Florida Coastal Everglades LTER - Personnel Profiles

Shimon Wdowinski

FCE Site Role
Project Collaborator

Affiliation
Florida International University

FCE Working groups
Hydrologic Connectivity

Contact
- Mailing address:
- Department of Earth and Environment
- Florida International Unversity
- 11200 SW 8th Street, AHC5-388
- Miami, FL 33199
- Email: shimon.wdowinski@fiu.edu

FCE Publications (24)
Book Chapters
Lopez-Sanchez, J.M., J.D. Ballester-Berman, F. Vicente-Guijalba, S.R. Cloude, H. McNairn, J. Shang, H. Skriver, T. Jagdhuber, I. Hajnsek, E. Pottier, C. Marechal, L. Hubert-Moy, S. Corgne, S. Wdowinski, R. Touzi, G. Gosselin, R. Brooks, Y. Yamaguchi, and G. Singh. 2021. Agriculture and Wetland Applications, pp. 119-178 in Hajnsek, I. and Y.L. Desnos (eds.) Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar. Springer : Cham.

Wdowinski, S., and S.-H. Hong. 2015. Wetland InSAR: A review of the technique and applications, pp. 137-154 in Tiner, R.W., M.W. Lang and V.V. Klemas (eds.) Remote Sensing of Wetlands. CRC Press.
Journal Articles
Palomino-Angel, S., S. Wdowinski, and S. Li. 2024. Wetlands water level measurements from the new generation of satellite laser altimeters: Systematic spatial-temporal evaluation of ICESat-2 and GEDI missions over the South Florida Everglades. Water Resources Research 60: e2023WR035422.

Zhang, B., D. Gann, S. Wdowinski, C. Lin, E. Hestir, L. Lamb-Wotton, K. Ishtiaq, K. Smith, and Y. Li. 2024. Space-based mapping of pre- and post-hurricane mangrove canopy heights using machine learning with multi-sensor observations. Remote Sensing 16: 3992.

Chavez, S., S. Wdowinski, D. Lagomasino, E. Castañeda-Moya, T.E. Fatoyinbo, R.P. Moyer, and J.M. Smoak. 2023. Estimating structural damage to mangrove forests using airborne Lidar imagery: Case study of damage induced by the 2017 Hurricane Irma to mangroves in the Florida Everglades, USA. Sensors 23: 6669.

Parkinson, R., and S. Wdowinski. 2023. A unified conceptual model of coastal response to accelerating sea level rise, Florida, U.S.A. Science of The Total Environment 892: 164448.

Parkinson, R., and S. Wdowinski. 2022. Accelerating sea-level rise and the fate of mangrove plant communities in South Florida, U.S.A. Geomorphology 412: 108329.

Zhang, B., S. Wdowinski, and D. Gann. 2022. Space-based detection of significant water-depth increase induced by Hurricane Irma in the Everglades wetlands using Sentinel-1 SAR backscatter observations. Remote Sensing 14: 1415.

Zhang, B., S. Wdowinski, D. Gann, S.-H. Hong, and J.P. Sah. 2022. Spatiotemporal variations of wetland backscatter: The role of water depth and vegetation characteristics in Sentinel-1 dual-polarization SAR observations. Remote Sensing of Environment 270: 112864.

Hong, S.-H., S. Wdowinski, and S.-W. Kim. 2021. Extraction of absolute water level using TanDEM-X bistatic observations with a large perpendicular baseline. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2021.3086875.

Liao, H., S. Wdowinski, and S. Li. 2020. Regional-scale hydrological monitoring of wetlands with Sentinel-1 InSAR observations: Case study of the South Florida Everglades. Remote Sensing of Environment 251: 112051.

Jaramillo, F., I. Brown, P. Castellazzi, L. Espinosa, A. Guittard, S.-H. Hong, V.H. Rivera-Monroy, and S. Wdowinski. 2018. Assessment of hydrologic connectivity in an ungauged wetland with InSAR observations. Environmental Research Letters 13: 024003.

Feliciano, E.A., S. Wdowinski, M. Potts, S.-K. Lee, and T.E. Fatoyinbo. 2017. Estimating mangrove canopy height and above-ground biomass in the Everglades National Park with airborne LiDAR and TanDEM-X data. Remote Sensing 9: 702.

Hong, S.-H., and S. Wdowinski. 2017. A review on monitoring the Everglades wetlands in the southern Florida using Space-based Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) observations. Korean Journal of Remote Sensing 33: 377-390.

Mahmoudi, M., R. Garcia, E. Cline, R.M. Price, L.J. Scinto, S. Wdowinski, and F. Miralles-Wilhelm. 2017. Fine spatial resolution simulation of two-dimensional modeling of flow pulses discharge into wetlands: Case study of Loxahatchee Impoundment Landscape Assessment, the Everglades. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 22: D5015001.

Oliver-Cabrera, T., and S. Wdowinski. 2016. InSAR-Based Mapping of Tidal Inundation Extent and Amplitude in Louisiana Coastal Wetlands. Remote Sensing 8: 393.

Brisco, B., F. Ahern, S.-H. Hong, S. Wdowinski, K. Murnaghan, L. White, and D.K. Atwood. 2015. Polarimetric decomposition of temperate wetlands at C-band. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 8: 3585-3594.

Brisco, B., K. Murnaghan, S. Wdowinski, and S.-H. Hong. 2015. Evaluation of RADARSAT-2 Acquisition Modes for Wetland Monitoring Applications. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 41: 431-439.

Hong, S.-H., H.-O. Kim, S. Wdowinski, and E.A. Feliciano. 2015. Evaluation of Polarimetric SAR Decomposition for Classifying Wetland Vegetation Types. Remote Sensing 7: 8563-8585.

Feliciano, E.A., S. Wdowinski, and M. Potts. 2014. Assessing mangrove above-ground biomass and structure using terrestrial laser scanning: A case study in the Everglades National Park. Wetlands 34: 955-968.

Wdowinski, S., S.-H. Hong, A. Mulcan, and B. Brisco. 2013. Remote-sensing monitoring of tide propagation through coastal wetlands. Oceanography 26: 64-69.

Gondwe, B.R.N., S.-H. Hong, S. Wdowinski, and P. Bauer-Gottwein. 2010. Hydrodynamics of the groundwater-dependent Sian-Ka'an wetlands, Mexico, from InSAR and SAR data. Wetlands 30: 1-13.

Hong, S.-H., S. Wdowinski, and S.-W. Kim. 2010. Evaluation of TerraSAR-X Observations for Wetland InSAR Application. IEEE Geosciences and Remote Sensing 48: 864-873.

Hong, S.-H., S. Wdowinski, S.-W. Kim, and J.-S. Won. 2010. Multi-temporal monitoring of wetland water levels in the Florida Everglades using interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR). Remote Sensing of Environment 114: 2436-2447.

Recent FCE Leveraged Projects

Coastal vertical land motion and its implication to coastal flooding hazard assessments
Authors: Wdowinski, S.
Funding organization: NASA
Time period: 20 Jan 2022 - 19 Jan 2024

Coastal flooding hazard in Florida: Evaluating the contribution of local subsidence
Authors: Wdowinski, S.
Funding organization: Florida Office of Insurance Regulation
Time period: 01 Jul 2018 - 30 Jun 2023

A multi-sensor monitoring system of surface water level changes in wetlands
Authors: Wdowinski, S.
Funding organization: NASA
Time period: 04 May 2021 - 03 May 2023

Cascading hazards: Understanding triggering relations between wet tropical cyclones, landslides and earthquakes
Authors: Wdowinski, S.
Funding organization: NASA
Time period: 28 Jun 2017 - 27 Jun 2020

Optimization of LiDAR data processing algorithms for wetland graminoid marsh and prairie vegetation
Authors: Gann, D., P.C. Olivas, J.H. Richards, S. Wdowinski, K. Zhang
Funding organization: National Park Service - Department of the Interior
Time period: 15 May 2018 - 31 May 2020

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