Bernhard Rabus
Professor, School of Engineering Science
Office: ASB 9829
Phone: (778) 782-4846
Fax: (778) 782-4951
E-mail: btrabus@sfu.ca
Bernhard Rabus
Professor, School of Engineering Science
Office: ASB 9829
Phone: (778) 782-4846
Fax: (778) 782-4951
E-mail: btrabus@sfu.ca
Education:
Ph.D. Geophysics, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1997
M.Sc., Physics, Technical University of Munich, 1992
Research interests:
SAR methods and applications, with a focus on (i) maritime applications (e.g. vessel detection and characterization, ocean parameter derivation) and (ii) novel land applications using advanced interferometric and polarimetric time series analysis techniques.
Mike Kubanski
Ph.D. Candidate
Office: ASB 10840
E-mail: mjk6@sfu.ca
Education:
BASC Electronics Engineering, Simon Fraser University, 2012
Research interests:
Principles of SAR imaging and focusing, moving target indication, and signal processing using space based and airborne SAR systems with application to both the land and maritime domains.
Jarrod Haas
PhD Candidate
Deep Learning
Office: TASC1 7412
E-mail: jhaas@sfu.ca
Education
BSc Computing Science, Simon Fraser University
Research Interests
Bayesian deep learning and computer vision.
Farnoush Hosseini
Ph.D. Candidate
Office: ASB 10840
E-mail: fha20@sfu.ca
Education:
M.Sc. Geodesy, Surveying Engineering, University of Tehran, 2015
B.Sc. Surveying Engineering, University of Tehran, 2012
Research interests:
SAR Interferometry for land applications including natural hazards. Monitoring civil structures using SAR Interferometry. Digital Elevation Models (DEM).
Arturo Velasco
Ph.D. Candidate
Office: ASB 10840
E-mail: avelasco@sfu.ca
Education:
M.Sc. Hydraulic Engineering and Environment, Universitat Politècnica de València, 2017
B.Sc. Agricultural Engineering, National University of Piura, 2013
Research interests:
Soil Moisture Content retrieval; subsidence/uplift driven by groundwater; flooding analysis; crop classification; Persistant Scatter Interferometry.
Wyatt Gronnemose
Ph.D. Candidate
Office: ASB 10840
Email: wyatt_gronnemose@sfu.ca
Education:
B.ASc. Electrical Engineering, University of British Columbia
M.Eng. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia
Research interests:
Mm-wave SAR, modelling the effect of materials on radar backscatter, image processing of SAR data.
Usman Iqbal Ahmed
Ph.D. Candidate
Office: ASB 10840
E-mail: uiahmed@sfu.ca
Education:
BE (Avionics), College of Aeronautical Engineering (CAE), National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan. (2010)
MS (Avionics) Intitute of Avionics and Astronautics (IAA), Air University, Islamabad, Pakistan. (2017)
Research interests:
Sensor Fusion Techniques of SAR and Fodar; Linear Infrastructure Monitoring based on InSAR and Fodar data; Permafrost Dynamics; Fodar data fusion in Interferometric SAR processing techniques
Bingqian Zhang
M.Sc. Candidate
Office: ASB 10840
E-mail: berilz@sfu.ca
Education:
BSc Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
Research Interests:
Application of machine learning in SAR.
Jeff Stacey
MA.Sc. Candidate
Office: ASB 10840
E-mail: jeff_stacey@sfu.ca
Education:
BEng Electrical Engineering, University of Victoria
Research Interests:
Airborne SAR imaging, interferometry, and tomography. Array, statistical, and sparse signal processing and their applications to remote sensing.
Allison Plourde
M.Sc. Candidate
Office: ASB 10840
E-mail: allison_plourde@sfu.ca
Education:
B.Eng. Aerospace Electronics and Systems, Carleton University, 2021
Research Interests:
Measuring surface displacement using winter SAR
Project Description:
Speckle tracking of discontinuous glacier motion
Jayson Eppler
Ph.D. Candidate
Office: ASB 10840
E-mail: jaysone@sfu.ca
Project description:
Advanced interferometric SAR techniques including adaptive filtering, phase triangulation and mitigation of snow related phase effects to support surface deformation monitoring in permafrost affected environments.
Nick Wooster
M.Eng. Candidate, 2018
Office: ASB 10840
E-mail: ntwooste@sfu.ca
Project description:
Developing a high temporal resolution vector field model of the surface motion of the Fels Glacier landslide in the east-central Alaska Range of the United States using interferometric techniques and ground-based real aperture radar data captured over the course of a multi-day campaign in August 2017.
Elizabeth Pieters
B.ASc. (Hons) Candidate, Engineering Physics
Office: ASB 10840
E-mail: elizabeth_pieters@sfu.ca
Project description:
Processing of space-borne SAR data to generate Doppler maps for maritime applications of SAR (e.g., ocean surface currents).
Manuele Pichierri
Postdoctoral Fellow
Office: ASB 9841
E-mail: mpichier@sfu.ca
Education:
Ph.D. Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, 2016
M.Sc. Electronic Engineering (cum laude), University of Perugia, 2011
Research interests:
SAR interferometry and polarimetric SAR Interferometry for land applications; characterizing the polarimetric interferometric responses from bare and vegetated surfaces.
Jeanine Engelbrecht
Postdoctoral Fellow
Office: ASB 10840
Email: jengelbr@sfu.ca
Education:
PhD - University of Cape Town, Department of Electrical Engineering
MSc Geographic Information Systsems, Stellenbosch University
Research Interests:
Synthetic Aperture Radar, SAR Interferometry, SAR Polarimetry, Geospatial Technologies, Applied Earth Observation
Samuel Stettner
Ph.D. Candidate
Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany, 2017
Office: ASB 10840
E-mail: Samuel.Stettner@awi.de
Education:
M.Sc. of Geography, Free University of Berlin, Germany, 2015
B.Sc. of Geography, Free University of Berlin, Germany, 2011
Research interests:
Application of SAR time-series for monitoring Arctic landscape changes. Monitoring of rapid permafrost degradation with SAR backscatter time series. Characterizing wet snow dynamics with multi-orbit SAR.