Hybrid AI-physical Modeling for Penetration Bias Correction in X-band InSAR DEMs: A Greenland Case Study
June 2025 I. Mansour, G. Fischer, R. Hänsch, I. Hajnsek 2025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), Nashville, TN, USA, pp. 2175-2184

A hybrid AI-physical method to correct penetration bias in X-band InSAR DEMs over the Greenland Ice Sheet, parameterising the vertical structure function via machine learning.

Characterization of Forest Structure Changes Exploiting TanDEM-X and GEDI Synergies
July 2024 L. M. Albrecht, N. Basargin, I. Mansour, R. Guliaev, N. Romero Puig, M. Pardini, K. Papathanassiou International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), pp. 1-4

Discusses the synergetic combination of TanDEM-X interferometric measurements and GEDI lidar waveforms to map forest height and structure changes, comparing two TanDEM-X global coverages (2011-2013 and 2018-2020).

Correction of The Penetration Bias for InSAR DEM Via Synergetic AI-Physical Modeling: A Greenland Case Study
July 2024 I. Mansour, G. Fischer, R. Hänsch, I. Hajnsek, K. Papathanassiou IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, pp. 138-142

Rapid changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet require precise elevation monitoring to understand ice dynamics and predict sea level rise. X-band Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) has the potential for this purpose but is limited by microwave signal...

Combining AI Techniques with Physical Models: Forest Height Inversion from TanDEM-X InSAR Data Using a Hybrid Modeling Approach
September 2023 I. Mansour, K. Papathanassiou, R. Hänsch, I. Hajnsek BioGeoSAR Book of Abstracts

In the realm of artificial intelligence, specifically utilizing methodologies such as machine learning and deep learning, a conspicuous display of substantial potential across various parameter estimation problems has been demonstrated. However, such AI...

Combining TanDEM-X and GEDI Data For Mapping Forest Structure Parameter Dynamics
July 2023 I. Mansour, L. M. Albrecht, B. Hartweg, R. Guliaev, N. Romero Puig, J. Kim, M. Pardini, K. Papathanassiou International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

The synergy of TanDEM-X interferometric data with GEDI lidar full waveform measurements for large-scale forest mapping has been addressed in a number of studies in the last years. In a number of studies, the GEDI lidar full waveforms have been used to...

Towards a Symbiosis of Model-Based and Machine Learning Forest Height Estimation Based on TanDEM-X InSAR
July 2022 I. Mansour, K. Papathanassiou, R. Haensch, I. Hajnsek EUSAR 2022; 14th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, pp. 1-4

There is a necessity for developing and incorporating retrieval models, including Physical Models (PMs) and Machine Learning (ML) models for the inversion of geophysical parameters from multi-parameter SAR data. Over the last two decades, interferometric...