Brief Bio

Batu holds a B.Sc. in telecommunications engineering and a Ph.D. in synthetic aperture radar interferometry time-series analysis. His dissertation was selected to be the most original research, and he is the winner of the University of Miami Rosenstiel School F.G. Walton Smith Prize for 2012. His primary area of expertise is radar remote sensing, and he has worked on applications for observing surface deformation, measuring target velocities, boosting signal-to-noise ratio in target detection algorithms, and radar design and instrumentation.

Since 2013 he has been working at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He is working on the instrument and algorithm development of P- and L-band digital beam forming synthetic aperture radar systems. He took part in the P-band EcoSAR system development, testing, and integration phases. He attended the 2014 Tampa-Costa Rica flight campaign as one of the four radar operators. He received the NASA Goddard Heliophysics and Biospheric Sciences Award in 2015 for his contributions to the ongoing radar work at Biospheric Sciences Laboratory.

He also works at International Association for Hydrogen Energy as an Internet editor. In his free time, he helps to create new features for Technical University of Delft's Interferometry software (DORIS), and he is the core developer of the Automated DORis Environment (ADORE).

He is a member of the IEEE and American Geophysical Union, and co-chairs committees under Turkish American Scholars and Scientists Association (TASSA) and International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote-Sensing Technical Committee 7. He is a co-investigator for several radar remote sensing projects, for which he uses radar satellite imagery operated by European, German, Italian, Japanese and Canadian Space Agencies, NASA's airborne sensors DBSAR, ECOSAR and UAVSAR, and GAMMA's Ground Based Radar Interferometer.

Publications

Refereed

Schollaert Uz, S., A. C. Ruane, B. N. Duncan, et al. C. J. Tucker, G. J. Huffman, I. E. Mladenova, B. Osmanoglu, T. R. Holmes, A. McNally, C. Peters-Lidard, J. D. Bolten, N. Das, M. Rodell, S. McCartney, M. C. Anderson, and B. Doorn. 2019. "Earth Observations and Integrative Models in Support of Food and Water Security." Remote Sensing in Earth Systems Sciences [10.1007/s41976-019-0008-6]

Bollian, T., B. Osmanoglu, R. F. Rincon, S.-K. Lee, and T. E. Fatoyinbo. 2018. "Detection and Geolocation of P-Band Radio Frequency Interference Using EcoSAR." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 11 (10): 3608-3616 [10.1109/jstars.2018.2830745]

Osmanoglu, B., F. Sunar, S. Wdowinski, and E. Cabral-Cano. 2016. "Time series analysis of InSAR data: Methods and trends." ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 115 90-102 [10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2015.10.003]

Rincon, R. F., T. Fatoyinbo, B. Osmanoglu, et al. S. Lee, K. J. Ranson, G. Sun, and T. Bollian. 2016. "ECOSAR: P-Band Digital Beamforming Polarimetric and Single Pass Interferometric SAR: Instrument Performance." Proceedings of EUSAR 2016: 11th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar 1-5

Lee, S.-K., T. Fatoyinbo, D. Lagomasino, B. Osmanoglu, and E. Feliciano. 2016. "Ground-level digital terrain model (DTM) construction from TanDEM-X InSAR data and WorldView stereo-photogrammetric images." Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2016 IEEE International 6040--6042 [10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7730578]

Kaasalainen, S., M. Holopainen, M. Karjalainen, et al. M. Vastaranta, V. Kankare, K. Karila, and B. Osmanoglu. 2015. "Combining Lidar and Synthetic Aperture Radar Data to Estimate Forest Biomass: Status and Prospects." Forests 6 (1): 252-270 [10.3390/f6010252]

Lee, S.-K., L. E. Fatoyinbo Agueh, D. Lagomasino, et al. B. Osmanoglu, M. Simard, C. Trettin, M. Rahman, and I. Ahmed. 2015. "Large-scale mangrove canopy height map generation from TanDEM-X data by means of Pol-InSAR techniques." 2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) [10.1109/igarss.2015.7326420]

Osmanoglu, B., T. H. Dixon, and S. Wdowinski. 2014. "Three-Dimensional Phase Unwrapping for Satellite Radar Interferometry, I: DEM Generation." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 52 (2): 1059-1075 [10.1109/tgrs.2013.2247043]

Osmanoglu, B., F. J. Navarro, R. Hock, M. Braun, and M. I. Corcuera. 2014. "Surface velocity and mass balance of Livingston Island ice cap, Antarctica." The Cryosphere 8 (5): 1807-1823 [10.5194/tc-8-1807-2014]

Non-Refereed

Osmanoglu, B., R. F. Rincon, S. Lee, T. Fatoyinbo, and T. Bollian. 2016. "Radio frequency interference detection and mitigation techniques using data from EcoSAR 2014 Flight Campaign." Proceedings of EUSAR 2016: 11th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar 1-4

Rincon, R., T. Fatoyinbo, B. Osmanoglu, et al. S. K. Lee, K. J. Ranson, G. Sun, and T. Bollian. 2016. "Development of Next Generation Digital Beamforming Synthetic Aperture Radar architectures." 2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) [10.1109/igarss.2016.7729544]

Rincon, R. F., T. Fatoyinbo, B. Osmanoglu, et al. S. Lee, K. J. Ranson, G. Sun, M. Perrine, and C. Du Toit. 2015. "ECOSAR: P-band digital beamforming polarimetric and single pass interferometric SAR." 2015 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarCon) [10.1109/radar.2015.7131086]

Rincon, R., T. Fatoyinbo, B. Osmanoglu, et al. S.-K. Lee, K. J. Ranson, V. Marrero, and M. Yeary. 2015. "Next generation Digital Beamforming Synthetic Aperture Radar (DBSAR-2)." 2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2774-2777 [10.1109/igarss.2015.7326389]

Rincon, R., T. Fatoyinbo, S. Lee, et al. B. Osmanoglu, J. Ranson, and G. Sun. 2015. "Digital beamforming synthetic aperture radar (DBSAR): Single-pass interferometry for forest structure estimation." 2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 200-202 [10.1109/igarss.2015.7325734]

Rincon, R. F., T. E. Fatoyinbo Agueh, K. J. Ranson, et al. B. Osmanoglu, G. Sun, M. Deshpande, M. Perrine, C. D. Toit, Q. Bonds, J. Beck, and D. Lu. 2014. "The ecosystems SAR (EcoSAR) an airborne P-band polarimetric InSAR for the measurement of vegetation structure, biomass and permafrost." Radar Conference, 2014 IEEE 1443-1445 [10.1109/RADAR.2014.6875827]

Lee, S., T. E. Fatoyinbo Agueh, B. Osmanoglu, and G. Sun. 2014. "Polarimetric SAR interferometry evaluation in mangroves." Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2014 IEEE International 4584 - 4587 [10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947513]