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  • 2007 - IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award “For development of synthetic aperture radar concepts.”
  • 2004 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to synthetic aperture radar systems and high resolution signal processing and image formation algorithms.

Overview

Alberto Moreira is affiliated with the German Aerospace Center in Germany and has a significant body of work in the field of engineering, with a focus on aerospace engineering. Their research spans 63 publications in engineering disciplines, with 54 specifically addressing aerospace engineering topics.

Their work covers several specialized subfields and main topics, including advanced SAR imaging techniques, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) applications and techniques, antenna design and optimization, microwave imaging and scattering analysis, cryospheric studies and observations, soil moisture and remote sensing, and the dynamics of Arctic and Antarctic ice.

Moreira has contributed to numerous publications, frequently collaborating with peers such as Gerhard Krieger, Marwan Younis, Marc Rodríguez-Cassolà, Francesca Bovolo, and Antonio Plaza.

Their recent papers include:

  • "TanDEM-X: 10 Years of Formation Flying Bistatic SAR Interferometry," 2021, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • "Airborne Experiment on Insar Snow Mass Retrieval in Alpine Environment," 2022, IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
  • "MirrorSAR: An HRWS Add-On for Single-Pass Multi-Baseline SAR Interferometry," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • "Taking a Look Beneath the Surface: Multicopter UAV-Based Ground-Penetrating Imaging Radars," 2022, IEEE Microwave Magazine
  • "Digital Beamforming for Spaceborne Reflector-Based Synthetic Aperture Radar, Part 1: Basic imaging modes," 2021, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine

The scientist frequently publishes in prominent venues such as IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine, IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, and IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.

Moreira has been recognized with awards including the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award in 2007 for work related to synthetic aperture radar concepts and was named an IEEE Fellow in 2004 for contributions to synthetic aperture radar systems and high-resolution signal processing and image formation algorithms.

Best Publications

  • A tutorial on synthetic aperture radar

    A. Moreira;P. Prats-Iraola;M. Younis;G. Krieger

  • TanDEM-X: A Satellite Formation for High-Resolution SAR Interferometry

    G. Krieger;A. Moreira;H. Fiedler;I. Hajnsek

  • First demonstration of airborne SAR tomography using multibaseline L-band data

    A. Reigber;A. Moreira

  • Unambiguous SAR signal reconstruction from nonuniform displaced phase center sampling

    G. Krieger;N. Gebert;A. Moreira

  • Extended chirp scaling algorithm for air- and spaceborne SAR data processing in stripmap and scanSAR imaging modes

    A. Moreira;J. Mittermayer;R. Scheiber

  • Multidimensional Waveform Encoding: A New Digital Beamforming Technique for Synthetic Aperture Radar Remote Sensing

    G. Krieger;N. Gebert;A. Moreira

  • Airborne SAR processing of highly squinted data using a chirp scaling approach with integrated motion compensation

    A. Moreira;Yonghong Huang

  • Generation and performance assessment of the global TanDEM-X digital elevation model

    Paola Rizzoli;Michele Martone;Carolina Gonzalez;Christopher Wecklich

  • Errata: Digital Beamforming on Receive: Techniques and Optimization Strategies for High-Resolution Wide-Swath SAR Imaging

    Nicolas Gebert;Michelangelo Villano;Gerhard Krieger;Alberto Moreira

  • Spotlight SAR data processing using the frequency scaling algorithm

    J. Mittermayer;A. Moreira;O. Loffeld

  • Coregistration of interferometric SAR images using spectral diversity

    R. Scheiber;A. Moreira

  • Spaceborne bi- and multistatic SAR: potential and challenges

    Gerhard Krieger;Alberto Moreira

  • Tandem-L: A Highly Innovative Bistatic SAR Mission for Global Observation of Dynamic Processes on the Earth's Surface

    Alberto Moreira;Gerhard Krieger;Irena Hajnsek;Konstantinos Papathanassiou

  • Very-High-Resolution Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging: Signal Processing and Applications

    A. Reigber;R. Scheiber;M. Jager;Pau Prats-Iraola

  • TanDEM-X: A satellite formation for high-resolution SAR interferometry

    G. Krieger;H. Fiedler;M. Zink;I. Hajnsek

  • Bistatic radar : emerging technology

    Mikhail Cherniakov;Marco D'Errico;Alberto Moreira;Gerhard Krieger

  • Processing of Sliding Spotlight and TOPS SAR Data Using Baseband Azimuth Scaling

    P. Prats;R. Scheiber;J. Mittermayer;A. Meta

  • Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Missions Employing Formation Flying

    Gerhard Krieger;Irena Hajnsek;Konstantinos Panagiotis Papathanassiou;Marwan Younis

  • TanDEM-X: a TerraSAR-X add-on satellite for single-pass SAR interferometry

    A. Moreira;G. Krieger;I. Hajnsek;D. Hounam

  • Staggered SAR: High-Resolution Wide-Swath Imaging by Continuous PRI Variation

    Michelangelo Villano;Gerhard Krieger;Alberto Moreira

  • A comparison of several algorithms for SAR raw data compression

    U. Benz;K. Strodl;A. Moreira

  • TanDEM-X: A Satellite Formation for High Resolution Radar Interferometry

    Alberto Moreira;Gerhard Krieger;Hauke Fiedler;Irena Hajnsek

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerhard Krieger
Gerhard Krieger German Aerospace Center
Irena Hajnsek
Irena Hajnsek German Aerospace Center
Marwan Younis
Marwan Younis Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Andreas Reigber
Andreas Reigber German Aerospace Center
Konstantinos Papathanassiou
Konstantinos Papathanassiou German Aerospace Center
Pau Prats
Pau Prats German Aerospace Center
Michael Eineder
Michael Eineder German Aerospace Center
Richard Bamler
Richard Bamler German Aerospace Center
Helmut Rott
Helmut Rott University of Innsbruck
Masanobu Shimada
Masanobu Shimada Tokyo Denki University

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