Prof. Richard Bamler

Title of the tutorial

SAR Interferometry

Title of the presentation

Recent Advances in SAR Interferometry at DLR

Biography

Richard Bamler received his Diploma degree in Electrical Engineering, his Doctorate in Engineering, and his “Habilitation” in the field of signal and systems theory in 1980, 1986, and 1988, respectively, from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. He worked at the university from 1981 to 1989 on optical signal processing, holography, wave propagation, and tomography. He joined the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, in 1989, where he is currently the Director of the Remote Sensing Technology Institute.

In early 1994, Richard Bamler was a visiting scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in preparation of the SIC-C/X-SAR missions, and in 1996 he was guest professor at the University of Innsbruck. Since 2003 he has held a full professorship in remote sensing technology at the TUM as a double appointment with his DLR position. His teaching activities include university lectures and courses on signal processing, estimation theory, and SAR.

Richard Bamler, his team, and his institute have been working on SAR and optical remote sensing, image analysis and understanding, machine learning, stereo reconstruction, computer vision, ocean color, hyperspectral image analysis, passive and active atmospheric sounding, and laboratory spectrometry. They were and are responsible for the development of the operational processors for SIR-C/X-SAR, SRTM, TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X, PAZ, Tandem-L, ERS-2/GOME, ENVISAT/SCIAMACHY, MetOp/GOME-2, Sentinel 5p, Sentinel 4, DESIS, EnMAP, etc.

Richard Bamler is a Fellow of the IEEE. His research interests are in algorithms for optimum information extraction from remote sensing data. This involves new estimation algorithms, like sparse reconstruction and compressive sensing for SAR, multi-/hyperspectral imaging and data fusion.