URSI Radio Science Letters
Special Issue of the 2022 URSI-Japan Radio Science Meeting
CALL FOR PAPERS
The URSI Radio Science Letters (RSL) is an electronic journal owned and operated by the International Unionof Radio Science (URSI). Its purpose is to rapidly publish original and previously unpublished scientificresearch work in all areas of radio science, in the form of short contributions that are rigorously reviewed.
The URSI-JRSM 2022 Special Issue is planned to be published in the RSL. Papers are subject to the regularreview process by the RSL Editorial Board. This special issue provides a collection of papers presented at the“2022 URSI-Japan Radio Science Meeting” (URSI-JRSM 2022) held in Tokyo, Japan on September 1-2, 2022,
and covers the areas related to all the URSI Commissions A to K:- electromagnetic metrology;- fields and waves;- radiocommunication systems and signal processing;- electronics and photonics;- electromagnetic environment and interference;- wave propagation and remote sensing;- ionospheric radio and propagation;- waves in plasmas;- radio astronomy;- electromagnetics in biology and medicine.
All the participants at URSI-JRSM 2022 who presented papers are eligible for submitting manuscripts to thisSpecial Issue.
Important Dates:- September 1, 2022: Submissions open.
- December 28, 2022: Deadline of manuscript submissions.
Submissions:
Manuscripts should be submitted through- https://www.editorialmanager.com/RSL/For more information, please refer to the Announcement by Professor Piergiorgio L. E. Uslenghi, RSL Editorin-Chief, distributed simultaneously.
Guest Editors:
Professor Satoshi Yagitani, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan
Email: yagitani@is.t.kanazawa-u.ac.jp
Professor Kazuya Kobayashi, Chuo University, Tokyo, JapanEmail: kkobayashi001q@g.chuo-u.ac.jp
Professor Yasuhide Hobara, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan
Email: hobara@ee.uec.ac.jp

Contact:

For any inquiries on this special issue, please contact Professor Kazuya Kobayashi.

URSI Radio Science Letters
The URSI Radio Science Letters (RSL) is an electronic journal owned and operated by theInternational Union of Radio Science (URSI). Its purpose is to rapidly publish original andpreviously unpublished scientific research work in all areas of radio science, in the form of shortcontributions that are rigorously reviewed. The journal is open access and is published only inelectronic format, one volume per calendar year. Each reviewed and accepted letter is publishedas soon as full editing is completed. Each published contribution is identified by volume number,year of publication, and DOI.
Contributions to the RSL must be in the form of manuscripts in English, not exceeding four
published pages in length. An additional page will be accepted at no charge if it contains onlyreferences. Templates and instructions for prospective authors are provided on the journal’s Web
site; go to https://www.ursi.org, under Documents, click on Publications, then on URSI Radio
Science Letters, where the templates are found under Intro. Initial submissions must be in PDF.
Final submissions must also contain a source file, either Word or LaTeX. The PeerTrack
manuscript management system of Allen Press is used to handle the submissions and the review
and publishing process.
The RSL is intended to be a very rapid publication journal. The Editor-in-Chief (EiC) willpromptly notify the corresponding author of the comments of the anonymous reviews, of theAssociate Editor’s comments, and of the consequent disposition of the manuscript. If minor
revisions are required, a revised manuscript must be submitted within thirty days of the EiC’s
recommendation. Any delayed submission will be considered as a new submission. Only minorchanges are acceptable. If major changes are required, the manuscript will be rejected with orwithout a suggestion to resubmit a revised version. Plagiarism, as well as duplicate submission
and publication, will result in rejection of the submission.
Please send your manuscripts to:https://www.editorialmanager.com/RSL/
Authors of accepted manuscripts are expected to sign the URSI Publication Agreement as aprecondition to publication. A manuscript processing charge of 175 USD per published page orfraction thereof (reduced to 150 USD for URSI Senior Members and Fellows) is to be paid as acondition for the posting of an accepted contribution. The URSI Board has approved a special
reduced rate of 100 USD per page for all letters originating from presentations at the 2022 URSIJapan Radio Science Meeting, and submitted to the RSL by Wednesday, December 28, 2022.
Piergiorgio L. E. Uslenghi
Editor-in-Chief