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Motoyuki Sato

Motoyuki Sato

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
35
Citations
5847
World Ranking
5505
National Ranking
234

Overview

Motoyuki Sato is affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan and has a research profile focused on engineering and earth sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including aerospace engineering, ocean engineering, environmental engineering, biomedical engineering, and geophysics.

The researcher's main areas of study cover geophysical methods and applications, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) applications and techniques, soil moisture and remote sensing, microwave imaging and scattering analysis, seismic waves and analysis, cryospheric studies and observations, and advanced SAR imaging techniques.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
  • IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
  • Remote Sensing

They have collaborated repeatedly with several co-authors, including:

  • Yuta Izumi
  • Lilong Zou
  • Kazutaka Kikuta
  • Amir M. Alani
  • Giovanni Nico

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Motoyuki Sato include:

  • On the Use of Lateral Wave for the Interlayer Debonding Detecting in an Asphalt Airport Pavement Using a Multistatic GPR System, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • Effects of Induced Field Rotation From Rough Surface on H-Alpha Decomposition of Full-Polarimetric GPR, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • Iterative Atmospheric Phase Screen Compensation for Near-Real-Time Ground-Based InSAR Measurements Over a Mountainous Slope, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • Mapping and Assessment of Tree Roots Using Ground Penetrating Radar with Low-Cost GPS, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Atmospheric Phase Compensation in Extreme Weather Conditions for Ground-Based SAR, 2020, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Best Publications

  • Surface and borehole ground-penetrating-radar developments

    Evert Slob;Motoyuki Sato;Gary Olhoeft

  • General Polarimetric Model-Based Decomposition for Coherency Matrix

    Si-Wei Chen;Xue-Song Wang;Shun-Ping Xiao;Motoyuki Sato

  • Modeling and Interpretation of Scattering Mechanisms in Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar: Advances and perspectives

    Si-Wei Chen;Yong-Zhen Li;Xue-Song Wang;Shun-Ping Xiao

  • Tsunami Damage Investigation of Built-Up Areas Using Multitemporal Spaceborne Full Polarimetric SAR Images

    Si-Wei Chen;Motoyuki Sato

  • Estimation of groundwater level by GPR in an area with multiple ambiguous reflections

    Yuichi Nakashima;Hui Zhou;Motoyuki Sato

  • Deorientation Effect Investigation for Model-Based Decomposition Over Oriented Built-Up Areas

    Si-Wei Chen;M. Ohki;M. Shimada;M. Sato

  • in situ measurement of pavement thickness and dielectric permittivity by GPR using an antenna array

    Hai Liu;Motoyuki Sato

  • GPR using an array antenna for landmine detection

    Motoyuki Sato;Yusuke Hamada;Xuan Feng;Fan-Nian Kong

  • Analysis of a borehole radar in cross-hole mode

    M. Sato;R. Thierbach

  • Polarimetric SAR Analysis of Tsunami Damage Following the March 11, 2011 East Japan Earthquake

    M. Sato;Si-Wei Chen;M. Satake

  • Subsurface fracture measurement with polarimetric borehole radar

    T. Miwa;M. Sato;H. Niitsuma

  • Investigation of Time–Frequency Features for GPR Landmine Discrimination

    T.G. Savelyev;L. van Kempen;H. Sahli;J. Sachs

  • Development of a ground-based polarimetric broadband SAR system for noninvasive ground-truth validation in vegetation monitoring

    Zheng-Shu Zhou;W.-M. Boerner;M. Sato

  • Urban Damage Level Mapping Based on Scattering Mechanism Investigation Using Fully Polarimetric SAR Data for the 3.11 East Japan Earthquake

    Si-Wei Chen;Xue-Song Wang;Motoyuki Sato

  • Temperature dependence of the electrical resistivity of water-saturated rocks

    F. J. Llera;M. Sato;K. Nakatsuka;H. Yokoyama

  • PolInSAR Complex Coherence Estimation Based on Covariance Matrix Similarity Test

    Si-Wei Chen;Xue-Song Wang;M. Sato

  • Adaptive Model-Based Polarimetric Decomposition Using PolInSAR Coherence

    Si-Wei Chen;Xue-Song Wang;Yong-Zhen Li;Motoyuki Sato

  • Electromagnetic logging technique based on borehole radar

    Sixin Liu;Motoyuki Sato

  • Measurement of Dielectric Permittivity and Thickness of Snow and Ice on a Brackish Lagoon Using GPR

    Hai Liu;Kazunori Takahashi;Motoyuki Sato

  • Subsurface cavity imaging by crosshole borehole radar measurements

    Hui Zhou;M. Sato

  • A Novel Directional Borehole Radar System Using Optical Electric Field Sensors

    M. Sato;T. Takayama

  • Radar Polarimetry Analysis Applied to Single-Hole Fully Polarimetric Borehole Radar

    Jian-Guo Zhao;M. Sato

  • Analysis of a guided wave along a conducting structure in a borehole

    S. Ebihara;M. Sato;H. Niitsuma

  • Time-frequency analysis of air-coupled GPR data for identification of delamination between pavement layers

    Hai Liu;Hai Liu;Zhihao Deng;Feng Han;Yuanyou Xia

  • Pre-stack migration applied to GPR for landmine detection : Electromagnetic characterization of buried obstacles

    Xuan Feng;Motoyuki Sato

Frequent Co-Authors

Graham A. Turnbull
Graham A. Turnbull University of St Andrews
Qing Huo Liu
Qing Huo Liu Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo
Tetsuo Shoji
Tetsuo Shoji Tohoku University

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