Special issues

Sensors Journal - Special Issues 2007/2008 and Published 2006 and 2005

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... more "Special Issues" 2008 to be announced soon. Topics and suggestions are welcomed.

if you are interested please contact us: sensors@mdpi.org

Special Issue: Toxin Sensors

Guest Editor: Dr. Chris R. Taitt
Code 6900, Ctr. Bio/Molec. Sci. Engr., Naval Research Laboratory
4555 Overlook Ave., SW
Washington, DC 20375-5348
Tel. 202-404-4208 (DSN 754); Fax 202-404-8688
E-mail: chris.taitt@nrl.navy.mil

Chair: 2008 Gordon Research Conference on Bioanalytical Sensors at Bryant University, Smithfield, RI, USA
BIOANALYTICAL SENSORS
June 29 - July 4, 2008
Bryant University, Smithfield, RI
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2008&program=biosens

Special Issue: Aerospace Sensor Systems

Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Claude Nicollier
EPFL STI, c/o Space Center
ELD015 - Station 11
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Tel +41 21 693 6659, Fax +41 21 693 6940
claude.nicollier@epfl.ch, claude.nicollier-1@nasa.gov
http://www.esa.int/esaHS/ESA06VZUMOC_astronauts_0.html, http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/nicollie.html

Special Issue: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)

Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Daniele Riccio
UNIVERSITY OF NAPOLI FEDERICO II
Faculty of Engineering
Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
Add: Via Claudio, 21, I-80125, Napoli, Italy.
Tel. +39-0817683114, Fax +39-0815934448
E-mail: Daniele.Riccio@unina.it, http://www.docenti.unina.it/daniele.riccio

Special Issue: LiDAR for 3D City Modeling

Guest Editors: Dr. Jonathan Li ¹ and Dr. Michael A. Chapman ²
1 Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
Tel. + 1 519 888 4567, ext. 34504, Fax +1 519 746 0658
E-mail: junli@uwaterloo.ca, http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/research/rsgtl/ http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/geography/faculty/jonathan_li/
2 Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Science, Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Ontario M5B 2K3, Canada
Tel. 1 416 979 5000, ext. 6461, Fax 1 416 979 5122
E-mail: mchapman@ryerson.ca; http://www.ryerson.ca/civil/

Special Issue: GIS Crime Mapping

Guest Editor: Spencer Chainey
Director of GIS, UCL Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, University College London, Second Floor, Brook House,
2 - 16 Torrington, Place, London, WC1E 7HN, Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 0806, Mob: 07717 342 708, Fax: +44 (0)20 7679 0828
E-mail: s.chainey@ucl.ac.uk; http://www.jdi.ucl.ac.uk/people/academic/chainey.php

Special Issue: Molecular Recognition and Sensors, Including Molecular Imprinting

Guest Editor: Dr. Shu-Kun Lin

MDPI, Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Matthaeusstrasse 11, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 79 322 3379, Fax: +41 61 302 8918
E-mail: lin@mdpi.org; molecules@mdpi.org
http://www.mdpi.org/lin/

Special Issue: Monitoring of Odorous Compounds in the Environment

Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Ki-Hyun Kim

Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Sejong University, Goon Ja Dong 98, Gwang Jin Goo
Seoul, Korea 143-747
Tel. +82 2 3408 3233
E-mail: khkim@sejong.ac.kr; kkim61@empal.com; http://environment.cafe24.com/

Special Issue: Integrated High-performance Imagers

Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Edoardo Charbon
Quantum Architecture Group
Computer Architecture Laboratory, EPFL
Building IN-F 135
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
E-mail: edoardo.charbon@epfl.ch;
http://people.epfl.ch/edoardo.charbon, http://aqua.epfl.ch/

Special Issue: Space-Based Lidar Winds

Guest Editor: Dr. Wayman Baker
NOAA/JCSDA
Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation
5200 Auth Road - Room 805B
Camp Springs, MD 20746
Tel. +1 301 763 8000 ext. 7121
E-Mail: Wayman.Baker@noaa.gov;
http://space.hsv.usra.edu/LWG/Index.html; http://www.jcsda.noaa.gov/personnel.shtml

Special Issue: Ocean Remote Sensing

Guest Editor: Dr. James H. Churnside
Ocean Remote Sensing Working Group
NOAA
Earth System Research Laboratory, Physical Science Division (PSD)
Formerly Environmental Technology Laboratory
325 Broadway R/ETL, Boulder, Colorado 80305-3328
E-Mail: James.H.Churnside@noaa.gov; http://www.etl.noaa.gov/et2/ocean/

Special Issue: Medical Images Processing

Guest Editor: Prof. Dr.Halina Kwaśnicka
Institute of Applied Informatics, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wyb. Wyspianskiego 27, 51-370 Wroclaw, Poland
Tel. +48 71 320 23 97 Fax 48 71 321 10 18
E-mail: halina.kwasnicka@pwr.wroc.pl; http://www.ci.pwr.wroc.pl/~kwasnick/

Special Issue: Remote Sensing of Land Surface Properties, Patterns and Processes

Guest Editor: Dr. Qihao Weng*; Dr. Dale A. Quattrochi and Dr. George Xian
Coordinator - *Associate Professor of Geography, Director Center for Urban and Environmental Change
Department of Geography, Geology, and Anthropology
Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809, USA
Tel. +001 812 237 2255, Fax +001 812 237 8029
E-mail: qhweng@gmail.com; qweng@indstate.edu http://www.gis.indstate.edu/

Special Issue: Photonic Sensors in Space

Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Caterina Ciminelli
Optoelectronics Laboratory, Politecnico di Bari
Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica
Via Re David, 200 70125, Bari, Italy
Tel. + +39 08 0596 3404, Fax + 39 08 0596 3610
E-mail: c.ciminelli@poliba.it; http://www-dee.poliba.it/

Special Issue: Phytosensors: Environmental Sensing with Plants and Plant Cells

Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. C. Neal Stewart, Jr.
Department of Plant Sciences
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996 USA
Tel. +1 865 974 6487, Fax 1 865 946 1989
E-mail: nealstewart@utk.edu; http://plantsciences.utk.edu/stewart.htm

Special Issue: State-of-the-Art Sensors Technology in Switzerland

Managing Editor: Mr. Matthias Burkhalter
Assistant Editor, MDPI Center - Sensors Office
Matthaeusstrasse 11, CH-4057 Basel / Switzerland
Tel +41 61 683 7734, Fax +41 61 302 8918
E-mail: sensors@mdpi.org; http://www.mdpi.org/sensors

Special Issue: Active and Passive Sensors for Art Diagnostic, Analysis and Investigations

Guest Editor: Dr. Luca Pezzati and Prof. Dr. Brunetto Giovanni Brunetti
Coordinator - Gruppo Beni Culturali
CNR - INOA, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata
Largo E. Fermi 6, 50125 Florence, ITALY
Tel. +39 055 2308221, Fax +39 055 2337755
E-mail: beniculturali@ino.it; http://arte.ino.it

Special Issue: Energy Efficiency and Intelligent Signal Processing for Wireless Sensing

Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Xue Wang
9003 Building, Tsinghua Garden, Dept. of Precision Instrument
Tsinghua University, Beijing ,China,100084
Tel. +8610 62776161; Fax +8610 62776161
E-mail: wangxue@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn; http://yqs.pim.tsinghua.edu.cn/wangxuehomepage/index_eng.htm

Special Issue: Supramolecular Sensors

Guest Editor: P.J.Cragg@bton.ac.uk
School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences
Cockcroft Building, University of Brighton
Lewes Road, Brighton BN2 4GJ, UK
E-mail: P.J.Cragg@bton.ac.uk; http://www.brighton.ac.uk/pharmacy/staff/CraggPeter/CraggPeter.html

Special Issue: Nanomaterials for Sensitive and Simple Determination of Analyzes

Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Julia Xiaojun Zhao
Analytical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202
E-mail: jzhao@chem.und.edu; http://www.und.nodak.edu/instruct/jzhao/

Special Issue: Piezoelectric Sensors for Determination of Analytes in Solutions

Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. W. Kutner
Professor of Chemistry Institute of Physical Chemistry
Polish Academy of Sciences Kasprzaka 44/52 01-224 Warsaw, Poland Phone:
Tel. +48 22 343 32 17; Fax +48 22 343 33 33
E-mail: wkutner@ichf.edu.PL; http://malina.ichf.edu.pl/person/kutner_w.html

Special Issue: Sensors for Urban Environmental Monitoring

Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Jiang Dong
State Key Lab of Resources and Environmental Information System
Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research
Chinese Academy of Sciences
P.O.Box 9719, 11A Datun Road, Chao Yang District 100101, Beijing, China
Tel. +86 10 64889433
E-mail: jiangd@igsnrr.ac.cn

Special Issue: Modeling, Testing and Reliability Issues in MEMS Engineering

Guest Editor: Dr. Stefano Mariani
Centre of Computational Structural and Materials Mechanics, Department of Structural Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Tel. + 39 02 2399 4279, Fax + 39 02 2399 4220
E-mail: stefano.mariani@polimi.it
http://www.stru.polimi.it/IT/

Special Issue: Sensors for Disaster and Emergency Management Decision Making

Guest Editors: Dr. Jason Levy ¹ and Dr. Yang Gao ²
¹ Assistant Professor of Disaster Prevention and Emergency Planning
Department of Environmental Studies, Huxley College of the Environment
Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington 98225, USA
Tel. + 1 360 650 6487, Fax +1 360 650 7702
E-mail: jason.levy@wwu.edu, http://myweb.facstaff.wwu.edu/~levyj4/
² Professor, Department of Geomatics Engineering
Schulich School of Engineering, The University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4
Tel. 1 403 220 6174, Fax 1 403 284 1980
E-mail: gao@geomatics.ucalgary.ca; http://www.ucalgary.ca/~ygao/; http://www.ucalgary.ca/~ygao/iag.htm

Special Issue: Optical Biosensors

Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Luigi Zeni
Professor of Electronics and Optoelectronics
Second University of Naples, Department of Information Engineering
Via Roma 29, 81031 Aversa - Italy
Tel. +39 0815010269, Fax +39 081 5037042
E-mail: zeni@unina.it; luigi.zeni@unina2.it; http://143.225.250.10/Utenti/showuser.asp?ID=23

Special Issue: State-of-the-Art Polymer Based pH Sensors

Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Khalil Arshak and Dr. Olga Korostynska
Electronics and Computer Engineering Department
College of Informatics & Electronics, University of Limerick
Plassey Technological Park, Limerick, Ireland.
Tel. +353 61 202267, Fax +353 61 338176
E-mail: khalil.arshak@ul.ie; olga.korostynska@ul.ie; http://www.ece.ul.ie/Research/mesrg/index.html

Special Issue: Photonic Sensors for Chemical, Biological and Nuclear Agent Detection

Guest Editor: Dr. Gary Pickrell ¹ and Dr. Teng K. Ooi ²
¹ Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Materials Science and Engineering Department
Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Center for Photonics Technology, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
Tel. +1 540 231 4677 Fax +1 540 231 2158
² United States Missile Defense Agency and Office of Naval Research
Tel. +1 256 313 9228
E-mail: pickrell@vt.edu; teng.ooi@mda.mil; http://www.ee.vt.edu/~photonics/Garypage.html

Special Issue: Utilizing of Electrochemical Sensors and Biosensors in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Guest Editor: Dr. Ren� Kizek
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry
Laboratory of Molecular Biochemistry and Bioelectrochemistry
Zemedelska 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic
Tel. +420 5 45133350; Fax +420-545212044
E-mail: kizek@sci.muni.cz; http://old.mendelu.cz/~kizek/

Special Issue: Remote Sensing Sensors

Guest Editor: Dr. Assefa M. Melesse
Ph. D., P.E., Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental Studies, ECS 339
Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199
Tel. +1 305 348 6518, Fax +1 305 348 6137
E-mail: assefa.melesse@fiu.edu; http://www.fiu.edu/~melessea/

Special Issue: Electrochemical Sensors Based on Conductive Polymers

Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Yoon-Bo Shim
Department of Chemistry and Center for Innovative BioPhysio
Sensor Technology, Pusan National University
Busan 609-735, South Korea
Tel. +82 51 510 2244, Fax +82 51 514 2122
E-mail: ybshim@pusan.ac.kr

Special Issue: Cantilever, Microcantilevers and Nanocantilever Sensors and Biosensors

Guest Editor: Dr. M. Calleja and Dr. J. Tamayo
INSTITUTO DE MICROELECTR�NICA DE MADRID (IMM-CNM)
Biosensor Group
E-mail: mcalleja@imm.cnm.csic.es; jtamayo@imm.cnm.csic.es; http://www.imm.cnm.csic.es/biosensores/people.htm

Special Issue: Probing in Micro World Using Electrochemical Microsensors, Progress and Challenge

Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Xueji Zhang
World Precision Instruments, Inc. International Trade Center
175 Sarasota Center Boulevard, Sarasota, FL 34240-9258, USA
Tel: +1 941-3711003, ext.2265 (office). 239 (LabII), 270 (labIII), Fax: +1 941-3775428
E-mail: xueji@wpiinc.com

Special Issue: Physiological Sensing

Guest Editor: Dr. D. Marshall Porterfield
Purdue University, Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
225 South University Street, W. Lafayette, IN 47907-2093
Tel. +1 765 494 1190, Fax +1 765 496 1115
E-mail: porterf@purdue.edu; http://www.purdue.edu/dp/psf/porterfield.php

Special Issue: Intelligent Sensors

Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Wilmar Hernandez
Department of Circuits and Systems
E.U.I.T. de Telecomunicacion
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Tel. +34 913367830, Fax +34 913367829

Special Issue: Amperometric Sensors and Techniques for Neurochemical Monitoring

Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. John P. Lowry¹ and Prof. Dr. Robert O'Neill ²
1 Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry
National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, IRELAND
2 UCD School of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Tel. +353 1 716 2314, Fax +353 1 716 2127
E-mail: Robert.ONeill@UCD.ie; http://www.NACLgroup.org
E-mail: john.lowry@nuim.ie; http://www.chemistry.nuim.ie/researchlowry.htm

Special Issue: Bioanalysis in Vivo/ in Vitro

Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Yoshio Umezawa
Department of Chemistry, University of Tokyo, School of Science
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
Tel. +81 3 3812 2111, ext. 4351, Fax +81 3 5802 2989
E-mail: umezawa@chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp; http://www.chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~analyt/member_en.html

Special Issue: Wireless Pressure Sensors

Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Chelakara S. Subramanian
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Florida Institute of Technology
150 West University Boulevard, Melbourne, FL 32901
Tel: (321) 674 7614, Fax: (321) 674 8813
E-mail: subraman@fit.edu; http://www.fit.edu/faculty/profiles/profile.html?value=206

Special Issue: Biosensors for Point-of-Care Applications

Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. I-Ming Hsing
Department of Chemical Engineering and Director of Bioengineering program Room 2004 A
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Tel: + (852) 23587131, Fax: + (852) 31064857
E-mail: kehsing@ust.hk; http://ihome.ust.hk/~kehsing