Characteristics and changes of glacial lakes and outburst floods

G Zhang, JL Carrivick, A Emmer, DH Shugar… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Global glacier mass loss has accelerated, producing more and larger glacial lakes. Many of
these glacial lakes are a source of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs), which pose threats …

The status of technologies to measure forest biomass and structural properties: State of the art in SAR tomography of tropical forests

S Tebaldini, D Ho Tong Minh… - Surveys in …, 2019 - Springer
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) tomography (TomoSAR) is an emerging technology to image
the 3D structure of the illuminated media. TomoSAR exploits the key feature of microwaves …

Linking critical zone with watershed science: The example of the Heihe River basin

X Li, G Cheng, B Fu, J Xia, L Zhang, D Yang… - Earth's …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Watersheds are the basic unit of Earth's terrestrial systems and are therefore ideal units for
the study of critical zones (CZs). However, grand challenges remain regarding the …

Digital terrain model retrieval in tropical forests through P-band SAR tomography

MM d'Alessandro, S Tebaldini - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper focuses on the retrieval of terrain topography below dense tropical forests by
means of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems. Low-frequency signals are needed to …

Imaging the internal structure of an alpine glacier via L-band airborne SAR tomography

S Tebaldini, T Nagler, H Rott… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we report results from the analysis of 3-D L-band airborne synthetic aperture
radar (SAR) acquisitions acquired in March 2014 over the Mittelbergferner glacier, Austrian …

Nonlocal filtering applied to 3-D reconstruction of tomographic SAR data

O D'Hondt, C López-Martínez… - … on Geoscience and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we introduce two spatially adaptive filtering methods to improve the estimation
of the covariance matrix (CM), which is required for the processing of tomographic SAR data …

Forest biomass retrieval from L-band SAR using tomographic ground backscatter removal

E Blomberg, L Ferro-Famil, MJ Soja… - … and Remote Sensing …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A tomographic synthetic aperture radar (TomoSAR) represents a possible route to improved
retrievals of forest parameters. Simulated orbital L-band TomoSAR data corresponding to …

The BIOMASS level 2 prototype processor: Design and experimental results of above-ground biomass estimation

F Banda, D Giudici, T Le Toan… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
BIOMASS is ESA's seventh Earth Explorer mission, scheduled for launch in 2022. The
satellite will be the first P-band SAR sensor in space and will be operated in fully …

UAV-based P-band SAR tomography with long baseline: A multimaster approach

Z Wang, Z Ding, T Sun, J Zhao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the advantage of flexible and rapid deployment, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-
based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) tomography (TomoSAR) is a promising technology in …

Signal processing options for high resolution SAR tomography of natural scenarios

Y Yu, MM d'Alessandro, S Tebaldini, M Liao - Remote sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Tomography is a technique to provide direct three-
dimensional (3D) imaging of the illuminated targets by processing SAR data acquired from …