Patrick Klenk

Patrick Klenk received the doctoral degree in physics from Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany, in 2012. His Ph.D. dissertation was titled “Ground–Penetrating Radar for Quantitative Soil Hydrology.” After three more years of Postdoctoral work with the Heidelberg University's Institute of Environmental Physics, he joined the German Aerospace Center's Microwaves and Radar Institute in 2016. He is a Senior Research Scientist with the SAR Calibration Center of DLR's Microwaves and Radar Institute, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. Since 2018, he has been heading SAR system calibration related projects for various ESA missions and mission proposals such as ROSE–L, Sentinel–1NG, LEOB and HydroTerra, and most recently BIOMASS. On behalf of ESA, he is also currently leading a team responsible for planning and implementing DLR's independent SAR calibration campaign during the in–orbit commissioning of the upcoming Sentinel–1 C mission on behalf of ESA. His current research interests include developing novel SAR calibration techniques with the focus on antenna aspects for current and future satellite SAR systems, such as Tandem–L, TerraSAR–X, TanDEM–X, PAZ, and ESA's Sentinel–1 A/B/C/D, while also being partially responsible for instrument operations of the TerraSAR–X and Tandem–X missions.