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IEEE- Hot topic: 2010 Sustainable World
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IEEE Members Use Remote Sensing to Promote a Sustainable Future – June 2010
4) TECHNICAL EXPERT “READ MORE PROFILES” PAGE:
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a) Professor João Antonio Zuffo, IEEE Member, PhD and Professor of Electrical
Engineering at the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
b) David Daniels, IEEE Fellow and Chief Consultant on Sensors, UK Cobham Technical
Services, Leatherhead, United Kingdom
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c)
Professor Ya-Qiu Jin, IEEE Fellow and member of IEEE GRSS
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a)
Expert Profile: A Conversation About the Use of Remote Sensing Technology to Promote a Sustainable
Future
Professor João Antonio Zuffo
IEEE Member, PhD and Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Universidade de São
Paulo, Brazil
“Our planet has been systematically attacked by pollution created by burning organic fossil materials and the
indiscriminate use of toxic metal and organic compounds, some of them stored for billions of years. Remote
sensors help us control environmental pollution and monitor activities that harm the environment and the
ecological system. Today, with our ability to use nanoelectronics and other nanotechnologies, we can build very
low-cost nanosensors and nanoactivators that operate wirelessly. They let us monitor and correct large
environmental areas. For example, we could consider deploying precision agriculture, which minimizes the use of
pesticides, or monitor combustion, optimizing energy generation and thereby reducing carbon gas emissions. We
are clearly living in a time of enormous changes and today we can take steps to ensure that our children's children
inherit a much less polluted world," says Dr. João Antonio Zuffo, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Universidade
of São Paulo and coordinator of Integrable Systems Laboratory at Polytechnic School of São Paulo University (LSIEPUSP), an institution that has been developing environmental sensors to monitor light hydrocarbons and measure
acidity in water sources.
Professor Zuffo, an IEEE Member since 1962, graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from the
Polytechnic School of the Universidade de São Paulo in 1963, obtaining his doctorate from the same institution in
1968. In 1970, he co-founded the USP Microelectronics Laboratory and built the first integrated circuit in Latin
America in April 1971. Since then, he has been providing guidance on theses related to microelectronics and digital
electronic systems, with an emphasis on parallel and distributed supercomputing in computer graphics.
At the beginning of 1976, he founded the Integrable Systems Laboratory, where he currently serves as general
coordinator. In 1992, he became head professor of the electronics area at the Electrical Engineering Department at
EPUSP.
He was president of the Brazilian Microelectronics Society, SBMicro, from 1987 to 1989 and 1991 to 1993. Since
1997, he has been a founding member and president of the Integrated Systems Technology Love Archery
Association, LSI-TEC. He has received various awards and is the author or co-author of several articles and books
on electronics and microelectronics.
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b) A Conversation About the Use of Remote Sensing Technology to Promote a Sustainable Future
David Daniels, IEEE Fellow and Chief Consultant on Sensors, UK Cobham Group, United
Kingdom
“Mine-affected countries need more efficient means of clearing landmines, and developed societies need ways to
protect themselves against attacks by those intent on damaging or even destroying their way of life. One way of
achieving improved levels of protection lies in developing sensing technology that identifies individuals, their
methods of attack and the devices that they employ. Ground penetrating radar technology is a highly successful
method in finding buried objects that threaten the safety and well being of people in mine-affected countries.”
David Daniels is Chief Consultant on Sensors, Cobham Technical Services (previously ERA Technology) where he has
worked since 1986. David is an internationally-recognised expert on ground penetrating and ultra wideband radar
and has published over 100 technical papers, two books on ground penetrating radar, one on electromagnetic
detection of concealed targets, as well as contributing to a number of seminal reference books in the field.
He was elevated to the grade of Fellow of the IEEE in 2010 for his contribution to ground penetrating radar. He has
received awards for his papers, books and innovation in his field of work. David regularly lectures at major
conferences, often as the keynote speaker.
During his career, he has pioneered the design and development of ground penetrating radar in the UK, including
the first development in the UK of short range time, time-domain, and UWB radar. He subsequently gained
considerable experience on a variety of acoustic, infrared and electromagnetic sensing techniques, and is the
inventor of six patents concerning various short-range radar systems.
His key areas of research focus on: sensors for security and counter-terrorism (in particular millimeter wave and
sub-millimeter wave radar systems), short-range UWB radar, IR image processing, magnetics, and acoustics. He is
a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing Societies, and is a member of the Organising
Committees for International Conferences on Radar.
David graduated from the University of Manchester in 1970 with an honours degree in electrical and electronic
engineering, followed later by a Master of Science in physics, with distinction.
The textbook selection below, entitled “EM Detection of Concealed Targets,” written by Mr. Daniels and published
January 2010 by Wiley-IEEE Press, explores the latest electromagnetic (EM) techniques for detecting concealed
targets – whether explosives, weapons, or people: http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd0470121696.html.
“Extensively illustrated from basic principles to system design, the fundamental concepts of RF,
microwave, millimeter wave, and terahertz detection systems and techniques to find concealed targets
are explained in this publication. These concealed targets may be explosive devices or weapons, which
can be buried in the ground, concealed in building structures, hidden under clothing, or inside luggage.
Concealed targets may also be people who are stowaways or victims of an avalanche or earthquake.
Although much information is available in conference proceedings and professional society publications,
this book brings all the relevant information in a single, expertly written and organized volume.
Readers gain an understanding of the physics underlying electromagnetic (EM) detection methods, as well
as the factors that affect the performance of EM detection equipment, helping them choose the right
type of equipment and techniques to meet the demands of particular tasks. Among the topics covered
are:
 Ultra-wideband radar and ground-penetrating radar
 Millimeter, sub-millimeter, and terahertz systems
 Radar systems including Doppler, harmonic, impulse, FMCW, and holographic
 Radiometric systems
 Nuclear quadrupole resonance systems”
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Expert Profile: A Conversation About the Use of Remote Sensing Technology to Promote a Sustainable
Future
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Professor Ya-Qiu Jin, IEEE Fellow and member of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Society (GRSS)
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IEEE Fellow, Dr. Ya-Qiu Jin is a member of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) AdCom, and the
chair of the IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee of GRSS. He is also the chair professor and a Ph.D. supervisor in the
School of Information Science and Engineering, and Director of the Key Laboratory of Wave Scattering and Remote
Sensing Information, in Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Professor Jin’s research focuses on the fields of electromagnetic wave scattering and propagation, radiation
transfer in complex mediums, information theory, and techniques for satellite remote sensing, earth observation
and global environmental change and computational electromagnetics. He is highly regarded in specific research
fields, including theory for polarimetric scattering and information retrieval of SAR remote sensing, vector
radiation transfer and strong turbulence theory and space microwave remote sensing modeling and application.
From 2001 to 2006, as a principle scientist for China’s Basic Research Project (also named Project 973), Professor
Jin led a group of six institutions on quantitative spatial and temporal information retrieval and data fusion
obtained from global environmental observation. He also led key research projects in China, including National
Natural Science Foundation Programs, the Chinese Academy of Sciences Lunar Exploration Program, and projects
for the Feng Yun series of geostationary meteorological satellites operated by China.
Professor Jin is the author of 11 books, has been published in over 590 papers in China and internationally, and
owns five patents, granted both in China and the U.S. He was the first IEEE Fellow from China in the IEEE GRSS and
is the founding chair of the IEEE GRSS Beijing branch. Since 2008, he has worked for IEEE Transactions on
Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS) as Associate Editor.
Dr. Jin received a bachelor’s degree from Beijing University in 1970. He received a Master of Science, and
doctorate degrees in 1982, 1983 and 1985, from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.
Article and Abstracts
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a)
A Robust, Adaptive, Solar Powered Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) Framework for Aquatic Environmental
Monitoring
The paper proposes an environmental monitoring framework based on a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)
technology characterized by energy harvesting, robustness with respect to a large class of perturbations and realtime adaptation to the network topology. A monitoring system integrating the outlined framework has been
deployed in Queensland (AUS) for monitoring the underwater luminosity, temperature, and information necessary
to derive the health status of the coralline barrier. Acquired data can be used to provide quantitative indications
related to cyclone formations in tropical areas.
Authors: Roveri, M., Alippi, C., Galperti, C., Camplani, R.
This paper appears in: IEEE Sensors Journal
Publication Date: 10 June 2010
Page(s): 1
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A Global Optimal Solution with Higher Order Continuity for the Estimation of Surface Velocity from Infrared
Images
A global optimal solution (GOS) provides surface velocities from Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
(AVHRR) remote image sequences using bilinear interpolation algorithms. Although an accurate velocity field can
be estimated by GOS from a sequence of infrared images, the field has only first-order continuity. Because an
actual coastal ocean has a complex irregular coastland and some ocean studies need vorticity and divergence
analysis, (which must be extracted from the velocity field) the development of generic GOS algorithms with higher
order continuity and smoothed cutouts around these edges is very important. This paper addresses the issues of
higher order continuity and smoothed cutouts around coastland edges for using GOS to estimate surface
velocities.
Author: Wei Chen, Remote Sensing Div., Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA
This paper appeared in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Publication Date: April 2010
Page(s): 1931 - 1939
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Impact of Accuracy, Spatial Availability, and Revisit Time of Satellite-Derived Surface Soil Moisture in a
Multiscale Ensemble Data Assimilation System
The study shows that assimilation performance is most sensitive to the spatial availability of soil moisture
observations and least sensitive to retrieval accuracy. The horizontally coupled assimilation system performs
reasonably well even with large observation errors, and it is less sensitive to retrieval accuracy than the uncoupled
system, as reported by previous studies. This suggests that more information may be extracted from satellite soil
moisture observations using multi-scale assimilation systems, resulting in a potentially higher value of such
satellite products.
Author: Ming Pan Wood, E.F., Dept. of Civil & Environ. Engineering, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ, USA
This paper appears in: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
Publication Date: March 2010
Volume: 2; Page(s): 49 - 56
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