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University, Shanghai, 200433, China, in 2013, where he
is currently a professor in the School of Information Science
and Technology and the vice director of the Ministry
of Education Key Laboratory for Information Science of
Electromagnetic Waves. He has authored more than 30 papers
in peer-reviewed journals, coauthored two books, and
written many conference papers, and he holds two patents.
His research interests include electromagnetic scattering
modeling, synthetic aperture radar information retrieval,
and radar system development. He was a recipient of the
second-class National Nature Science Award and the 2014
SUMMA graduate fellowship in advanced electromagnetics.
He serves as an associate editor of IEEE Geoscience and
Remote Sensing Letters. He is the founding chair of the IEEE
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Shanghai Chapter
and a Senior Member of IEEE.
Richard Bamler (richard.bamler@dlr.de) received his
Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering, Dr.-Ing. degree
in engineering, and habilitation degree in signal and systems
theory, in 1980, 1986, and 1988, respectively, from
the Technical University of Munich, Germany. He worked
at the university, from 1981 to 1989, on optical signal processing,
holography, wave propagation, and tomography.
He joined the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Wessling,
82234, Germany, in 1989, where he is currently the director
of the Remote Sensing Technology Institute. In early
1994, he was a visiting scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in preparation of the Spaceborne Imaging
Radar-C/X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR)
missions, and, in 1996, he was a guest professor at the University
of Innsbruck. Since 2003, he has held a full professorship
in remote sensing technology at the Technical University
of Munich, Munich, 80333, Germany, as a double
appointment with his DLR position. His teaching activities
include university lectures and courses covering signal
processing, estimation theory, and synthetic aperture radar
(SAR). Since he joined the DLR, his team has worked on
SAR and optical remote sensing, image analysis and understanding,
stereo reconstruction, computer vision, ocean
color, passive and active atmospheric sounding, and laboratory
spectrometry. His team is responsible for the development
of the operational processors for SIR-C/X-SAR, the
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, TerraSAR-X, TerraSAR-X
Add-On for Digital Elevation Measurement, the Tandem-L
mission, the Second European Remote Sensing Satellite Global
Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME), Environmental
Satellite Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric
Cartography, Meteorological Operational Satellite/
GOME-2, Sentinel-5 Precursor, Sentinel-4, DLR Earth Sensing
Imaging Spectrometer, the Environmental Mapping and
Analysis Program mission, and others. His research interests
include algorithms for optimum information extraction
from remote sensing data, with an emphasis on SAR.
This involves new estimation algorithms, such as sparse reconstruction,
compressive sensing, and deep learning. He
is a Fellow of IEEE.
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