Presented By: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Satellite Microwave Remote Sensing of the Earth and Multiple Scattering of Waves
Leung Tsang, Robert J. Hiller Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan
Leung Tsang has been named the Robert J. Hiller Professor of Engineering. A reception will immediately follow the talk.
Satellite microwave remote sensing has been used for monitoring the Earth’s resources and global climate changes. In this talk, I will describe the remote sensing of snow water equivalent, the polar ice sheets, soil moisture, and vegetation/forests. For remote sensing of snow water equivalent, the proposed missions are Snow Globe and TSMM. For cryosphere properties, the proposed mission of CyroRad/PolarRad can be used to retrieve firn properties, subsurface temperature profiles, and aquifer properties. For remote sensing of soil moisture and vegetation/forests, the SMAP and NISAR are satellite missions with passive and active sensors respectively. I developed electromagnetic models of layered media, dense media, rough surfaces, vegetation and forests that are used for data analyses and retrieval algorithms. Recent emphases of electromagnetic models of remote sensing are on fast full wave simulations, combining multiple scattering theory and computational electromagnetics. I have also adapted the approach to multiple scattering problems in photonic crystals
Bio
Leung Tsang is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His research has been in Satellite Microwave Remote Sensing of the Earth and the Multiple Scattering of Waves. He has made contributions to electromagnetic models of waves in dense media for scattering by snow, rough surface scattering by soil surfaces, radiative transfer and full wave simulations of vegetation and forests. The models form the bases of remote sensing data analyses, parameter retrieval algorithms and designs of satellite remote sensing measurements. He has applied the approach of multiple scattering of waves also to scattering problems in printed circuit board and photonic crystals
Leung Tsang received his BS, MS and PhD from MIT. He joined the University of Michigan in January 2015. He was a Professor at the University of Washington from 1983-2014 and was the Chair of the UWEE Department in 2006-2011. In 2001-2004, he was on leave at the Department of Electronic Engineering of the City University of Hong Kong. Leung Tsang is the lead author of 4 books: ‘Theory of Microwave Remote Sensing” and the 3 volumes of Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves’. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (1996-2000), the President of IEEE-GRSS (2006-2007). Since 2008, he has been the Chair of the PIERS Symposium. He received the Distinguished Achievement Award from IEEE-GRSS in 2008, the Golden Florin Award in 2010, the William Pecora Award co-sponsored by USGS and NASA in 2012, the IEEE Electromagnetics Award in 2013 and the Van de Hulst Light Scattering Award in 2018. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of OPTICA, a Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy, a member of the Washington State Academy of Science and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Satellite microwave remote sensing has been used for monitoring the Earth’s resources and global climate changes. In this talk, I will describe the remote sensing of snow water equivalent, the polar ice sheets, soil moisture, and vegetation/forests. For remote sensing of snow water equivalent, the proposed missions are Snow Globe and TSMM. For cryosphere properties, the proposed mission of CyroRad/PolarRad can be used to retrieve firn properties, subsurface temperature profiles, and aquifer properties. For remote sensing of soil moisture and vegetation/forests, the SMAP and NISAR are satellite missions with passive and active sensors respectively. I developed electromagnetic models of layered media, dense media, rough surfaces, vegetation and forests that are used for data analyses and retrieval algorithms. Recent emphases of electromagnetic models of remote sensing are on fast full wave simulations, combining multiple scattering theory and computational electromagnetics. I have also adapted the approach to multiple scattering problems in photonic crystals
Bio
Leung Tsang is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His research has been in Satellite Microwave Remote Sensing of the Earth and the Multiple Scattering of Waves. He has made contributions to electromagnetic models of waves in dense media for scattering by snow, rough surface scattering by soil surfaces, radiative transfer and full wave simulations of vegetation and forests. The models form the bases of remote sensing data analyses, parameter retrieval algorithms and designs of satellite remote sensing measurements. He has applied the approach of multiple scattering of waves also to scattering problems in printed circuit board and photonic crystals
Leung Tsang received his BS, MS and PhD from MIT. He joined the University of Michigan in January 2015. He was a Professor at the University of Washington from 1983-2014 and was the Chair of the UWEE Department in 2006-2011. In 2001-2004, he was on leave at the Department of Electronic Engineering of the City University of Hong Kong. Leung Tsang is the lead author of 4 books: ‘Theory of Microwave Remote Sensing” and the 3 volumes of Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves’. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (1996-2000), the President of IEEE-GRSS (2006-2007). Since 2008, he has been the Chair of the PIERS Symposium. He received the Distinguished Achievement Award from IEEE-GRSS in 2008, the Golden Florin Award in 2010, the William Pecora Award co-sponsored by USGS and NASA in 2012, the IEEE Electromagnetics Award in 2013 and the Van de Hulst Light Scattering Award in 2018. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of OPTICA, a Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy, a member of the Washington State Academy of Science and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
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