MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING FOR EARTH OBSERVATION

INVERSE PROBLEMS ARISING IN MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS

This topic deals with the generation of added-value products by solving ill-posed and/or under-determined linear inverse problems.

• Enhancement of the spatial resolution of microwave radiometer measurements

• Gridding of GNSS-Reflectometry products

RETRIEVAL OF OCEAN PARAMETER BY SAR

This topic deals with the understanding of SAR imaging of ocean waves and the related retrieval of geophysical parameters

• Wind retrieval under nominal and extreme weather conditions

• Simulation of SAR ocean waves imaging

• Analysis of ocean waves observed by SAR

EXTRACTION OF THE COASTLINE USING SAR MEASUREMENT

This topic deals with the development of models and methods to extract the  coastline using multi-polarization SAR measurements

• Rocky and sandy beaches

• Wetland areas

• Multi-pol methods and non-local filtering

• Reservoir monitoring

OBSERVATION OF URBAN AREAS DAMAGED BY EARTHQUAKES USING POLSAR MEASUREMENTS

This topic deals with the development of models and methods to detect urban areas damaged by earthquakes and the estimation of the damage levels using
polSAR measurements

• Sensitivity of polSAR features to earthquake-induced damages

• Change detection polSAR methods

OBSERVATION OF MARINE TARGETS USING SAR MEASUREMENTS

This topic deals with the development of models and methods to detect metallic targets at sea, i.e.; vessels, rigs/platforms, wind turbines in a robust and 
effective way

• Speckle model

• Reflection symmetry property and polarimetric manifestations

• Effect of the incidence angle of target's scattering

OBSERVATION OF MARINE POLLUTION USING POLARIMETRIC SAR MEASUREMENTS

This topic deals with the development of models and methods to detect mainly sea oil pollutants and distinguishing them from look-alikes in an unsupervised way using polSAR measurements

• Detection of illegally discharged oils

• Analysis of oil spills due to accidental events

• Oil seeps monitoring and tracking

• Analysis of scattering-based information

• Effect of the noise into polSAR measurements collected over slick-covered sea surface

PREDICTION OF MICROWAVE SEA SURFACE SCATTERING

This topic deals with the development of models and methods to predict the microwave signal scattered off sea surface

• Scattering from slick-free sea surface

• Scattering from slick-covered sea surface

• Prediction and  analysis of polSAR features related to sea surface scattering