Prof. Vern Singhroy from Canada Gives Report on Advanced SAR Application in IGSNRR
On April 26th, 2013, Prof. Vern Singhroy, a senior scientist with Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, took an academic visiting to Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research(IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences. He also gave the 19th GIS Academic Forum Lecture entitled as Advanced SAR Application in Canada. This forum was chaired by Prof. Hengxing LAN, IGSNRR.
Canada is one of the leading countries in radar technology and its applications. After introducing some basic principle of radar remote sensing and the current dominant SAR systems in the world, Prof. Singhroy focused on the technology and applications of advanced RADARSAT-2 system of Canada and the planned RADARSAT Constellation Program in his lecture. Case studies were particularly introduced concerning Arctic ice monitoring, target detection, ocean oil seeps monitoring, land surface classification, mineral resources survey, agricultural monitoring, and monitoring of natural disasters like landslide, volcano, earthquake and floods etc.
The audiences were impressed by the Dr. Singhroy’s lecture. They had in-depth discussions with Prof. Singhroy in various aspects regarding polarimetric interferometry, new techniques and algorithms of SAR processing as well as limitations and security issues in applications of radar remote sensing.
Dr. Singhroy is a senior research scientist at Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, a professor of International Space University, and an adjunct professor of University of New Brunswick and McMaster University. Prof. Singhroy is the principal scientist of the RADARSAT Constellation Program of the Canadian Space Agency and a member of the Natural Disaster Mitigation Panel of Inter-Academy Panel on International Issues (IAP). Prof. Singhroy has published over 300 papers in refereed journals, proceedings and 4 books. He had also been the editor in chief of the Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing for 7 years. He received the Canadian Remote Sensing Society Gold Medal Award in 2010 and the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012.
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