Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Irena Hajnsek of ETH Zürich

Biography:

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Irena Hajnsek

ETH Zürich
Institute of Environmental Engineering
Professor for Earth Observation
Email: hajnsek@ifu.baug.ethz.ch

German Aerospace Center
Mircowaves and Radar Institute
Radar Concept Department
Head of Polarimetric SAR Interferometry (Pol-InSAR) Research Group
Email: irena.hajnsek@dlr.de

Irena Hajnsek (AM’ 01, M’06, SM’09, FM’14) is since November 2009 Professor of Earth Observation at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich Institute of Environmental Engineering and at the same time head of the Polarimetric SAR Interferometry research group at the German Aerospace Center Microwaves and Radar Institute. Her main research interests are in electromagnetic propagation and scattering theory, radar polarimetry, SAR and interferometric SAR data processing techniques, environmental parameter modelling and estimation. She received her Dipl. degree (Honors) in 1996 from the Free University of Berlin, Germany and the Dr. degree (Honors) in 2001 from the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany. Since 2010 she is the science coordinator of the German satellite mission TanDEM-X and proposed satellite mission Tandem-L. She was Technical Program Co-chair of the IEEE GRSS IGARSS 2012 Symposium in Munich and IEEE GRSS IGARSS 2019 in Yokohama. Since 2013 she is a member of the IEEE GRSS AdCom and since 2016 she is the vice president of the IEEE GRSS Technical Committees.

Email:

Address:ETH Zürich, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Zürich, Switzerland, 8049

Motoyuki Sato

Biography:

Motoyuki Sato (S’79–M’80–SM’02–F’10) received the B.E., M.E, and Dr. Eng. degrees in information engineering from the Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 1980, 1982, and 1985, respectively.

Since 1997, he has been a Professor wih Tohoku University and a Distinguished Professor with Tohoku University since 2007, and he was the Director of Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University, during 2009–2013. In 1988, he was a visiting Researcher with the Federal German Institute for Geoscience and Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany. His research interests include transient electromagnetics and antennas, radar polarimetry, ground penetrating radar (GPR), borehole radar, electromagnetic induction sensing, interferometric and polarimetric SAR. He has conducted the development of GPR sensors for humanitarian demining, and his sensor ALIS which is a hand-held dual sensor, has detected more than 80 mines in mine fields in Cambodia. He is a visiting Professor with Jilin University, Changchun, China, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, and Mongolian University of Science and Technology, Ulan Bator, Mongolia. Dr. Sato was the recipient of 2014 Frank Frischknecht Leadership Award from SEG for his contribution to his sustained and important contributions to near-surface geophysics in the field of ground-penetrating radar. He was also the recipient of the IEICE Best paper award (Kiyasu Award), and IEEE Ulrich L. Rohde Innovative Conference Paper Awards on Antenna Measurements and Applications, both in 2017. He was a member of the IEEE GRSS AdCom (2006–2014). He is an Associate Editor for IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS, and a Guest Editor of the special issue of GPR2006 and GPR2010 in TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING, and IGARSS2011, GPR2012, and GPR2014 in IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATIONS AND REMOTE SENSING. He was the Chair of the IEEE GRSS Japan Chapter (2006–2007). He served as the General Chair of IGARSS2011 and the Technical Chair of GPR1996.

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Address:Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, 980-8577