Dr. Hossein Aghababaei has held the position of Assistant Professor at the Faculty of ITC, University of Twente. His research is focused on synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data analysis, with a particular specialization in Polarimetric SAR (#PolSAR) and SAR tomography (#TomoSAR). His research interests are closely aligned with applications pertaining to the forestry sector, specifically the investigation of forest structures (#3D forest) through the utilization of SAR tomography.
Expertise
Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Synthetic Aperture Radar
- Tomography
- Image
- Datum
Computer Science
- Synthetic Aperture Radar Images
- Models
- Detection
Engineering
- Scatterer
Organisations
Publications
2025
An open-access cross-modal forest benchmark training dataset with Sentinel-1 and Lidar data (2025)In 2025 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium: Proceedings (pp. 3588-3591). IEEE (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Aghababaei, H., Ferraioli, G., Schirinzi, G., Tomppo, E. & Parks, J.https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS55030.2025.11243038TomoSAR from theory to practice: Overview of the advancements and challenges (2025)In 2025 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium: Proceedings (pp. 504-507). IEEE (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Aghababaei, H. & Ferraioli, G.https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS55030.2025.11242958A joint real- and complex-valued network for classification of Pol(In)SAR images (2025)IEEE Journal of selected topics in applied earth observations and remote sensing, 18, 22256-22270. Ma, Y., Aghababaei, H., Chang, L., Deng, X. & Wei, J.https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2025.3602161Urban height change detection using a TomoSAR linear prediction-based method (2025)International journal of remote sensing, 46(13), 5006-5033. Armeshi, H., Sahebi, M. R. & Aghababaei, H.https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2025.2513560Deep learning segmentation approach for forest height retrieval with multichannel SAR (2025)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] Living Planet Symposium 2025. Yang, W., Vitale, S., Aghababaei, H., Ferraioli, G., Pascazzio, V. & Schirinzi, G.https://lps25.esa.int/programme/programme-session/?id=B3DC5187-04FB-4347-81CA-BB1D81A18F53&presentationId=B2AD938D-D595-4FDF-AB20-63293A080BF8Deep learning-based phase calibration of airborne SAR Tomography (2025)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] Living Planet Symposium 2025. Zamani, R., Aghababaei, H. & Ferraioli, G.https://lps25.esa.int/programme/programme-session/?id=B3DC5187-04FB-4347-81CA-BB1D81A18F53&presentationId=B2AD938D-D595-4FDF-AB20-63293A080BF8Dual Polarimetric Radar Vegetation Index for monitoring forest moisture stress using time series of Sentinel‐1 SAR data (2025)Plant Biology (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Ranjit, B., Bijker, W., Aghababaei, H. & Stein, A.https://doi.org/10.1111/plb.70036A Deep Learning Solution for Phase Screen Estimation in SAR Tomography (2025)IEEE geoscience and remote sensing letters, 22. Article 4007605. Aghababaei, H., Ferraioli, G., Vitale, S. & Stein, A.https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2025.3555441
2024
Visual Question Answering for Wishart H-Alpha Classification of Polarimetric SAR Images (2024)In IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Proceedings (pp. 11231-11234) (IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS); Vol. 2024). IEEE. Aghababaei, H. & Stein, A.https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10641895Despeckling SAR Images With Log-Yeo–Johnson Transformation and Conditional Diffusion Models (2024)IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, 62. Article 5215417. Ma, Y., Ke, P., Aghababaei, H., Chang, L. & Wei, J.https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2024.3419083
Research profiles
Courses academic year 2025/2026
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Courses academic year 2024/2025
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