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Francesco De Zan
Researcher at German Aerospace Center
Publications - 113
Citations - 2261
Francesco De Zan is an academic researcher from German Aerospace Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Synthetic aperture radar & Interferometric synthetic aperture radar. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 110 publications receiving 1673 citations. Previous affiliations of Francesco De Zan include Technische Universität München.
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Tandem-L: A Highly Innovative Bistatic SAR Mission for Global Observation of Dynamic Processes on the Earth's Surface
Alberto Moreira,Gerhard Krieger,Irena Hajnsek,Konstantinos Papathanassiou,Marwan Younis,Paco Lopez-Dekker,Sigurd Huber,Michelangelo Villano,Matteo Pardini,Michael Eineder,Francesco De Zan,Alessandro Parizzi +11 more
TL;DR: Tandem-L will open new opportunities for risk analysis, disaster management and environmental monitoring by employing especially designed acquisition modes and techniques in combination with a reconfigurable tandem satellite configuration and an L-band SAR instrument with advanced digital beamforming techniques.
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TanDEM-X: A radar interferometer with two formation-flying satellites
Gerhard Krieger,Manfred Zink,Markus Bachmann,Benjamin Bräutigam,Daniel Schulze,Michele Martone,Paola Rizzoli,Ulrich Steinbrecher,John Walter Antony,Francesco De Zan,Irena Hajnsek,Kostas Papathanassiou,Florian Kugler,Marc Rodriguez Cassola,Marwan Younis,Stefan V. Baumgartner,Paco Lopez-Dekker,Pau Prats,Alberto Moreira +18 more
TL;DR: An overview of the TanDEM-X mission is provided and results from several scientific radar experiments are presented that show the great potential of future formation-flying interferometric SAR missions to serve novel remote sensing applications.
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Toward Operational Compensation of Ionospheric Effects in SAR Interferograms: The Split-Spectrum Method
TL;DR: The results show how the split-spectrum method is able to systematically compensate the ionospheric phase in interferograms, with the expected accuracy, and can therefore be a valid element of the operational processor.
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A SAR Interferometric Model for Soil Moisture
TL;DR: A model based on plane waves and the Born approximation is proposed, deriving first the vertical complex wavenumbers in the soil as a function of geometrical and dielectric properties and successively the complex interferometric coherences, observing that soil moisture behaves on the phase in a similar way as tomography does.
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On the Processing of Very High Resolution Spaceborne SAR Data
Pau Prats-Iraola,Rolf Scheiber,Marc Rodriguez-Cassola,Josef Mittermayer,Steffen Wollstadt,Francesco De Zan,Benjamin Bräutigam,Marco Schwerdt,Andreas Reigber,Alberto Moreira +9 more
TL;DR: This paper addresses several important aspects that need to be considered for the processing of spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data with resolutions in the decimeter range, and the complete focusing methodology is expounded and validated using simulated point targets and staring spotlight data acquired by TerraSAR-X.