Alberto Moreira (M’92–SM’96–F’04) received the B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, São José dos Campos, Brazil, in 1984 and 1986, respectively, and the Dr. Eng. degree (Hons.) from the Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, in 1993.
From 1996 to 2001, he was the Chief Scientist and an Engineer with the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Technology Department, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. Under his leadership, the DLR airborne SAR system has been upgraded to operate in innovative imaging modes, such as polarimetric SAR interferometry and SAR tomography. Since 2001, he has been the Director of the Microwaves and Radar Institute, DLR, and a Full Professor with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, in the field of microwave remote sensing. His DLR’s Institute contributes to several scientific programs and projects for spaceborne SAR missions, such as TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X, SAR-Lupe, and SAR-Lupe follow-on and Kompsat-6, PAZ, Sentinel-1, BIOMASS, and Tandem-L. The mission TanDEM-X, led by his institute, has generated a global, high-resolution digital elevation model of the earth with unprecedented accuracy. He has authored or co-authored over 350 publications in international conferences and journals and eight book chapters. He holds 21 patents in the field of radar and antenna. His research interests include spaceborne radar end-to-end system design, microwave techniques and system concepts, signal processing, and remote sensing applications.
Dr. Moreira was a recipient of several international awards, including the IEEE AESS Nathanson Award for the Young Radar Engineer of the Year in 1999, the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Field Award in 2007, the IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award from the IEEE Board of Directors in 2012, and the IEEE GRSS Distinguished Achievement Award in 2014. He has served as the President for the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) in 2010. He and his colleagues received the GRSS Transactions Prize Paper Award in 1997, 2001, and 2007, and the GRSS Letters Prize Paper Award in 2015 and 2017. He was the Founder and the Chair of the GRSS German Chapter from 2003 to 2008. He served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters from 2003 to 2007. He has been serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing since 2005. Since 2012, he has been serving as the Principal Investigator for the Helmholtz Alliance—Remote Sensing and Earth System Dynamics, comprising of 18 research institutes and 30 associated international partners. He is an initiator and a principal investigator for this mission.
Alberto Moreira (M’92–SM’96–F’04) received the B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, São José dos Campos, Brazil, in 1984 and 1986, respectively, and the Dr. Eng. degree (Hons.) from the Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, in 1993.
From 1996 to 2001, he was the Chief Scientist and an Engineer with the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Technology Department, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. Under his leadership, the DLR airborne SAR system has been upgraded to operate in innovative imaging modes, such as polarimetric SAR interferometry and SAR tomography. Since 2001, he has been the Director of the Microwaves and Radar Institute, DLR, and a Full Professor with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, in the field of microwave remote sensing. His DLR’s Institute contributes to several scientific programs and projects for spaceborne SAR missions, such as TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X, SAR-Lupe, and SAR-Lupe follow-on and Kompsat-6, PAZ, Sentinel-1, BIOMASS, and Tandem-L. The mission TanDEM-X, led by his institute, has generated a global, high-resolution digital elevation model of the earth with unprecedented accuracy. He has authored or co-authored over 350 publications in international conferences and journals and eight book chapters. He holds 21 patents in the field of radar and antenna. His research interests include spaceborne radar end-to-end system design, microwave techniques and system concepts, signal processing, and remote sensing applications.
Dr. Moreira was a recipient of several international awards, including the IEEE AESS Nathanson Award for the Young Radar Engineer of the Year in 1999, the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Field Award in 2007, the IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award from the IEEE Board of Directors in 2012, and the IEEE GRSS Distinguished Achievement Award in 2014. He has served as the President for the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) in 2010. He and his colleagues received the GRSS Transactions Prize Paper Award in 1997, 2001, and 2007, and the GRSS Letters Prize Paper Award in 2015 and 2017. He was the Founder and the Chair of the GRSS German Chapter from 2003 to 2008. He served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters from 2003 to 2007. He has been serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing since 2005. Since 2012, he has been serving as the Principal Investigator for the Helmholtz Alliance—Remote Sensing and Earth System Dynamics, comprising of 18 research institutes and 30 associated international partners. He is an initiator and a principal investigator for this mission.View more 
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