Speakers

Prof. Howard Zebker’s research group specializes in interferometric radar remote sensing applications and technique development, as applied to studies of the Earth and solar system. Originally a microwave engineer, he built support equipment for the SEASAT satellite synthetic aperture radar and designed airborne radar systems. He later developed imaging radar polarimetry, a technique for measurement of the radar scattering matrix of a surface. He is best known for the development of radar interferometry, leading to spaceborne and airborne sensors capable of measuring topography to meter scale accuracy and surface deformation to mm scale. He has participated in a number of NASA radar projects, including the current NISAR mission, and also the NASA Voyager and Cassini Missions to Saturn, where he concentrated on analysis of data acquired by the radar/radiometer instrument. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the AGU, IEEE, and Electromagnetics Academy. He has served on a number of National Academy panels, mostly for the Space Studies Board, plus the Naval Studies Board Advanced Radar Technology Panel. He holds a joint appointment with the Departments of Geophysics and Electrical Engineering, at Stanford, where he serves as Associate Chair for admissions.