Dr. David Small

Remote Sensing Laboratories, Dept. of Geography
University of Zurich
Winterthurerstrasse 190
CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland

http://www.geo.uzh.ch/en/researchgroups/environmental-sar

Background

B.A.Sc. Systems Design Engineering - Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
M.A.Sc. Polarimetric SAR - Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Ph.D. Interferometric SAR - Univ. of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

Activities in education

Radar remote sensing lectures at Master and Bachelor levels.
Leads project course where student groups develop and probe their own research question.

Recent projects

Geometric calibration of Sentinel-1 radar satellite.

Selected publications

(the 5 most recent/important ones from the last 5 years)

Atwood, D. K., 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, 5(3), 848–856. doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2012.2186791
Small, D. (2012). SAR backscatter multitemporal compositing via local resolution weighting. In International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS (pp. 4521–4524). Munich, Germany: IEEE. doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350465
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, 86(4), 257–270. doi:10.1007/s00190-011-0515-6
Small, D. (2011). Flattening Gamma: Radiometric Terrain Correction for SAR Imagery. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 49(8), 3081–3093. doi:10.1109/TGRS.2011.2120616
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. In ESA Living Planet Symposium (Vol. SP-686, p. 8). Bergen, Norway: ESA. http://www.zora.uzh.ch/41236