William J. Emery (M'90–SM'01–F'03) received the Ph.D. degree in physical oceanography from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, in 1975.
After working at Texas A&M University, he moved to the University of British Columbia in 1978, where he created a satellite oceanography facility and educational program. He was appointed Full Professor in aerospace engineering sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1987. He is a coauthor of two textbooks on physical oceanography, has translated three oceanographic books (German to English), and has authored over 130 refereed publications. He is active in the analysis of satellite data for oceanography, meteorology, and terrestrial vegetation. His research interests are satellite sensing of sea surface temperature, mapping ocean surface currents, and terrestrial vegetation. He has recently started working in urban change detection using high-resolution optical imagery and synthetic aperture radar data. He also works with passive microwave data for polar applications to ice motion and ice concentration as well as atmospheric water vapor studies. In addition, his group writes analysis software and has established/operated data systems for the distribution of satellite data received by their own antennas. He is an Associate Member of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, an affiliate member of NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Research in Earth Science, and a founding member of the University of Colorado's Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.
Dr. Emery is a member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society and the Editor of the IEEE geoscience and remote sensing letters.
William J. Emery (M'90–SM'01–F'03) received the Ph.D. degree in physical oceanography from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, in 1975.
After working at Texas A&M University, he moved to the University of British Columbia in 1978, where he created a satellite oceanography facility and educational program. He was appointed Full Professor in aerospace engineering sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1987. He is a coauthor of two textbooks on physical oceanography, has translated three oceanographic books (German to English), and has authored over 130 refereed publications. He is active in the analysis of satellite data for oceanography, meteorology, and terrestrial vegetation. His research interests are satellite sensing of sea surface temperature, mapping ocean surface currents, and terrestrial vegetation. He has recently started working in urban change detection using high-resolution optical imagery and synthetic aperture radar data. He also works with passive microwave data for polar applications to ice motion and ice concentration as well as atmospheric water vapor studies. In addition, his group writes analysis software and has established/operated data systems for the distribution of satellite data received by their own antennas. He is an Associate Member of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, an affiliate member of NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Research in Earth Science, and a founding member of the University of Colorado's Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.
Dr. Emery is a member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society and the Editor of the IEEE geoscience and remote sensing letters.View more 
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