Publications of Xiao Xiang Zhu

Articles in journal or book chapters

1. Nan Ge and Xiao Xiang Zhu. Bistatic-Like Differential SAR Tomography. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., pp 1-11, 2019. Keyword(s): Synthetic aperture radar, Strain, Satellites, Satellite broadcasting, Spaceborne radar, Decorrelation, Tomography, Synthetic aperture radar (SAR), SAR tomography, Tandem-L, TerraSAR-X add-on for digital elevation measurements (TanDEM-X).. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



2. Marion Heublein, Fadwa Alshawaf, Bastian Erdnüss, Xiao Xiang Zhu, and Stefan Hinz. Compressive sensing reconstruction of 3D wet refractivity based on GNSS and InSAR observations. Journal of Geodesy, 93(2):197-217, 2019. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, Compressive Sensing, Tropospheric Path Delay, Synthetic Aperture Radar, Atmospheric Modelling, Atmospheric modeling, Meteorology, radar interferometry, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), SAR Tomography, GNSS, InSAR, Tropospheric Wet Path Delay. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



3. Francescopaolo Sica, Davide Cozzolino, Xiao Xiang Zhu, Luisa Verdoliva, and Giovanni Poggi. InSAR-BM3D: A Nonlocal Filter for SAR Interferometric Phase Restoration. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 56(6):3456-3467, June 2018. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, InSAR, SAR Interferometry, Phase filtering, InSAR filter, filter, AWGN, filtering theory, image denoising, radar imaging, radar interferometry, synthetic aperture radar, InSAR-BM3D, nonlocal filter, SAR interferometric phase restoration, block-matching 3-D, nonlocal approach, additive white Gaussian noise image denoising, synthetic aperture radar, SAR interferometry signal, Synthetic aperture radar, Image restoration, Wavelet transforms, AWGN, Coherence, Estimation, Nonlocal filtering, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), SAR interferometry (InSAR). [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



4. Michael Schmitt, Muhammad Shahzad, and Xiao Xiang Zhu. Reconstruction of individual trees from multi-aspect TomoSAR data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 165:175-185, 2015. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, SAR tomography, Synthetic aperture radar (SAR), Multi-aspect, Trees, 3D reconstruction, Forested areas, Point cloud segmentation. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



5. Yuanyuan Wang, Xiao Xiang Zhu, and Richard Bamler. An efficient tomographic inversion approach for urban mapping using meter resolution SAR image stacks. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 11(7):1250-1254, 2014. [bibtex-entry]



6. Yuanyuan Wang, Xiao Xiang Zhu, and Richard Bamler. Retrieval of phase history parameters from distributed scatterers in urban areas using very high resolution SAR data. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 73(0):89 - 99, 2012. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, Interferometry, SAR Interferometry, InSAR, Persistent Scatterer Interferometry, PSI, Phase history, Distributed scatterer, Covariance matrix, TerraSAR-X, Spaceborne SAR. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



7. Xiao Xiang Zhu and Richard Bamler. Demonstration of Super-Resolution for Tomographic SAR Imaging in Urban Environment. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 50(8):3150-3157, August 2012. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, SAR Tomography, Tomography, Compressive Sensing, CS, InSAR, SAR Interferometry, Interferometry, differential SAR interferometry, Persistent Scatterer Interferometry, PSI, DInSAR, Buildings, Image resolution, Optical imaging, Optical scattering, Signal resolution, Strontium, Tomography, geophysical equipment, geophysical image processing, radar imaging, SL1MMER algorithm, SR power, TerraSAR-X real data, classical linear estimators, differential SAR tomography, elevation aperture size, geometric analysis, meter-resolution spaceborne SAR systems, spectral analysis problem, statistical analysis, super-resolution demonstration, super-resolution reconstruction algorithms, super-resolving algorithm, synthetic aperture radar, tomographic SAR imaging, tomographic SAR inversion, tomographic elevation resolution, urban environment, urban infrastructure monitoring, Compressive sensing, SL1MMER, TerraSAR-X, sparse reconstruction, super-resolution, synthetic aperture radar, tomographic SAR inversion. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



8. Xiao Xiang Zhu and Richard Bamler. Super-Resolution Power and Robustness of Compressive Sensing for Spectral Estimation With Application to Spaceborne Tomographic SAR. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 50(1):247-258, January 2012. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, SAR Tomography, Tomography, Compressive Sensing, CS, InSAR, SAR Interferometry, Interferometry, Persistent Scatterer Interferometry, PSI, TerraSAR-X, X-band, Estimation, Image resolution, Minimization, Noise, Robustness, Strontium, Tomography, Fourier analysis, data acquisition, geophysical techniques, least squares approximations, maximum likelihood estimation, minimisation, probability, remote sensing by radar, spaceborne radar, synthetic aperture radar, tomography, Fourier domain sample, Rayleigh resolution analysis, SL1MMER algorithm, TomoSAR algorithm, compressive sensing robustness analysis, generic super-resolution problem, maximum likelihood parameter estimation, nonlinear least-squares estimation, numerical simulation, probability, spaceborne SAR tomography, sparse spectral estimation, spectral estimation method, super-resolution power, uniformly distributed phase difference analysis, Compressive sensing (CS), SAR tomography (TomoSAR), SL1MMER, spectral estimation, super-resolution (SR). [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



9. Diego Reale, Gianfranco Fornaro, A. Pauciullo, Xiao Xiang Zhu, and Richard Bamler. Tomographic Imaging and Monitoring of Buildings With Very High Resolution SAR Data. IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens. Lett., 8(4):661-665, July 2011. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, SAR Tomography, Tomography, InSAR, SAR Interferometry, Interferometry, DInSAR, persistent scatterer interferometry, PSI, 3-D structure, 4-D imaging, TerraSAR-X spotlight acquisitions, buildings, high-resolution sensors, impressive reconstruction, medium-resolution SAR data tomographic techniques, scatterer density, steep topography, synthetic aperture radar, tomographic imaging, urban environment, geophysical image processing, image reconstruction, image resolution, radar resolution, remote sensing by radar, synthetic aperture radar. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



10. Xiao Xiang Zhu and Richard Bamler. Let's Do the Time Warp: Multicomponent Nonlinear Motion Estimation in Differential SAR Tomography. IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens. Lett., 8(4):735-739, 2011. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, SAR Tomography, Tomography, Estimation, Persistent Scatterer Interferometry, PSI, Motion estimation, Pixel, Remote sensing, Signal to noise ratio, Synthetic aperture radar, Tomography, motion estimation, radar imaging, synthetic aperture radar, time warp simulation, tomography, D-TomoSAR system model, TerraSAR-X spotlight, complex motion model, differential synthetic aperture radar tomography, linear motion, motion history, multicomponent generalization, multicomponent nonlinear motion estimation, nonlinear motion, periodic motion component, spectral estimation, time warp method, user-defined motion model order, Differential synthetic aperture radar tomography (D-TomoSAR), TerraSAR-X (TS-X), multicomponent nonlinear motion, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), time warp. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



11. Xiao Xiang Zhu and Richard Bamler. Tomographic SAR Inversion by $L_1$-Norm Regularization --- The Compressive Sensing Approach. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 48(10):3839-3846, 2010. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, SAR Tomography, Tomography, Compressive Sensing, CS, InSAR, SAR Interferometry, Interferometry, Anisotropic magnetoresistance, Azimuth, Control systems, Image reconstruction, Radar tracking, Reconstruction algorithms, Signal resolution, Spaceborne radar, Synthetic aperture radar, Tomography, image reconstruction, image resolution, radar imaging, radar resolution, remote sensing by radar, spaceborne radar, synthetic aperture radar, 3D imaging, 3D tomographic resolution element, L1-norm regularization, azimuth-range cell, compressive sensing, elevation direction, point localization, spaceborne SAR systems, super-resolution reconstruction algorithm, synthetic aperture radar, tomographic SAR inversion, tomographic elevation resolution, Compressive sensing (CS), TerraSAR-X, differential synthetic aperture radar tomography (D-TomoSAR), urban mapping. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



12. Xiao Xiang Zhu and Richard Bamler. Very High Resolution Spaceborne SAR Tomography in Urban Environment. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 48(12):4296-4308, December 2010. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, SAR Tomography, Tomography, Singular Value Decomposition, SVD, InSAR, SAR Interferometry, Interferometry, Apertures, Floors, High-resolution imaging, Image reconstruction, Radar scattering, Reflectivity, Spaceborne radar, Spectral analysis, Tomography, Urban areas, parameter estimation, radar imaging, singular value decomposition, spaceborne SAR, spectral analysis, synthetic aperture radar, tomography, 3D imaging, COSMO-Skymed, TerraSAR-X, TomoSAR, Wiener-type regularization, azimuth-range pixel, elevation direction, maximum a posteriori estimator, meter-resolution spaceborne SAR systems, parametric estimation algorithms, radar reflectivity, reconstructions, singular-value decomposition method, spaceborne SAR data, spectral analysis, synthetic aperture principle, synthetic aperture radar tomography, tomographic reconstruction, urban environment, very high resolution spaceborne SAR tomography, Differential synthetic aperture radar tomography (D-TomoSAR), TerraSAR-X, spotlight SAR, urban mapping;. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]

Conference articles

1. Gianfranco Fornaro, A. Pauciullo, D. Reale, Xiao Xiang Zhu, and Richard Bamler. Peculiarities of urban area analysis with very high resolution interferometric SAR data. In Proc. Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE), pages 185-188, 2011. [bibtex-entry]



2. Yuanyuan Wang, Xiao Xiang Zhu, and R. Bamler. Advanced coherence stacking technique using high resolution TerraSAR-X spotlight data. In Proc. Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE), pages 233-236, 2011. [bibtex-entry]



3. Yuanyuan Wang, Xiao Xiang Zhu, and R. Bamler. Optimal estimation of distributed scatterer phase history parameters from meter-resolution SAR data. In Proc. IEEE Int. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symp. (IGARSS), pages 3468-3471, 2011. [bibtex-entry]



4. Xiao Xiang Zhu and R. Bamler. A fundamental bound for super-resolution --- with application to3D SAR imaging. In Proc. Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE), pages 181-184, 2011. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, SAR Tomography, Tomography, Compressive Sensing, CS, InSAR, SAR Interferometry, Interferometry. [bibtex-entry]



5. Xiao Xiang Zhu and R. Bamler. Multi-component nonlinear motion estimation in differential SAR tomography - the time-warp method. In Proc. IEEE Int. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symp. (IGARSS), pages 2409-2412, 2011. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, SAR Tomography, Tomography, Compressive Sensing, CS, InSAR, SAR Interferometry, Interferometry. [bibtex-entry]



6. Xiao Xiang Zhu and R. Bamler. Sparse reconstrcution techniques for SAR tomography. In Proc. 17th Int Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Conf, pages 1-8, 2011. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, SAR Tomography, Tomography, Compressive Sensing, CS, InSAR, SAR Interferometry, Interferometry. [bibtex-entry]



7. Xiao Xiang Zhu and R. Bamler. Within the resolution cell: Super-resolution in tomographic SAR imaging. In Proc. IEEE Int. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symp. (IGARSS), pages 2401-2404, 2011. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, SAR Tomography, Tomography, Compressive Sensing, CS, InSAR, SAR Interferometry, Interferometry. [bibtex-entry]



8. Xiao Xiang Zhu, Xuan Wang, and Richard Bamler. Compressive sensing for image fusion - with application to pan-sharpening. In Proc. IEEE Int. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symp. (IGARSS), pages 2793-2796, 2011. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, SAR Tomography, Tomography, Compressive Sensing, CS, InSAR, SAR Interferometry, Interferometry. [bibtex-entry]



9. D. Reale, G. Fornaro, A. Pauciullo, Xiao Xiang Zhu, N. Adam, and R. Bamler. Advanced techniques and new high resolution SAR sensors for monitoring urban areas. In Proc. IEEE Int. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symp. (IGARSS), pages 1800-1803, 2010. [bibtex-entry]



10. Xiao Xiang Zhu and Richard Bamler. Compressive sensing for high resolution differential SAR tomography - the SL1MMER algorithm. In Proc. IEEE Int. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symp. (IGARSS), pages 17-20, 2010. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, SAR Tomography, Tomography, Compressive Sensing, CS, InSAR, SAR Interferometry, Interferometry. [bibtex-entry]



11. Nico Adam, Xiao Xiang Zhu, and Richard Bamler. Coherent stacking with TerraSAR-X imagery in urban areas. In Proc. Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, pages 1-6, 2009. [bibtex-entry]



12. Nico Adam, Xiao Xiang Zhu, C. Minet, W. Liebhart, M. Eineder, and R. Bamler. Techniques and examples for the 3D reconstruction of complex scattering situations using TerraSAR-X. In Proc. IEEE Int. Geosci. Remote Sens. Symp., volume 3, 2009. [bibtex-entry]



13. S. Auer, Xiao Xiang Zhu, S. Hinz, and R. Bamler. 3D analysis of scattering effects based on Ray Tracing techniques. In Proc. IEEE Int. Geosci. Remote Sens. Symp., volume 3, 2009. [bibtex-entry]



14. Xiao Xiang Zhu, N. Adam, and R. Bamler. Space-borne high resolution tomographic interferometry. In Proc. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symp.,2009 IEEE Int.,IGARSS 2009, volume 4, 2009. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, SAR Tomography, Tomography, Compressive Sensing, CS, InSAR, SAR Interferometry, Interferometry. [bibtex-entry]



15. Xiao Xiang Zhu, Nico Adam, Ramon Brcic, and Richard Bamler. Space-borne high resolution SAR tomography: experiments in urban environment using TS-X Data. In Proc. Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, pages 1-8, May 2009. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, SAR Tomography, Tomography, Compressive Sensing, CS, InSAR, SAR Interferometry, Interferometry. [bibtex-entry]

Miscellaneous

1. Xiao Xiang Zhu and Richard Bamler. Super-resolution for 4-D SAR Tomography via Compressive Sensing, 2010. Note: Synthetic Aperture Radar (EUSAR), 2010 8th European Conference on. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, SAR Tomography, Tomography, Compressive Sensing, CS, InSAR, SAR Interferometry, Interferometry. [bibtex-entry]

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