Meyer wins early career award

Geophysical Institute Research Professor Franz Meyer of the Earth and Planetary Remote Sensing group was recently awarded the GOLD Early Career Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society.

The GOLD Early Career Award recognizes young scientists and engineers who have demonstrated outstanding ability and promise for significant contributions in the future. This international recognition is awarded only once per year. Awardees are nominated by peers in the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society and are selected by the IEEE Major Award Committee. Meyer will receive a certificate and a $1,500 honorarium at an award ceremony during the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 2011 in Sendai, Japan.

Meyer’s main research interest is the development of advanced synthetic aperture radar and interferometric synthetic aperture radar techniques and their application to geophysical problems, such as surface deformation, coastal change, tropospheric and ionospheric mapping, and permafrost change. He is internationally recognized for his work on the correction of ionospheric and tropospheric effects in SAR and InSAR data and is science team member for several spaceborne radar remote sensing missions. He is the author of more than 70 scientific publications, three of which have acknowledged as Best Papers.