Radar Geophysics

I am foremost a radar geophysicist, and interested in both refining existing, and developing new algorithms and techniques for studying aspects of the Earth system with passive and active radar instruments.

I am particularly interested in developing new techniques to leverage the wealth of information provided by active coherent radars for earth systems science. In particular, I am interested in jointly exploiting the phase, amplitude, and phase closure of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture (InSAR) data to study dynamic hydrologic and surficial processes in the Earth’s hydrosphere and cryosphere.

Related Publications

R. J. Michaelides, H. A. Zebker and Y. Zheng, “An Algorithm for Estimating and Correcting Decorrelation Phase From InSAR Data Using Closure Phase Triplets,” in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2019.2934362, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8821549&isnumber=4358825

R. Michaelides, K. Schaefer, H. Zebker, A. Parsekian, L. Liu, J. Chen, S. M. Natali, S. Ludwig, and S. Schaefer, “Inference of the impact of wildfire on permafrost and active layer thickness in a discontinuous permafrost region using the remotely sensed active layer thickness (ReSALT) algorithm,” Environmental Research Letters, 2018. https:// doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aaf932