Sofia Antonova

Sofia Antonova was a PostDoc researcher at the GIScience Research Group of the Institute of Geography in Heidelberg with working place at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Potsdam.

Projects

• PermaSAR  –   Development of a Method to Detect Subsidence by Means of D-InSAR in Permafrost Regions

Research interests

• Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) remote sensing
• SAR interferometry
• Permafrost environments

Curriculum Vitae

• Since 02/2017: PostDoc at GIScience research group, Heidelberg University
• 02/2013-01/2017: PhD, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Potsdam and Heidelberg University
• 09/2009-09/2011: M.Sc., Russian-German Master Program for Polar and Marine Sciences (POMOR), Saint Petersburg State University, Russia and University of Hamburg, Germany (double degree)
• 09/2002-09/2006: B.Sc., Mechanics and Mathematics Department, Novosibirsk State University, Russia

Scholarship

• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship (Kurzstipendien für Doktoranden 2015/16) for a 6-months research stay at the University of Waterloo, Canada (December, 2015-June, 2016).

Publications

Journal Papers

• Antonova, S., Sudhaus, H., Strozzi, T., Zwieback, S., Kääb, A., Heim, B., Langer, M., Bornemann, N., & Boike, J. (2018). Thaw Subsidence of a Yedoma Landscape in Northern Siberia, Measured In Situ and Estimated from TerraSAR-X Interferometry. Remote Sensing, 10(4), 494; doi:10.3390/rs10040494.
• Antonova, S., Duguay, C. R., Kääb, A., Heim, B., Langer, M., Westermann, S., & Boike, J. (2016). Monitoring Bedfast Ice and Ice Phenology in Lakes of the Lena River Delta Using TerraSAR-X Backscatter and Coherence Time Series. Remote Sensing, 8(11), 903, doi:10.3390/rs8110903.
• Antonova, S., Kääb, A., Heim, B., Langer, M., & Boike, J. (2016). Spatio-temporal variability of X-band radar backscatter and coherence over the Lena River Delta, Siberia. Remote Sensing of Environment, 182, 169-191, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2016.05.003.
• Zwieback, S., Liu, X., Antonova, S., Heim, B., Bartsch, A., Boike, J., & Hajnsek, I. (2016). A Statistical Test of Phase Closure to Detect Influences on DInSAR Deformation Estimates Besides Displacements and Decorrelation Noise: Two Case Studies in High-Latitude Regions. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 54(9), 5588-5601, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2569435.