🚀 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 – 2026 𝐈𝐄𝐄𝐄 𝐂𝐈𝐒𝐀 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, May 26 - 29 🚀
📍Dates: May 26–29, 2026 | Location: Albany, NY
On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we are pleased to invite you to the campus of the University at Albany in Albany, New York for the 2026 𝐈𝐄𝐄𝐄 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐔𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐲𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐀𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 (𝐂𝐈𝐒𝐀). Accepted papers will appear in IEEE Xplore.
https://cisa-conference.org/
The CISA conference will feature a dedicated track on assessing and monitoring climate change using SAR, synthetic aperture radiometry, and GNSS Reflectometry data.
📅 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬
Special session and tutorial proposals: January 30
Initial 2-page summary submission: February 27
Climate change submissions: February 27
Paper acceptance notification: March 20
Advance Registration: April 3
Camera-ready 4+1 page paper: May 1
🔗 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭 & 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤
Authors who wish to participate in the conference must initially submit an extended abstract (2 pages minimum, up to 4 pages maximum including figures. A 5th page for references is allowed). Templates are provided here -- https://cisa-conference.org/submissions/templates/
Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=IEEE.org/CISA/2026
Selected papers will be invited to the 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧 "𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐔𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐲𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐀𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬" in the 𝘐𝘌𝘌𝘌 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 (𝘛𝘊𝘐).
📰 𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐬
CISA welcomes contributions on:
🔹SAR: Automotive, mmWave, and THz SAR, Polarimetric, Interferometric, and Tomographic SAR, ISAR, 3-D imaging, Image reconstruction methods, Novel front-end sensors
🔹Radar: Weather radar, Phased array radar
🔹Sonar: Micro-navigation, Bathymetry, Wideband regimes
🔹Optics: Fourier ptychography and SA microscopy, SA holography, Coded diffraction imaging, Coded aperture imaging, SAs leveraging motion, LED or VCSEL array imaging
🔹Seismology: Wave migration and localization techniques
🔹K-space modeling and reconstruction techniques: Black-hole imaging, Radio astronomy, Low magnetic field MRI
🔹Synthetic aperture radiometry: Earth observation, Environmental monitoring, Planetary imaging
🔹Super-resolution techniques: Methods that exploit the physics of sensing
🔹Time-of-flight imaging: SAs via multi-aperture, multi-camera setups, 3D imaging, Optical and sub-optical wavelengths
🔹GNSS reflectometry: Soil moisture, Vegetation, Sea ice
🔹Model-based deep reconstruction: Plug and Play methods, Diffusion models for image priors, Physics-informed neural networks, Doppler radiance fields
🔹Point cloud processing: SA LiDAR (SAL), 4D mmWave SAR
🔹Climate change initiative: Climate change measurement process, Interpreting SAR, GNSS reflectometry, and SA radiometry data, Measurement uncertainties, Interference and contaminated data

𝐊𝐞𝐲𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬
The conference will feature invited presentations from leading experts across the remote sensing and computational imaging community
• Alin Achim, University of Bristol
• Gonzalo Arce, University of Delaware
• Adriano Camps, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
• Mujdat Cetin, University of Rochester
• Mariya Doneva, Philips, Germany
• Ivan Arias Hernandez, University at Albany, SUNY
• Jiaxi Hu, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, Albany, NY, USA
• David Schvartzman, University of Oklahoma
• Ji Yi, Johns Hopkins University

𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐔𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐂𝐈𝐒𝐀 2026!
CISA 2026 offers a unique opportunity for industry leaders in signal processing and synthetic aperture imaging to engage with the global research community, discover emerging techniques, new funding opportunities, and make recruiting connections that help drive the future of imaging and sensing technologies.