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Austria
2025

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Earth Science

D-Index
52
Citations
14706
World Ranking
2972
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Austria Leader Award
  • 2009 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to microwave techniques for evaluating climate change

Overview

Helmut Rott is affiliated with the University of Innsbruck in Austria and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work primarily focuses on Atmospheric Science, with additional interests in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Aerospace Engineering, Environmental Engineering, and Ecology.

The research topics Helmut Rott has been involved in include:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Polar Research and Ecology

They have published several recent papers that highlight their research interests and contributions:

  • "Airborne Experiment on Insar Snow Mass Retrieval in Alpine Environment", 2022, IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
  • "Exploiting the ANN Potential in Estimating Snow Depth and Snow Water Equivalent From the Airborne SnowSAR Data at X- and Ku-Bands", 2021, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • "Impact of marine processes on flow dynamics of northern Antarctic Peninsula outlet glaciers", 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Penetration of interferometric radar signals in Antarctic snow", 2021, The Cryosphere
  • "Airborne SnowSAR data at X and Ku bands over boreal forest, alpine and tundra snow cover", 2022, Earth system science data

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Helmut Rott include:

  • Thomas Nägler
  • Jan Wuite
  • Stefan Scheiblauer
  • Ludivine Libert
  • Markus Hetzenecker

Their research has been published repeatedly in venues such as:

  • IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • Nature Communications
  • The Cryosphere
  • Earth system science data

Helmut Rott was recognized as an IEEE Fellow in 2009 for contributions to microwave techniques used in evaluating climate change.

Best Publications

  • A reconciled estimate of ice-sheet mass balance

    Andrew Shepherd;Erik R. Ivins;A. Geruo;Valentina R. Barletta

  • A Method for Estimating Soil Moisture from ERS Scatterometer and Soil Data

    Wolfgang Wagner;Guido Lemoine;Helmut Rott

  • Mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet from 1992 to 2017.

    Andrew Shepherd;Erik Ivins;Eric Rignot;Ben Smith

  • Sentinels for science: potential of Sentinel-1, -2, and -3 missions for scientific observations of ocean, cryosphere, and land

    Zbyněk Malenovský;Helmut Rott;Josef Cihlar;Michael E. Schaepman

  • Rapid Collapse of Northern Larsen Ice Shelf, Antarctica

    Helmut Rott;Pedro Skvarca;Thomas Nagler

  • Retrieval of wet snow by means of multitemporal SAR data

    T. Nagler;H. Rott

  • Breakup and conditions for stability of the northern Larsen Ice Shelf, Antarctica

    C. S. M. Doake;H. F. J. Corr;H. Rott;P. Skvarca

  • A study of vegetation cover effects on ERS scatterometer data

    W. Wagner;G. Lemoine;M. Borgeaud;H. Rott

  • Snow-Cover Parameters Retrieved from Nimbus-7 Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) Data

    Klaus F. Kunzi;Subash Patil;Helmut Rott

  • 2011 IEEE INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM (IGARSS)

    Helmut Rott;Donald W. Cline;Claude Duguay;Richard Essery

  • Cold Regions Hydrology High-Resolution Observatory for Snow and Cold Land Processes

    Helmut Rott;Simon H Yueh;Donald W Cline;Claude Duguay

  • Northern Larsen Ice Shelf, Antarctica: further retreat after collapse

    Helmut Rott;Wolfgang Rack;Pedro Skvarca;Hernán De Angelis

  • The Sentinel-1 Mission: New Opportunities for Ice Sheet Observations

    Thomas Nagler;Helmut Rott;Markus Hetzenecker;Jan Wuite

  • Pattern of retreat and disintegration of the Larsen B ice shelf, Antarctic Peninsula

    Wolfgang Rack;Helmut Rott

  • Advancements for Snowmelt Monitoring by Means of Sentinel-1 SAR

    Thomas Nagler;Helmut Rott;Elisabeth Ripper;Gabriele Bippus

  • ESM-SnowMIP: assessing snow models and quantifying snow-related climate feedbacks

    Gerhard Krinner;Chris Derksen;Richard Essery;Mark Flanner

  • Snow mapping in alpine regions with synthetic aperture radar

    Jiancheng Shi;J. Dozier;H. Rott

  • Monitoring soil moisture over the Canadian Prairies with the ERS scatterometer

    W. Wagner;J. Noll;M. Borgeaud;H. Rott

  • Monitoring very slow slope movements by means of SAR interferometry: A case study from a mass waste above a reservoir in the Ötztal Alps, Austria

    Helmut Rott;Bernd Scheuchl;Andreas Siegel;Bernhard Grasemann

  • The imbalance of glaciers after disintegration of Larsen-B ice shelf, Antarctic Peninsula

    Helmut Rott;Florian Müller;Thomas Nagler;Dana Floricioiu

  • Mass fluxes and dynamics of Moreno Glacier, Southern Patagonia Icefield

    Helmut Rott;Martin Stuefer;Andreas Siegel;Pedro Skvarca

  • Supplementary Materials for A Reconciled Estimate of Ice-Sheet Mass Balance

    Andrew Shepherd;Erik R. Ivins;Geruo A;Valentina R. Barletta

Frequent Co-Authors

Jouni Pulliainen
Jouni Pulliainen Finnish Meteorological Institute
Giovanni Macelloni
Giovanni Macelloni National Research Council (CNR)
Irena Hajnsek
Irena Hajnsek German Aerospace Center
Pedro Skvarca
Pedro Skvarca Argentine Antarctic Institute
Richard Essery
Richard Essery University of Edinburgh
Claude R. Duguay
Claude R. Duguay University of Waterloo
Juha Lemmetyinen
Juha Lemmetyinen Finnish Meteorological Institute
Simon Yueh
Simon Yueh Jet Propulsion Lab
Andreas Wiesmann
Andreas Wiesmann University of Bern
Alberto Moreira
Alberto Moreira German Aerospace Center

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