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Patrick Matgen is affiliated with the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology in Luxembourg. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions to global and planetary change and atmospheric science. The scope of their work extends to subfields such as water science and technology, environmental engineering, and aerospace engineering.

The scientist's main areas of study encompass flood risk assessment and management, precipitation measurement and analysis, hydrology and watershed management studies, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, hydrology and drought analysis, soil moisture and remote sensing, and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) applications and techniques.

Patrick Matgen has published research in a variety of well-regarded scientific venues. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Remote Sensing
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
  • Water Resources Research
  • Remote Sensing of Environment

The scientist has coauthored studies with several frequent collaborators, including:

  • Marco Chini
  • Renaud Hostache
  • Ramona Pelich
  • Jie Zhao
  • Yu Li

Recent publications by Patrick Matgen include:

  • Understanding the Information Content in the Hierarchy of Model Development Decisions: Learning From Data, 2021, Water Resources Research
  • Ambiguous Agricultural Drought: Characterising Soil Moisture and Vegetation Droughts in Europe from Earth Observation, 2021, Remote Sensing
  • A large-scale 2005-2012 flood map record derived from ENVISAT-ASAR data: United Kingdom as a test case, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Coastline Detection Based on Sentinel-1 Time Series for Ship- and Flood-Monitoring Applications, 2020, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
  • Deriving exclusion maps from C-band SAR time-series in support of floodwater mapping, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment

Best Publications

  • Soil moisture estimation through ASCAT and AMSR-E sensors: An intercomparison and validation study across Europe

    L. Brocca;S. Hasenauer;T. Lacava;F. Melone

  • Influence of uncertain boundary conditions and model structure on flood inundation predictions.

    Florian Pappenberger;Patrick Matgen;Keith J. Beven;Jean-Baptiste Henry

  • A Change Detection Approach to Flood Mapping in Urban Areas Using TerraSAR-X

    L. Giustarini;R. Hostache;P. Matgen;Guy J.-P Schumann

  • Towards an automated SAR-based flood monitoring system: Lessons learned from two case studies

    P. Matgen;R. Hostache;G. Schumann;L. Pfister

  • Progress in integration of remote sensing– derived flood extent and stage data and hydraulic models

    Guy Schumann;Paul D. Bates;Matthew S. Horritt;Patrick Matgen

  • Multi-method global sensitivity analysis of flood inundation models.

    Florian Pappenberger;Keith J. Beven;Keith J. Beven;Marco Ratto;Patrick Matgen

  • Understanding catchment behavior through stepwise model concept improvement

    Fabrizio Fenicia;Hubert H. G. Savenije;Patrick Matgen;Laurent Pfister

  • A Hierarchical Split-Based Approach for Parametric Thresholding of SAR Images: Flood Inundation as a Test Case

    Marco Chini;Renaud Hostache;Laura Giustarini;Patrick Matgen

  • Integration of SAR-derived river inundation areas, high-precision topographic data and a river flow model toward near real-time flood management

    Patrick Matgen;Guy J.-P. Schumann;Jean-Baptiste Henry;Lucien Hoffmann

  • Comparison of remotely sensed water stages from LiDAR, topographic contours and SRTM

    G. Schumann;P. Matgen;M.E.J. Cutler;A. Black

  • Flood detection from multi-temporal SAR data using harmonic analysis and change detection

    Stefan Schlaffer;Patrick Matgen;Markus Hollaus;Wolfgang Wagner

  • High-Resolution 3-D Flood Information From Radar Imagery for Flood Hazard Management

    G. Schumann;R. Hostache;C. Puech;L. Hoffmann

  • Is the groundwater reservoir linear? Learning from data in hydrological modelling

    F. Fenicia;H. H. G. Savenije;P. Matgen;L. Pfister

  • Sentinel-1 InSAR Coherence to Detect Floodwater in Urban Areas: Houston and Hurricane Harvey as A Test Case

    Marco Chini;Ramona Pelich;Luca Pulvirenti;Nazzareno Pierdicca

  • A comparison of alternative multiobjective calibration strategies for hydrological modeling

    Fabrizio Fenicia;Hubert H. G. Savenije;Patrick Matgen;Laurent Pfister

  • Towards a limits of acceptability approach to the calibration of hydrological models : Extending observation error

    Yanli Liu;Jim Freer;Keith J. Beven;Keith J. Beven;Patrick Matgen

  • Towards the sequential assimilation of SAR-derived water stages into hydraulic models using the Particle Filter: proof of concept

    P. Matgen;M. Montanari;R. Hostache;L. Pfister

  • A data assimilation approach to discharge estimation from space

    Jeffrey Neal;Guy Schumann;Paul Bates;Wouter Buytaert

  • Deriving distributed roughness values from satellite radar data for flood inundation modelling

    G. Schumann;P. Matgen;L. Hoffmann;R. Hostache

  • Assimilating SAR-derived water level data into a hydraulic model: A case study

    L. Giustarini;P. Matgen;R. Hostache;M. Montanari

  • Near-Real-Time Assimilation of SAR-Derived Flood Maps for Improving Flood Forecasts

    Renaud Hostache;Marco Chini;Laura Giustarini;Jeffrey Neal

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Chini
Marco Chini National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Laurent Pfister
Laurent Pfister Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Lucien Hoffmann
Lucien Hoffmann Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Guy Schumann
Guy Schumann University of Bristol
Florian Pappenberger
Florian Pappenberger European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Hubert H. G. Savenije
Hubert H. G. Savenije Delft University of Technology
Niko E. C. Verhoest
Niko E. C. Verhoest Ghent University
Valentijn R. N. Pauwels
Valentijn R. N. Pauwels Monash University
Paul D Bates
Paul D Bates University of Bristol
Nazzareno Pierdicca
Nazzareno Pierdicca Sapienza University of Rome

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