David G. Long, Ph.D.

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Director, BYU Center for Remote Sensing Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Head, Microwave Earth Remote Sensing (MERS) Laboratory   459 Clyde Building Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 84602   (801) 422-4383 long@ee.byu.edu (801) 422-0201

Research Interests

Microwave remote sensing, scatterometry, radar, resolution enhancement, signal processing, estimation theory, mesoscale atmospheric dynamics, and polar ice.

Research Description

As an essential tool for the study of the Earth microwave remote sensing can provide valuable information regarding the state of the oceans, polar regions, and vegetated areas. I am currently involved in interdisicplinary research and development of a variety of advanced microwave remote sensing instruments, techniques, and applications, including the development of mesoscale models of oceanic winds for use in model-based wind retrieval (estimation) algorithms from scatterometer data, resolution enhancement algorithms, sampling theory, cryosphere studies, as well as innovative SAR and scatterometer systems.

Selected specific research topics include:

• Spaceborne wind scatterometry (radar remote sensing of oceanic winds)
• Scatterometer model functions
• Rain modeling and measurement
• Remote sensing of polar ice
• Remote sensing of tropical and subtropical vegetaion
• Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
• Interferometric SAR
• Resolution enhancement and reconstruction algorithms (e.g., SIR)

Further information on current research projects

Curriculum Vitae

• Education & Professional Experience
• Publications
• Previous Students

Classes

• Freshman Orientation: Habits of the Mind
• ECEn490: Senior Projects -- Space Education Center
• ECEn564: Radar and Communication Systems
• ECEn568: Microwave Remote Sensing
• ECEn777: Advanced Digital Signal Processing

Last updated: 25 Dec 2006