conferences and provide a forum for comparison of systems techniques, signal and image processing, experimental results and to stimulate new ideas in each domain.
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Dr Michail Antoniou, Birmingham University, UK
Prof Chris Baker, University of Birmingham, UK
Dr Tory Cobb, ONR, USA
Dr Kerry Commander, NSWC, USA
Gary Davies, Dstl, UK
Dr Samantha Dugelay, Thales, UK
Prof Hugh Griffiths, UCL, UK
Dr Hans Groen, Atlas-Elektonic, Germany
Dr Yan Pailhas, CMRE, Italy
Dr Torstein Olsmo Saebo, FFI, Norway
Dr Oliver Sanford, Dstl, UK
Prof Yan Petillot, Heriot Watt University, UK
Shannon Steele, Kraken Robotics, Canada
Dr Daniel Sternlicht, NSWC, USA
Malcolm Stevens, Thales, UK
Claire Tierney, Leonardo, UK
Prof David Williams, ARL Penn State, USA
Dr Duncan Williams, Dstl, UK
Dr Xuebo Zhang, Northwest Normal University, China
We have been contacted by the Radar, Sonar and Navigation journal in the IET about producing a special issue of their journal on Synthetic Aperture Sonar and Radar. The basis for this is now in place and the lead guest editor will be Prof. Marco Martorella who is also on the committee for the conference.
The special issue may be an opportunity for authors of papers at the IOA conference (Sept 2023, Lerici) to extend their paper and turn them into a full journal paper, although there will be an open call for paper and so the special issue will not be exclusive to papers from this conference. The conference will have a separate proceeding where the presented papers will be published.
It is planned that the IET will issue the call for papers in September 2023 to coincide with the timing of the confernce but it will obviously take a few months for papers to be submitted, refereed and published.
We hope that you will consider extending your conference paper to make the most of this opportunity. Details are in the advanced copy of the call for papers. Call for Papers
Submissions will be subject to an APC if accepted and published in the journal: $2470 USD / £1960 GBP / €2260 EUR
IET Members: $2100 USD / £1662 GBP / €1925 EUR
If you want to travel by train and reach Lerici you will have to get off at Sarzana station or La Spezia station. In both cases you can then use the buses that connect both stations to the city center or taxi.
As with many other towns in the Levante Ligure, Lerici can be reached by boat. A perfect choice to admire the beauty of the Ligurian coast from the sea, even if perhaps the slowest and most expensive. To reach Lerici you can embark in La Spezia, Portovenere, Levanto, Tellaro and from the villages of the Cinque Terre.
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