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of India's Prize (Hindi) for 1984-85 for the paper titled
"Modern Maritime Satellite Communication System-
INMARSAT" which was published in the Journal of Institution of Engineers (India), Calcutta Vol.65, Part Hindi
3, April 1985, Consolation Prize for Hindi Book titled
Antariksh Mein Bharat under the Indira Gandhi Rajbhasha
Scheme for the year 1986-87 for writing original Hindi
book, Certificate of Merit for 1992-93 by Institution of
Engineers (India), Calcutta for the paper entitled "Meteorological Satellites" published in their journal and by now
he has published more than 500 papers in various national
& international journals and conferences. He has been
conferred Marwar Ratna Award for year 2007 by Mehrangarh Museum Trust, Jodhpur. He also served as President
of IETE in the year 1991. He was Chairman of Ahmedabad
Chapter of IETE, CSI, ISRS, IMS and GBMS. Recently he
has received Lifetime Achievement Award from VEDA. He
was awarded by ISM, the ISM-2010 Pioneer in Microwave
Academics Award in 2010, and was Conferred ISM 2010
Pioneer in Microwave Engineering.
Dr. Gerhard Krieger was elevated to Fellow grade with
the citation: "For contributions to advanced synthetic aperture
radar systems."
Gerhard Krieger received the Dipl.-Ing. (M.S.) and Dr.Ing. (Ph.D.) degrees (with honors) in electrical and communication engineering from the Technical University of
Munich, Germany, in 1992 and 1999, respectively. From
1992 to 1999, he was with the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, where he conducted multidisciplinary
research on neuronal modeling and nonlinear information processing in biological and technical vision systems.
Since 1999, he has been with the Microwaves and Radar
Institute (HR) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR),
Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, where he developed signal and image processing algorithms for a novel forward
looking radar system employing digital beamforming
on receive. From 2001 to 2007 he led the New Synthetic
Aperture Radar (SAR) Missions Group which pioneered
the development of advanced bistatic and multistatic
radar systems as exemplified by the TanDEM-X mission,
as well as innovative multichannel SAR techniques and
algorithms for high resolution wide-swath SAR imaging.
Since 2008, he has been the Head of the new Radar Concepts Department of the Microwaves and Radar Institute,
DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. Gerhard Krieger has
authored more than 50 peer-reviewed journal papers, 7
invited book chapters, about 300 conference papers, and
5 patent families. His current research interests focus on
the development of multichannel radar techniques and
algorithms for innovative Multiple-Input Multiple-Output
(MIMO) SAR systems, the demonstration of novel interferometric and tomographic Earth observation applications,
and the conceptual design of advanced bi- and multistatic
radar missions. Dr. Krieger received several national and
international awards, including the W.R.G. Baker Prize
Paper Award from the IEEE Board of Directors and the
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Transactions Prize Paper Award of the IEEE Geoscience
and Remote Sensing Society. In 2012, he and his colleagues were nominated for the German President's Award
for Technology and Innovation. Since 2012, he has been
Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and
Remote Sensing.
Dr. Riccardo Lanari was elevated to Fellow grade with the
citation: "For contributions to synthetic aperture radar processing."
Riccardo Lanari was born in Naples, Italy, in 1964. He
graduated in electronic engineering (summa cum laude)
from the University of Naples, Federico II, Naples, in 1989.
In the same year, following a short experience at ITALTEL SISTEMI SPA, he joined IRECE and after Istituto per
il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell'Ambiente (IREA), a
Research Institute of the Italian National Research Council
(CNR), Naples, where, since November 2011, he is the Institute Director. He has lectured in several national and foreign universities and research centers. He was an Adjunct
Professor of electrical communication with the l'Università
del Sannio, Benevento, Italy, from 2000 to 2003, and from
2000 to 2008, he was the Lecturer of the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) module course of the International Master
in Airbone Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing offered
by the Institute of Geomatics, Barcelona, Spain. He was a
Visiting Scientist at different foreign research institutes,
including the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science,
Japan, in 1993; German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR), Germany, in 1991 and 1994; and Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, in 1997, 2004, and 2008.
His main research activities are in the SAR data processing
field as well as in SAR interferometry techniques; on this
topic, he is the holder of two patents, and he has authored
or coauthored more than 70 international journal papers
and the book Synthetic Aperture Radar Processing (1999,
CRC Press). Dr. Lanari is a Distinguished Speaker of the
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society of IEEE, and he
has served as the chairman and as a technical program
committee member at several international conferences.
Moreover, he acts as a reviewer of several peer-reviewed
international journals. He received a NASA recognition
and a group award for the technical developments related
to the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
Prof. Christian Pichot was elevated to Fellow grade
with the citation: "For contributions to microwave tomography
and antenna designs."
Christian Pichot is currently a Research Director at the
French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS),
working at the Electronics, Antennas & Telecommunications Laboratory (LEAT), University Nice-Sopihia Antipolis and CNRS, Sophia Antipolis, France. He is also codirector of The Centre de REcherche Mutualisé sur les ANTennes
(CREMANT), a Joint Antenna Research Center, founded
in September 2008, supported by the University of NiceSophia Antipolis, CNRS and France Telecom Orange Labs.
He received the Ph.D. and the Doctor of Science (D.Sc.)
degrees from the University of Paris-Sud 11 in 1977 and
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