Dr. David Small

Remote Sensing Laboratories (RSL)

UZH University of Zürich, Switzerland

Publication List

HENKE D., MENDEZ E., SMALL D., SCHAEPMAN M.E., MEIER E. [2015]:

Moving Target Tracking in Single- and Multichannel SAR,

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 53, No. 6, 2015, pp. 3146-3159.

SCHUBERT A., SMALL D., MIRANDA N., MEIER E., GEUDTNER D. [2014]:

Spaceborne SAR Product Geolocation Accuracy: A Sentinel-1 Update,

Proc. of IGARSS 2014, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, July 12-17, 2014, pp. 2675-2678.

MAGNARD C., FRIOUD M., SMALL D., BREHM T., ESSEN H., MEIER E. [2014]:

Processing of MEMPHIS Ka-Band Multibaseline Interferometric SAR Data: From Raw Data to Digital Surface Models,

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Vol. 7, No. 7, 2014, pp. 2927-2941.

SMALL D., MIRANDA N., EWEN T., JONAS T. [2013]:

Reliably flattened backscatter for wet snow mapping from wide-swath sensors, (Abstract)

IEEE ESA Living Planet Symposium (SP-722), Edinburgh, Scotland, 2013, 8p.

HENKE D., MAGNARD C., FRIOUD M., SMALL D., MEIER E., SCHAEPMAN M.E. [2012]:

Moving-Target Tracking in Single-Channel Wide-Beam SAR,

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2012, Vol. 50, No. 11, pp. 4735-4747.

ATWOOD D., SMALL D., GENS R. [2012]:

Improving PolSAR Land Cover Classification With Radiometric Correction of the Coherency Matrix,

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, June 2012, Volume 5, Number 3, pp. 848-856.

SCHUBERT A., JEHLE M., SMALL D., MEIER E. [2012]:

Mitigation of atmospheric perturbations and solid Earth movements in a TerraSAR-X time-series,

Journal of Geodesy, Published online Sept. 2011, Volume 86, Number 4, 2012, pp. 257-270.

SMALL D., ZUBERBUEHLER L., SCHUBERT A., MEIER E. [2011]:

Terrain-flattened gamma nought Radarsat-2 backscatter,

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, Oct. 2011, Vol. 37, Number 5, pp. 493-499.

SMALL D. [2011]:

Flattening Gamma: Radiometric Terrain Correction for SAR Imagery,

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2011, Vol. 49(8), pp. 3081-3093.

SMALL D., MIRANDA N., ZUBERBÜHLER L., SCHUBERT A., MEIER E. [2010]:

Terrain-corrected Gamma: Improved Thematic Land-cover Retrieval for SAR with Robust Radiometric Terrain Correction,

Proc. of ESA living planet symposium, Bergen, Norway, June 28 - July 2, 2010, 8p.

SCHUBERT A., JEHLE M., SMALL D., MEIER E. [2010]:

Influence of Atmospheric Path Delay on the Absolute Geolocation Accuracy of TerraSAR-X High-Resolution Products,

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 48(2), Feb. 2010, pp. 751-758.

SMALL D., MIRANDA N., MEIER E. [2009] (presentation):

Local Incidence Angle Considered Harmful,

Proc. of CEOS SAR 2009 Workshop, Pasadena, California, USA, Nov. 17-19, 2009.

SMALL D., MIRANDA N., MEIER E. [2009]:

A Revised Radiometric Normalisation Standard for SAR,

Proc. of IGARSS 2009, Cape Town, South Africa, July 12-17, 2009, pp. 566-569.

JEHLE M., RÜEGG M., ZUBERBÜHLER L., SMALL D., MEIER E. [2009]:

Measurement of Ionospheric Faraday Rotation in Simulated and Real Spaceborne SAR Data,

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 47(5), May 2009, pp. 1512-1523.

SMALL D., JEHLE M., SCHUBERT A., MEIER E. [2008]:

Accurate Geometric Correction for Normalisation of PALSAR Radiometry,

Proc. of the ALOS 2008 Symposium, Rhodes, Greece, Nov. 3-7, 2008. 7p.

JEHLE M., PERLER D., SMALL D., SCHUBERT A., MEIER E. [2008]:

Estimation of Atmospheric Path Delays in TerraSAR-X Data using Models vs. Measurements,

Sensors, Vol. 8(12), pp. 8479-8491.

SCHUBERT A., SMALL D., MIRANDA N., MEIER E. [2008]:

ASAR Product Consistency and Geolocation Accuracy,

Proc. of the CEOS SAR Calibration/Validation Workshop, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, Nov. 2008. 9p.

SCHUBERT A., JEHLE M., SMALL D., MEIER E. [2008]:

Geometric Validation of TerraSAR-X High-resolution Products,

Proc. of TerraSAR-X Science Team Meeting, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, Nov. 2008. 6p.

VALENTI L., SMALL D., MEIER E. [2008]:

Snow Cover Monitoring using Multitemporal ENVISAT/ASAR Data,

Proc. of the 5th EARSeL LISSIG (Land, Ice, Snow) Workshop, Bern, Switzerland, Feb. 11-13, 2008. 8p.

SMALL D., SCHUBERT A., ROSICH B., MEIER E. [2007]:

Geometric and Radiometric Correction of ESA SAR Products,

Proc. of the Envisat Symposium 2007, Montreux, Switzerland, Apr. 23-27, 2007 (ESA SP-636, July 2007). 6p.

SCHUBERT A., SMALL D., ROSICH B., MEIER E. [2007]:

ASAR WSS Product Verification Using Derived Image Mosaics,

Proc. of the Envisat Symposium 2007, Montreux, Switzerland, Apr. 23-27, 2007 (ESA SP-636, July 2007). 6p.

PASQUALI P., MONTI-GUARNIERI A., D'ARIA D., COSTA L., SMALL D., JEHLE M., ROSICH B. [2007]:

ALOS PALSAR Verification Processor,

Proc. of the Envisat Symposium 2007, Montreux, Switzerland, Apr. 23-27, 2007 (ESA SP-636, July 2007). 6p.

PASQUALI P., MONTI-GUARNIERI A., D'ARIA D., COSTA L., SMALL D., JEHLE M., ROSICH B. [2007]:

First Results of the ALOS PALSAR Verification Processor,

Proc. of the 2007 ESA PolInSAR Workshop, Frascati, Italy, Jan. 22-26, 2007. 6p.

JEHLE M., SMALL D., MEIER E. [2006]:

Comparison of Different TEC Map Estimation Methods,

Proc. of 13th Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference ARSPC, Nov. 2006, 6p.

JEHLE M., RÜEGG M., SMALL D., MEIER E., NÜESCH D. [2005]:

Estimation of Ionospheric TEC and Faraday Rotation for L-Band SAR,

Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 5979, 2005, pp. 252-260.

SMALL D., JÓNSSON J., RÜEGG M., SCHUBERT A., MEIER E., NÜESCH D. [2005]:

Measuring Earth Displacement with ENVISAT ASAR Interferometry: Earthquake in Bam, Iran,

Proc. of the 3rd Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Zürich, Switzerland, Nov. 2005. 2p.

STEBLER O., SMALL D., DIVIS L., SCHWERZMANN A., LÜTHI M., MEIER E., NÜESCH D. [2005]:

Swiss Alpine Airborne SAR Experiment (SASARE): Multi-Baseline Polarimetric SAR Interferometry Studies at L- and P-Band,

Proc. of the 2nd Workshop on Applications of SAR Polarimetry and Polarimetric Interferometry (PolInSAR), 2005.

STEBLER O., SMALL D., DIVIS L., SCHWERZMANN A., LÜTHI M., MEIER E., NÜESCH D. [2005]:

Multi-Baseline PolSAR and Pol-InSAR Signatures from an Alpine Glacier at L- and P-Band,

Proc. of the 4th Workshop of the EARSeL Special Interest Group Land Ice and Snow (LIS-SIG) on Remote Sensing of Snow and Glaciers, 2005.

SMALL D., ROSICH B., SCHUBERT A., MEIER E., NÜESCH D. [2005]:

Geometric Validation of Low and High-Resolution ASAR Imagery,

Proc. of the 2004 ENVISAT & ERS Symposium, Salzburg, Austria, Sept. 6-10, 2004 (ESA SP-572, April 2005). 9p.

HUBER M., HUMMELBRUNNER W., RAGGAM J., SMALL D., KOSMANN D. [2005]:

Technical Aspects of ENVISAT ASAR Geocoding Capability at DLR,

Proc. of the 2004 ENVISAT & ERS Symposium, Salzburg, Austria, Sept. 6-10, 2004 (ESA SP-572, April 2005).

JÓNSSON S., MAI P., SMALL, D., MEIER E., SALICHON J., GIARDINI D. [2005]:

Using SAR Interferometry and Teleseismic Data to Determine Source Parameters for the 2003 Bam Earthquake,

Proc. of the 2004 ENVISAT & ERS Symposium, Salzburg, Austria, Sept. 6-10, 2004 (ESA SP-572, April 2005).

KOSMANN D., HUBER M., BOLLNER M., RAGGAM J., SMALL D. [2005]:

Value Added Geocoded ENVISAT-ASAR Product Service,

Proc. of the 2004 ENVISAT & ERS Symposium, Salzburg, Austria, Sept. 6-10, 2004 (ESA SP-572, April 2005).

SMALL D., MEIER E., NÜESCH D. [2004]:

Robust Radiometric Terrain Correction for SAR Image Comparisons,

Proc. of IGARSS 2004, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, Sept. 20-24, 2004, pp. 1730-1733.

BARMETTLER A., STEBLER O., SMALL D., MEIER E., NÜESCH D. [2004]:

Swiss Alpine Airborne SAR Experiment (SASARE) - Part I: Imaging of High Alpine Glaciers at the VHF-Band,

Proc. of IGARSS 2004, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, Sept. 20-24, 2004, pp. 1121-1123.

STEBLER O., BARMETTLER A., DIVIS L., SMALL D., MEIER E., NÜESCH D., SCHWERZMANN A. [2004]:

Swiss Alpine Airborne SAR Experiment (SASARE) - Part I: Multi-Baseline Polarimetric SAR Interferometry Studies at L- and P-Band,

Proc. of IGARSS 2004, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, Sept. 20-24, 2004, pp. 1116-1120.

SMALL D., ROSICH B., MEIER E., NÜESCH D. [2004]:

Geometric Calibration and Validation of ASAR Imagery,

Proc. of CEOS SAR Workshop 2004, Ulm, Germany, May 27-28, 2004.

SMALL D., JEHLE M., MEIER E., NÜESCH D. [2004]:

Radiometric Terrain Correction Incorporating Local Antenna Gain,

Proc. of EUSAR 2004, Ulm, Germany, May 25-27, 2004, pp. 929-932.

SCHUBERT A., SMALL D., MEIER E., NÜESCH D. [2004]:

Extraction of Surface Topography from SAR Images using Combined Interferometry and Stereogrammetry,

Proc. of EUSAR 2004, Ulm, Germany, May 25-27, 2004, pp. 775-778.

JEHLE M., SMALL D., MEIER E., NÜESCH D. [2004]:

Improved Knowledge of SAR Geometry through Atmospheric Modelling,

Proc. of EUSAR 2004, Ulm, Germany, May 25-27, 2004, pp. 909-911.

MONTI-GUARNIERI A., DARIA D., GUCCIONE P., PASQUALI P., NUESCH D., SMALL D., MEIER E., DESNOS Y.-L. [2003]:

ENVISAT Interferometry for Mapping and Monitoring: Preliminary Results,

Proc. of FRINGE 2003 Workshop, Frascati, Italy, Dec. 1-5, 2003 (ESA SP-550, June 2004).

SMALL D., HOLZNER J., RAGGAM H., KOSMANN D., SCHUBERT A. [2003]:

Geometric Performance of ENVISAT ASAR Products,

Proc. of IGARSS 2003, Toulouse, France, July 21-25, 2003, pp. 1121-1123.

SMALL D., SCHUBERT A., KRÜTTLI U., MEIER E., NÜESCH D. [2003]:

Preliminary Validation of ASAR Geometric Accuracy,

Proc. of ENVISAT Validation Workshop, Frascati, Italy, Dec. 9-13, 2002 (ESA SP-531, August 2003). ESA PDF

SMALL D., KOSMANN D., HOLZNER J., RAGGAM H., PIRRI M., SCHUBERT A., KRÜTTLI U., HUMMELBRUNNER W., FRANKE M. [2002]:

ASAR Level 1 Geolocation: Preliminary Results,

Proc. of ENVISAT Calibration Review, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, Sept. 9-13, 2002. ESA PDF

SMALL D., MEIER E., NÜESCH D. [2002]:

Phase Noise Countermeasures for Synthetic Interferogram Generation,

Proc. of IGARSS 2002, Toronto, Canada, June 24-28, 2002, pp. 2546-2548.

SCHUBERT A., SMALL D., MEIER E., NÜESCH D. [2002]:

Robustness of Wavelet-Based Stereo Matching for Variable Acquisition Geometries Using Simulated SAR Images,

Proc. of IGARSS 2002, Toronto, Canada, June 24-28, 2002, pp. 2759-2761.

MONTI-GUARNIERI A., CAFFORIO C., GUCCIONE P., PASQUALI P., NÜESCH D., SMALL D., MEIER E., ZINK M., DESNOS Y.-L. [2002]:

Multi-mode ENVISAT ASAR Interferometry: Techniques & Preliminary Results,

Proc. of EUSAR 2002, Cologne, Germany, June 4-6, 2002, pp. 179-182.

KOSMANN D., HOLZNER J., HUMMELBRUNNER W., SMALL D. [2002]:

Geometric Accuracy of ASAR Products - Calibration Phase,

Proc. of EUSAR 2002, Cologne, Germany, June 4-6, 2002, pp. 471-474.

SCHUBERT A., SMALL D., HOLECZ F., MEIER E., NÜESCH D. [2002]:

Extraction of Surface Topography from SAR Stereo Pairs Using an Airborne X-Band Sensor: Preliminary Results,

Proc. of 3rd International Symposium, 'Retrieval of Bio- and Geophysical Parameters from SAR Data for Land Applications', Sheffield, United Kingdom, Sept. 11-14, 2001, (ESA SP-475, January 2002), pp. 151-156.

SMALL D., MEIER E., NÜESCH D. [2001]:

Efficient Geolocation and Image Simulation for Extended SAR Strip Maps,

Proc. of IGARSS 2001, Sydney, Australia, July 9-13, 2001, pp. 3152-3154.

HAEFNER H., SMALL D., BIEGGER S., HOFFMANN H., NÜESCH D. [2001]:

Small-scale monitoring of wet snowcover with Radarsat-ScanSAR data,

Proc. of EARSeL-SIG-Workshop Land Ice and Snow, Dresden, Germany, (June 16-17, 2000). EARSeL eProceedings No. 1, 2001, pp. 339-347.

HAEFNER H., SMALL D., BIEGGER S., HOFFMANN H., NÜESCH D. [2001]:

Estimation of snow cover over large mountainous areas using Radarsat ScanSAR,

Remote Sensing and Hydrology 2000, Reviewed Proc. of Symposium held at Santa Fé, New Mexico, USA, (April 2000). IAHS Publ. no. 267, 2001, pp. 333-338.

SMALL D., BIEGGER S., NÜESCH D. [2000]:

Automated Tiepoint Retrieval through heteromorphic Image Simulation for Spaceborne SAR Sensors,

Proc. of ERS-ENVISAT Symposium 2000, ESA Publication SP-461, Gothenburg, Sweden, Oct. 16-20, 2000. ESA PDF

SMALL D., BIEGGER S., NÜESCH D. [2000]:

The Topology of SAR Imagery in Rough Topography,

Proc. of EUSAR 2000, Munich, Germany, May 23-25, 2000, pp. 501-504.

SMALL D., HOLECZ F., MEIER E., NÜESCH D., BARMETTLER A. [1997-1998]:

Geometric and Radiometric Calibration of RADARSAT Images,

Proc. of ADRO Symposium (ADRO'98), Montréal, Canada, Oct. 13-15, 1998.

SMALL D. [1998]:

Generation of Digital Elevation Models through Spaceborne SAR Interferometry,

Ph.D. Thesis, Remote Sensing Series, Volume 30, Dept. of Geography, University of Zürich, Switzerland, 1998.

SMALL D., HOLECZ F., MEIER E., NÜESCH D. [1998]:

Absolute Radiometric Correction in Rugged Terrain: A Plea for Integrated Radar Brightness,

Proc. of IGARSS'98, Seattle, USA, July 6-10, 1998, pp. 330-332.

SMALL D., PASQUALI P., HOLECZ F., MEIER E., NÜESCH D. [1998]:

Experiences with Multiresolution and Multifrequency InSAR Height Model Generation,

Proc. of IGARSS'98, Seattle, USA, July 6-10, 1998, pp. 2671-2673.

SMALL D., HOLECZ F., MEIER E., NÜESCH D. [1998]:

Radiometric Normalization for Multimode Image Comparison,

Proc. of EUSAR'98, Friedrichshafen, Germany, May 25-27, 1998, pp. 191-194.

PASQUALI P., SMALL D., HOLECZ F., MEIER E., NÜESCH D. [1998]:

Study of the ENVISAT ASAR Alternating Polarization mode: Preliminary Results,

Proc. of EUSAR'98, Friedrichshafen, Germany, May 25-27, 1998, pp. 335-338.

PASQUALI P., SMALL D., HOLECZ F., SCHUBERT A., MEIER E., NÜESCH D. [1998]:

First Results of the ENVISAT ASAR Alternating Polarization Mode Simulation Study,

Proc. of CEOS SAR Workshop, ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, Feb. 3-6, 1998.

PASQUALI P., HOLECZ F., SMALL D., MICHEL T. [1997]:

Calibration and Classification of SIR-C Polarimetric and Interferometric SAR Data in Areas with Slope Variations,

Proc. of IGARSS'97, Singapore, August 3-8, 1997, pp. 448-450.

SMALL D., HOLECZ F., MEIER E., NÜESCH D., BARMETTLER A. [1997]:

Geometric and Radiometric Calibration of RADARSAT Images,

Proc. of Geomatics in the Era of Radarsat (GER'97), Ottawa, Canada, May 24-30, 1997.

SMALL D., NÜESCH D. [1996]:

Validation of Height Models from ERS Interferometry,

Proc. of ESA-FRINGE'96 Workshop , Zürich, Switzerland, Sept. 30 - Oct. 2, 1996.

BARMETTLER A., PASQUALI P., SMALL D., NÜESCH D. [1996]:

Cross-Compatibility of ERS-SLC Products,

Proc. of ESA-FRINGE'96 Workshop, Zürich, Switzerland, Sept. 30 - Oct. 2, 1996.

STEBLER O., PASQUALI P., SMALL D., HOLECZ F., NÜESCH D. [1996]:

Analysis of ERS-SAR Tandem Time-Series Using Coherence and Backscattering Coefficient,

Proc. of ESA-FRINGE'96 Workshop, Zürich, Switzerland, Sept. 30 - Oct. 2, 1996.

SMALL D., PASQUALI P., FÜGLISTALER S. [1996]:

A Comparison of Phase to Height Conversion Methods for SAR Interferometry,

Proc. of IGARSS'96, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, pp. 342-344.

SMALL D., WERNER C., NÜESCH D. [1995]:

Geocoding and Validation of ERS-1 InSAR-derived Digital Elevation Models,

EARSeL Advances in Remote Sensing, Volume 4, Number 2, Oct. 1995, pp. 26-39, pp. I-II.

SMALL D., HOLECZ F., NÜESCH D. [1995]:

Combination of Ascending / Descending ERS-1 InSAR Data for Calibration and Validation,

Proc. of IGARSS'95, Florence, Italy, pp. 553-555.

SMALL D., WEGMÜLLER U., MEIER E., NÜESCH D. [1994]:

Applications of Geocoded ERS-1 InSAR-derived Digital Terrain Information,

Proc. of CEOS SAR Calibration Workshop, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, pp. 184-190.

WERNER C., SMALL D., ROSEN P., HENSLEY S., ZEBKER H. [1993]:

Techniques and Applications of SAR Interferometry for ERS-1,

From Optics to Radar, SPOT and ERS Applications, Paris, France, ISBN 2-85428-345-7, pp. 483-490.

SMALL D., WERNER C., NÜESCH D. [1993]:

Baseline Modelling for ERS-1 SAR Interferometry,

Proc. of IGARSS'93, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 1204-1206.

SMALL D., WERNER C., NÜESCH D. [1993]:

Registration of ERS-1 SLC Products for SAR Interferometry,

Proc. of Fourth GEOSAR Workshop, Loipersdorf, Austria, pp. 63-66.

CUMMING I., SMALL D., VAN ZYL J.J. [1991]:

Information Content of Polarimetric SAR Data,

Proc. of JPL AIRSAR Science Workshop, Pasadena, California, JPL Publication 91-30, May 23-24, 1991, pp. 177-186.

SMALL D. [1991]:

Information Content of Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar,

M.A.Sc. Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1991.