Guest editorial: recent advances in synthetic aperture sonar technology

Xuebo Zhang; Gary Heald; Anthony P. Lyons; Roy Edgar Hansen; Alan J. Hunter

doi:10.1049/ell2.12881

Guest editorial: recent advances in synthetic aperture sonar technology

Xuebo Zhang, Gary Heald, Anthony P. Lyons, Roy Edgar Hansen, Alan J. Hunter

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Abstract

Compared to traditional sidescan sonar, synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) or Interferometric synthetic aperture sonar (InSAS) systems can provide much higher resolution images across the whole swath. Due to the high resolution and fast mapping rate at a given speed, SAS/InSAS technology is gaining increasing interest within the field of underwater engineering. Navigation, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), sonar technolog and electronics have achieved great progress in recent years. Thanks to these developments, the SAS/InSAS has also been pushed into a new stage. Firstly, the lightweight and compact SAS can be mounted on ever smaller, highly flexible platforms. Secondly, current algorithms are computationally more efficient. Thirdly, the SAS/InSAS images are further improved based on various methods. Last but not least, SAS/InSAS technology is preferred by underwater mapping users due to its high resolution. The current Special Issue is focused on research ideas, articles and experimental studies related to “Recent Advances in Synthetic Aperture Sonar Technology” for development, operating mode, algorithms and applications the various aspects of SAS/InSAS in applications.

Original language	English
Article number	e12881
Journal	Electronics Letters
Volume	59
Issue number	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1049/ell2.12881
Publication status	Published - 31 Jul 2023

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Funding Information:
We are very grateful to Tom Dodds and Andrew Harvey, who are the IET Managing Editor and Aan Joshy who is the Editorial Assistant of IET Electronics Letters Editorial office. Besides, we express our thanks to journal's Editors-in-Chief and the Editorial Office for their support throughout this venture.

Keywords

acoustic arrays
acoustic imaging
sonar imaging

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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