Prof. Leo P. Ligthart
Prof. Leo P. Ligthart, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Biography:
Leo P. Ligthart received an Engineer's degree (cum laude) and a Doctor of Technology degree from Delft University of Technology in 1969 and 1985, respectively. He is Fellow of IET and IEEE.
He got awards from UK-IET, IEEE MIKON conference, EuMA, Netherlands electronic and radio society (NERG). He is Honorary Member of the Delft EE student society.
He received Honorary Doctorates (Honoris Causa) at Moscow State Technical University of Civil Aviation in 1999, Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics in 2001 and Military Technical Academy, Romania in 2010. He is academician of the Russian Academy of Transport.
Since 1988, he has held the chair on radar and from 1992 he has held the chair of Microwave Transmission, Radar and Remote Sensing in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. In 1994, he founded the International Research Center for Telecommunications and Radar (IRCTR) at Delft University and has been the director of IRCTR for more than 16 year. He is founding member of the European Microwave Association, chaired the first European Microwave Week (EuMW) and initiated the European Radar Conference (EuRAD) in 2004.
He was project manager of more than 30 multi disciplinary projects valued over k€ 40.000. He was advisor of more than 50 PhD candidates.
Currently Prof. Ligthart is emeritus professor of Delft University, guest professor at University Indonesia, consultant at LIPI (science foundation Indonesia), Scientific advisor of IRCTR-I, Chairman of CONASENSE (a global initiative on communications, navigation, sensing services), Chairman of ICT Friesland, Netherlands, Board of governors CTIF, Denmark and Board of Governors IEEE-AESS.
He has been invited to give courses on radar, microwave remote sensing, antenna systems, sparse arrays at various universities and institutes in China, India, Indonesia, Australia, South Africa, Italy, Turkey, etc.
His principal areas of specialization include antennas and propagation, radar and remote sensing, but he has also been active in satellite, mobile and radio communications. He has published over 600 papers and various book chapters and 2 books.
Title: Tutorial on SAR earth observation
Abstract:
In the first part of the tutorial the fundamentals of SAR are discussed.
Topics are:
1. SAR utilization
2. SAR principle
3. SAR processing
4. Polarimetric SAR
5. SAR Interferometry
6. SAR system design
7. Air-borne SAR
8. Space-based SAR
The second part focuses on SAR images illustrating the strengths of SAR in various application areas. Recent advances in space-based SAR missions are presented followed by an overview of potential ultra-wide-band (UWB) SAR applications. Ground-based UWB SAR systems are overviewed and compared with MIMO radar.
The tutorial will be concluded with some latest developments on air-borne and ground-based FMCW SAR.
