Deep Learning for Synthetic Aperture Radar Remote Sensing
- 1st Edition - January 1, 2026
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Michael Schmitt, Ronny Hänsch
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 6 3 4 4 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 6 3 4 5 - 0
Deep Learning for Synthetic Aperture Radar Remote Sensing delves into the transformative synergy between synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and cutting-edge machine learning techni… Read more
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Deep Learning for Synthetic Aperture Radar Remote Sensing delves into the transformative synergy between synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and cutting-edge machine learning techniques. Traditionally rooted in signal processing, SAR's active imaging capabilities rise above optical limitations, offering resilience to environmental factors like cloud cover. This book showcases how machine learning augments every stage of SAR image processing, from raw data refinement to advanced information extraction. Through comprehensive coverage of acquisition modes and processing methodologies, including polarimetry and interferometry, this book equips readers with the tools to harness SAR's full potential. Aiming to further enhance remote sensing imaging, it serves as a vital resource for those seeking to integrate SAR data seamlessly into the modern machine learning landscape. Deep Learning for Synthetic Aperture Radar Remote Sensing addresses a critical gap in the intersection of SAR technology and machine learning, offering a pioneering roadmap for researchers and practitioners alike. With its emphasis on modern techniques, it serves as a catalyst for unlocking SAR's untapped potential and shaping the future of Earth observation.
- Combines Synthetic Aperture Radar and Machine Learning/Deep Learning, addressing a highly innovative field
- Covers the complete life-cycle of an SAR image from creation over enhancement to analysis instead of focusing on only one aspect
- Provides a holistic view of the application of DL to SAR, addressing the unique properties and challenges of SAR
Researchers (professors, PhD students), and Machine Learning/Computer Vision engineers in Remote sensing / Earth observation, Geosciences, Earth sciences, and Geoinformatics interested working with SAR
1. Remote Sensing with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
2. Machine Learning Basics
3. SAR Image Formation
4. Data Compression
5. Despeckling
6. SAR Interferometry (Phase and Coherence Estimation, Phase Unwrapping)
7. SAR Tomography
8. Single-Image Height Estimation
9. Object Detection
10. Land Cover Classification
11. Change Detection
12. Retrieval of Bio-/geophysical Parameters
13. Future Outlook
2. Machine Learning Basics
3. SAR Image Formation
4. Data Compression
5. Despeckling
6. SAR Interferometry (Phase and Coherence Estimation, Phase Unwrapping)
7. SAR Tomography
8. Single-Image Height Estimation
9. Object Detection
10. Land Cover Classification
11. Change Detection
12. Retrieval of Bio-/geophysical Parameters
13. Future Outlook
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 1, 2026
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
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Michael Schmitt
Michael Schmitt has been a Full Professor for Earth Observation at the Department of Aerospace Engineering of the University of the Bundeswehr Munich (UniBw M) in Neubiberg, Germany, since 2021. From 2020 to 2022, he additionally held the position of a Consulting Senior Scientist at the Remote Sensing Technology Institute of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Before joining UniBw M, he was a Professor for Applied Geodesy and Remote Sensing at the Munich University of Applied Sciences, Department of Geoinformatics. From 2015 to 2020, he was a Senior Researcher and Deputy Head at the Professorship for Signal Processing in Earth Observation at TUM; in 2019 he was additionally appointed as Adjunct Teaching Professor at the Department of Aerospace and Geodesy of TUM. In 2016, he was a guest scientist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research focuses on technical aspects of Earth observation, in particular image analysis and machine learning applied to the extraction of information from multi-modal remote sensing observations.
Affiliations and expertise
Full Professor for Earth Observation, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of the Bundeswehr Munich (UniBw M), Neubiberg, GermanyRH
Ronny Hänsch
Ronny Hänsch is a scientist at the Microwave and Radar Institute of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) where he leads the Machine Learning Team in the Signal Processing Group of the SAR Technology Department. His research interest is computer vision and machine learning with a focus on remote sensing (in particular SAR processing and analysis). He was chair of the GRSS Image Analysis and Data Fusion (IADF) technical committee 2021-23, and serves as co-chair of the ISPRS working group on Image Orientation and Sensor Fusion, as editor in chief of the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. associate editor the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, and organizer of the CVPR Workshop EarthVision (2017-2024) and the IGARSS Tutorial on Machine Learning in Remote Sensing (2017-2024). He has extensive experience in organizing remote sensing community competitions (e.g. SpaceNet and the GRSS Data Fusion Contest).
Affiliations and expertise
Scientist, Microwave and Radar Institute, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany