Hybrid AI–Physical Modeling in Interferometric SAR: Bridging Data-Driven and Physics-Based Approaches for Enhanced Parameter Retrieval

December 2025 I. Mansour PhD Thesis, ETH Zurich, Zurich, 186 pp.

Chair of Earth Observation and Remote Sensing, ETH Zurich. Supervised by Prof. Dr. Irena Hajnsek, co-advised by Dr. Kostas Papathanassiou and Dr. Ronny Hansch. Covers forest height retrieval from TanDEM-X and penetration bias correction in X-band InSAR DEMs.