Publications of Fabrizio Lombardini

Articles in journal or book chapters

1. Fabio Rocca, Deren Li, Stefano Tebaldini, Mingsheng Liao, Lu Zhang, Fabrizio Lombardini, Timo Balz, Norbert Haala, Xiaoli Ding, and Ramon Hanssen. Three- and Four-Dimensional Topographic Measurement and Validation. Remote Sensing, 13(15), 2021. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, Synthetic Aperture Radar, Interferometry, SAR Interferometry, Persistent Scatterer Interferometry, PSI, SAR Tomography, Tomography, TomoSAR, 3-D imaging, temporal decorrelation, deformation, validation, surface displacements, topographic mapping. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



2. Fabrizio Lombardini and Federico Viviani. Single-look light-burden superresolution differential SAR tomography. Electronics Letters, 52(7):557-558, 2016. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, SAR Tomography, persistent scatterer interferometry, PSI, DInSAR, multibaseline interferometry, interferometric stacking, deformation monitoring, subsidence monitoring, urban remote sensing, array signal processing, image sampling, radar imaging, radar interferometry, radar resolution, spectral analysis, synthetic aperture radar, 2D baseline-time spectral analysis framework, adaptive 2D spectral estimation, coherent multilooking processing, complex nonstationary scenes, complex-valued synthetic aperture radar data, elevation beamforming, full range-azimuth resolution products, full-3D imaging, height-velocity sidelobe reduction, layover scatterers, mature differential interferometry, multibaseline interferometry, satellites, single-look adaptive Diff-Tomo processor, single-look light-burden superresolution differential SAR tomography, sparse sampling, spatial spectral estimation. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



3. Gianfranco Fornaro, Fabrizio Lombardini, Antonio Pauciullo, Diego Reale, and Federico Viviani. Tomographic Processing of Interferometric SAR Data: Developments, applications, and future research perspectives. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 31(4):41-50, July 2014. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, SAR Tomography, PSI, Persistent Scatterer Interferometry, Deformation Monitoring, Deformation, radar interferometry, synthetic aperture radar, tomography, 3D reconstruction, classical multipass interferometric processing, environmental risk monitoring, interferometric SAR data tomographic processing, long-term deformation monitoring capability, natural hazard monitoring, synthetic aperture radar tomography techniques, three-dimensional reconstruction, Backscatter, Interferometry, Monitoring, Scattering, Synthetic aperture radar, Tomography. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



4. Fabrizio Lombardini, Francesco Cai, and Davide Pasculli. Spaceborne 3-D SAR tomography for analyzing garbled urban scenarios: single-look superresolution advances and experiments. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 6(2):960-968, 2013. [bibtex-entry]



5. F. Lombardini and M. Pardini. Superresolution Differential Tomography: Experiments on Identification of Multiple Scatterers in Spaceborne SAR Data. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 50(4):1117-1129, April 2012. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, SAR Tomography, Tomography. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



6. G. Fornaro, G. Franceschetti, F. Lombardini, A. Mori, and M. Calamia. Potentials and Limitations of Moon-Borne SAR Imaging. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 48(7):3009-3019, July 2010. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, Earth observation, Moon-borne SAR imaging, artificial Earth orbit satellites, interferometry, natural Earth satellite, synthetic aperture radar system, Moon, artificial satellites, radar interferometry, remote sensing by radar, spaceborne radar, synthetic aperture radar. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



7. F. Lombardini, M. Pardini, G. Fornaro, F. Serafino, L. Verrazzani, and M. Costantini. Linear and adaptive spaceborne threedimensional SAR tomography: a comparison on real data. IET Radar, Sonar Navigation, 3(4):424-436, August 2009. Keyword(s): ERS satellite urban data, SAR interferometry concept, adaptive beamforming, adaptive spaceborne three-dimensional SAR tomography, linear spaceborne three-dimensional SAR tomography, singular value decomposition, synthetic aperture radar imaging, array signal processing, geophysical signal processing, radar imaging, remote sensing by radar, singular value decomposition, spaceborne radar, synthetic aperture radar, tomography. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



8. Fabrizio Lombardini and Matteo Pardini. 3-D SAR Tomography: The Multibaseline Sector Interpolation Approach. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 5(4):630-634, Oct. 2008. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, Tomography, SAR Tomography, Multi-baseline SAR, Interpolation, Sector Interpolation, 3-D imaging, SAR Interferometry, Interferometry, InSAR, Spectral Analysis, Electromagnetic Tomography, Signal Sampling. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



9. Matteo Pardini, Fabrizio Lombardini, and Fabrizio Gini. The Hybrid Cramér -- Rao Bound on Broadside DOA Estimation of Extended Sources in Presence of Array Errors. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 56(4):1726-1730, April 2008. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, SAR Tomography, Tomography, Residual Motion Errors, InSAR, SAR Interferometry, Interferometry, antenna arrays, direction-of-arrival estimation, DOA estimation, hybrid Cramer-Rao bound, multibaseline interferometers, randomly perturbed arrays, remote sensing systems, signal direction of arrival, synthetic aperture radar. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



10. Federica Bordoni, Fabrizio Lombardini, Fulvio Gini, and A. Jakobsson. Multibaseline cross-track SAR interferometry using interpolated arrays. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 41(4):1473-1482, 2005. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, SAR Tomography, Tomography, Layover, Array Interpolation. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



11. Gianfranco Fornaro, Fabrizio Lombardini, and Francesco Serafino. Three-dimensional multipass SAR focusing: experiments with long-term spaceborne data. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 43(4):702-714, 2005. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, SAR Tomography, Tomography, Interferometry, airborne SAR, Spaceborne SAR, stereo image processing, three-dimensional multipass SAR focusing, ERS data, ERS multipass tomography, European Remote Sensing satellite, SAR interferometry, atmospheric variations, azimuth-range resolution cell, critical nonlinear inversion steps, ground pixel, height profile reconstruction, limited spatial-coverage, limited time-span, multibaseline 3D SAR focusing, multiple targets, radiation penetration, scattering mechanisms, scene deformations, side-looking geometry, space-varying phase calibration, tomographic processing, Multibaseline, multipass, three-dimensional focusing. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



12. F. Gini and F. Lombardini. Multibaseline Cross-Track SAR Interferometry: A Signal Processing Perspective. IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, 20(8):71-93, 2005. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, SAR Tomography, Tomography, AWGN, array signal processing, radar signal processing, speckle, surface topography measurement, synthetic aperture radar, InSAR, MB SAR tomography, SAR signal processing, ULA, XTI-SAR, additive white Gaussian noise, multibaseline cross-track SAR interferometry, multicomponent signal detection, multiplicative noise, natural layover area reflectivity, nonparametric spectral estimation, nonperfectly calibrated arrays, parametric spectral estimation, radar imaging speckle, semitransparent volume scattering layers, synthetic aperture radar interferometry, uniform linear array, Teaching. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



13. Fabrizio Lombardini. Differential tomography: a new framework for SAR interferometry. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 43(1):37-44, 2005. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, backscatter, data acquisition, geophysical signal processing, geophysical techniques, multidimensional signal processing, radiowave interferometry, remote sensing by radar, spectral analysis, synthetic aperture radar, Tomography, SAR interferometry, baseline-time acquisition patterns, bidimensional baseline-time spectral analysis, data-dependent bidimensional spectral estimation, SAR Tomography, differential SAR tomography, differential tomography, electromagnetic tomography, elevation-velocity resolution, interferometric technique, joint baseline-time processing, layover scatterers, motion conditions, multibaseline SAR tomography, multiple scatterers, sparse sampling. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



14. Fabrizio Lombardini and Fulvio Gini. Model order selection in multi-baseline interferometric radar systems. EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2005(20):1-14, 2005. [bibtex-entry]



15. F. Lombardini, F. Bordoni, F. Gini, and L. Verrazzani. Multibaseline ATI-SAR for robust ocean surface velocity estimation. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 40(2):417-433, April 2004. Keyword(s): Bragg frequency, Bragg scatterers, Doppler centroid measurements, Doppler resolution, MB estimators, along-track interferometry, multibaseline ATI-SAR, ocean surface currents, robust data inversion, robust ocean surface velocity estimation, scatterer propagation velocity, synthetic aperture radar, wind direction, Doppler radar, Doppler shift, oceanographic techniques, radiowave interferometry, remote sensing by radar, synthetic aperture radar;. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



16. F. Lombardini, M. Montanari, and F. Gini. Reflectivity estimation for multibaseline interferometric radar imaging of layover extended sources. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 51(6):1508-1519, June 2003. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, Tomography, SAR Tomography, Multi-baseline SAR, Interferometry, SAR Interferometry, AWGN, Monte Carlo methods, amplitude estimation, radar imaging, radiowave interferometry, synthetic aperture radar APES, Capon's approach, InSAR, Monte Carlo simulation, RELAX, SAR, additive white Gaussian noise, complex orography, component sinusoidal signal, hybrid spectral estimators, layover extended sources, multibaseline interferometric radar imaging, multibaseline operation, multiplicative complex correlated noise, nonparametric estimators, parametric estimators, reflectivity estimation, spatial frequency estimation, synthetic aperture radar interferometry, terrain height, undistorted multibaseline image formation. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



17. F. Gini, F. Lombardini, and M. Montanari. Layover solution in multibaseline SAR interferometry. Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on, 38(4):1344-1356, 2002. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, SAR Tomography, Tomography, Monte Carlo methods, airborne radar, radiowave interferometry, remote sensing by radar, synthetic aperture radar, MUSIC, Cramer-Rao lower bounds, Interferometry, InSAR, M-RELAX, Monte Carlo simulations, RELAX algorithm, baseline diversity, discontinuities, height contributions, layover solution, multibaseline SAR interferometry, multichannel interferometric synthetic aperture radar, multiplicative noise, natural targets, nonparametric techniques, parametric techniques, range-azimuth resolution cell, spectral estimation techniques, terrain slopes. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



18. Fabrizio Lombardini and Hugh D. Griffiths. Optimum and Suboptimum Estimator Performance for Multibaseline InSAR. EUSAR 2000 Special Issue, Frequenz, Zeitschrift für Telekommunikation (Journal of Telecommunications), 55:114-118, March 2001. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, Interferometry, Multibaseline InSAR, Model-Based Interferometric Processing. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]

Conference articles

1. Fabrizio Lombardini, Francesco Cai, and Matteo Pardini. Tomographic Analyses of Non-stationary Volumetric Scattering. In Proc. EUSAR, pages 1-4, June 2010. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, SAR Tomography, Forestry, Tomography. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



2. F. Lombardini and M. Pardini. Detection of scatterer multiplicity in spaceborne SAR tomography with array errors. In Radar Conference, 2009 IEEE, pages 1-6, May 2009. [bibtex-entry]



3. G. Fornaro, A. Pauciullo, F. Lombardini, and M. Pardini. Detection of Single and Multiple Scatterers in Multibaseline Multitemporal SAR Data. In Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International, volume 2, pages 453-456, July 2008. [bibtex-entry]



4. F. Lombardini, G. Fornaro, M. Pardini, D. Reale, F. Serafino, F. Soldovieri, and M. Costantini. SAR tomography for scene elevation and deformation reconstruction: Algorithms and potentialities. In Radar Conference, 2008. RADAR '08. IEEE, pages 1-7, May 2008. [bibtex-entry]



5. G. Fornaro, F. Lombardini, M. Pardini, F. Serafino, F. Soldovieri, and M. Costantini. Spaceborne multi-dimensional SAR imaging: Current status and perspectives. In Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International, pages 5277-5280, July 2007. [bibtex-entry]



6. F. Lombardini. New potentials of differential SAR tomography: Volumetric differential interferometry and robust DEM generation. In Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International, pages 5281-5284, July 2007. [bibtex-entry]



7. Fabrizio Lombardini, Matteo Pardini, and Fulvio Gini. Sector interpolation for 3D SAR imaging with baseline diversity data. In Waveform Diversity and Design Conference, 2007. International, pages 297-301, June 2007. [bibtex-entry]



8. Fabrizio Lombardini, Ludwig Rössing, Joachim H. G. Ender, and F. Viviani. Towards a Complete Processing Chain of Multibaseline Airborne InSAR Data for Layover Scatterers Separation. In Urban Remote Sensing Joint Event, 2007, pages 1-6, April 2007. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



9. Fabrizio Lombardini, Ludwig Rössing, Joachim H. G. Ender, and F. Cai. Interferometric Model Order Selection: Validation of ITC Methods with Airborne Three-antenna SAR Data. In Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2006. IGARSS 2006. IEEE International Conference on, pages 2565-2568, July 2006. [bibtex-entry]



10. F. Bordoni, A. Jakobsson, F. Gini, and F. Lombardini. On the Effects of Nonuniform Sampling for Interferometric Phase Estimation in the Presence of Layover. In Statistical Signal Processing, 2005 IEEE/SP 13th Workshop on, pages 645-650, July 2005. [bibtex-entry]



11. F. Lombardini. Analysis of non-gaussian speckle statistics in high-resolution SAR images. In Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2005. IGARSS '05. Proceedings. 2005 IEEE International, volume 2, pages 1337-1340, July 2005. [bibtex-entry]



12. F. Lombardini and G. Fornaro. First trials of fourier and adaptive tomo-doppler sar imaging. In Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2005. IGARSS '05. Proceedings. 2005 IEEE International, volume 4, pages 2656-2659, July 2005. [bibtex-entry]



13. F. Serafino, F. Soldovieri, F. Lombardini, and G. Fornaro. Singular value decomposition applied to 4D SAR imaging. In Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2005. IGARSS '05. Proceedings. 2005 IEEE International, volume 4, pages 2701-2704, July 2005. [bibtex-entry]



14. F. Bordoni, A. Jakobsson, F. Lombardini, and F. Gini. Layover solution in multibaseline InSAR using interpolated arrays. In Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, 2004, pages 175-178, 2004. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, Interferometry, SAR Tomography, Tomography, Layover, Array Interpolation, MUSIC, WSF. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



15. F. Gini and F. Lombardini. Multibaseline post-processing for SAR interferometry. In Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop Proceedings, 2004, pages 20-29, 2004. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, SAR Tomography, Tomography, radar detection, radar imaging, radiowave interferometry, synthetic aperture radar, 3D mapping, XTI-SAR, additive white Gaussian noise, cross-track InSAR system, multibaseline InSAR processing, multicomponent signal corruption estimation, multiplicative noise, radar reflectivity retrieval, semitransparent volume scattering layer, signal detection, tomography. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



16. F. Lombardini, Joachim H. G. Ender, L. Rössing, M. Galletto, and L. Verrazzani. Experiments of interferometric layover solution with the three-antenna airborne AER-II SAR system. In IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS '04, volume 5, pages 3341-3344, September 2004. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, Capon, MUSIC, airborne radar, antenna arrays, radar imaging, radiowave interferometry, remote sensing by radar, synthetic aperture radar, terrain mapping, InSAR, SAR imagery, SAR Interferometry, advanced multibaseline operation, airborne experimental radar, calibration, dual-baseline single-pass SAR interferometer, electromagnetic tomography, higher-order interferometry, hybrid spatial spectral estimation, interferometric layover solution, layover-free interferometry, multichannel operation, nonparametric spectral estimation, parametric spectral estimation, spectral analysis, three-antenna airborne AER-II SAR System, three-antenna nonuniform array data. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



17. A. Jakobsson, F. Gini, and F. Lombardini. Layover solution in multibaseline INSAR using robust beamforming. In Signal Processing and Information Technology, 2003. ISSPIT 2003. Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Symposium on, pages 328-331, December 2003. [bibtex-entry]



18. A. Jakobsson, F. Lombardini, and F. Gini. Weighted subspace fitting of interferometric phases for multibaseline SAR interferometry. In Signal Processing and Its Applications, 2003. Proceedings. Seventh International Symposium on, volume 1, pages 321-324, July 2003. [bibtex-entry]



19. F. Lombardini. Differential tomography: a new framework for SAR interferometry. In Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2003. IGARSS '03. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International, volume 2, pages 1206-1208, July 2003. [bibtex-entry]



20. F. Lombardini and F. Gini. Multiple reflectivities estimation for multibaseline InSAR imaging of layover extended sources. In Radar Conference, 2003. Proceedings of the International, pages 257-263, September 2003. [bibtex-entry]



21. Fabrizio Lombardini and Andreas Reigber. Adaptive spectral estimation for multibaseline SAR tomography with airborne L-band data. In IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS '03., volume 3, pages 2014-2016, 2003. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, Tomography, SAR Tomography, Capon spectral estimator, adaptive Capon spectral estimator, spectral estimation, multibaseline 3D SAR focusing, multi-baseline SAR, InSAR, Multibaseline InSAR, Forestry. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



22. F. Gini, F. Lombardini, P. Matteucci, and L. Verrazzani. System and estimation problems for multibaseline InSAR imaging of multiple layovered reflectors. In Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International, volume 1, pages 115-117, July 2001. [bibtex-entry]



23. F. Lombardini, F. Gini, and P. Matteucci. Application of array processing techniques to multibaseline InSAR for layover solution. In Radar Conference, 2001. Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE, pages 210-215, May 2001. [bibtex-entry]



24. F. Lombardini, F. Gini, and P. Matteucci. Multibaseline ATI-SAR for robust ocean surface velocity estimation in presence of bimodal Doppler spectrum. In Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International, volume 1, pages 578-580, July 2001. [bibtex-entry]



25. F. Lombardini, H.D. Griffiths, and F. Gini. A ML multichannel ATI-SAR technique for measuring ocean surface velocities. In OCEANS '98 Conference Proceedings, volume 2, pages 778-782, September 1998. [bibtex-entry]



26. F. Lombardini and P. Lombardo. A ML thinned array SAR interferometric sensor for high accuracy absolute phase retrieval. In Radar Conference, 1998. RADARCON 98. Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE, pages 263-268, May 1998. [bibtex-entry]



27. F. Berizzi, G. Corsini, M. Diani, F. Lombardini, and G. Pinelli. Simulation model and performance analysis of a three-antenna InSAR system. In Radar 97 (Conf. Publ. No. 449), pages 119-123, October 1997. [bibtex-entry]



28. G. Corsini, M. Diani, F. Lombardini, and G. Pinelli. Reduction of the phase-unwrapping drawbacks by the three-antenna interferometric SAR system. In Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 1997. IGARSS '97. 'Remote Sensing - A Scientific Vision for Sustainable Development'., 1997 IEEE International, volume 4, pages 1536-1538, August 1997. [bibtex-entry]



29. P. Lombardo and F. Lombardini. Multi-baseline SAR interferometry for terrain slope adaptivity. In Radar Conference, 1997., IEEE National, pages 196-201, May 1997. [bibtex-entry]



30. F. Lombardini. Absolute phase retrieval in a three-element synthetic aperture radar interferometer. In Radar, 1996. Proceedings., CIE International Conference of, pages 309-312, October 1996. [bibtex-entry]



31. F. Lombardini and P. Lombardo. Maximum likelihood array SAR interferometry. In Digital Signal Processing Workshop Proceedings, 1996., IEEE, pages 358-361, September 1996. [bibtex-entry]



32. Fulvio Gini and Fabrizio Lombardini. A novel linear-quadratic technique for coherent radar detection in mixed clutter environment. In European Microwave Conference, 1995. 25th, volume 1, pages 360-364, Oct. 1995. [bibtex-entry]



33. Fulvio Gini, Fabrizio Lombardini, and Lucio Verrazzani. A robust approach to decentralized CFAR detection in spiky clutter. In European Microwave Conference, 1995. 25th, volume 1, pages 584-588, Oct. 1995. [bibtex-entry]

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