Call for papers IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging Special Issue Computational Imaging for Earth Sciences

From the core of the earth to the farthest reaches of our planets magnetic fields, the earth sciences are concerned with all aspects of monitoring, exploration, explanation, and exploitation of natural events and resources in the geo-sphere. Revolutions in computational imaging over the past two decades have had profound implications across this field, bringing new modalities into common use and impacting application domains from weather monitoring and prediction, subsurface sensing, seismic imaging and exploration, to the production of minerals, oil and gas. In all these areas, reliable information extraction by collecting and processing sensor data increasingly hinges on integrated sensor design, system modeling, and efficient computational methods. The scope of such models and methods have more recently integrated statistical pattern recognition and machine learning systems to account for variability that cannot be completely captured by physical models or simulation. Enabling most all of these processing methods are concomitant developments in optimization theory both in Euclidean spaces as well as on more general manifolds.

Within the broad context of computational imaging for earth sciences, topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

Computational image formation and tomographic processing
Full Waveform Inversion (FWI)
Inverse scattering methods
Computational hyperspectral imaging
Advanced machine learning methods for computational imaging
Dimensionality reduction
Joint inversion / sensor fusion
Probabilistic modeling including random field and graphical models
Multilinear/tensor methods
Sparse representations and compressive sensing
Computational imaging methods for change and target detection

Timeline:
- Manuscript submission due: June 30, 2016
- First review completed: August 7, 2016
- Revised manuscript due: Sept 30, 2016
- Second review completed: November 1, 2016
- Notification of acceptance: November 15, 2016
- Final manuscript due: December 15, 2016
- Tentative publication date: January 15, 2017

List of Editors:
Shuchin Aeron (Lead Editor), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tufts University
Eric L. Miller, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tufts University
Melba Crawford, Civil and Electrical and Computer Engineering/Chair of Excellence in Earth Observation, Purdue University
Alison Malcom, Department of Earth Sciences, Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Andreas Reigber, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Microwaves and Radar Institute, SAR Technology Department.
Jocelyn Chanussot, Engineering School on Energy, Water and Environment (ENSE3), Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP).