Dr. Mike Schwank

Function

Scientific staff member

Mountain Hydrology and Mass Movements

Contact

mike.schwank(at)wslto make life hard for spam bots.ch

+41 44 739 24 80+41 44 739 24 80

Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf

Site

Birmensdorf Bi LG E 11

FURTHER INFORMATION

Projects

Active/Passive REmote Sensing of Snow (APRESS)

APRESS erforscht Methoden der aktiven und passiven Mikrowellen-Fernerkundung (L- bis Ka-Band) in Anwendung auf schneebedeckte Böden.

ELBARA Radiometer in MOSAiC Expedition

An L-band ELBARA microwave Radiometer is used on the MOSAiC arctic expedition for close range sensing of sea ice properties.

MicroVegSnow

With a view to improving climate and weather forecasts as well as disaster prevention, ESA determines the water content in upper soil layers worldwide. A research project carried out in the Swiss Alps will now investigate how these satellites could be used to measure data about snow as well as frost in the soil.

Publications WSL

Scientific publication article peer reviewed

Naderpour, R.; Schwank, M.; Houtz, D.; Matzler, C., 2022: L-Band radiometry of alpine seasonal snow cover: 4 years at the Davos-Laret remote sensing field laboratory. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 15: 8199-8220. doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2022.3195614

Zheng, D.; Li, X.; Wen, J.; Hofste, J.G.; Van der Velde, R.; Wang, X.; Wang, Z.; Bai, X.; Schwank, M.; Su, Z., 2022: Active and passive microwave signatures of diurnal soil freeze-thaw transitions on the Tibetan Plateaup. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 60: 4301814 (14 pp.). doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2021.3092411

Naderpour, R.; Schwank, M.; Houtz, D.; Werner, C.; Matzler, C., 2022: Wideband backscattering from alpine snow cover: a full-season study. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 60: 4302215 (15 pp.). doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2021.3112772

Zheng, D.; Li, X.; Zhao, T.; Wen, J.; Van Der Velde, R.; Schwank, M.; Wang, X.; Wang, Z.; Su, Z., 2021: Impact of soil permittivity and temperature profile on L-band microwave emission of frozen soil. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 59, 5: 4080-4093. doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2020.3024971

Houtz, D.; Mätzler, C.; Naderpour, R.; Schwank, M.; Steffen, K., 2021: Quantifying surface melt and liquid water on the Greenland Ice Sheet using L-band radiometry. Remote Sensing of Environment, 256: 112341 (12 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112341

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Further scientific publications

Wiesmann, A.; Caduff, R.; Werner, C.; Frey, O.; Schneebeli, M.; Löwe, H.; Jaggi, M.; Schwank, M.; Naderpour, R.; Fehr, T., 2019: ESA SnowLab project: 4 years of wide band scatterometer measurements of seasonal snow. In: 2019: 2019 IEEE international geoscience & remote sensingsymposium. Proceedings. IGARSS 2019. IEEE international geoscience and remote sensing symposium, Yokohama. 5745-5748. doi: 10.1109/IGARSS.2019.8898961

Naderpour, R.; Schwank, M., 2018: Snow wetness reftrieved from L-band radiometry. In: 2018: Observing, understandig and forecasting the dynamics of our planet. 2018 IEEE international geoscience and remote sensing symposium (IGARSS 2018), Valencia, Spain. 1466-1469. doi: 10.1109/IGARSS.2018.8518614

Schwank, M.; Naderpour, R., 2018: Snow density and ground permittivity retrieved from L-band radiometry: melting effects. In: 2018: Observing, understandig and forecasting the dynamics of our planet. 2018 IEEE international geoscience and remote sensing symposium (IGARSS 2018), Valencia, Spain. 1245-1248. doi: 10.1109/IGARSS.2018.8517581

Jonard, F.; Bogena, H.; Caterina, D.; Garré, S.; Klotzsche, A.; Monerris, A.; Schwank, M.; Von Hebel, C., 2018: Ground-based soil moisture determination. In: Li, X.; Vereecken, H. (eds), 2018: Observation and measurement. Berlin, Springer. 1-42. doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-47871-4_2-1

Fernandez-Moran, R.; Wigneron, J.-P.; Lopez-Baeza, E.; Salgado-Hernanz, P.M.; Mialon, A.; Miernecki, M.; Alyaari, A.; Parrens, M.; Schwank, M.; Wang, S.; Coll-Pajaron, A.; Lawrence, H.; Kerr, Y.H., 2014: Evaluating the impact of roughness in soil moisture and optical thickness retrievals over the VAS area. In: 2014: 2014 IEEE international geoscience & remote sensing symposium (IGARSS). 2014 IEEE international geoscience & remote sensing symposium (IGARSS), Québec City, QC, Canada, July 13-18, 2014. 1947-1950. doi: 10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946841

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