Dr. rer. nat. Irena Hajnsek
German Aerospace Center
Mircowaves and Radar Institute
Radar Concept Department
Head of Polarimetric SAR Interferometry (Pol-InSAR) Research Group

PO Box 1116
82234 Wessling
Germany
Email: irena.hajnsek (at) dlr.de
Web-Link: http://www.dlr.de/HR
 

Background

Irena Hajnsek has been leading the Polarimetric SAR Interferometry research group since 2002. Her main research interests are in electromagnetic propagation and scattering theory, radar polarimetry, SAR and Interferometric SAR data processing techniques, environmental parameter modelling and estimation.

She received her Dipl. degree (Honors) in 1996 from the Free University of Berlin, Germany and the Dr. degree (Honors) in 2001 from the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany. From 1996 to 1999 she was with the Microwaves and Radar Institute (DLR-HF) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. From 1999 to 2000 she has been 10 months with Institut d’Electronique et de Télécommunications de Rennes at the University of Rennes, France I and 4 months with Applied Electromagnetics (AEL) in St. Andrews, Scotland, in the frame of the EC-TMR Radar Polarimetry Network. In 2005 she was for 6 weeks guest scientists with the University of Adelaide, South Australia. Since the beginning of the TanDEM-X project she is coordinating the TanDEM-X science team.
 

Activities in education

She is giving since 2001 regularly lecture courses at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and has been invited to several other Universities to give some lecture courses in SAR Polarimetry and SAR Interferometry for different environmental applications. In addition she was organising a German summer school to the topic’s SAR Interferometry and ENVISAT, were she also held lectures and made exercises to the related topic’s. Since 2002 she is organising a one week lecture course in the frame of the Carl Cranz Gesellschaft in SAR Principles and Application. She participated in several summer schools as a lecturer organised by IEEE and Universities.
 

Selected publications

Over 150 refereed publications in proceedings of international conferences and workshops; over 200 oral conference contributions as well as 20 poster displays. Selected reviewed publications:

Hajnsek, I., Pottier, E. & Cloude, S.R., ‘Inversion of Surface Parameters from Polarimetric SAR’, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 727-745, 2003.

Lee, J.-S., Boerner, W.-M., Ainsworth, T. L., Hajnsek, I., Papathanassiou, K.P., Lüneburg, E., ‘A Review of Polarimetric SAR Algorithms and their applications’, Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 31-80, 2004.

Schröder, R., Puls, J., Hajnsek, I., Jochim, F., Neff, T., et al.: MAPSAR: A small L-band SAR mission for land observation. Acta Astronautica, 56, 1-2, (2005), S. 35-43,

Scheuchl, B. Cumming, I, Hajnsek, I., ‘Classification of fully polarimetric single and dual frequency SAR data of Sea Ice using the Wishart Classifier’, Can. J. Remote Sensing, vol. 31, no.1, pp. 61-72, 2005

Hajnsek, I. & Cloude, S., ‘The Potential of InSAR for Quantitative Surface Parameter Estimation’, Can. J. Remote Sensing, vol. 31, no.1, pp. 85-102, 2005

Lopez-Martinez, C., Hajnsek, I., Jong-Sen Lee, Eric Pottier, Xavier Fàbregas, ‘Polarimetric Speckle Noise Effects in Quantitative Physical Parameters Retrieval’, IEE Proceedings, Radar Sonar and Navigation, volume 153, issue 3, p. 250-259, 2006

Rafael Zandona Schneider, K. P. Papathanassiou, I. Hajnsek, A. Moreira, ‘Polarimetric and Interferometric Characterisation of Coherent Scatterers in Urban Areas’, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 971-984, 2006

Franck Garestier, Pascale Dubois-Fernandez, Xavier Dupuis, Philippe Paillou and Irena Hajnsek, ‘PolInSAR Analysis of X-Band Data over Vegetated and Urban Areas’, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 356-364, 2006

Praks, Jaan; Kugler, Florian; Papathanassiou, Konstantinos; Hajnsek, Irena; Hallikainen, Martti (2007): Height estimation of boreal Forest: interferometric model based inversion at L- and X-band vs. HUTSCAT profiling scatterometer. IEEE [Hrsg.]: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 4, no 3, pp. 466 – 470.

Krieger, Gerhard; Moreira, Alberto; Fiedler, Hauke; Hajnsek, Irena; Werner, Marian; Younis, Marwan; Zink, Manfred (2007): TanDEM-X: A Satellite Formation for High Resolution SAR Interferometry. IEEE [Hrsg.]: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE, vol 45, no 11, part1, pp. :3317 – 3341

Hajnsek, Irena; Jagdhuber, Thomas; Schön, Helmut; Papathanassiou, Kostas (2008): Potential of Estimating Soil Moisture under Vegetation Cover by means of PolSAR. IEEE [Hrsg.]: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE, vol 47, no 2, pp. 442 – 454

Hajnsek, Irena; Kugler, Florian; Seungkuk, Lee; Papathanassiou, Kostas (2008): Tropical Forest Parameter Estimation by means of Pol-InSAR: The INDREX-II Campaign. IEEE [Hrsg.]: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE, vol 47, no 2, pp. 481 – 493