PROF. Irena Hajnsek
Microwaves and Radar Institute
Münchner Strasse 20
82234 Wessling
Irena Hajnsek is since November 2009 Professor of Earth Observation at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich Institute of Environmental Engineering and at the same time head of the Polarimetric SAR Interferometry research group at the German Aerospace Center Microwaves and Radar Institute. 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.
Helmholtz Imaging Projects
2020: HIT Permafrost - The Hidden Image of Thawing Permafrost: Mapping Subsurface Properties and Taliks with Remote SensingPublications
Observing Seasonal Variabilities of a Permafrost Landscape With PolSAR, InSAR and Pol-InSAR
Saporta P, Alonso-González A, Hammar J, Grünberg I, Boike J, Hajnsek I - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing - 2025