Publications & Presentations
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Chapman, B., S. Hensley, and Y. Lou, "The JPL UAVSAR," ASF News and Notes, vol. 7, no. 1, 2011. [paper]Hensley, S., K. Wheeler, G. Sadowy, T. Miller, S. Shaffer, R. Muellerschoen, C. Jones, H. Zebker, S. Madsen, and P. Rosen, "Status of a UAVSAR Designed for Repeat Pass Interferometry for Deformation Measurements," Microwave Symposium Digest, 2005 IEEE MTT-S International, vol. 3, pp. 1453-1456, Jun. 2005. [paper]
Jones, C., "The UAVSAR Gulf Oil-Spill Campaign, 2010-2012," ASF News and Notes, vol. 8, no. 3, 2012. [paper]
Madsen, S.N., S. Hensley, K. Wheeler, G.A. Sadowy, T. Miller, R. Muellerschoen, Y. Lou, and P.A. Rosen, "UAV-based L-band SAR with Precision Flight Path Control," Enabling Sensor and Platform Technologies for Spaceborne Remote Sensing, Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 5659, pp. 51-60, Nov. 2004, doi: 10.1117/12.578373. [abstract & paper]
Wheeler, K., S. Hensley, Y. Lou, T. Miller, and J. Hoffman, "An L-band SAR for Repeat Pass Deformation Measurements on a UAV Platform," IEEE Radar Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 2004, pp. 317-322. [paper]
Fore, A.G., Chapman, B.D., Hawkins, B.P., Hensley, S., Jones, C.E., Michel, T.R., Muellerschoen, R.J. "UAVSAR Polarimetric Calibration" , IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing , vol. 53, pp. 3481 - 3491, Jun. 2015. [paper]
Peer-Reviewed Science Publications
Solid Earth: Volcanoes, Land Subsidence and Other Deformations
Donnellan, A., J. Parker, S. Hensley, M. Pierce, J. Wang, and J. Rundle, "UAVSAR observations of triggered slip on the Imperial, Superstition Hills, and East Elmore Ranch Faults associated with the 2010 M 7.2 El Mayor‐Cucapah earthquake," Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, vol. 15, pp. 815-829, 2014. [abstract & paper]Glasscoe, M. T., J. Wang, M. E. Pierce, M. R. Yoder, J. W. Parker, M. C. Burl, T. M. Stough, R. A. Granat, A. Donnellan, and J. B. Rundle, "E-DECIDER: Using Earth Science Data and Modeling Tools to Develop Decision Support for Earthquake Disaster Response," Pure and Applied Geophysics, pp. 1-20, 2014. [abstract & paper]
Jones, C. E., and R. G. Blom, "Bayou Corne, Louisiana, sinkhole: Precursory deformation measured by radar interferometry," Geology, vol. 42, pp. 111-114, 2014. [abstract]
Lundgren, P., et al., "Evolution of dike opening during the March 2011 Kamoamoa fissure eruption, Kilauea Volcano, Hawai'i," Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, vol. 118, pp. 897-914, 2013. [abstract]
Parker, J., A. Donnellan, M. Glasscoe, G. Fox, J. Wang, M. Pierce, and Y. Ma, "Advantages to Geoscience and Disaster Response from the QuakeSim Implementation of Interferometric Radar Maps in a GIS Database System," Pure and Applied Geophysics, doi:10.1007/s00024-014-0886-8, pp.1-10, 2013. [absract & paper]
Rymer, M.J., J.A. Treiman, K.J. Kendrick, J.J. Lienkaemper, R.J. Weldon, R. Bilham, M. Wei, E.J. Fielding, J.L. Hernandez, B.P.E. Olson, P.J. Irvine, N. Knepprath, R.R. Sickler, X. Tong, and M.E, Siem, "Triggered Surface Slips in Southern California Associated with the 2010 El Mayor-Cucapah, Baja California, Mexico, Earthquake," U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010–1333 and California Geological Survey Special Report 221, pp. 62, 2011. [abstract & report]
Scheingross, J.S., B.M. Minchew, B.H. Mackey, M. Simons, M.P. Lamb and S. Hensley, "Fault-Zone Controls on the Spatial Distribution of Slow-Moving Landslides," The Geological Society of America Bulletin, Jan. 2013, doi: 10.1130/B30719.1. [abstract & paper]
Terrestrial Ecology and Land Cover / Land Use Change
Ahmed, R., P. Siqueira, and S. Hensley, "Analyzing the Uncertainty of Biomass Estimates From L-Band Radar Backscatter Over the Harvard and Howland Forests" IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 52 pp. 3568-3586, 2014. [abstract]Dickinson, C., P. Siqueira, D. Clewley, and R. Lucas, "Classification of forest composition using polarimetric decomposition in multiple landscapes," Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 131, pp. 206-214, 2013. [abstract]
Hensley, S., S. Oveisgharan, S. Saatchi, M. Simard, R. Ahmed, and Z. Haddad, "An Error Model for Biomass Estimates Derived From Polarimetric Radar Backscatter," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 52, pp. 4065-4082, 2014. [abstract]
Lavalle, M., M. Simard, and S. Hensley, "A Temporal Decorrelation Model for Polarimetric SAR Interferometers," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 50, no. 7, Jul. 2011. [paper]
Marks, W. L., J. S. Iiames, R. S. Lunetta, S. Khorram, and T. H. Mace, "Basal Area and Biomass Estimates of Loblolly Pine Stands Using L-band UAVSAR," Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, vol. 80, pp. 33-42, 2014. [abstract & paper]
Montesano, P. M., B. D. Cook, G. Sun, M. Simard, R. F. Nelson, K. J. Ranson, Z. Zhang, and S. Luthcke, "Achieving accuracy requirements for forest biomass mapping: A spaceborne data fusion method for estimating forest biomass and LiDAR sampling error," Remote Sensing of Environment,, vol. 130, pp. 153-170, 2013. [abstract]
Robinson, C., S. Saatchi, M. Neumann, and T. Gillespie, " Impacts of Spatial Variability on Aboveground Biomass Estimation from L-Band Radar in a Temperate Forest," Remote Sensing, vol. 5, pp. 1001-1023, 2013. [abstract & paper]
Simard, M., S. Hensley, M. Lavalle, R. Dubayah, N. Pinto, and M. Hofton, "An Empirical Assessment of Temporal Decorrelation using Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar over Forested Landscapes," Remote Sensing, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 975-986, Apr. 2012. [abstract & paper]
Swatantran A., R. Dubayah, S. Goetz, M. Hofton, M.G. Betts, M. Sun, M. Simard, and R. Holmes, "Mapping Migratory Bird Prevalence Using Remote Sensing Data Fusion," PLOS ONE, vol. 7, no. 1, Jan. 2012. (published online) [paper]
Hydrology and SMAP Algorithm Development
Kim, S. B., M. Moghaddam, L. Tsang, M. Burgin, X. Xu, and E. G. Njoku, "Models of L-Band Radar Backscattering Coefficients Over Global Terrain for Soil Moisture Retrieval," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 52, pp. 1381-1396, 2013. [abstract & paper]Magagi, R., A. Berg, K. Goïta, S. Bélair, T.J. Jackson, B. Toth, A. Walker, H. McNairn, P.E. O’Neill, M. Moghaddam, I. Gherboudj, A. Colliander, M.H. Cosh, M. Burgin, J.B. Fisher, S.-B. Kim, I. Mladenova, N. Djamai, L.-P.B. Rousseau, J. Belanger, J. Shang, A. Merzouki, "Canadian Experiment for Soil Moisture in 2010 (CanEx-SM10): Overview and Preliminary Results," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. PP, no. 99, pp. 1-17, Jun. 2012. [paper]
Mladenova, I.E., T.J. Jackson, R. Bindlish, and S. Hensley, "Incidence Angle Normalization of Radar Backscatter Data," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 51, pp. 1791-1804, Aug. 2013. [abstract & paper]
Spencer, M. W., C. W. Chen, H. Ghaemi, S. F. Chan, and J. E. Belz, "RFI Characterization and Mitigation for the SMAP Radar," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 51, pp. 4973-4982, 2013. [abstract]
Applied Science
Brekke, C., B. Holt, C. Jones, and S. Skrunes, "Discrimination of oil spills from newly formed sea ice by synthetic aperture radar," Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 145, pp. 1-14, 2014. [abstract & paper]Cui, M., S. Prasad, M. Mahrooghy, J.V. Aanstoos, M. Lee, and L.M. Bruce, "Decision Fusion of Textural Features Derived from Polarimetric Data for Levee Assessment," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 970-976, Jun. 2012. [abstract & paper]
Jones, C. and B.A. Davis, "High Resolution Radar for Response and Recovery: Monitoring Containment Booms in Barataria Bay," Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, vol. 77, no. 2, pp. 102-105, Feb. 2011. [journal]
Jones, C.E., B. Minchew, B. Holt, and S. Hensley, "Studies of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill with the UAVSAR Radar," Monitoring and Modeling the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: A Record-Breaking Enterprise, Geophysical Monograph Series, vol. 195, pp. 33-50, Dec. 2011. [abstract]
Kokaly, R. F., B. R. Couvillion, J. M. Holloway, D. A. Roberts, S. L. Ustin, S. H. Peterson, S. Khanna, and S. C. Piazza, "Spectroscopic remote sensing of the distribution and persistence of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in Barataria Bay marshes," Remote Sensing of Environment,, vol. 129, pp. 210-230, 2013. [abstract & paper]
Leifer, I., B. Lehr, D. Simecek-Beatty, E. Bradley, R. Clark, P. Dennison, Y. Hu, S. Matheson, C. Jones, B. Holt, M. Reif, D. Roberts, J. Svejkovsky, G. Swayze, and J. Wozencraft, "State of the Art Satellite and Airborne Marine Oil Spill Remote Sensing: Application to the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill," Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 124, pp. 185-209, Sep. 2012. [paper]
Liu, P., X. Li, J.J. Qu, W. Wang, C. Zhao, and W. Pichel, "Oil Spill Detection with Fully Polarimetric UAVSAR Data," Marine Pollution Bulletin, vol. 62, no. 12, pp. 2611-2618, Dec. 2011. [paper]
Migliaccio, M., and F. Nunziata, "On the exploitation of polarimetric SAR data to map damping properties of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill," International Journal of Remote Sensing, vol. 35, pp. 3499-3519, 2014. [abstract]
Minchew, B., C. Jones, and B. Holt, "Polarimetric Analysis of Backscatter From the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Using L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 50, pp. 1-19, Mar. 2012. [paper]
Ramsey III, E., A. Rangoonwala, Y. Suzuoki, and C. E. Jones, "Oil Detection in a Coastal Marsh with Polarimetric SAR," Remote Sensing, vol. 3, no. 12, pp. 2630-2662, Dec. 2011. [abstract & paper]
Ramsey, E., Rangoonwala, A., Chi, Z., Jones, C.E., and T. Banister "Marsh dieback, loss, and recovery mapped with satellite optical, airborne polarimetric radar, and field data", Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 152 pp. 364-374, Sept. 2014 [abstract & paper]
Farr, T., Jones, C.E., and Z. Liu "Progress Report: Subsidence in the Central Valley, California", Report to the California Dept. of Water Resources, Aug. 2015 [Report]
Polarimetry, Filtering and Classification
Cao, Z., Y. Tan, and J. Feng, "Segmentation of PolSAR image by using an Automatic Initialized Variational Model and a Dual Optimization Approach," EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 77, pp. 102-105, 2013. [abstract & paper]Cheng, X., W. Huang, and J. Gong, "An Unsupervised Scattering Mechanism Classification Method for PolSAR Images," IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS, vol. 11, pp. 1677-1681, 2014. [abstract]
Ding, Z., T. Zeng, F. Dong, L. Liu, W. Yang, and T. Long, "An Improved PolSAR Image Speckle Reduction Algorithm Based on Structural Judgment and Hybrid Four-Component Polarimetric Decomposition," Ieee Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 51, pp. 4438-4449, 2013. [abstract & paper]
Mahdian, M., S. Homayouni, M. A. Fazel, and F. Mohammadimanesh, "Agricultural Land Classification Based on Statistical Analysis of Full Polarimetric SAR Data," ISPRS-International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, vol. 1, pp. 257-261, 2013. [abstract & paper]
Recent Conference Presentations
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2013
Delbridge B.G., Burgmann R., Fielding E.J., Hensley S., and Schulz W.H. "3D Surface flow kinematics derived from airborne UAVSAR interferometric synthetic aperture radar to constrain the physical mechanisms controlling landslide motion," AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 2013 (Oral Presentation) [abstract]Fielding E.J., Sun J., Gonzalez-Ortega A., Gonzalez-Escobar M., Freed A.M., Burgmann R., et al., "Strike-slip Fault Structure in the Salton Trough and Deformation During and After the 2010 M7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake from Geodetic and Seismic Data," AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 2013 (Oral Presentation) [abstract]
Jones C.E., and Blom R.G, "Measurement of Sinkhole Formation and Progression with InSAR," AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 2013 (Oral Presentation) [abstract]
McDonald K.C., Campbell K., Islam R., Azarderakhsh M., Cracraft J., "Exploring the Geomorphology of the Amazon’s Planalto with Imaging Radar: Understanding the Origins of the Modern Amazon Basin," AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 2013 (Poster) [abstract]
Minchew B.M, Simons M., Hensley S., Larour E.Y, Morlighem M., Bjornsson H., et al. "Temporal variation of basal stress in temperate Icelandic glaciers during the early melt season," AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 2013 (Poster) [abstract & posters]
Moller D., Hensley S., Wu X., Michel T., Muellerschoen R., Carswell J., et al., "The Glacier and Ice Surface Topography Interferometer: UAVSAR's Single-pass Ka-Band Interferometer," AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 2013 (Poster) [abstract]
Parker J.W., Glasscoe M.T., and Donnellan A., "Detecting Hidden Faults and Other Lineations with UAVSAR," AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 2013 (Oral Presentation) [abstract]
Kim S., Tsang L., Liao T.H., Huang, H., and Jackson T.J., "Retrieval of soil moisture using airborne synthetic- and real- aperture radar data at different spatial scales," AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 2013 (Oral Presentation) [abstract]
Hudnut K., Wei S., Donnellan A., Fielding, E.J., Graves R.W., Helmberger D.V., Liu Z., et al., "Extremely Shallow Extensional Faulting Near Geothermal Fields," AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 2013 (Poster) [abstract]
Schaefer L.N., Oommen T., and Waite G.P, "Integrating GPS, InSAR, and numerical modeling to link surface deformation and eruptive activity at Pacaya Volcano (Guatemala)," AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 2013 (Poster) [abstract]
EUSAR 2014 - 10th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
Hensley, S., Michel, T., Neumann, M., Lavalle, M., Ahmed, R., Muellerschoen, R., and Chapman, B., "A Comparison of Multi-Baseline Polarimetric Inteferometry at La Amistad and La Selva, Costa Rica with a Modified PolSARProSim Scattering Tool," EUSAR, Berlin, Germany, 2014 [abstract]Kim, S.B., Huang, H.T., Tsang, L., Jackson, T., McNairn, H., and Zyl, J.V. "Soil moisture retrieval using L-band time-series SAR data from the SMAPVEX12 experiment," EUSAR, Berlin, Germany, 2014 (Oral Presentation) [abstract]
Michel T., Hensley S., Madsen S.N., and Neumann M., "Airborne High Resolution Low Frequency SAR Motion Compensation and Residual Motion Estimation," EUSAR, Berlin, Germany, 2014 (Oral Presentation)
Neumann, M., Hensley, S., Ahmed, R., Pinto, N., Michel, T., and Muellerschoen, R., "UAVSAR PolInSAR and Tomographic Products for Natural Media Characterization" EUSAR, Berlin, Germany, 2014 (Oral Presentation) [abstract]
Ouellette, J.D., Johnson, J.T., Balenzano, A., Mattia, F., Satalino, G., Kim, S., et al. "A Study of Soil Moisture Estimation from Multi-Temporal L-band Radar Observations of Vegetated Surfaces," EUSAR, Berlin, Germany, 2014 (Oral Presentation) [abstract]
IGARSS 2014 - International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
Ahmed R., Hensley S., and Siqueira P., "An Analysis Of Uncertainty in the Backscatter Biomass Relationship," IGARSS, Quebec City, Canada, 2014 (Oral Presentation)Chapman B., Celi J., Hamilton S., and McDonald K., "Validation of Forested Innundation Extent Revealed by L-Band Polarimetric and Interferometric SAR Data," IGARSS, Quebec City, Canada, 2014 (Oral Presentation)
Hensley S., Neumann M., Lavalle M., Ahmed R., Lou Y., Van Zyl J., et al. "JPL’s Continuing Contributions to Radar Polarimetry and Its Applications," IGARSS, Quebec City, Canada, 2014 (Oral Presentation)
Lavalle M., and Khun K., "Tropical and Boreal Forest Height Extraction from L– and P–Band Three-Baseline POLinSAR Stack," IGARSS, Quebec City, Canada, 2014 (Oral Presentation)
Neumann M., Hensley S., Ahmed R., and Michel T., "Information Retrieval from UAVSAR Repeat-Pass Multi-Baseline Data," IGARSS, Quebec City, Canada, 2014 (Oral Presentation)
Poland M.P., "The Hawai‘i Supersite: Improved Understanding of Hawaiian Volcanism Made Possible by Increased Data Accessibility," IGARSS, Quebec City, Canada, 2014 (Oral Presentation)
Simard M., Pinto N., Neumann M., Brolly M., St-Onge B., and Sadeghi Y., "Mapping Forested Landscapes in 3D Using Radar Interferometry and Lidar Over the Reserve Faunique Des Laurentides," IGARSS, Quebec City, Canada, 2014 (Poster)
Simard M., Rivera-Montoy V.H., Agueh L.F., Corcoran J., and Chowdhury R.R., "Blue Carbon Distribution in Mangrove Forests of the World," IGARSS, Quebec City, Canada, 2014 (Oral Presentation)
Tabatabaeenejad A., Burgin M., Duan X., and Moghaddam M., "Representation of Vertical Subsurface Soil Moisture Profile Variations and Its Impact on Retrieval Accuracy in Vegetated Landscapes," IGARSS, Quebec City, Canada, 2014 (Oral Presentation)
Tabatabaeenejad A., and Moghaddam M., "Radar Remote Sensing of Permafrost Active Layer: A Preliminary Study," IGARSS, Quebec City, Canada, 2014 (Oral Presentation)