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and four books focused on synthetic aperture radar interferometry techniques and applications. His research interests include algorithms and application for interferometric
synthetic aperture radar, remote sensing image processing
and analysis, and the integration and fusion of multisource
spatial information.
Timo Balz (balz@whu.edu.cn) received his diploma in
geography and his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering and geodesy from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 2000
and 2007, respectively. He has been a professor with the
State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University,
since 2015. He is a member of the editorial boards of Remote
Sensing and Geospatial-Information Science and the chair of
the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote
Sensing working group I/3 on SAR and Microwave Sensing. His research interests include synthetic aperture radar
(SAR) remote sensing, SAR interferometry, and the use of
SAR data for the support of archaeological prospections. He
is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Fabio Rocca (fabio.rocca@polimi.it) graduated in electronic engineering in 1962. He is a professor emeritus of
telecommunications at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Since
2004, in cooperation with the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping, and Remote
Sensing, Wuhan University, he has participated with the
Chinese European space research programs Dragon (1-4),
sponsored by the European Space Agency and National Remote Sensing Center of China. He received an award from
Honeywell in 1979; an award from the Italgas for Telecommunications in 1995; an award from the Rhein Foundation
for technologies for motion-compensated television coders
in 1999; a doctorate degree Honoris Causa in geophysics
from the Institut Polytechnique de Lorraine, Nancy, France,
in 2001; the Desiderius Erasmus Award from the European
Association of Geoscientists and Engineers in 2009; an
Eni Award in 2012; a Chinese Government International
Science and Technology Cooperation Award in 2013; and
a commemorative medal for the 70th Anniversary of the
Peoples Republic of China in 2019.
Deren Li (drli@whu.edu.cn) received his diploma and
his M.A. in photogrammetry and remote sensing from
Wuhan Technical University of Surveying, and Mapping
(WTUSM), China, his Ph.D. in photogrammetry and remote sensing from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in
1985, and an honorary doctorate from ETH Zürich in 2008.
He became a professor at WTUSM in 1986. He served as
president of WTUSM and director of the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping,
and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS). At present, he is chair
of the academic committees of both Wuhan University
and LIESMARS and director of the Collaborative Innovation Center of Geospatial Technology. He is an academician with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese
Academy of Engineering, and the International Academy of
European and Asian Studies. He has supervised more than
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200 Ph.D. candidates. His publications include 11 monographs and more than 580 journal articles.
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