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Mike Schwank is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in Environmental Science. Schwank's work intersects key subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Ecology, Aerospace Engineering, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

Their research topics cover a range of areas within environmental and remote sensing sciences. These include:

  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques

Mike Schwank has contributed to numerous papers over recent years, including the following notable publications:

  • Temperature effects on L-band vegetation optical depth of a boreal forest, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Quantifying Surface Melt and Liquid Water on the Greenland Ice Sheet using L-band Radiometry, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Multiyear in-situ L-band microwave radiometry of land surface processes on the Tibetan Plateau, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Portable L-Band Radiometer (PoLRa): Design and Characterization, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Impact of Soil Permittivity and Temperature Profile on L-Band Microwave Emission of Frozen Soil, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Schwank frequently publishes in several scientific venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • Scientific Data
  • Remote Sensing
  • Journal of Glaciology

The scientist collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Arnaud Mialon
  • Yann H. Kerr
  • Derek Houtz
  • Reza Naderpour
  • Christian Mätzler

Best Publications

  • L-band Microwave Emission of the Biosphere (L-MEB) Model: Description and calibration against experimental data sets over crop fields

    J.P. Wigneron;Y.H. Kerr;P. Waldteufel;K. Saleh

  • A Network of Terrestrial Environmental Observatories in Germany

    Steffen Zacharias;Heye Bogena;Luis Samaniego;Matthias Mauder

  • Modelling the Passive Microwave Signature from Land Surfaces: A Review of Recent Results and Application to the L-Band SMOS SMAP Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithms

    J.-P. Wigneron;T.J. Jackson;P. O'Neill;G. De Lannoy

  • SMOS prototype algorithm for detecting autumn soil freezing

    Kimmo Rautiainen;Tiina Parkkinen;Juha Lemmetyinen;Mike Schwank

  • Detection of soil freezing from L-band passive microwave observations

    Kimmo Rautiainen;Juha Lemmetyinen;Mike Schwank;Anna Kontu

  • Estimates of surface soil moisture under grass covers using L-band radiometry

    K. Saleh;J.-P. Wigneron;P. Waldteufel;P. de Rosnay

  • Microwave L-band emission of freezing soil

    M. Schwank;M. Stahli;H. Wydler;J. Leuenberger

  • ELBARA II, an L-Band Radiometer System for Soil Moisture Research

    Mike Schwank;Andreas Wiesmann;Charles Werner;Christian Mätzler

  • Calibration of the L-MEB Model Over a Coniferous and a Deciduous Forest

    J.P. Grant;K. Saleh-Contell;J.-P. Wigneron;M. Guglielmetti

  • Snow density and ground permittivity retrieved from L-band radiometry: Application to experimental data

    Juha Lemmetyinen;Mike Schwank;Kimmo Rautiainen;Anna Kontu

  • FOSMEX: Forest Soil Moisture Experiments With Microwave Radiometry

    M. Guglielmetti;M. Schwank;C. Matzler;C. Oberdorster

  • Measured microwave radiative transfer properties of a deciduous forest canopy

    Massimo Guglielmetti;Mike Schwank;Christian Mätzler;Christian Oberdörster

  • Compared performances of SMOS-IC soil moisture and vegetation optical depth retrievals based on Tau-Omega and Two-Stream microwave emission models

    Xiaojun Li;A. Al-Yaari;A. Al-Yaari;M. Schwank;Lei Fan;Lei Fan

  • Model for microwave emission of a snow-covered ground with focus on L band

    Mike Schwank;Kimmo Rautiainen;Christian Mätzler;Manfred Stähli

  • Mapping Field-Scale Soil Moisture With L-Band Radiometer and Ground-Penetrating Radar Over Bare Soil

    F. Jonard;L. Weihermuller;K. Z. Jadoon;M. Schwank

  • Snow Density and Ground Permittivity Retrieved from L-Band Radiometry: A Synthetic Analysis

    Mike Schwank;Christian Matzler;Andreas Wiesmann;Urs Wegmuller

  • First evaluation of the simultaneous SMOS and ELBARA-II observations in the Mediterranean region

    Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Mike Schwank;Ernesto Lopez Baeza;Yann Kerr

  • Sampling depth of L-band radiometer measurements of soil moisture and freeze-thaw dynamics on the Tibetan Plateau

    Donghai Zheng;Xin Li;Xin Wang;Zuoliang Wang

  • Topsoil Structure Influencing Soil Water Retrieval by Microwave Radiometry

    K. Schneeberger;M. Schwank;Ch. Stamm;P. de Rosnay

  • MEMLS3&a: Microwave Emission Model of Layered Snowpacks adapted to include backscattering

    M. Proksch;Christian Mätzler;A. Wiesmann;J. Lemmetyinen

  • Laboratory Characterization of a Commercial Capacitance Sensor for Estimating Permittivity and Inferring Soil Water Content

    Mike Schwank;Timothy R. Green;Christian Mätzler;Hansruedi Benedickter

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Pierre Wigneron
Jean-Pierre Wigneron University of Rennes
Yann Kerr
Yann Kerr Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Christian Mätzler
Christian Mätzler University of Bern
Arnaud Mialon
Arnaud Mialon Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Harry Vereecken
Harry Vereecken Forschungszentrum Jülich
Lutz Weihermüller
Lutz Weihermüller Forschungszentrum Jülich
Juha Lemmetyinen
Juha Lemmetyinen Finnish Meteorological Institute
Andreas Wiesmann
Andreas Wiesmann University of Bern
Paolo Ferrazzoli
Paolo Ferrazzoli University of Rome Tor Vergata
Philippe Richaume
Philippe Richaume Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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