Rudi Gens:
Publication list
Thesis, book chapters, manuals and reports
2017.
GNSS Remote Sensing: Theory, Methods and Applications (by J. Shuanggen, E. Cardellach and F. Xie).
Book review for Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 83(3):173.
2015.
Remote sensing data normalization.
In Thenkabail, P.S. (ed.) Remotely sensed data characterization, classification, and accuracies. Taylor & Francis CRC Press, pp. 133-142.
2015.
Remote Sensing of Natural Resources (by G. Wang and Q. Weng).
Book review for Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 81(7):534-536.
2013.
Coal Fires in the Jharia Coalfield, India.
In Stracher et al. (eds.) Coal and peat fires: A global perspective, Volume 2, Photographs and multimedia tours. Elsevier, p. 153-177.
2013.
United States Coal Fires.
In Stracher et al. (eds.) Coal and peat fires: A global perspective, Volume 2, Photographs and multimedia tours. Elsevier, p. 441-528.
2012.
Theme Issue "Innovative applications of SAR interferometry from modern satellite sensors".
Editorial in ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
2012.
Remote sensing of glaciers: Techniques for topographic, spatial and thematic mapping of glaciers (by P.K.E. Pellikka and W.G. Rees).
Book review for Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing.
2011.
Remote sensing of coal fires.
In Stracher et al. (eds.) Coal and peat fires: A global perspective, Volume 1, Coal - combustion and geology. Elsevier, p. 231-253.
2009.
Spectral Information Content of Remote Sensing Imagery.
In Li et al. (eds.) Geospatial Technology for Earth Observation. Springer, p. 177-201.
2006.
Remote sensing of snow and ice (by W.G. Rees).
Book review for ISPRS Highlights.
2003.
Alaska Satellite Facility software tools: Manual.
Geophysical Institute, UAF, ISBN 0-915360-16-0, 180 pages.
2000.
Deformation measurements with SAR.
Netherlands Remote Sensing Board, USP-2-99-16.
2000.
Coal fire interferometry.
Netherlands Remote Sensing Board, USP-2-99-32.
1998.
Quality assessment of SAR interferometric data.
Doctoral thesis, University of Hannover, Germany, 141 pages.
1997.
Synergy of remotely sensed data - A European scientific research network.
Final report, Enschede, the Netherlands, ISBN 90-6164-151-9, 81 pages.
Refereed journal papers
2016.
Quantification and Analysis of Icebergs in a Tidewater Glacier Fjord Using an Object-Based Approach.
PLoS ONE,
11
(11)
16 p.
2016.
Assessment of de-spiking methods for turbulence data in micrometeorology.
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology.
2015.
Temperature regimes and turbulent heat fluxes across a heterogeneous canopy in an Alaskan boreal forest.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres,
120
(4):
1348-1360.
2014.
Timing of Retrogressive Thaw Slump Initiation in the Noatak Basin, Northwest Alaska, USA.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface,
119
(5):
1106-1120.
2014.
Using Synthetic Aperture
Radar to Define Spring Breakup on the Kuparuk River, Northern Alaska.
Arctic,
64
(4):
462-471.
2014.
Landfast sea ice extent in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas: The annual cycle and decadal variability.
Cold Regions Science and Technology,
103
(7):
41-56.
2013.
Documenting Earthquake-Induced Liquefaction Using Satellite Remote Sensing Image Transformations.
Environmental and Engineering Geoscience,
19
(4):
303-318.
2013.
The role
of coherent flow structures in the sensible heat fluxes of an Alaskan boreal forest.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres,
118
(15):
8140-8155.
2013.
Geocoding of polarimetric processing results: Alternative processing strategies.
Remote Sensing Letters,
4
(1):
39-45.
2012.
Improving PolSAR Land Cover Classification With Radiometric Correction of the Coherency Matrix.
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing,
5
(3):
848-856.
2012.
Climate divisions for Alaska based on objective methods.
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology,
51
(7):
1276-1289.
2012
A remote sensing / GIS-based approach to identify, characterize, and model spawning habitat for fall chum salmon in a sub-arctic, glacially-fed river.
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society,
141
(5):
1349-1363.
2011.
Remote Sensing - GIS Based Investigation of a Boreal Forest Coal Fire.
International Journal of Coal Geology,
86
(1):
79-86.
2010.
Circumpolar Arctic tundra vegetation change is linked to sea-ice decline.
Earth Interactions,
14
(8):
1-20.
2010.
Remote sensing of coastlines: Detection, extraction and monitoring.
International Journal of Remote Sensing,
37
(7):
1819-1836.
2008.
Oceanographic Applications of SAR Remote Sensing.
GIScience & Remote Sensing,
45
(3):
275-305.
2008.
Motion patterns of Nabesna Glacier (Alaska) revealed by interferometric SAR techniques.
Remote Sensing of Environment,
112
(9):
3628-3638.
2006.
Dambo mapping for environmental monitoring using Landsat TM and SAR imagery: Case study in the Zambian Copperbelt.
International Journal of Remote Sensing,
27
(21):
4839-4845.
2005.
RADARSAT-1 interferometric baseline catalog at the Alaska Satellite Facility.
EOS,
86
(16):
158.
2003.
Two-dimensional phase unwrapping for radar interferometry: developments and new challenges.
International Journal of Remote Sensing,
24
(4):
703-710.
2001.
Data fusion for investigating land subsidence and coal fire hazards in a coal mining area.
International Journal of Remote Sensing,
22
(6):
921-932.
2000.
The influence of input parameters on SAR interferometric processing and its implication on the calibration of SAR interferometric data.
International Journal of Remote Sensing,
21
(8):
1767-1771.
1999.
Quality assessment of interferometrically derived digital elevation models.
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation,
1
(2):
102-108.
1999.
SAR interferometry: Software, data format and data quality.
Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing,
65
(12):
1375-1378.
1999.
Monitoring coal fires using multi-temporal night-time thermal images in a coalfield in North-west China.
International Journal of Remote Sensing,
20
(14):
2883-2888.
1996.
SAR interferometry - issues, techniques, applications.
International Journal of Remote Sensing,
17
(10):
1803-1835.
Proceedings papers and conference presentations
2021.
Enabling Cloud-based InSAR Science.
AGU Fall Meeting,
New Orleans, LA, USA.
2019.
The Use of Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C (SIR-C) Data for Long-Term Monitoring and Change Detection.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2019.
Arctic tundra and boreal forest surface energy balance retrieval using a thermal-based remote sensing model.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2018.
Processing of Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C (SIR-C) Data at Full Resolution.
AGU Fall Meeting,
Washington, DC, USA.
2018.
Hybrid Pluggable Processing Pipeline (HyP3): A cloud-based infrastructure for generic processing of SAR data.
AGU Fall Meeting,
Washington, DC, USA.
2017.
Estimating Velocities of Glaciers Using Sentinel-1 SAR Imagery.
AGU Fall Meeting,
New Orleans, LA, USA.
2017.
NASA Earth Science Disasters Program Response Activities During Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria in 2017.
AGU Fall Meeting,
New Orleans, LA, USA.
2017.
A Fresh Look at Spatio-Temporal Remote Sensing Data: Data Formats, Processing Flow, and Visualization.
AGU Fall Meeting,
New Orleans, LA, USA.
2017.
Multiscale-Driven approach to detecting change in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery.
AGU Fall Meeting,
New Orleans, LA, USA.
2017.
Integration of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Imagery and Derived Products into Severe Weather Disaster Response.
AGU Fall Meeting,
New Orleans, LA, USA.
2016.
Prototyping Radiometrically Terrain Corrected Sentinel-1A Large-Scale Processing.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2016.
Land Deformation Product Development at the Alaska Satellite Facility.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2015.
Making geospatial data in ASF archive readily accessible.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2015.
Making SAR Data Accessible - ASF�s ALOS PALSAR Radiometric Terrain Correction Project.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2015.
Using Place-Based Independent Class Projects as a Means to Hone Research Skills and Prepare a Future Geospatial Workforce.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2015.
Spatio-temporal Variation in Glacier Ice as Habitat for Harbor Seals in an Alaskan Tidewater Glacier Fjord.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2014.
Timing of Retrogressive Thaw Slump Initiation in the Noatak Basin, Northwest Alaska, USA.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2014.
Calibration and validation of a two-source energy balance model to estimate surface energy fluxes in a sub-Arctic deciduous boreal forest..
4th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing,
Valencia, Spain.
2014.
The Expansion of the Marginal Ice Zone in the Pacific Arctic.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2014.
Radiometrically Terrain Corrected ALOS PALSAR Data Available from the Alaska Satellite Facility.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2014.
Object-Based Image Classification of Floating Ice Used as Habitat for Harbor Seals in a Tidewater Glacier Fjord in Alaska.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2013.
The Arctic seen from space: enhancing STEM education with interactive learning.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2013.
Implementation of a two-source energy balance model in a sub-Arctic deciduous boreal forest.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2013.
A Prototype Two-tier Mentoring Program for Undergraduate Summer Interns from Minority-Serving Institutions at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2013.
Quantifying the Availability of Tidewater Glacial Ice as Habitat for Harbor Seals in a Tidewater Glacial Fjord in Alaska Using Object-Based Image Analysis of Airborne Visible Imagery.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2013.
Assessing the availability of glacial ice as habitat for harbor seals in a tidewater glacial fjord.
Alaska Marine Science Symposium,
Anchorage, AK, USA.
2012.
Energy fluxes retrieval on an Alaskan Arctic and Sub-Arctic vegetation by means MODIS imagery and the DTD method.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2012.
Using Synthetic Aperture Radar to Study River Ice Breakup on the Kuparuk River, Northern Alaska.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2012.
Integrating Geospatial Data and Models for Higher Order Product Generation and Visualization in Open-Source Domain.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2012.
Field-based ET calibration and validation sites in interior Alaska: Preparatory Science for NASA's planned HyspIRI Mission.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2012.
The contribution of coherent structures to the aggregation of large-scale heat fluxes in the Alaskan boreal forest.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2012.
Using of SAR imagery for open water characterization in cold northern climates.
IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium,
Munich, Germany.
2012.
Use of optical, thermal and microwave imagery for debris characterization in Bara-Shigri glacier, Himalayas, India.
IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium,
Munich, Germany.
2011.
Enhancing the Accessibility and Utility of UAVSAR L-band SAR Data.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2011.
Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR) Polarimetry for Detection and Monitoring of Thermokarst Landforms in the Noatak Basin, Brooks Range, Alaska.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2011.
Remote Sensing, Modeling, and In-Situ Measurements to Study the Spring and Summer Thermal Regime of the Kuparuk River, Northern Alaska.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2010.
From Phase to Fringe: How InSAR Might Work for You.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2010.
Alaska tundra vegetation trends and their links to the large-scale climate.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2010.
Understanding drivers of recent Arctic tundra vegetation changes.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2010.
Applying Satellite Remote Sensing to Document Liquefaction Failures.
Seismological Research Letters, 81(2): 253-283.
2009.
The Rationale for a New High-resolution Imaging Radar Mission to Venus
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2009.
Documenting Liquefaction Failures Using Satellite Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence Algorithms.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2009.
HyspIRI Preparatory Science at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Second HyspIRI Mission Science Workshop,
Pasadena, CA, USA.
2009.
Remote Sensing for Mapping Earth Surface Composition and Change.
Technical Session at the 43rd Alaska Surveying and Mapping Conference,
Anchorage, AK, USA.
2008.
MapReady: An Open Source Tool for the Utilization of SAR in Geospatial Applications
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2008.
Mapping Deforestation In Parts Of The Amazon Forest Using JERS-1 SAR Images: Case Study For An Area North West Of Rondonia, Brazil
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2008.
Multisensor and Multispectral Approach in Documenting and Analyzing Liquefaction Hazard using Remote Sensing
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2008.
Building and Experiential Learning Pathway for Information Extraction from SAR Data.
ISPRS Congress,
Beijing, China.
2007.
Making sea ice Motion Data From RGPS More Accessible.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2007.
A Preliminary Study of Biomass Estimation of Boreal Forest in Alaska Using ALOS PALSAR Polarimetric Images.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2007.
Promoting Use of Remote Sensing Data and Technology through Polar Case Studies for Post-Secondary Education and Research.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2007.
Promoting data accessibility for IPY research and education.
First International Circumpolar Conference on Geospatial Sciences and Applications,
Yellowknife, NWT, Canada.
2007.
Detecting unique structures in early fall lake ice in Alaska North Slope using optical and SAR images,
AAAS Annual Meeting,
Anchorage, AK, USA.
2007.
Remote sensing and GIS based Alaska mapping and monitoring studies: Results of UAF student projects.
Alaska Surveying and Mapping Conference,
Fairbanks, AK, USA.
2006.
SAR Educational Resources From ASF.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2006.
Polar Remote Sensing: A Web Resource to Promote the Use of Remote Sensing Data in Undergraduate Education and Research.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2006.
Convert: Yielding Orthorectified SAR Imagery in GeoTIFF Format.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2006.
Motion patterns of glaciers in the eastern Wrangell Mountains, Alaska, seen on ERS-1 SAR Interferograms.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2006.
From SAR data to information: Status, trends and future.
ISPRS Mid-term Symposium "Remote Sensing: From Pixels to Processes",
Enschede, the Netherlands. Invited keynote address.
2005.
Explaining earth and space science concepts to middle school children through interactive web based stories.
2005 Joint Assembly,
New Orleans, USA.
2005.
Marine placer platinum prospects near Goodnews Bay, Alaska: GIS database design and preliminary analysis.
Alaska Geological Society 2005 Geology Symposium,
Fairbanks, AK, USA.
2004.
Development of a Radarsat-1 interferometric baseline catalog.
Proceedings of IGARSS'04,
Anchorage, USA.
2004.
Understanding Arctic River Systems: An Effort to Train Undergraduate and Graduate Students.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2004.
Space-based observations in the International Polar Year: Educational opportunities to strengthen the STEM pipeline.
Proceedings of IGARSS'04,
Anchorage, USA.
2003.
Issues and challenges for standardizing level zero format for SAR data.
Proceedings of IGARSS'03,
Toulouse, France.
2003.
Development and Application of a SAR Training Processor.
Proceedings of IGARSS'03,
Toulouse, France.
2003,
Remote sensing in optical and microwave region for detecting coal mining induced subsidence.
ASPRS 2003 Annual Conference,
Anchorage, USA.
2003.
A remote sensing - GIS based approach to monitor morphodynamics of the Alaskan Arctic coasts.
AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, USA.
2002.
The Alaska DEM project: Repeat-geometry approach for generating accurate InSAR DEMs.
Proceedings of IGARSS'02,
Toronto, Canada.
2002.
Pre-processing compensation for saturation power loss in SAR data.
Proceedings of IGARSS'02,
Toronto, Canada.
2000.
Deformatiepatroon van de aardbeving van 17 augustus 1999 in Turkije gemeten met satelliet radar interferometrie.
Remote Sensing Nieuwsbrief,
no. 90, pp. 42-44. (in Dutch)
2000.
Multim�dia a t�v�rz�kel�s oktat�s�ban egy k�pf�zi�s oktat�program p�ld�j�val.
HUNGEO 2000,
Piliscsaba, Hungary. (in Hungarian)
1999.
On phase unwrapping based on minimum cost flow.
ESA Fringe'99 Workshop,
Li�ge, Belgium, 6 pages.
1999.
Use of optical and radar imagery to estimate and monitor the quantity of oil storage tanks.
Proceedings of the Twentyfifth Annual Conference and Exhibition of the Remote Sensing Society,
Cardiff and Swansea, Wales, pp. 889-896.
1999.
Data integration for the study and visualisation of subsurface coalfires.
Proceedings of Thirteenth International conference and workshop on Applied Geologic Remote Sensing,
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
1998.
Image and data fusion - concept and implementation of a multimedia tutorial.
Proceedings of the Second Conference on Fusion of Earth Data,
Sophia Antipolis, France, pp. 217-222.
1997.
The ITC filter for improving ERS SAR interferograms.
3rd ERS Symposium,
Florence, Italy.
1996.
SAR Interferometry: Principles and research trends.
Proceedings of the GEOINFORMATICS'96 Symposium,
Wuhan, China, Vol. I, pp. 99 106.
1996.
An approach to error propagation modelling of SAR interferometric data.
ESA Fringe'96 Workshop,
Zurich, Switzerland.
1996.
Analysis of the geometric parameters of SAR interferometry for spaceborne systems.
International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing,
31(B2):107-110.
1996.
Thematic information extraction in a neural network classification of multi-sensor data including microwave phase information.
International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing,
31(B2):170-175.
Multimedia/web products
2013.
Global distribution of coal and peat fires.
Interactive World Map of Coal and Peat Fires made to accompany Stracher et al. (eds.) Coal and peat fires: A global perspective, Volume 2, Photographs and multimedia tours. Elsevier.
2007.
Polar Remote Sensing: A resource for undergraduate education.
Rated as 'Outstanding' by NASA Science Mission Directorate Education Product Review Panel.
2006.
Treasure Hunt in Alaska.
A web story introducing concepts of SAR to middle school children. Reviewed and approved by NASA Earth Science Enterprise Education Product Review Panel.
2004.
Alaska: A Bird's Eye View.
A website on remote sensing in Alaska for middle school children. Reviewed and approved by NASA Earth Science Enterprise Education Product Review Panel.
1998.
FUSETUTOR - A tutorial on remote sensing image and data fusion.
Multimedia tutorial, Version 2.0 (Enschede:ITC).
1997.
A Tutorial on remote sensing image and data fusion.
Multimedia tutorial, Version 1.0 (Enschede: ITC).