Irena Hajnsek

14.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
413 papers, 9.9k citations indexed

About

Irena Hajnsek is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Irena Hajnsek has authored 413 papers receiving a total of 9.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 327 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 215 papers in Environmental Engineering and 187 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Irena Hajnsek's work include Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (319 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (190 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (159 papers). Irena Hajnsek is often cited by papers focused on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (319 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (190 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (159 papers). Irena Hajnsek collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and United States. Irena Hajnsek's co-authors include Konstantinos Papathanassiou, Alberto Moreira, Gerhard Krieger, Marwan Younis, Pau Prats, Manfred Zink, Florian Kugler, Marian Werner, Thomas Jagdhuber and Hauke Fiedler and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Remote Sensing of Environment and Proceedings of the IEEE.

In The Last Decade

Irena Hajnsek

384 papers receiving 9.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A tutorial on synthetic aperture radar

2013 1.9k citations Alberto Moreira, Gerhard Krieger et al. profile →
TanDEM-X: A Satellite Formation for High-Resolution SAR Interferometry

2007 1.3k citations Gerhard Krieger, Alberto Moreira et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Irena Hajnsek Germany	42	7.4k	4.1k	3.2k	1.4k	954	413	9.9k
Konstantinos Papathanassiou Germany	32	6.5k 0.9×	3.8k 0.9×	2.1k 0.6×	1.5k 1.1×	785 0.8×	259	7.8k
S.R. Cloude United Kingdom	33	8.4k 1.1×	5.5k 1.3×	2.4k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	1.2k 1.2×	176	10.4k
Richard Bamler Germany	50	8.7k 1.2×	3.4k 0.8×	2.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	1.9k 2.0×	252	12.4k
Michael Eineder Germany	37	4.5k 0.6×	2.1k 0.5×	2.0k 0.6×	864 0.6×	765 0.8×	243	6.4k
Lars M. H. Ulander Sweden	38	4.3k 0.6×	3.0k 0.7×	1.1k 0.3×	709 0.5×	604 0.6×	264	6.0k
Alberto Moreira Germany	52	13.4k 1.8×	3.4k 0.8×	2.1k 0.6×	810 0.6×	1.6k 1.7×	427	15.3k
Éric Pottier France	30	5.7k 0.8×	3.3k 0.8×	1.4k 0.4×	426 0.3×	1.0k 1.1×	130	7.4k
J.J. van Zyl United States	28	3.8k 0.5×	3.1k 0.7×	1.6k 0.5×	543 0.4×	553 0.6×	83	5.4k
Ramon F. Hanssen Netherlands	38	5.9k 0.8×	2.2k 0.5×	2.3k 0.7×	1.9k 1.4×	1.3k 1.3×	247	7.6k
Riccardo Lanari Italy	56	10.3k 1.4×	3.0k 0.7×	4.3k 1.3×	4.3k 3.1×	2.2k 2.4×	308	13.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Jiang, Di, et al.. (2025). Glacial lake mapping using remote sensing Geo-Foundation Model. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 136. 104371–104371. 4 indexed citations

Dey, Subhadip, Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, Irena Hajnsek, Avik Bhattacharya, & Paul Siqueira. (2023). Soil permittivity estimation over vegetative fields using dual polarimetric SAR data. Remote Sensing Applications Society and Environment. 33. 101130–101130. 3 indexed citations

Zwieback, Simon, et al.. (2022). Accelerated mobilization of organic carbon from retrogressive thaw slumps on the northern Taymyr Peninsula. The cryosphere. 16(7). 2819–2835. 21 indexed citations

Knill, Christina, Ingrid Ullmann, Irena Hajnsek, et al.. (2022). Taking a Look Beneath the Surface: Multicopter UAV-Based Ground-Penetrating Imaging Radars. IEEE Microwave Magazine. 23(10). 32–46. 24 indexed citations

Leinss, Silvan, et al.. (2022). Coherent backscatter enhancement in bistatic Ku- and X-band radar observations of dry snow. The cryosphere. 16(7). 2859–2879. 5 indexed citations

Zwieback, Simon, et al.. (2021). Assessing volumetric change distributions and scaling relations of retrogressive thaw slumps across the Arctic. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 2 indexed citations

Zwieback, Simon, et al.. (2020). Mapping Retrogressive Thaw Slumps Using Single-Pass TanDEM-X Observations. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 13. 3263–3280. 28 indexed citations

Yüzügüllü, Onur, Esra Erten, & Irena Hajnsek. (2018). Assessment of Paddy Rice Height: Sequential Inversion of Coherent and Incoherent Models. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 11(9). 3001–3013. 17 indexed citations

Jagdhuber, Thomas, et al.. (2014). Dual-Polarimetry for Soil Moisture Inversion at X-Band. elib (German Aerospace Center). 15(1). 1–4. 5 indexed citations

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Kugler, Florian, Irena Hajnsek, & Konstantinos Papathanassiou. (2013). Pol-InSAR techniques for forest characterization with TanDEM-X. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 197(6). 1053–5. 1 indexed citations

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Bogena, Heye, Ralf Kunkel, Thomas Pütz, et al.. (2012). TERENO - Long-term monitoring network for terrestrial environmental research. elib (German Aerospace Center). 56(3). 138. 32 indexed citations

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Marino, Armando, et al.. (2012). Perturbation analysis for maritime applications. 509–512. 3 indexed citations

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Kugler, Florian, Irena Hajnsek, & Konstantinos Papathanassiou. (2011). Forest Characterisation by Means of TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X Polarimetric Interformetric Data. ESASP. 695. 10. 3 indexed citations

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Jagdhuber, Thomas, Irena Hajnsek, Konstantinos Papathanassiou, & Axel Bronstert. (2011). A Hybrid Decomposition for Soil Moisture Estimation under Vegetation Cover Using Polarimetric SAR. elib (German Aerospace Center). 695. 16. 3 indexed citations

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Frey, Othmar, Erich Meier, & Irena Hajnsek. (2011). On the sensitivity of measured backscattering properties to variations of incidence angle and baselines in tomographic SAR data. IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar. 1–4. 1 indexed citations

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Jagdhuber, Thomas, et al.. (2008). Pol-SAR time series for soil moisture estimation under vegetation. elib (German Aerospace Center). 1–4. 2 indexed citations

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Papathanassiou, Konstantinos, Seung-Kuk Lee, Florian Kugler, & Irena Hajnsek. (2008). Polarimetric SAR Interferometry For Forest Structure Parameter Estimation: Potential and Limitations. Journal of Bacteriology. 182(24). 7070–4. 2 indexed citations

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Kugler, Florian, Konstantinos Papathanassiou, & Irena Hajnsek. (2007). Forest Parameter Estimation in Tropical Forests by means of Pol-InSAR: Evaluation on the INDREX II Campaign. Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography. 46(1). 17–22. 1 indexed citations

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Scheiber, Rolf, et al.. (2007). AquiferEx: Results of the Optical and Radar Airborne Campaign in Tunisia. elib (German Aerospace Center). 644. 26. 2 indexed citations

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Mette, Tobias, et al.. (2003). Forest Biomass Estimation using Polarimetric SAR Interferometry. elib (German Aerospace Center). 529. 6 indexed citations

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