Dr. rer. nat.

Head of Radar Science and Application Section

University Lecturer

Consultation hours:

-> on appointment (email)

Office: Grietgasse 6, Room 229

Address:

Institute for Geography

Department of Earth Observation

Loebdergraben 32

07743 Jena

Phone: +49 (0) 3641 94 88 75

Fax: +49 (0) 3641 94 88 82

email: Christian.Thiel(at)uni-jena.de

skype: c5thch

Professional Career:

Doctoral Thesis: Extrahierung hydrologisch relevanter Parameter aus hochaufgelösten polarimetrischen L-Band sowie interferometrischen X-Band SAR-Daten (german)

Publication list
Curriculum Vitae

 
Project Work:

Phymo - Parameterisation of Hydrological Models [DFG] (concluded)

Iron Curtain - Innovative models and critical key factors for sustainable development (...) [EU] (concluded)

TerraSAR-L - Demonstration of L-Band Capabilities using JERS SAR data [ESA] (concluded)

Aquifer - Water in Africa: Internationally shared transboundary Aquifers [ESA] (concluded)

GSE-FM S2 - GSE Forest Monitoring Stage II [ESA] (concluded)

K & C - Kyoto & Carbon Initiative [JAXA] (in progress)

Enviland - Synergetic usage of optical and SAR data [BMBF] (in progress)

ParaPOL - Retrieval of forest parameters from polarimetric SAR data [DFG] (in progress) 

Influins - Integrierte Fluiddynamik in Sedimentbecken: Prozesse, Potenziale, Risiken [BMBF] (in progress)

Research Interests:

Interferometric and Polarimetric SAR Data Analysis

PS Interferometry
Radar Backscatter Modelling
Retrieval of Biophysical Parameters from EO SAR Data
Fusion of Optical- and SAR Data
Hyperspectral Data Analysis
Environmental Modeling

Lecturing:

GEO245

GEO312

GEO410 (support)

GEO412

GEO414 (support)

Supervision of theses (BSc, MSc, PhD)

Lecture Scripts