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Overview

Shimon Wdowinski is affiliated with Florida International University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Engineering. Within these broader disciplines, their work focuses on subfields such as Earth-Surface Processes, Aerospace Engineering, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

Their research topics encompass a range of geophysical and environmental applications, with notable emphasis on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) applications and techniques, coastal and marine dynamics, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, landslides and related hazards, flood risk assessment and management, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, and geophysics and gravity measurements.

Frequent coauthors include Randall W. Parkinson, Talib Oliver-Cabrera, Daniel Gann, Selena Chavez, and Darío Solano-Rojas.

Publishing often in thematic journals, Wdowinski has multiple works appearing in venues such as Sensors, Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, SSRN Electronic Journal, Remote Sensing of Environment, and Water Resources Research.

Recent papers illustrate the focus areas of their research:

  • Land Subsidence and Its Relations with Sinkhole Activity in Karapınar Region, Turkey: A Multi-Sensor InSAR Time Series Study, 2021, Sensors
  • Spatiotemporal variations of wetland backscatter: The role of water depth and vegetation characteristics in Sentinel-1 dual-polarization SAR observations, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Coastal subsidence increases vulnerability to sea level rise over twenty first century in Cartagena, Caribbean Colombia, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Detection of sinkhole activity in West-Central Florida using InSAR time series observations, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Accelerating sea-level rise and the fate of mangrove plant communities in South Florida, U.S.A., 2022, Geomorphology

Best Publications

  • Southern California permanent GPS geodetic array: Error analysis of daily position estimates and site velocities

    Jie Zhang;Yehuda Bock;Hadley Johnson;Peng Fang

  • Southern California permanent GPS geodetic array: Spatial filtering of daily positions for estimating coseismic and postseismic displacements induced by the 1992 Landers earthquake

    Shimon Wdowinski;Yehuda Bock;Jie Zhang;Peng Fang

  • Land subsidence in central Mexico detected by ALOS InSAR time-series

    Estelle Chaussard;Shimon Wdowinski;Enrique Cabral-Cano;Falk Amelung

  • Time Series Analysis of Insar Data: Methods and Trends

    Batuhan Osmanoğlu;Filiz Sunar;Shimon Wdowinski;Enrique Cabral-Cano

  • Mexico City subsidence observed with persistent scatterer InSAR

    Batuhan Osmanoğlu;Timothy H. Dixon;Shimon Wdowinski;Enrique Cabral-Cano

  • Space geodesy: Subsidence and flooding in New Orleans

    Timothy H. Dixon;Falk Amelung;Alessandro Ferretti;Fabrizio Novali

  • Increasing flooding hazard in coastal communities due to rising sea level: Case study of Miami Beach, Florida

    Shimon Wdowinski;Ronald Bray;Ben P. Kirtman;Zhaohua Wu

  • Holocene sea-level changes along the Mediterranean coast of Israel, based on archaeological observations and numerical model

    Dorit Sivan;S Wdowinski;Kurt Lambeck;E Galili

  • Monitoring land subsidence and its induced geological hazard with Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry: A case study in Morelia, Mexico

    Francesca Cigna;Batuhan Osmanoğlu;Enrique Cabral-Cano;Timothy H. Dixon

  • Southern California Permanent GPS Geodetic Array: Continuous measurements of regional crustal deformation between the 1992 Landers and 1994 Northridge earthquakes

    Y. Bock;S. Wdowinski;S. Wdowinski;P. Fang;Jiahua Zhang

  • GPS measurements of current crustal movements along the Dead Sea Fault

    S. Wdowinski;Y. Bock;G. Baer;L. Prawirodirdjo

  • Detection of crustal deformation from the Landers earthquake sequence using continuous geodetic measurements

    Yehuda Bock;Duncan C. Agnew;Peng Fang;Joachim F. Genrich

  • Distribution of slip at the northern Sumatran fault system

    J. F. Genrich;Y. Bock;R. McCaffrey;L. Prawirodirdjo

  • Space-Based Detection of Wetlands' Surface Water Level Changes from L-Band SAR Interferometry

    Shimon Wdowinski;Sang Wan Kim;Falk Amelung;Timothy H. Dixon

  • Recent subsidence of the Venice Lagoon from continuous GPS and interferometric synthetic aperture radar

    Y. Bock;S. Wdowinski;A. Ferretti;F. Novali

  • The lowest place on Earth is subsiding—An InSAR (interferometric synthetic aperture radar) perspective

    Gidon Baer;Uri Schattner;Daniel Wachs;David Sandwell

  • Multi-temporal monitoring of wetland water levels in the Florida Everglades using interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR)

    Sang Hoon Hong;Sang Hoon Hong;Sang Hoon Hong;Shimon Wdowinski;Sang Wan Kim;Joong Sun Won

  • Observing and understanding the Earth system variations from space geodesy

    Shuanggen Jin;Tonie van Dam;Shimon Wdowinski

  • Isostatic rebound due to tectonic denudation: A viscous flow model of a layered lithosphere

    Shimon Wdowinski;Gary J. Axen

  • Strain rate patterns from dense GPS networks

    Matthias Hackl;Rocco Malservisi;Rocco Malservisi;Shimon Wdowinski

  • Evaluation of TerraSAR-X Observations for Wetland InSAR Application

    Sang-Hoon Hong;S. Wdowinski;Sang-Wan Kim

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy H. Dixon
Timothy H. Dixon University of South Florida
Falk Amelung
Falk Amelung University of Miami
Yehuda Bock
Yehuda Bock University of California, San Diego
Joong-Sun Won
Joong-Sun Won Yonsei University
Gidon Baer
Gidon Baer Geological Survey of Israel
Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm
Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm University of Maryland, College Park
Charles DeMets
Charles DeMets University of Wisconsin–Madison
Marino Protti
Marino Protti University of California, Santa Cruz
Richard J. O'Connell
Richard J. O'Connell Harvard University
Robert McCaffrey
Robert McCaffrey Portland State University

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