Dr. Sophie Stephan
Dr. Sophie Stephan
Applied Geophysics | Scientific Staff
- +49 331 977 705700
- Campus Golm
Building 27, Room 0.37
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25
14476 Potsdam-Golm
CV
- 2021-2026 Doctoral Student, Applied Geophysics, University Potsdam
- 2018-2021 Master Student, Geosciences (Geophysics), University Potsdam
- 2015-2018 Bachelor Student, Geosciences, University Potsdam
Research
- Development of recording-, processing- and interpretation methods for time-lapse Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) data
- Temporal and spatial investigation of hydrological subsurface flow processes using time-lapse GPR
- Investigation of noise in GPR data
- Application of texture attributes for analysis and classification of GPR data (e.g., collected along railway tracks)
Publications
Stephan, S. M., Jackisch, C., Allroggen, N., and Tronicke, J. (2026): Imaging small-scale, fast subsurface flow processes: field examples and practical guidelines for GPR monitoring, EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria, 03-08 May 2026, EGU26-17678. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu26-17678 Stephan, S. M., Jackisch, C., Allroggen, N., Tronicke, J. (2025): Assessing the repeatability of GPR data for hydrological monitoring applications. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 63, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2025.3592972 Jackisch, C., Stephan, S. M., Tronicke, J., and Allroggen, N. (2025): Thermodynamic Controls on Dynamic Soil Configuration and Non-uniform Infiltration Processes, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–02 May 2025, EGU25-18870. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-18870 Stephan, S. M., Koyan, P., Tronicke, J. (2025): Evaluating guided-wave GPR velocity profiling and its potential in soil studies. In: 13th International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar (IWAGPR 2025), Thessaloniki, Greece (five pages). https://doi.org/10.1109/IWAGPR65621.2025.11108980 Stephan, S., Jackisch, C., Tronicke, J., and Allroggen, N. (2024): High-resolution 4D GPR data acquisition strategy to monitor fast and small-scale subsurface flow processes, EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-12500, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-12500. Jackisch, C., Stephan, S. M., Tronicke, J., and Allroggen, N. (2024): Infiltration as dynamic non-uniform stochastic flow field – repeatable, high-resolution 4D GPR measurements at the plot scale, EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-19703, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-19703. Stephan, S. M., Allroggen, N., Tronicke, J. (2024): Adding realistic noise models to synthetic ground penetrating radar data. Near Surface Geophysics, 22, 127–139. doi:10.1002/nsg.12273 Stephan, S. M., Allroggen, N., Tronicke, J., Jackisch, C. (2023): Time-lapse GPR imaging of subsurface flow processes during a hillslope irrigation experiment. In: 12th International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar (IWAGPR), Lisbon, Portugal (four pages). doi:10.1109/IWAGPR57138.2023.10329198 Stephan, S., Allroggen, N., Tronicke, J. (2022): Experimental investigation of GPR signal quality using different stacking values. In: 19th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, Golden, Colorado, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 143-146. https://doi.org/10.1190/gpr2022-049.1