Jacob Connolly
- Email: py15jmc@leeds.ac.uk
- Thesis title: Hazard monitoring from Space: Next-generation InSAR time-series analysis
- Supervisors: Professor Andy Hooper, Professor Tim Wright, Dr Stuart King, Dr David Bekaert, Dr Tom Ingleby
Profile
I am a PhD student in the Institute of Geophysics and Tectonics (IGT) within the School of Earth and Environment. As part of the NERC SENSE Earth Observation CDT 2020 cohort, I am be looking into developing new and existing InSAR methods with a focus on noise categorisation and mitigation. InSAR is an extremely useful tool for monitoring ground deformation around fault zones and volcanoes but also for monitoring subsidence in urban areas as a result of natural and anthropogenic processes. The main aim of my project is to develop new or existing InSAR processing methods that can:
- Increase coverage and decrease noise for areas that suffer from variable coherence characteristics
- Better handle decorrelation events
- Better handle changes in soil moisture and vegetation and understand more about the “Phase bias”
The project partner is NASA JPL and the CASE partner is SatSense Ltd.
Research interests
- Remote sensing
- Geodesy
- Earth Observation
- Synthetic Aperture Radar
Qualifications
- 2015 - 2020 MPhys Physics with Astrophysics (Ind), University of Leeds
Research groups and institutes
- Institute of Geophysics and Tectonics