School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

University ofAdelaide          

 

Professor Shane R Cloude

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Contents

 

*  General Information

*  News and Events

*  Related Links

*  Contact Information

*  Current Projects

*  Recent Publications

 

 

General Information

 

Key areas of research interest are:

 

  • High resolution 2 and 3-D Microwave Imaging techniques
  • Radar Polarimetry, Polarimetric Interferometry and its applications
  • Ultra wide band (UWB) technology and applications
  • New techniques for microwave remote sensing of land, sea and ice surfaces
  • Quantitative vegetation and forest mapping using multi-parameter radar
  • Clutter and target characterisation in multi-parameter radar environments
  • Novel electromagnetic modelling techniques

 

We have access to extensive computing, anechoic chamber and 2 and 3-D imaging radar facilities and established international links with the following groups:

 

*  European Space Agency, ESA

*  NASA-JPL, California, USA

*  JAXA, Tokyo, Japan

*  NRL, Washington DC, USA

*  DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

*  QINETIQ, Farnborough/Malvern, UK

 

 

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News and Events

 

AS FROM 1ST JANUARY 2006 THIS SITE WILL NO LONGER BE ACTIVE. PLEASE CONTACT scloude@ieee.org

FOR NEW INFORMATION

 

The microwave radar group is pleased to announce the following activities

 

*      Shane Cloude is organising a special invited session on Polarimetric Radar Interferometry at the forthcoming IEEE IGARSS symposium to be held in Seoul, Korea, July 25-29, 2005

 

*      We welcome Romeo Fomena from the University of Rennes, France. Romeo is undertaking a 6 month Masters project here with us on the topic of coherence optimisation in radar interferometry.

 

*      Shane Cloude has been invited to give an opening plenary talk to the European Space Agency (ESA) at the POLInSAR workshop to be held in Frascati, Italy, January 2005 (see link below for more information). The talk will give an overview of the status of this new technology and its applications in remote sensing and surveillance.

 

*      University of Adelaide have been appointed Principal Investigators (PI) on the Tandem-X Phase 1 mission study. This dual satellite X-band radar project is directed by the German Space Agency DLR in collaboration with German industry and is aimed at producing global topographic maps of very high resolution. This sensor would open up hundreds of new applications of radar remote sensing from space and we are working in collaboration with DSTO to develop those applications most related to AustraliaÕs remote sensing requirements.

 

*      We are pleased to become an official member of the ALOS/PALSAR International Calibration and Validation team. In this capacity they will take part in polarimetric phase calibration of the new L band Phased Array SAR System to be launched by JAXA in 2005.

 

*      We organised a successful 1 Ðday workshop on Radar Remote Sensing activities in South Australia. The workshop took place at the University of Adelaide on 27th October 2004

 

*      Shane Cloude has been appointed Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

 

*      We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Zheng Shu Zhou as a postdoctoral research fellow in radar imaging technology..Dr Zhou is expected to take up appointment in January 2005.

 

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Related Links

 

*  POLSARPRO Home Page

*  ESA-ENVISAT

*  Jet Propulsion Laboratory

*  European Microwave Signature Laboratory

*  SPIE Polarization Working Group

*  The Polinsar Conferences

*  DLR_HF

*  JAXA ALOS/PALSAR Sensor

*  IEEE Distinguished Lecturer program

 

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For further Information please contact:

 

Shane R Cloude

e-mail : scloude@ieee.org

 

 

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Current Projects:

 

* ALOS-PALSAR POLInSAR Consortium

 

 

The radar group are principle investigators (PI) on a research project involving satellite radar observation of land surfaces. The Japanese space agency JAXA will launchthe radar PALSAR on board the advanced land observation satellite ALOS in 2005.This satellite will have three remote sensing instruments: the Panchromatic Remote-Sensing Instrument for Stereo Mapping  (PRISM) for generating Digital Elevation Models (DEMs), the Advanced Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer type 2 (AVNIR-2) for multispectral land coverage observation, and the Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) for 24-hour all weather land observation.

 

The POLInSAR consortium comprises both EEE and The School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Adelaide together with The University of Edinburgh and Macaulay Institute in Scotland.  Together they are studying new radar techniques for the use of space based remote sensing for large area forest mapping applications. Three special test sites are being used to develop and validate inversion models : Glen Affric in Scotland, Adelaide in South Australia and Belize in the Caribbean.

           

 

* European Space Agency (ESA-ESRIN,ESA-ESTEC)

           

we are currently working as part of the following ESA consortia:

 

 

  1. POLSARPro - Development of a Polarimetric SAR Image Analysis Tool. we are members of a consortium lead by the University of Rennes, France. This contract concerns the development of free software tools to analyse polarimetric and interferometric radar data from a wide range of different air and space borne imaging sensors

 

  1. POLInSAR Mission and Application Study. we are members of a consortium lead by DLR in Germany. This study is aimed at assessing the feasibility of a mission combining polarimetry with interferometry in a space borne satellite sensor for quantitative applications in forestry, agriculture and ice sensing.

 

  1. DRAGON. This Chinese-European collaborative program is aimed at sharing expertise in radar remote sensing. we are principal Investigators (PI) on a program in Polarimetric SAR Interferometry with partners DLR, Germany, the University of Rennes, France and the Chinese Academies of Forestry and Science, Institute of Forest Resources Information Techniques and Institute of Remote Sensing Applications (IRSA)

 

  1. ENVISAT/ASAR : we are leading a consortium comprising DSTO, Australia, the University of Aberystwyth, UK, the University of Oregon, USA and NASA-JPL, California. The aim of this project is to develop techniques for combating temporal decorrelation through the use of the alternating polarisation (AP) mode of ASAR for repeat pass interferometry over a calibrated forest test site in Injune, Queensland, Australia.

 

 

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Technical Publications

 

1. Books

 

ÒUltra-WideBand Short Pulse Electromagnetics 5Ó, Paul D Smith, S R Cloude (Eds), Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, ISBN: 0-306-47338-0, 2002

 

ÒPolarimetry in Wave Scattering ApplicationsÓ, S R Cloude, Chapter 1.6.2 in SCATTERING, Volume 1,Eds RPike, P Sabatier, Academic Press, 2001, ISBN 0-12-613760-9

 

ÒDirect and Inverse Electromagnetic ScatteringÓ, Editors , S.R. Cloude, A.H. Serbest, Pitman Research Notes in Mathematics Vol. 361 , Longman Scientific and Technical,  pp 217-230,  ISBN 0-582-29964-0, 1996

 

"An Introduction to Electromagnetic Wave Propagation and Antennas", S R Cloude, 176 pages, Springer-Verlag, (October 1, 1996)ISBN: 038791501X

 

" Lie Groups in EM Wave Propagation and Scattering", S.R. Cloude, Chapter 2 in Electromagnetic Symmetry,  Eds. C Baum, H N Kritikos, Taylor and Francis, Washington, USA, ISBN 1-56032-321-3, pp91-142, 1995

 

2. Scientific Journal Papers

 

S R Cloude, M.L.Williams, ÒThe Negative Alpha Filter: A New Processing Technique for Polarimetric SAR InterferometryÓ, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Vol. 2, April 2005, pp 187-191

 

I. Hajnsek, S R Cloude, ÒThe Potential of InSAR for Quantitative Surface Parameter EstimationÓ, Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp 85-102, February 2005

 

S.R. Cloude, D.G. Corr, M.L.Williams, ÒTarget Detection Beneath Foliage Using Polarimetric SAR InterferometryÓ,Waves in Random Media, volume 14, issue 2, pages S393 - S414., 2004 download

 

S.R. Cloude, ÒRadar Polarimetry and Interferometry : A Tutorial IntroductionÓ, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Newsletter, June2004 GRS_newsletters

 

J.S. Lee, S.R. Cloude, K.P. Papathanassiou, M.R. Grunes,I. H. Woodhouse, ÒSpeckle Filtering and Coherence Estimation of POLInSAR Data for Forest ApplicationsÓ, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,Vol. 41, No. 10, pp 2254-2263, October 2003 download

 

S.R. Cloude, K.P.Papathanassiou, Ò A 3-Stage Inversion Process for Polarimetric SAR InterferometryÓ,IEE Proceedings, Radar, Sonar and Navigation, Volume 150, Issue 03, June 2003,pp 125-134 download

 

I.Hajnsek, E. Pottier, S.R.CloudeÓ, Inversion of Surface Parameters from Polarimetric SARÓ, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol 41/4, April 2003, pp 727-744 download

 

E. Pottier, S. R. Cloude, W. M.Boerner  ÒRecent Developments in Data Processing for Polarimetric and Interferometric SARÓ, URSI Radio Science Bulletin, No.304, pp 48-58, March 2003

 

S R Cloude, K P Papathanassiou,E Pottier,Ó Radar Polarimetry and Polarimetric InterferometryÓ, IEICE Transactions on Electronics, VOL.E84-C, No.12, 2001, pp1814-1822, December 2001

 

K.P. Papathanassiou, S R Cloude,ÒSingle Baseline Polarimetric SAR InterferometryÓ, IEEE Transactions Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol 39/11, pp 2352-2363, November 2001

 

A Reigber, K Papathanassiou, S Cloude, A Moreira, ÒSAR Tomography and Interferometry for the Remote Sensing of Forested TerrainÓ.,Frequenz, 55, March/April, 2001, pp 119-123

 

R N Treuhaft, S R Cloude,ÒThe Structure of Oriented Vegetation from Polarimetric InterferometryÓ, IEEE Transactions Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol 37/2, No. 5, p 2620, September1999

 

S R Cloude, J Fortuny, J M Lopez, A J Sieber, ÒWide Band Polarimetric Radar Inversion Studies for Vegetation LayersÓ, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol37/2 No 5, pp 2430-2442, September 1999

 

J S Lee, M R Grunes, T LAinsworth, L J Du, D L Schuler, S R Cloude, ÒUnsupervised Classification using Polarimetric Decomposition and the Complex Wishart DistributionÓ, IEEE Transactions Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol 37/1, No. 5, p 2249-2259,September 1999

 

S R Cloude, K P Papathanassiou,ÒPolarimetric SAR InterferometryÓ, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and RemoteSensing, Vol 36. No. 5, pp 1551-1565, September 1998

 

S. R. Cloude, E. Pottier,   "An Entropy Based Classification Scheme for Land Applications of Polarimetric SAR", IEEETransactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp 68-78 ,January 1997

 

S. R. Cloude, E. Pottier,"A Review of Target Decomposition Theorems in Radar Polarimetry",IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 34 No. 2, pp498-518,  March 1996

 

S R Cloude, E Pottier ,"The Concept of Polarisation Entropy in Optical Scattering", Optical Engineering, Volume 34, No. 6, ISSN 0091-3286, pp 1599 - 1610, 1995

 

Y Q Jin, S R Cloude,  "Numerical Eigenanalysis of the Coherency matrix For a Layer of Random Non-Spherical Scatterers", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing , Vol. 32., pp 1179-1185 November1994

 

S. R. Cloude, "Group Theory and Polarisation Algebra" OPTIK, Vol 75, No. 1, pp 26-36,  1986

 

3.Recent International Conference papers

 

1.      Gerhard Krieger, Kostas Papathanassiou, Shane Cloude, Alberto Moreira, Hauke Fiedler, Michael Všlker, Spaceborne Polarimetric SAR Interferometry: Performance Analysis and Mission Concepts, Proceedings of 2nd ESA POLInSAR Workshop, Frascati, January 2005, http://earth.esa.int/workshops/polinsar2005/

2.      K.P. Papathanassiou, S.R. Cloude , A Liseno, T. Mette , and H. Pretzsch,Forest Height Estimation by means of Polarimetric SAR Interferometry: Actual Status and PerspectivesÓ, Proceedings of 2nd ESA POLInSAR Workshop, Frascati, Italy, January 2005, http://earth.esa.int/workshops/polinsar2005/

3.      S. R. Cloude , M. L. Williams, Estimating sub-canopy soil moisture using POLInSARÓ, Proceedings of 2nd ESA POLInSAR Workshop, Frascati, January 2005, http://earth.esa.int/workshops/polinsar2005/

4.      I Hajnsek, S. R. Cloude, Differential Extinction Estimation over Agricultural Vegetation from Pol-InSAR , Proceedings of 2nd ESA POLInSAR Workshop, Frascati, January 2005, http://earth.esa.int/workshops/polinsar2005/

 

5.      S. R. Cloude, ÒForest height and Biomass Estimation Using Polarimetric SAR InterferometryÓ, Proceedings of 12th Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference, Fremantle, Western Australia,18-22 October 2004

6.      S.R. Cloude, ÒEM Wave propagation and Scattering in Polarimetric SAR InterferometryÓ,Workshop on EM Scattering Modelling and Information Retrieval in Remote Sensing, Fudan University, Shanghai, August 25-27, 2004

7.       Shane R. Cloude, Mark L. Williams, Nick Stacy , Mark Preiss, Alvin Goh andDaniel Badger,ÓPolarimetric Interferometry with INGARA: a High Resolution,Quad-Pol, X band SARÓ, proceedings of PISAR Workshop, Tokyo, Japan, August23/24, 2004

8.      M. Williams, N..Stacy, S. Cloude, ÒCalibration and Performance Validation of the INGARA, High Resolution, Fully Polarimetric X-band SARÓ,Proceedings of CEOS SAR Workshop, Ulm, Germany, May 2004

9.      S.R. Cloude, D. Corr, M. Williams, ÒFOPEN using Polarimetric SAR InterferometryÓ, European SAR Conference (EUSAR), Ulm, Germany, May 2004,pp 255-262

10. M. Preiss, N.Stacy, M.Williams, S.Cloude, ÒRepeat Pass Coherence Measurements with Fully Polarimetric X-Band SARÓ, European SAR Conference (EUSAR), Ulm, Germany, May 2004

11. D G Corr, S R Cloude, M Williams, ÒFOPEN by Polarimetric SAR InterferometryÓ, NATO Symposium on Sensors and Sensor Denial by CCD,Proceedings SCI-145/RSV, Brussels, pp-20-1 to 20-12, April 2004

12. S. R. Cloude, I.H. Woodhouse, P. Osborne, G. Wright, J.C.Suarez-Minguez, ÒForest Biomass Estimation using Polarimetric SARInterferometryÓ, Proceedings of 2nd ALSO PI Meeting, Awaji island,Japan, January 2004

 

 

 

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