Radar Technology for Coastal Areas and Open Sea Monitoring

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is a researcher at the Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (IREA), National Research Council of Italy (CNR) of Naples, Italy. His research interests concern the field of applied electromagnetism, with special regard to remote and in situ sensing, and include electromagnetic diagnostics, inverse scattering and ground penetrating radar (GPR) surveys.Specifically, his research activities deal with: a) the development and assessment of innovative strategies for the estimation of sea state parameters, such as surface currents and bathymetry, from high-resolution nautical X-band radar data; b) design and validation of strategies for target imaging from data collected by means of radar system collected by different observation platform, and material characterization by using THz systems. He is participating/has participated in European and Italian research projects. Giovanni Ludeno has authored and co-authored more than 60 papers, mainly in scientific journals, proceedings of international conferences and books. He is a reviewer for several international journals.Marco Uttieri (Ph.D.) is a researcher at the Department of Integrative Marine Ecology-Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (Naples, Italy). His research interests include the study of surface circulation and wave motion through high frequency (HF) coastal radars, in situ and remote sensing tools, and numerical models. In addition, his research focuses on the biology and ecology of zooplanktonic organisms from both marine and freshwater environments. He is the author of >40 contributions indexed in Scopus, and serves as an Editorial Board Member and Reviewer for numerous journals.vii Preface to "Radar Technology for Coastal Areas and Open Sea Monitoring"Monitoring oceans and coastal areas has a fundamental social impact, and this scenario is made still more challenging with the present and future issues related to climate change. In this context, radar systems have gained increasing interest, since they are remote sensing devices capable of providing information about sea waves, currents, tides, bathymetry, and wind. Moreover, radar systems can be designed to perform both large-scale and small-scale monitoring, with different spatial and temporal resolutions, and can be installed on different observation platforms (ship-based, ground-based, airborne, satellite or drones). In this regard, this book aims at engendering a virtual forum for ocean radar researchers, where state-of-the-art methodologies and applications concerning ocean monitoring by means of radar technologies are reviewed and discussed.