MSc (Dipl.-Geogr, University of Stuttgart, Germany)
PhD (Dr.-Ing., University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Address: Room 318, Teaching Building NO. 2, Campus of Information Sciences, Wuhan University
Email: balz@whu.edu.cn
Fields of interest
Synthetic Aperture Radar processing, surface motion estimation, SAR for use in archaeology, conflict & damage analysis and monitoring, infrastructure stability measurement from space, data visualization.
Selected publications
M. Jendryke, T. Balz, S.C. McClure, and M.S. Liao, “Putting people in the picture: Combining big location-based social media data and remote sensing imagery for enhanced contextual urban information in Shanghai,” Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Vol. 62, pp. 99-112, 2017.
T. Balz, G. Caspari, B.H. Fu, and M.S. Liao, “Discernibility of Burial Mounds in High-Resolution X-Band SAR Images for Archaeological Prospections in the Altai Mountains,” Remote Sensing, Vol. 8(10), 817, 2016.
T. Balz, H. Hammer, and S. Auer, “Potentials and Limitations of SAR Image Simulators – A Comparative Study of Three Simulation Approaches,” ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vol. 101, pp. 102-109, 2015.
L. Wei, T. Balz, L. Zhang, and M.S. Liao, “A Novel Fast Approach for SAR Tomography: Two-step Iterative Shrinkage / Thresholding,” IEEE GRSL Remote Sensing Letters, Vol. 12 (6), pp. 1377-1381, 2015.
T. Balz, L. Zhang, and M.S. Liao, “Direct Stereo Radargrammetric Processing Using Massively Parallel Processing,” ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vol. 79, pp. 137-146, 2013.6.