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Urs Wegmüller is affiliated with Gamma Remote Sensing in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple disciplines with a focus on Environmental Science, Engineering, and Earth and Planetary Sciences. The scientist's work integrates specialized subfields including Aerospace Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Soil Science.

Their research topics cover a range of areas within remote sensing and environmental monitoring, such as:

  • Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Cryospheric Studies and Observations
  • Landslides and Related Hazards
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques

Wegmüller has published papers in a variety of scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Procedia Computer Science
  • Scientific Data
  • Lirias (KU Leuven)
  • IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Some recent publications by Urs Wegmüller include:

  • "A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications - confronting product characteristics with user requirements" (2020) in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Sentinel-1 soil moisture at 1 km resolution: a validation study" (2021) in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Global seasonal Sentinel-1 interferometric coherence and backscatter data set" (2022) in Scientific Data
  • "Global estimation of above-ground biomass from spaceborne C-band scatterometer observations aided by LiDAR metrics of vegetation structure" (2022) in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Soil Moisture Product Validation Good Practices Protocol" (2020) in Lirias (KU Leuven)

The scientist frequently collaborates with colleagues such as Christophe Magnard, Oliver Cartus, Tazio Strozzi, Charles Werner, and Michael H. Cosh. Collaboration counts with these co-authors range from three to seven joint works.

Best Publications

  • Interferometric point target analysis for deformation mapping

    C. Werner;U. Wegmuller;T. Strozzi;A. Wiesmann

  • Glacier motion estimation using SAR offset-tracking procedures

    T. Strozzi;A. Luckman;T. Murray;U. Wegmuller

  • Dielectric properties of freshwater ice at microwave frequencies

    Christian Mätzler;Urs Wegmüller

  • A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications ─ confronting product characteristics with user requirements

    Jian Peng;Jian Peng;Jian Peng;Clement Albergel;Anna Balenzano;Luca Brocca

  • Survey and monitoring of landslide displacements by means of L-band satellite SAR interferometry

    Tazio Strozzi;Paolo Farina;Alessandro Corsini;Christian Ambrosi

  • Gamma SAR processor and interferometry software

    U. Wegmüller;Ch. Werner

  • Retrieval of vegetation parameters with SAR interferometry

    U. Wegmuller;C. Werner

  • Sentinel-1 Support in the GAMMA Software

    Urs Wegnüller;Charles Werner;Tazio Strozzi;Andreas Wiesmann

  • Retrieval of growing stock volume in boreal forest using hyper-temporal series of Envisat ASAR ScanSAR backscatter measurements

    Maurizio Santoro;Christian Beer;Oliver Cartus;Christiane Schmullius

  • Rough bare soil reflectivity model

    U. Wegmuller;C. Matzler

  • SAR interferometric signatures of forest

    U. Wegmuller;C.L. Werner

  • Subsidence induced by urbanisation in the city of Rome detected by advanced InSar technique and geotechnical investigations

    S. Stramondo;F. Bozzano;F. Marra;U. Wegmuller

  • An advanced system for the automatic classification of multitemporal SAR images

    L. Bruzzone;M. Marconcini;U. Wegmuller;A. Wiesmann

  • Mapping regional land displacements in the Venice coastland by an integrated monitoring system

    Pietro Teatini;Luigi Tosi;Tazio Strozzi;Laura Carbognin

  • Forest growing stock volume of the northern hemisphere: Spatially explicit estimates for 2010 derived from Envisat ASAR

    Maurizio Santoro;André Beaudoin;Christian Beer;Oliver Cartus

  • Estimation of Arctic glacier motion with satellite L-band SAR data

    Tazio Strozzi;Alexei Kouraev;Andreas Wiesmann;Urs Wegmüller

  • Nonuniform Ground Motion Monitoring With TerraSAR-X Persistent Scatterer Interferometry

    U. Wegmuller;D. Walter;V. Spreckels;C.L. Werner

  • Combined observations of rock mass movements using satellite SAR interferometry, differential GPS, airborne digital photogrammetry, and airborne photography interpretation

    Tazio Strozzi;Reynald Delaloye;Andreas Kääb;Christian Ambrosi

  • The effect of freezing and thawing on the microwave signatures of bare soil.

    Urs Wegmüller

  • Landuse mapping with ERS SAR interferometry

    T. Strozzi;P.B.G. Dammert;U. Wegmuller;J.-M. Martinez

  • JERS SAR interferometry for land subsidence monitoring

    T. Strozzi;U. Wegmuller;C.L. Werner;A. Wiesmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Tazio Strozzi
Tazio Strozzi Gamma Remote Sensing (Switzerland)
Charles Werner
Charles Werner University of Zurich
Andreas Wiesmann
Andreas Wiesmann University of Bern
Maurizio Santoro
Maurizio Santoro Gamma Remote Sensing (Switzerland)
Christian Mätzler
Christian Mätzler University of Bern
Luigi Tosi
Luigi Tosi National Research Council (CNR)
Pietro Teatini
Pietro Teatini University of Padua
Irena Hajnsek
Irena Hajnsek German Aerospace Center
Mike Schwank
Mike Schwank Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Paolo Ferrazzoli
Paolo Ferrazzoli University of Rome Tor Vergata

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