Publications 2026

• Publications in ISI-Scopus referenced journals (1) of the Microwaves and Radar Institute in 2026
• Publikations in preparation (42) of the Microwaves and Radar Institute in 2026 (not yet published)

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Publications in ISI-Scopus referenced journals (1) of the Microwaves and Radar Institute in 2026

[1] Tobias Rommel, Marwan Younis and Madhu Chandra
A Review of Orthogonal Waveforms for Spaceborne Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Synthetic Aperture Radar
Advances in Radio Science - Kleinheubacher Berichte (ISI refereed), no. 22, pp. 87-103, January 2026
http://elib.dlr.de/221106, [PDF]

Publikations in preparation (42) of the Microwaves and Radar Institute in 2026 (not yet published)

[1] Felipe Yutaka Alencar Sato
Improving TanDEM-X Data for the Reduction of Uncertainties when Measuring Snow and Ice Dynamics
Bachelor Thesis, December 2026
Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA-Brazil), Division of Electronic Engineering (IEE)
http://elib.dlr.de/213142

[2] Henrique Cardoso Costa
Exerimental validation of clock synchronisation and baseline determination approaches for multistatic SAR formations
Bachelor Thesis, December 2026
ITA, Space engineering
http://elib.dlr.de/213214

[3] Luiz Fernando Quandt Fusinato
Impact of Aircraft Velocity Variations in Digital Beamforming SAR Systems
Bachelor Thesis, December 2026
Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA), Electronic Engineer Department
http://elib.dlr.de/213139

[4] Leonard Lengemann
SAR-Tomographic Features for Crop Structure Estimation
Master Thesis, 80 pages, July 2026
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Faculty of Geosciences
http://elib.dlr.de/219636

[5] Federica Bordoni, Dominik Thois, Marwan Younis, Gerhard Krieger, Alberto Moreira, Naoto Onodera, Gerald Baier, Mauro Mariotti, Budhaditya Pyne, Stefan Andrei Chelariu and Toshihiro Obata
Concept and Performance of a Stripmap-F-STEC Mode to Image Wide Swaths at High Resolution with the Novel StriX Small Satellite
European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (EUSAR), 2026-06-08 - 2026-06-11, Baden-Baden, Germany
Submitted to Proceedings of the European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, EUSAR, 2026, pp. 1-4
http://elib.dlr.de/219909

[6] Alexandre Becker Campos, Antoine Diez Latteur, Jose Luis Bueso Bello, Matthias Braun and Paola Rizzoli
Snow Properties-Aware Deep Learning Framework for Centimeter-Level InSAR DEM Accuracy over Ice Sheets
European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (EUSAR), 2026-06-08 - 2026-06-11, Baden-Baden, Germany
Submitted to Proceedings of the European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (EUSAR), 2026
http://elib.dlr.de/218845

[7] Luca Dell Amore, Daniel Carcereri, Begüm Demir and Paola Rizzoli
A Novel Deep-Learning-Based Approach for Estimating High-Resolution InSAR Parameters
European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (EUSAR), 2026-06-08 - 2026-06-11, Baden-Baden, Germany
Submitted to Proceedings of the European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, EUSAR, 2026
http://elib.dlr.de/218970

[8] Kay Glatting, Jan Meyer, Sigurd Huber and Gerhard Krieger
Limitations and Potentials of Quantum Computing for InSAR Phase Unwrapping
European Conference on Synthetic Aperterure Radar (EUSAR), 2026-06-08 - 2026-06-11, Baden-Baden, Germany
Submitted to Proceedings of the European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, EUSAR, 2026
http://elib.dlr.de/219886

[9] Marwan Younis, Fairouz Stambouli, Mariantonietta Zonno, Sigurd Huber, Gerhard Krieger and Koen Mouthaan
Digital Beamforming Imaging Techniques for a Low Orbit Synthetic Aperture Radar Instruments
European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, 2026-06-08 - 2026-06-11, Baden-Baden, Germany
Accepted for Proceedings of the European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, EUSAR, 2026
http://elib.dlr.de/221710

[10] Andrea Caushi
Deep-learning for soil moisture retrieval from Sentinel-1 InSAR data
Master Thesis, March 2026
Politecnico di Milano, Aerospace Engineering
http://elib.dlr.de/214402

[11] Stephan Dill, Marius Engel, Philipp Brücker, Florian Jungbauer, Markus Peichl, Dominik Müller and Matthias Maier
DRONAR - UAV-GPSAR für die abstandsfähige Kampfmitteldetektion
DWT Angewandte Forschung für Verteidigung und Sicherheit in Deutschland, 2026-03-03 - 2026-03-05, Bonn, Germany
Proceedings of the DWT Angewandte Forschung für Verteidigung und Sicherheit in Deutschland, 2026
http://elib.dlr.de/217956

[12] Stefan V. Baumgartner, Lucas Leonardo Lamberti, Sofia Judith Sanchez Urresta, Victor Mustieles Pérez, Thomas Börner, Michelangelo Villano and Gerhard Krieger
Distributed UAV-SAR: A Distributed Drone-Based Synthetic Aperture Radar System for the Investigation and Demonstration of Novel Applications, Imaging Algorithms and Future Spaceborne Radar Concepts
2nd International Conference on Drones and Unmanned Systems (DAUS' 2026), 2026-02-25 - 2026-02-27, Salzburg, Austria
Accepted for 2nd International Conference on Drones and Unmanned Systems (DAUS' 2026), 2026
http://elib.dlr.de/221312

[13] Kathrin Strößner
Evaluierung von Küstenerosion in Permafrostgebieten unter Verwendung von TanDEM-X Daten
Master Thesis, February 2026
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Geowissenschaften
http://elib.dlr.de/213512

[14] Nikita Basargin, Alberto Alonso-Gonzalez and Irena Hajnsek
AgriROSE-L 2025 Case Study: Soil Moisture Estimation from L-Band PolSAR Time Series
ESA PolInSAR Biomass 2026, 2026-01-26 - 2026-01-30, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Accepted for Proceedings of the ESA PolInSAR Biomass 2026, 2026
http://elib.dlr.de/220863, [PDF]

[15] Georg Fischer, Junsu Kim, Kostas Papathanassiou and Irena Hajnsek
Iceberg Thickness from BIOMASS Polarimetry
ESA POLinSAR Workshop, 2026-01-26 - 2026-01-30, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Accepted for POLinSAR Online Abstracts, 2026
http://elib.dlr.de/222003

[16] Simon Anger
IoSiS-NG - Zukunftsweisende abbildende Radartechnologie für die Weltraumsicherheit: aktuelle und zukünftige Entwicklungen
Angewandte Forschung für Verteidigung und Sicherheit in Deutschland, 2026-03-03 - 2026-03-05, Bonn, Germany
Submitted to Proceedings of the Angewandte Forschung für Verteidigung und Sicherheit in Deutschland, 2026
http://elib.dlr.de/217935

[17] Alexandre Becker Campos, Antoine Diez Latteur, Jose Luis Bueso Bello, Matthias Braun and Paola Rizzoli
A Snow Properties-Aware Deep Learning Framework for Penetration Bias Estimation of Tandem-X Dems Over Ice Sheets
Submitted to Remote Sensing of Environment (ISI refereed), 2026
http://elib.dlr.de/218650

[18] Anna Behrmann, Georg Fischer and Irena Hajnsek
The Role of Polarimetry in D-InSAR Retrievals of SWE on Glaciers
ESA Polinsar - Biomass 2026, 2026-01-26 - 2026-01-30, Lljubjana, Slovenia
Accepted for Proceedings of the ESA Polinsar - Biomass 2026, 2026
http://elib.dlr.de/221977

[19] Arthur Cruz Shinzato
Generation of Very Accurate Digital Elevation Models from Ultra-Wideband Drone-Borne Synthetic Aperture Radar Data
Bachelor Thesis, 2026
Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA)
http://elib.dlr.de/213078

[20] Ricardo Simao Diniz Dal Molin Junior, Laetitia Thirion-Lefevre, Régis Guinvarc’h and Paola Rizzoli
Rainforest Monitoring Using Deep Learning and Short Time Series of Sentinel-1 IW Data
Submitted to Remote Sensing of Environment (ISI refereed), 2026
http://elib.dlr.de/219940

[21] Anke Fluhrer, Dean Meason, Konstantinos Andreadis, Florian Marcus Hellwig, Clémence Dubois, Mehdi Rahmati, Donald White, Thomas Jagdhuber and Carsten Montzka
TWIST-NZ - Tree Water and Soil Moisture Integration for Satellite Calibration and Validation in New Zealand - Early BIOMASS results
ESA PolInSAR – Biomass 2026 – 12th International Workshop on Science and Applications of SAR Polarimetry and Polarimetric Interferometry, 6thBiomass Science Workshop and 1st Cal/Val meeting, 2026-01-26 - 2026-01-30, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Accepted for Proceedings of the ESA PolInSAR – Biomass 2026 – 12th International Workshop on Science and Applications of SAR Polarimetry and Polarimetric Interferometry, 6thBiomass Science Workshop and 1st Cal/Val meeting, 2026
http://elib.dlr.de/221220

[22] Nermine Hendy, Thomas Kraus, Haytham Fayek, Markus Bachmann, Maximilian Schandri and Akram Al-Hourani
Successive Multi-RFI Suppression in Raw SAR Data via Space-Frequency Domain Processing
Accepted for IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (ISI refereed), 2026
http://elib.dlr.de/218792

[23] Matthias Jirousek and Markus Peichl
Zwischen Flugzeug und Satellit: Synergie von HAP- und SAR-Technologie für die kontinuierliche Überwachung
DWT Angewandte Forschung für Verteidigung und Sicherheit in Deutschland, 2026-03-03 - 2026-03-05, Bonn, Germany
Submitted to Proceedings of the DWT Angewandte Forschung für Verteidigung und Sicherheit in Deutschland, 2026
http://elib.dlr.de/219151

[24] Berkay Keskinkilic
Design and Implementation of an alternative Azimuth Interpolation Scheme for Staggered-SAR FPGA Processing
Master Thesis, 0 pages, 2026
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Institut für Technik der Informationsverarbeitung (ITIV)
http://elib.dlr.de/220053

[25] Eva Kierschniak
Passive Microwave and Optical Data Fusion for Land Surface Temperature Downscaling
Master Thesis, 60 pages, 2026
Universität Augsburg, Fakultät für Angewandte Informatik
http://elib.dlr.de/217128

[26] Jakob Knieß
Exploring the combination of remote sensing and machine learning to correct Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensing soil moisture signals for variable biomass effects
Master Thesis, 2026
University of Augsburg, Faculty of Applied Computer Science
http://elib.dlr.de/215293

[27] Diego Lorente Catalan, Markus Limbach, Héctor Esteban González and Vicente Boria Esbert
Novel Multilayer Electromagnetic Bandgap Structure with Simultaneously Surface-Wave Suppression in the L, S, C and X-bands
2026 IEEE International Workshop on Antenna Technology (iWAT), 2026-03-25 - 2026-03-27, Liverpool, UK
Accepted for 2026 International Workshop on Antenna Technology, iWAT 2026, 2026
http://elib.dlr.de/221961, [PDF]

[28] Diego Lorente Catalan, Markus Limbach, Bernd Gabler, Héctor Esteban González and Vicente Boria Esbert
Suppression of the Polarization-Dependent Antenna Carrier Effect in Phased Arrays with Electromagnetic Bandgaps for Airborne SAR Applications
Accepted for Reviews of Electromagnetics (RoE) (refereed), 2026
http://elib.dlr.de/218530, [PDF]

[29] Jan Meyer, Kay Glatting, Sigurd Huber and Gerhard Krieger
Performance Comparison of Cognitive SAR System Concepts for Ship Detection
European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (EUSAR), 2026-06-08 - 2026-06-11, Baden-Baden, Germany
Submitted to Proceedings of the European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, EUSAR, 2026
http://elib.dlr.de/218774

[30] Muriel Pinheiro, Antonio Valentino, Guillaume Hajduch, Pauline Vincent, Andrea Recchia, Beatrice Mai, Martin Steinisch, Kersten Schmidt, Christoph Gisinger, Helko Breit, Víctor Diego Navarro Sánchez and Ruben Bleriot
Overview of Sentinel-1 Instrument Status, Level-1 Product Performance and Evolutions
European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (EUSAR), 2026-06-08 - 2026-06-11, Baden-Baden, Germany
Submitted to Proceedings of the European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, EUSAR, 2026
http://elib.dlr.de/218906

[31] Michael Pircher, Markus Limbach, Tobias Rommel and Ulf Johannsen
Dual-polarized, wideband, double stacked coplanar patch antenna for array application in C-band
20th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), 2026-04-19 - 2026-04-24, Dublin, Irland
Accepted for 20th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2026, 2026
http://elib.dlr.de/221842

[32] Sebastian Raab, Klaus Frank Weidenhaupt, Anna Maria Büchner, Jens Reimann and Marco Schwerdt
The next Generation of DLR's C-band Transponders for Calibrating future SAR Systems - Status and Outlook
European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (EUSAR), 2026-06-09 - 2026-06-11, Baden-Baden, Germany
Submitted to Proceedings of the European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, EUSAR, 2026
http://elib.dlr.de/219866

[33] Jens Reimann, Rosen Paul, Marco Schwerdt and Manfred Zink
NISAR: A Test case for ESA's ROSE-L System Calibration (invited)
European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (EUSAR), 2026-06-08 - 2026-06-11, Baden-Baden, Germany
Submitted to Proceedings of the European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, EUSAR, 2026
http://elib.dlr.de/221074

[34] Jens Reimann, Kersten Schmidt, Patrick Klenk, Jakob Giez and Marco Schwerdt
Impact of the Ionosphere on the External Calibration of ESA's ROSE L System (invited)
European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (EUSAR), 2026-06-08 - 2026-06-11, Baden-Baden, Germany
Submitted to Proceedings of the European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, EUSAR, 2026
http://elib.dlr.de/221070

[35] Noelia Romero Puig, Matteo Pardini, Roman Guliaev, Junsu Kim and Konstantinos Papathanassiou
First Demonstration of Forest Structure Monitoring with Early P-Band BIOMASS Pol-InSAR Data
ESA PolInSAR & Biomass Workshop, 2026-01-26 - 2026-01-30, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Accepted for Proceedings of the ESA PolInSAR & Biomass Workshop, 2026
http://elib.dlr.de/222022

[36] Henri Isidor Schauer, Nikita Basargin and Irena Hajnsek
Limits of Soil Moisture Retrieval at L-Band over Bare and Vegetated Fields using Airborne Polarimetric D-InSAR
PolInSAR & BIOMASS 2026, 2026-01-26, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Accepted for Proceedings of the PolInSAR & BIOMASS 2026, 2026
http://elib.dlr.de/221313

[37] Patricia Schlenk, Georg Fischer, Matteo Pardini and Irena Hajnsek
Characterization of Ice Features in the Southwest Greenland Ablation Zone Using Multi-Modal SAR Data
Accepted for The Cryosphere (ISI refereed), 2026
http://elib.dlr.de/220401

[38] Alicja Schreiber and Bernd Gabler
Single Ridge Slotted Waveguide Antenna for Ka-Band Airborne SAR Application
20th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2026), 2026-04-19 - 2026-04-24, Dublin, Ireland
Accepted for 20th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2026, 2026
http://elib.dlr.de/221835

[39] Antoine Straub
Experimental Assessment of Multiple-Scattering Effects on Coherent Radar Observations of Natural Media with Applications to Icy Moon Exploration
Master Thesis, 100 pages, 2026
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Lehrstuhl für Hochfrequenztechnik
http://elib.dlr.de/221952

[40] Kathrin Strößner, Kathrin Maier, Ralf Ludwig and Irena Hajnsek
Assessing Permafrost Coastal Erosion and Retrogressive Thaw Slumps through X-Band Interferometry and Environmental Covariate Analysis
ESA POlInSAR - Biomass 2026, 2026-01-26 - 2026-01-30, Ljubljana, Slowenia
Proceedings of the ESA POlInSAR - Biomass 2026, 2026
http://elib.dlr.de/222016

[41] Joao Pedro Turchetti Ribeiro, Thomas Kraus, Markus Bachmann, Gerhard Krieger and Alberto Moreira
Ultra-Wide-Swath SAR Imaging Enabled by Multiple-Elevation-Beam F-Scan with Two-Burst ScanSAR
Accepted for IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (ISI refereed), 2026
http://elib.dlr.de/219018