Research Topics

IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems (T-RS) considers research advances in the following topic areas

• Radar surveillance (e.g. MTI)
• Radar direction-finding (e.g. monopulse)
• Radar localization & mapping
• Radar and radiometric imaging (e.g. scanning, SAR, ISAR, InSAR)
• Radar tracking 
• Sensor fusion (involving radar)
• Radar-based motion tracking (e.g. human / animal / robot motions)
• Airborne/space-based radar
• Maritime/coastal radar
• Air/space surveillance
• Air traffic control radar
• Weather radar
• Secondary radar systems and applications (e.g. transponders, RFID systems, wireless location systems)
• Automotive/vehicle radar, ADAS, sense-and-avoid, radar for unmanned/autonomous platforms
• Commercial/industrial radar applications (e.g. body scanning, building technology, hand gesture recognition)
• Medical/biological radar applications
• Wearable radar
• Radar systems for space exploration
• Radar for planetary exploration
• Subsurface radar imaging
• Radar remote sensing (e.g. radiometry, scatterometry, imaging)
• Multifunction radar (e.g. SAR/MTI)
• Quantum radar
• Advanced radar architectures
• Radar-specific subsystems/components (e.g. radar system-on-a-chip, RFIC and circuit design)
• Radar calibration (array, antenna phase center, cross coupling, transfer function, offset, etc.)
• Reconfigurable antennas, metamaterials (specific to radar)
• Fully digital arrays for radar
• Radar polarimetry
• Low SWaP-C radar
• Software-defined radar
• Radar spectrum sharing (e.g. cohabitation or dual-function radar/communications; emphasis on radar aspects)
• mm-wave/THz radar
• Ultrawideband radar
• Passive radar & illuminators of opportunity
• Bistatic radar
• Multistatic, networked & distributed radar
• Radar detection & estimation (e.g. interference/clutter covariance, CFAR)
• Radar signal & array processing (e.g. STAP, adaptive beamforming, compressed sensing)
• Radar waveform diversity & MIMO (e.g. noise radar, frequency-diverse arrays)
• Machine learning for radar
• Radar resource management 
• Automated/cognitive sensing
• Bio-inspired radar capabilities
• Nonlinear modelling, effects, and linearization for radar
• Radar-based material characterization (e.g. ellipsometry, non-destructive evaluation)
• Signatures, characterization, identification (e.g. micro-Doppler)
• Complex propagation/scattering environments (e.g. over-the-horizon, ground/foliage/ice penetration, thru-wall)
• Radar environment simulation / radar test systems
• Clutter modeling (e.g. sea scatter)
• Radar in interference-rich environments
• Radar EW