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Nominations and Awards of the Institute

Best Poster Award at the IEEE GRSS IADF School - Nikita Basargin

22 September 2023 – We are pleased to announce that our colleague Nikita Basagin received the Best Poster Award, endowed with 500 Euro sponsored by ESA, during the IADF (Image Analysis and Data Fusion) School of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS). This school focuses on applying computer vision (CV) methods to address challenges in remote sensing, it contains a series of lectures on the existing methods utilized for analyzing satellite images, along with the challenges encountered. More: ceremony and certificate.

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Andreas Heinzel

31 August 2023 – We are pleased to announce that our colleague Andreas Heinzel successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Concepts for SAR tomographic imaging of buried objects" at the University of Ulm on Tuesday, August 29, 2023. This dissertation presents new concepts for the detection of buried explosive ordnance by extending SAR tomographic methods, thereby increasing the probability of detection. The effectiveness of these algorithms was verified by measurements with a rail-based radar system. We congratulate very much.

DLR Senior Scientist - Pau Prats

27 July 2023 - We are very pleased to announce that the DLR Executive Board has decided to award our colleague Pau Prats the title of "Senior Scientist". The award ceremony took place yesterday, July 26, 2023, during the event Science BBQ at the Oberpfaffenhofen site. The title “Senior Scientist” is awarded annually by the German Aerospace Center to scientists who distinguish themselves in the field of fundamental research as well as to scientists whose work is application-oriented and focusses in particular on project work.

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Alexander Haas

26 July 2023 – It is a pleasure for us to announce that our colleague Alexander Haas has successfully defended his PhD yesterday on July 25, 2023 at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He convinced the examinants with a very nice presentation about his topic entitled “Charakterisierung von Gebäudestrukturen mit Mikrowellenmessverfahren” which is dealing with the radar-based characterization of buildings for the improvement of energy savings. Congratulations, Alex!

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Carlos Villamil-Lopez

25 July 2023 – We are more than happy to announce that Carlos Villamil-Lopez has very successfully passed his PhD exam at the TU Munich today on 25th July 2023! His thesis is entitled “Change detection for monitoring of man-made objects using time series of very high resolution spaceborne SAR images”. The doctoral degree "Dr.-Ing." is awarded at TUM by the Department of Aerospace and Geodesy. Congratulations, Carlos!

"Best Academic Trajectory" and "Best Master’s Thesis" - Victor Mustieles Pérez

24 July 2023 – We are pleased to inform you that our colleague Victor Mustieles Pérez received two awards at the ‘Awards for Excellence in Telecommunication Engineering COIT-AEIT’ in its 43rd edition, organized by the Spanish Official College of Telecommunication Engineers (COIT) and sponsored by different companies. They yearly recognize the best projects (PhD and Master’s theses) and university trajectories in the field of Telecommunication Engineering in Spain, so they are the most important ones in Spain at this level. Victor Mustieles Pérez received the award for the best academic trajectory, sponsored by Huawei, and the award for the best Master’s thesis within the topic of ‘Government satellite services’, with his work entitled ‘Radar tracking algorithms for space debris monitoring applications’, sponsored by Hisdesat. The ceremony took place last 29th June in Madrid.

IGARSS'23 Student Paper Award (2x) - Andreas Benedikter and Maxwell Nogueira Peixoto

21 July 2023 - This year there was a very tough competition for the student best paper awards at IGARSS with more than 270 papers being submitted. After a pre-selection in May, 10 student papers were presented this week in a dedicated oral session at IGARSS. Yesterday evening the awardees were announced: First Place: Andreas Benedikter for the paper titled: “On the Decorrelation Effect of Dry Snow in Differential SAR Interferometry” and Second Place: Maxwell Nogueira Peixoto for the paper titled: “A Novel Technique to Generate Digital Elevation Models in a Single Pass Using a Cluster of SmallSats”. Both colleagues are with our Institute. The pictures here were taken during the awards ceremony. Congratulations to both colleagues for this outstanding achievement!

2023 IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications - Alberto Moreira

21 May 2023 - We are very pleased to announce that our colleague Prof. Dr. Alberto Moreira, Director of the Microwaves and Radar Institute, was awarded the IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications during the IEEE Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit and Honors Ceremony in May 2023 in Atlanta, USA. This prestigious IEEE award was presented to him for his outstanding achievements in the field of radar remote sensing with the citation, "For leadership and innovative concepts in the design, deployment, and utilization of airborne and space-based radar systems." The whole Institute congratulates him very much!

GRSS IADF Photo Contest 2023 and Helmholtz Image Contest 2023 Traveling Exhibition - Jens Fischer, Joel Amao-Oliva, Muriel Pinheiro, Marc Jaeger, Rolf Scheiber, Martin Keller, Ralf Horn and Andreas Reigber

04 July 2023 – We are happy to announce that our radar image "Medem Rinne seen by Radar Eyes" was among the three winners in the GRSS IADF Photo Contest 2023 and among the TOP 20 images in the Helmholtz Best Scientific Image Contest 2023 which will go on a traveling exhibition through Helmholtz centers. In total there were 162 submissions in this contest. The image is co-authored by Jens Fischer, Joel Amao-Oliva, Muriel Pinheiro, Marc Jaeger, Rolf Scheiber, Martin Keller, Ralf Horn and Andreas Reigber. Congratulations to all the colleagues who contributed to this success! More: GeoWAM.

Promotion zum Dr. sc. - Marcel Stefko

29 March 2023 – We are very pleased to announce that Marcel Stefko has very successfully completed his PhD exam at ETH Zurich today, March 29, 2023! His thesis is entitled "Applications of Bistatic Ku-Band Radar in Snow-Covered Environments". The doctoral degree "Dr. sc." is awarded at ETH Zurich by the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (D-BAUG). Congratulations, Marcel!

Best Master’s Thesis Award - João Pedro Turchetti Ribeiro

06 March 2023 – We are happy to announce that the Prof-Cecchini-Award for best Master’s thesis of the Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA), São José dos Campos, Brazil, in the year of 2022 has been given to our colleague João Pedro Turchetti Ribeiro on the occasion of the Opening Lecture of ITA on March, 06, 2023. The award acknowledges the quality and relevance of his thesis, entitled ‘Concurrent Imaging Mode Applied to High Resolution Wide Swath SAR Imaging’. He graduated as MSc in telecommunications engineering. For these studies, the rector of ITA grants the Prof-Cecchini-Award to the graduate with the best Master’s thesis of the institute each year. We wish him all the best for his further career. More: Certificate

Outstanding Paper Award - Maron Schlemon, Martin Schulz und Rolf Scheiber

22 December 2022 - We are pleased to announce that our colleagues Maron Schlemon and Rolf Scheiber (DLR Microwaves and Radar Institute) and Martin Schulz (Technical University of Munich) have been awarded the Outstanding Paper Award at this year's IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC), September 19-23, 2022, organized by the IEEE Boston Section, for their talk "Resource-Constrained Optimizations For Synthetic Aperture Radar On-Board Image Processing ". We sincerely congratulate them on this extraordinary success!

ERC Starting Grant - Michelangelo Villano

25 November 2022 – Dr. Michelangelo Villano from the Microwaves and Radar Institute (HR) is one of the laureates of the European Research Council (ERC)'s 2022 Starting Grants competition. ERC grants are awarded on the sole criterion of peer-reviewed excellence to high-risk, high-reward proposals that may revolutionise science and potentially lead to innovation. The funded project is entitled “Distributed Radar Interferometry and Tomography Using Clusters of Smallsats (DRITUCS)” and aim at developing cost-effective Earth observation concepts for frequent monitoring of ice volume and forest structure changes and demonstrate them using swarms of drones.

Best Academic Record - Victor Mustieles Pérez

18 November 2022 – We are happy to announce that an award "Best Academic Record" has been given to our colleague Victor Mustieles Pérez. The award acknowledges not only his thesis but his academic career so far. He graduated as MSc in telecommunications engineering. For these studies, the rector of the university ‘Universidad Politécnica de Madrid’ awards the university’s gold pin to the graduate with the best academic record each year. We wish him all the best for his further career.

Promotion zum Dr. sc. - Changhyun Choi

19 October 2022 – We are pleased to announce that our colleague Changhyun Choi successfully defended today, on October 19, 2022, his PhD at ETH Zurich. His thesis is entitled "Combining TanDEM-X Interferometric SAR and GEDI Lidar Measurements for Improving Forest Height, Structure and Biomass Estimates". The doctoral degree "Dr. sc." is awarded at ETH Zurich by the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (D-BAUG). Congratulations, Changhyun!

Best Paper Award - Markus Peichl

13 October 2022 - We are pleased to announce that our colleague Dr. Markus Peichl, DLR Micowaves and Radar Institute, has received the Best Paper Award for his contribution "Future radar-based SSA capabilities facing the New Space race" at the NATO conference "Space Sensors and Space Situational Awareness", October 10-11, 2022 in Interlaken, Switzerland. Congratulations, Markus!

Elected Member of DLR PhD Students' Representative Council – Islam Mansour

07 October 2022 - We are pleased to announce that our colleague Islam Mansour has been elected as one of the five members of the DLR PhD Students' Representative Council. We congratulate him and wish him all the best in this honorary position.

Best Presentation Award - Simon Anger

04 October 2022 - We are pleased to announce that our colleague Dr. Simon Anger, DLR Microwaves and Radar Institute, has been awarded the Best Presentation Award for his talk "Advanced Space Surveillance with the Imaging Radar IoSiS" at this year's AMOS (Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference), September 27-30, 2022 in Maui, Hawaii, USA. Congratulations, Simon!

Golden Ticket Poster Award - Matthias Jirousek

04 October 2022 - We are pleased to announce that our colleague Dr. Matthias Jirousek, DLR Microwaves and Radar Institute, has been awarded the Golden Ticket Poster Award for his poster "High Resolution Imaging of Satellites and Objects in Space with IoSiS" at this year's AMOS conference (Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference), September 27-30, 2022 in Maui, Hawaii, USA. Congratulations, Matthias!

Young Scientist Award (YSA) - Nertjana Ustalli and Michael Pircher

29 September 2022 - We are very pleased to announce that our colleagues Dr. Nertjana Ustalli and Michael Pircher have been awarded the "Young Scientist Award (YSA)" at the 2022 Kleinheubach Meeting, September 27-29, 2022. The title of Dr. Ustalli's paper with co-authors G. Krieger, J. H. M. Mittermayer, M. Villano, and C. Waldschmidt was "MirrorSAR Concept: Phase Synchronization Analysis" and the title of Michael Pircher's paper is "Optimizing the Cross Polarization Performance of a Compact Test Range by Conjugate Matched Field Concept". The selection of a Young Scientist Award (YSA) winner follows a peer review process based on the submitted papers. In addition to originality and creativity, the evaluation criteria include the form and clarity of the submitted work. The award winners were honored in a festive ceremony during the closing event of the Kleinheubach conference. Our warmest congratulations!

MIT-MISTI Grant - Brent Minchew, Matthias Braun, Anke Fluhrer and Thomas Jagdhuber

08 September 2022 - Prof. Dr. Brent Minchew (MIT), Prof. Dr. Matthias Braun (FAU), MSc. Anke Fluhrer (DLR, HR) and Dr. Thomas Jagdhuber (DLR, HR) were awarded the MIT-MISTI grant for the study of cracking in Antarctic ice shelves "Rift Formation in Antarctic Ice Shelves: Constraining the Mechanical Properties of Glacier Ice Using Time-Dependent, High-Resolution Strain-Rate Fields".

EUSAR 2022 - Student Paper Award - Arun Babu, Stefan V. Baumgartner, Gerhard Krieger, Lucas Germano Rischioni

28 July 2022 - We are very pleased to announce that Arun Babu with co-authors Stefan V. Baumgartner, Gerhard Krieger and Lucas Germano Rischioni, all from the DLR Microwaves and Radar Institute (HR), have been awarded one of three Student Paper Awards at the European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (EUSAR 2022) in Leipzig for their paper "Estimation of Road Surface Roughness Using Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar". Congratulations Arun and colleagues! Awards Ceremony

EUSAR 2022 - Best Paper Award - Dominik Richter, Marc Rodriguez-Cassola, Mariantonietta Zonno, Pau Prats

28 July 2022 - We are very pleased to announce that Dominik Richter with co-authors Marc Rodriguez-Cassola, Mariantonietta Zonno and Pau Prats, all from the DLR Microwaves and Radar Institute (HR), have been awarded the Best Paper Award at the European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (EUSAR 2022) in Leipzig for their paper "Coherent Azimuth Ambiguity Supression Based on Linear Optimum Filtering of Short Along-Track Baseline SAR Interferograms". Congratulations Dominik and colleagues! Awards Ceremony

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Sushil Kumar Joshi

04 Juli 2022 – We are very pleased to announce that our colleague Sushil Kumar Joshi has very successfully completed his PhD examination at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) on July 04, 2022! His thesis is titled "Maritime Moving Target Detection, Tracking and Geocoding using Range-Compressed Airborne Radar Data". Congratulations, Sushil!

ARGUS Science Award 2022 - Christian Huber and Philipp Brücker

10 June 2022 - Our former colleague Christian Huber and our present colleague Philipp Brücker were awarded the ARGUS Science Award 2022 by the company HENSOLDT for their master theses on May 24, 2022. Previously, Hr. Huber conducted his master thesis "Development of Radar Travel Time Transmission Tomography Approaches for Subsurface Ice Exploration" at the DLR Microwaves and Radar Institute in Oberpfaffenhofen and successfully defended it at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU). Hr. Brücker's master thesis was „Theoretical Study on Performance Improvement of MW-Class Gyrotrons by External Signal Injection“. He is now working on "Innovative SAR-Bildgebungsverfahren zur verbesserten Extraktion der Rückstreueigenschaften von Zielobjekten mit Hilfe eines drohnenbasierten Radarsystems im Nahbereich" towards a PhD. The ARGUS award was presented during the annual Professor's Day of the company HENSOLDT Sensors GmbH in Ulm. We wish Hr. Huber and Hr. Brücker all the best for the future!

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Nida Sakar

25 May 2022 - It is our pleasure to announce that colleague Nida Sakar has successfully defended her PhD thesis today, this afternoon, at the Technical University of Munich which is entitled: “Processing Approaches for Multistatic Large Along-Track Baseline SAR Constellations”. We would like to warmly congratulate her for this outstanding achievement and at the same time wish her continued success in her research and project work at our Institute.

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Mark Lützner

26 April 2022 - We are pleased to announce that on April 22, 2022, our colleague Dr. Mark Lützner, Microwaves and Radar Institute, Oberpfaffenhofen, has successfully defended his PhD thesis, which is entitled: “A Satellite Swarm-Based Aperture Synthesis Radiometer in Low Earth Orbit for Earth Observation Applications”. The dissertation of Dr. Lützner has been awarded summa cum laude by the University of the Federal Armed Forces (Universität der Bundeswehr) in Munich.

Doctor's Degree Dr. sc. - Philipp Bernhard

31 March 2022 – We are very pleased to announce that Philipp Bernhard has very successfully completed his PhD exam at ETH Zurich today, March 31, 2022! His thesis is entitled "Large-Scale Monitoring of Rapid Permafrost Thaw with Satellite Radar Interferometry". The doctoral degree "Dr. sc." is awarded at ETH Zurich by the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (D-BAUG). Congratulations, Philipp!

Certificate of Recognition and Appreciation - Andrey Osipov

02 March 2022 - The IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society takes pleasure in presenting a certificate of recognition and appreciation to our colleague Andrey Osipov for an exceptional performance from May 1, 2020 to April 30, 2021 as a reviewer of the IEEE Transactions an Antennas and Propagation. The certificate is signed by Yahia Antar (President) and Felix Vega (Secretary) of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society.

Klima-Expertin - Irena Hajnsek

14 February 2022 - We are pleased to announce that our colleague Prof. Dr. Irena Hajnsek is named as a climate expert of the Helmholtz Climate Initiative.

Elected Member of GRSS AdCom 2022-2024 – Ronny Hänsch

08 November 2021 - We are very happy to announce that our colleague Dr.-Ing. Ronny Hänsch has been elected for being a member in the Administrative Committee (AdCom) of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) for the period of 2022 - 2024. Dr. Hänsch is IEEE Senior member, chair of the GRSS technical committee on Image Analysis and Data Fusion (IADF), and editor in chief of the GRSS eNewsletter.

Chairman of the U.R.S.I. Commission F - Wave Propagation and Remote Sensing - Tobias Rommel

13 December 2021 - We are very pleased to announce that our colleague Dr. Tobias Rommel was unanimously elected as Chair of U.R.S.I. Commission F (Wave Propagation and Remote Sensing) in the National Committee Germany at the 2021 Kleinheubach Meeting on September 28, 2021. He will take office in September 2022. The International Union of Radio Science (U.R.S.I.) is an international association of scientists for the study of all aspects of electromagnetic waves and is part of the prestigious International Council for Science ICSU.

Otto-Lilienthal-Sabbatical 2021 - Marc Rodriguez-Cassolá

11 November 2021 - We are very pleased to announce that our colleague Dr. Marc Rodriguez-Cassolá, is one of two awardees of this year's Otto Lilienthal Research Semester of the Society of Friends (GvF) of DLR. He was recognized for his work on the research topic "Study of Processing and Simulation Algorithms for Low-Frequency High-Resolution SAR Systems and Constellations: Implications on Current and Future SAR Mission Concepts". The award ceremony took place on 11 November 2021 at the DLR Space Agency in Bonn. We would like to congratulate him very much!

Young Scientist Award (YSA) - Maxwell Nogueira Peixoto

30 September 2021 - We are happy to announce that our colleague Maxwell Nogueira Peixoto received the "Young Scientist Award (YSA)" at the Kleinheubacher Tagung 2021 which took place 28 -30 September 2021. His contribution, co-authored with Michelangelo Villano und Alberto Moreira, is entitled "A Novel Processing Technique to Suppress Nadir Returns in Staggered Synthetic Aperture Radar". The prize includes 250 Euro, a certificate and the remission of the conference fees. Congratulations, to all co-authors, to this success!

DLR Senior Scientist - Marwan Younis

30 June 2021 - We are very pleased to announce that the DLR Executive Board decided at the 557th Executive Board meeting on April 19, 2021 to award Prof. Dr. Marwan Younis with the title "Senior Scientist". The award ceremony took place yesterday, June 29, 2021, during a virtual event.

ETH Zurich Silver Medal - Georg Fischer

08 June 2021 - We are pleased to announce that our colleague Georg Fischer has been awarded the ETH Zurich Silver Medal by the Rector of ETH Zurich. The medal honors outstanding doctoral theses and was awarded to him for his work "Modeling of Subsurface Scattering from Ice Sheets for Pol-InSAR Applications".

EUSAR 2021 - Best Poster Award - Muriel Pinheiro, Rolf Scheiber, Joel Amao-Oliva, Marc Jäger, Ralf Horn, Jens Fischer, Martin Keller, Andreas Reigber

01 April 2021 - We are very happy to announce that Muriel Pinheiro with co-authors Rolf Scheiber, Joel Amao-Oliva, Marc Jäger, Ralf Horn, Jens Fischer, Martin Keller and Andreas Reigber, all Microwaves and Radar Institute, won the Best Poster Award at the first virtual European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (EUSAR 2021) for their contribution "Airborne SAR Interferometry for Large Scale Mapping of Tidal Flats: The GeoWAM Project". Congratulations from all colleagues! More: GeoWAM.

Finalists of Copernicus Master 2020 - Francescopaolo Sica and Andrea Pulella

18 January 2021 - We are happy to announce that our colleagues Francescopaolo Sica and Andrea Pulella reached the final of the Copernicus Master 2020, DLR Environment and Health Challenge. They participated together with the firm CQuest, proposing an idea entitled “Satellite-Based Carbon Sequestration Monitoring” where they analyzed the potential of multi-sensor remote sensing data, together with physical modelling and artificial intelligence, for the retrieval of soil carbon. Congratulations from all colleagues!

Editor of the GRSS eNewsletter – Ronny Hänsch

11 January 2021 - We are very happy to announce that our colleague Dr.-Ing. Ronny Hänsch has been appointed to serve as editor of the eNewsletter of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) from January 2021. Dr. Hänsch is IEEE Senior member and chair of the GRSS technical committee on Image Analysis and Data Fusion (IADF).

Otto-Lilienthal-Sabbatical 2020 - Kostas Papathanassiou

08 December 2020 - We are very pleased to announce that our colleague Dr. Kostas Papathanassiou has been selected as this year's winner of the Otto Lilienthal sabbatical of the Society of Friends (GvF) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). The award ceremony took place virtually during the 12th meeting of the board of directors and the institute directors on December 4, 2020. We congratulate very warmly!

DLR Science Prize 2020 - Matteo Pardini, Victor Cazcarra-Bes, Kostas Papathanassiou and Irena Hajnsek

07 Dezember 2020 - We are very pleased to announce that our colleagues Matteo Pardini, Victor Cazcarra-Bes, Kostas Papathanassiou and Irena Hajnsek have been awarded the DLR Science Prize 2020. The official award ceremony took place last Friday, December 4, 2020, as part of the DLR Online Executive Dialogue. The DLR Science Prize is awarded annually in recognition of outstanding scientific and technical achievements, especially those of younger employees. This work must be documented in the form of a publication in specialist journals with a review process. The awarded work is: "L- and P-Band 3-D SAR Reflectivity Profiles Versus Lidar Waveforms: The AfriSAR Case" published in IEEE-JSTARS, October 2018. We congratulate very much!

Helmut-Rott-Preis 2020 - Georg Fischer

28 October 2020 - We are pleased to announce that the "Gesellschaft von Freunden des DLR" has awarded the "Helmut Rott Prize 2020", donated and offered by Prof. Dr. Helmut Rott, to Dr. Georg Fischer, Microwaves and Radar Institute, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen. He received this award for his work "Modeling of Subsurface Scattering from Ice Sheets for Pol-InSAR Applications". The certificate is signed by Dr. Fritz Merkle, Chairman of the Executive Board of the Gesellschaft von Freunden des DLR e.V. and Klaus Hamacher, Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board of the German Aerospace Center. Congratulations, Georg!

"Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Contest Finalist" - Sushil K. Joshi

30 September 2020 - We are pleased to announce that our colleague Sushil Kumar Joshi has won one of five prizes awarded during the "Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Contest". This contest was held by IEEE during the "IEEE Radar Conference" in Florence, Italy. The best five videos were selected from all submitted videos. They were awarded the title "Finalist". Another video of these five was also awarded the title "Winner" based on an online viewer voting.

"Young Scientist Award" and "Young Scientist Best Paper Award, Second Place" - Fairouz Stambouli

30 September 2020 - We are very pleased to announce that our colleague Fairouz Stambouli received two prizes at the Kleinheubacher Tagung 2020, which took place online. One is the "Young Scientist Award (YSA)", endowed with 300 Euro, and the other is the "Young Scientist Best Paper Award (YS-BPA), Second Place", endowed with 750 Euro. The awarded paper is entitled "Interleaved Operation Techniques for Multifunctional Syntheric Aperture Radar" and co-authored with Markus Limbach, Tobias Rommel and Marwan Younis. All winners of an award for young scientists were invited to present their work remotely in a special YSA online session. The presentations and papers were evaluated by a selection committee, which chose three winners for the Young Scientist Best Paper Awards. In addition to the prize money, a Young Scientist Award (YSA) also includes a certificate and the waiver of conference fees. Dear Fairouz, our sincere congratulations!

IEEE Senior Member - Stefan Baumgartner

15 August 2020 - Our colleague Dr. Stefan Baumgartner has been awarded the IEEE grade "Senior Member". IEEE Senior Membership is an honor bestowed only to those who have made significant contributions to the profession. Cordially congratulations, Stefan!

IEEE Senior Member and Co-Chair of the Working Group on ‘Remote Sensing Instrument and Technologies for Small Satellites’ - Michelangelo Villano

31 July 2020 and 13 April 2020 - We are very pleased to announce that our colleague Dr.-Ing. Michelangelo Villano has been promoted to "IEEE Senior Member" effective April 13, 2020. He was also appointed co-chair of the Working Group on ‘Remote Sensing Instrument and Technologies for Small Satellites’ as part of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Technical Committee on Instrumentation and Future Technologies (IFT-TC), effective 31 July 2020.

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Timo Kempf

29 Juli 2020 - We are very happy to announce that our colleague Timo Kempf successfully defended his thesis yesterday, on Tuesday, 28 July 2020, at the Bundeswehr University Munich. It is entitled "Extraktion von objektspezifischen Radarsignaturen am Turmdrehstand". We wish him all the best for his future career.

Principal Investigator of Postdoctoral Fellowship Program - Se-Yeon Jeon

25 June 2020 - We are glad to announce that our colleague Dr. Se-Yeon Jeon has been Selected as Principal Investigator of Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (Fostering the Next Generation of Researchers 2020) granted by National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF). The program provides post-doctoral Science & Engineering researchers with opportunities to undergo training at overseas universities and research institutes to maintain research continuity and foster their independent research capacity. We wish you all the best.

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Ezgi Özis

23 June 2020 – We are pleased to announce that our colleague Ezgi Özis defended her doctoral thesis last Friday, 19 June 2020, at the Technische Universität München (TUM) with great success! Her work is entitled "Semi-Analytical Methods in the Design of Transparent Metasheets with Applications to Microwave Radomes". It was the first, ever online held defense of a doctoral thesis at this Institute. Congratulations and all the best for her from all colleagues!

IEEE Senior Member - Ronny Hänsch

10 April 2020 - Our colleague Dr. Ronny Hänsch has been awarded the IEEE grade "Senior Member". IEEE Senior Membership is an honor bestowed only to those who have made significant contributions to the profession. Cordially congratulations, Ronny!

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Simon Anger

03 February 2020 – We are pleased to announce that our colleague Simon Anger defended his doctoral thesis last Friday, on 31 January 2020, at Ulm University with great success! The topic of his thesis was about Imaging of Satellites in Space (IoSiS), the focusing of objects in space via radar imaging. Amongst others also the International Space Station ISS was focused for the first time with very high resolution. Congratulations, Simon and all the best!

Silver Medal of ETH Zurich - Hannah Jörg

20 December 2019 - We are happy to announce that our former colleague Hannah Jörg has been awarded the Silver Medal of ETH Zürich by the Rector of ETH Zurich during a doctoral ceremony in 2019. This medal together with a financial sum hounores outstanding doctoral theses. More: Outstanding Doctoral theses 2019.

MIT-MISTI Scholarship - Dara Entekhabi and Thomas Jagdhuber

10 December 2019 - We are happy to announce that our colleague Dr. Thomas Jagdhuber together with Prof. Dr. Entekhabi (MIT) won the MIT-MISTI scholarship for their work in the field on satellite-borne mircowave remote sensing. More: University Augsburg.

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Néstor Yague-Martinez

17 December 2019 – We are pleased to announce that our colleague Néstor Yague-Martinez defended his doctoral thesis today, on 17 December 2019, at the Technische Universität München (TUM) with great success! His work is entitled "Burst-Mode Wide-Swath SAR Interferometry for Solid Earth Monitoring". Congratulations from all colleagues, Néstor!

Best Bachelor degree of the year - Felipe Celso Reis Pinheiro

09 December 2019 – We are very happy to announce that Felipe Celso Reis Pinheiro's Bachelor thesis at the Brazilian university ITA (Instituto Technologico da Aeronautica in Sao Jose dos Campos), http://elib.dlr.de/119162, was chosen as the best bachelor's thesis of the Electronic Engineering Course in 2019. It is entitled "Investigation of Alternatives for the Calibration of Reflector-Antenna SAR Systems with Multiple Azimuth Channels" and supervised by Felipe Queiroz der Almeida. We wish him all the best for his future career!

Doctor's Degree Dr. sc. - Victor Cazcarra Bes

28 November 2019 – We are very happy to announce that our colleague Victor Cazcarra Bes defended his doctoral thesis yesterday, on 27 November 2019, at the Institute of Environmental Engineering of the ETH Zurich. His thesis is entitled "Forest Structure Characterization from SAR Tomography". The doctoral degree "Dr. sc." is awarded from the ETH Zurich, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering. Congratulations, Victor!

Doctor's Degree Dr. sc. - Georg Fischer

28 November 2019 – We are very happy to announce that our colleague Georg Fischer defended his doctoral thesis yesterday, on 27 November 2019, at the Institute of Environmental Engineering of the ETH Zurich. His thesis is entitled "Modeling of Subsurface Scattering from Ice Sheets for Pol-InSAR Applications". The doctoral degree "Dr. sc." is awarded from the ETH Zurich, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering. Congratulations, Georg!

ITG Award 2019: Felipe Queiroz de Almeida, Tobias Rommel, Gerhard Krieger and Alberto Moreira

25 November 2019 – We are happy to announce that our colleagues Felipe Queiroz de Almeida, Tobias Rommel, Gerhard Krieger and Alberto Moreira won the this year's "ITG Preis". It is awarded every year by the Informationstechnische Gesellschaft (ITG) of VDE (Verband der Elektrotechnik, Elektronik, Informationstechnik) in four categories: ITG Fellow, ITG Preis, VDE Ehrenurkunde und ITG Dissertationspreis. The award is associated with the publication „Multichannel Staggered SAR: System Concepts With Reflector and Planar Antennas”, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems 55.2 (2018): 877-902. The awards ceremony of the Informationstechnische Gesellschaft in VDE (ITG) took place in the framework of the VDE-"Hauptstadtforum 2019". Around 100 participants came on 25 November 2019 to participate in the traditional "Jahresabschlussveranstaltung" at Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW) located at "Gendarmenmarkt", Berlin. Congratulations! VDE Website.

ITG Dissertation Prize - Tobias Rommel

25. November 2019 – We are happy to announce that our colleague Tobias Rommel won the this year's "Dissertationpreis" of the Informationstechnische Gesellschaft (ITG) in VDE (Verband der Elektrotechnik, Elektronik, Informationstechnik). His work is entitled „Development, Implementation, and Analysis of a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Concept for Spaceborne High-Resolution Wide-Swath Synthetic Aperture Radar“. Congratulations, Tobias! VDE Website.

Bavarian VDE Award: Andreas Benedikter

23 November 2019 – We are very happy to announce that our colleague Andreas Benedikter is among the winners of the 2019 Bavarian VDE Awards. The prize has been awarded to him during a festive event in Festsaal des Bayerischen Hofes, Munich, on 24 November by Professor Petra Friedrich, VDE President Southern Bavaria and Jochen Steinbauer, VDE President Northern Bavaria. His award winning master thesis is entitled "Analysis of a Side-Looking SAR for Subsurface Imaging of the Ice-Moon Enceladus". We wish him all the best for his future career.

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Michele Martone

18 November 2019 – We are pleased to announce that our colleague Michele Martone defended his doctoral thesis last Friday, on 15 November 2019, at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) with great success! His work is entitled "Onboard Quantization for Interferometric and Multichannel SAR Systems". Congratulations from all colleagues, Michele!

IEEE GRSS Certificate of Appreciation for IGARSS 2019 - Irena Hajnsek

19 November 2019 – We are happy to announce that our colleague Irena Hajnsek has been awarded a certificate of appreciation for co-organizing IGARSS 2019 in Yokohama, Japan, as Technical Co-Chair. She received the certificate from Paolo Gamba, GRSS President.

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Tobias Bollian

28 October 2019 – We are pleased to announce that our colleague Tobias Bollian defended his doctoral thesis last Friday, on 25 October 2019, at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) with great success! His thesis "Digital Beamforming for Radio Frequency Interference Suppression in Synthetic Aperture Radar" is the result of a cooperation with the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) of NASA . Congratulations from all colleagues, Tobias!

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - André Barros Cardoso da Silva

25 October 2019 – We are pleased to announce that our colleague André Barros Cardoso da Silva defended his doctoral thesis today, on 25 October 2019, at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) with great success! His work is entitled "A Priori Knowledge-Based Post-Doppler STAP for Traffic Monitoring with Airborne Radar". Congratulations from all colleagues, André!

Young Scientist Award - Florian Bischeltsrieder

14. Oktober 2019 - We are happy to announce that our colleague Florian Bischeltsrieder received the "Young Scientist Award" at the Kleinheubacher Tagung, 23 - 25 September 2019, from Awards Commitee Chairman Dr. A. Kraus (Max-Planck Institute of Radio Astronomy, Radio Observatory Effelsberg). The title of his contribution, co-authored by Dr. Markus Peichl and Prof. Wolfgang Utschick is "Robust Capon Based Imaging of Highly Dispersive Targets for Harmonic Radar". A Young Scientist Award (YSA) is associated with a certificate, waving the conference fees and a prize money of 300 Euro. Congratulations, Florian!

Young Scientist Award - Luca Dell Amore

14 October 2019 - We are happy to announce that our colleague Luca Dell Amore received the "Young Scientist Award" at the Kleinheubacher Tagung, 23 - 25 September 2019, from Awards Commitee Chairman Dr. A. Kraus (Max-Planck Institute of Radio Astronomy, Radio Observatory Effelsberg). The title of his contribution, co-authored by Dr. Michelangelo Villano, Prof. Gerhard Krieger, Prof. Alberto Moreira is "Waveform-Encoded Synthetic Aperture Radar: Image Quality Assessment Using Satellite Data". A Young Scientist Award (YSA) is associated with a certificate, waving the conference fees and a prize money of 300 Euro. Congratulations, Luca!

ARGUS Science Award 2019 - Nicola Gollin

07 October 2019 - Our colleague Nicola Gollin has been awarded the 2019 ARGUS Science Award on 25 September 2019, granted by HENSOLDT. This award is endowed with of 500 Euro. His master's thesis "Predictive Quantization for Staggered Synthetic Aperture Radar Systems" done in Research Group System Performance was successfully defended at Prof. Lorenzo Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy. The award ceremony took place in Ulm at the premises of HENSOLDT. We wish him all the best for the future!

ARGUS Science Award 2019 - Andreas Benedikter

07 October 2019 - Our colleague Andreas Benedikter has been awarded the 2019 ARGUS Science Award granted by HENSOLDT. The award is endowed with of 1500 Euro. His master's thesis "Analysis of a Side-Looking SAR for Subsurface Imaging of the Ice-Moon Enceladus" done in Research Group SAR Missions was sucessfully defended at Prof. Vossiek and Prof. Krieger, University Erlangen. The Award ceremony took place on 25 September 2019 in Ulm. We wish him all the best for the future.

Best Thesis Award - Vignesh Nagamuthu

31 August 2019 - It is a joy to announce that our colleague Vignesh Nagamuthu received the "Best Thesis Award" for his Bachelor Thesis "DOA Estimation Techniques to Locate RFID Tags" at TUM Asia in Singapore. More: SiT - Singapore Institute of Technology.

IEEE GRSS J-STARS Prize Paper Award 2019 - Hannah Joerg, Matteo Pardini, Irena Hajnsek und Konstantinos Papathanassiou

01 August 2019 - We are happy to announce that our colleagues Hannah Joerg, Matteo Pardini, Irena Hajnsek and Konstantinos Papathanassiou won the IEEE GRSS J-STARS Prize Paper Award (JPPA) for their contribution "Sensitivity of SAR Tomography to the Phenological Cycle of Agricultural Crops at X-, C- and L-band" in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 11 (9), pp. 3014-3029. The award has been handed over during IGARSS 2019 in Yokohama, Japan. Congratulations and all the best from all colleagues!

IRS 2019 Young Scientist Award - Luca Dell’Amore

28 June 2019 - We are very glad to annonce that our colleague Luca Dell’Amore with co-authors Michelangelo Villano and Gerhard Krieger, Microwaves and Radar Institute, received the IRS 2019 Young Scientist Award at the International Radar Symposium (IRS), June 26-28, 2019 in Ulm, Germany, for the contribution "Assessment of Image Quality of Waveform-Encoded Synthetic Aperture Radar Using Real Satellite Data". Congratulations, Luca, all the best!

GeMiC 2019 - Best Paper Award - Nicola Gollin, Michele Martone, Michelangelo Villano, Paola Rizzoli, Gerhard Krieger

27 March 2019 - We are very glad to announce that some colleagues have just returned from the German Microwave Conference (GeMiC) 2019 held 25 - 27 March in Stuttgart - with good news: Their paper „Predictive Quantization for Staggered Synthetic Aperture Radar“, authors Nicola Gollin, Michele Martone, Michelangelo Villano, Paola Rizzoli, Gerhard Krieger received the "GeMiC 2019 - Best Paper Award". Contratulations to all authors!

Professor at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) - Gerhard Krieger

05 March 2019 - After already six years of appointment procedures, we are happy to announce that our colleague Dr. Gerhard Krieger has been appointed Professor at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany, beside his present department leader position of the Radar Concepts department (RKO) at our Institute. His professorship refers to cognitive radar systems and belongs to the chair of high frequency technology at FAU. Sincere congratulations from all colleagues!

ESA-PolinSAR-Workshop - Prof. Boerner Student Award - Emanuel Hecht

08 February 2019 - We are happy to announce that our colleague Emanuel Hecht, Microwaves and Radar Institute, received the Prof. Boerner Student Award at ESA's PolinSAR Workshop in Frascati (Rome) on 01 February 2019 for his paper entitled "Towards The Estimation Of Soil Parameters Under Agricultural Vegetation By Means Of PolInSAR Measurements". His coauthors are Alberto Alonso-Gonzalez, Kostas Papathanassiou and Irena Hajnsek. Contratulations from all colleagues, Emanuel!

Elevation to IEEE Fellow - Marwan Younis

07 December 2018 - It is our great pleasure to announce that the IEEE Board of Directors, at its November 2018 meeting, elevated Prof. Dr.-Ing. Marwan Younis to "IEEE Fellow", effective, 1 January 2019, with the citation "for contributions to digital beam-forming techniques for spaceborne radar systems". Within the next two months, Marwan will receive his IEEE Fellow pin and certificate. Both serve as visible recognition of his elevation to the highest grade of membership in the IEEE. Recognizing the achievements of its members is an important part of the mission of the IEEE. Each year, following a rigorous evaluation procedure, the IEEE Fellow Committee recommends a select group of recipients for one of the IEEE’s most prestigious honors, elevation to IEEE Fellow.

Elevation to DLR Auditor - Martin Maier

21 November 2018 - A certificate documenting the elevation to "DLR Auditor" has been awarded to Martin Maier, Microwaves and Radar Institute, on 21 November 2018, "on the basis of his qualification according to QMH-DLR-06-V03, his experience stemming from internal audits as well as from knowing the DLR management system". He is now allowed to audit other DLR Institutes and facilities on request according to ISO 9001. Congratulations Martin, from all colleagues.

ESA Living Planet Fellowship 2018 - Francescopaolo Sica

15 November 2018 - We are very pleased to announce that our colleague Dr. Francescopaolo Sica is the recipient of the Living Planet Fellowship 2018 from the European Space Agency (ESA). It consists of a two-years Post-Doctoral co-financing program for carrying out a research project at a host Institution in an eligible ESA member state. Francescopaolo won for his project proposal named HI-FIVE, aimed at modeling backscatter signatures and temporal coherence dynamic of Sentinel-1 together with the generation of high-resolution forest-coverage and deforestation maps from InSAR data. We congratulate Francescopaolo and wish him all the best for the future!

"DLR Science Award" in recognition of scientific achievements - Paola Rizzoli, Michele Martone, Carolina Gonzalez, Christopher Wecklich, Daniela Borla Tridon, Markus Bachmann, Thomas Fritz, Birgit Wessel and Martin Huber

07 November 2018 - We are happy to announce that our colleagues Paola Rizzoli (HR), Michele Martone (HR), Carolina Gonzalez (HR), Christopher Wecklich (HR), Daniela Borla Tridon (HR), Markus Bachmann (HR), Thomas Fritz (IMF), Birgit Wessel (DFD) and Martin Huber (DFD) have been awarded the DLR Science Award (DLR-Wissenschaftspreis). The award was presented during the DLR General Assembly Meeting on the 6th of November 2018 at DLR’s site in Brunswick, Germany. The prize is awarded every year primarily to young scientists at DLR in honor of their outstanding scientific achievements which must be documented in refereed scientific journals. The awarded work is entitled: “Generation and Performance Assessment of the Global TanDEM-X Digital Elevation Model”, published in ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, no. 132, pp. 119-139, October 2017. Congratulations from all of us!

Franz-Xaver-Erlacher-Förderpreis 2018 - Sushil Kumar Joshi

05 November 2018 - We are very happy to announce that our colleague Sushil Kumar Joshi recently received the Franz-Xaver-Erlacher-Förderpreis (Franz Xaver Erlacher Promotion Award) - an award for promoting young scientists and PhD students granted by the Society of Friends of DLR. The awards presentation took place during a scientific colloquium at DLR in Oberpfaffenhofen on October 24, 2018. We congratulate him to this award and wish him furthermore all the best and success in the future. More.

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Paola Rizzoli

05 October 2018 - We are pleased to announce that our colleague Paola Rizzoli defended her doctoral thesis today, on 05 October 2018, at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) with great success! Her work is entitled "Radar Backscatter Modeling based on Global TanDEM-X Mission Data". Congratulations from all colleagues, Paola!

Publons Review Award - Jens Fischer

12 Septermber 2018 - A "Publons Peer Review Award 2018" has been awarded to Jens V. Fischer, Microwaves and Radar Institute, on 12 September 2018 in category "Top 1%" in research field "Multidisciplinary". He is ranked „18th“ among 434 winners in this category based on Publon's global reviewer database, determined by the number of peer review reports performed during the 2017-2018 Award year. Publons' Peer Review Awards are the only cross-publisher Awards that celebrate the efforts of peer reviewers worldwide. Publons honors the engagement of the top 1% of reviewers in each of the 22 Essential Science Indicators (ESI) research fields every year. Rankings are calculated by number of verified pre-publication reviews performed and added to Publons between 1 September 2017 and 1 September 2018. Reviews are attributed to a ESI field based on the journal the review was performed for. The ESI field categorisation is used because these are broad research areas that align with the Web of Science (formerly ISI) – the most trusted citation index for scientific and scholarly research.

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Tobias Rommel

28 August 2018 - We are very happy to announce that our colleague Tobias Rommel successfully defended his dissertation today on 28 August 2018 at the Chemnitz University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. His work entitled „Development, Implementation, and Analysis of a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Concept for Spaceborne High-Resolution Wide-Swath Synthetic Aperture Radar“ was supervised by Prof. Chandra. Congratulations, Tobias, from all colleagues!

IEEE Review Award - Giuseppe Parrella

30. Juli 2018 - A Certificate of Recognition has been awarded to Giuseppe Parrella, Microwaves and Radar Institute, in July 2018 „for his outstanding service as one of the best reviewers of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing in 2017“. The award is signed by Adriano Camps, GRSS President, Qian (Jenny) Du, JSTARS Editor-in-Chief, and William Emery, Vice-President of Publications.

Talent Management Programm - Stefan Baumgartner

21 June 2018 - We are glad to announce that colleague Dr.-Ing. Stefan Baumgartner has successfully completed the DLR "Talent Management Programm". The Talent Management Programm of DLR is a high calibre and very individual personnel development tool: it provides outstanding employees with intensive support over the course of two years. lts focus is on developing interdisciplinary skills with the aim of taking on key functions.

EUSAR 2018 - Best Paper Award - Gerhard Krieger, Mariantonietta Zonno, Josef Mittermayer, Alberto Moreira, Sigurd Huber, Marc Rodriguez-Cassola

14 June 2018 - We are happy to announce that our colleagues Gerhard Krieger, Mariantonietta Zonno, Josef Mittermayer, Alberto Moreira, Sigurd Huber und Marc Rodriguez-Cassola, Microwaves and Radar Institute, received the Best Paper Award for their paper "MirrorSAR: A Fractionated Space Transponder Concept for the Implementation of Low-Cost Multistatic SAR Missions" at the European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (EUSAR 2018) in Aachen, Germany. Congratulations from all colleagues!

EUSAR 2018 - Student Paper Award - Georg Fischer

14 June 2018 - We are very glad to annonce that our colleague Georg Fischer, Microwaves and Radar Institute, received one of the three Best Student Paper Awards on Thursday last week at the 12th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (EUSAR 2018) in Aachen, for his excellent work entitled "Cancellation of Dominant Scattering Layers in Greenland's Subsurface for the Characterization of Ice Volumes". His work is co-authored by Matteo Pardini, Giuseppe Parrella, Kostas Papathanassiou and Irena Hajnsek. Congratulations, Georg, and all co-authors!

DLR_Graduate_Program - Felipe Queiroz de Almeida

18 April 2018 - Our colleague Felipe Queiroz de Almeida just finished his DLR_Graduate_Program successfully and received his certificate. Congratulations, Felipe!

HR Institute now certificated according to "ISO9001:2015"

17 April 2018 - Our Institute successfully renewed its certification according to the quality management standard ISO9001. In course of the recertification process, HR updated its quality management system to the new revision of the ISO9001:2015. The external auditor confirmed that the quality management system of HR is in line with the new revision of the standard and recommend the granting of the new certificate. We would like to thank all colleagues who contributed to this success.

Doctor's Degree Dr. sc. - Hannah Jörg

21 December 2017 - We are very happy to announce that our colleague Hannah Jörg defended her doctoral thesis yesterday, on 20 December 2017, at the Institute of Environmental Engineering of the ETH Zurich. Her thesis is entitled "Multi-Frequency Polarimetric SAR Tomography for the 3-D Characterization and Monitoring of Agricultural Crops". The doctoral degree "Dr. sc." is awarded from the ETH Zurich, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering. Congratulations, Hannah!

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Felipe Queiroz de Almeida

19 December 2017 - We are very happy to announce that our colleague Felipe Queiroz de Almeida defended his doctoral thesis yesterday, on 18 December 2017, at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) with distinction! His work is entitled "Multichannel Staggered SAR for High-Resolution Wide-Swath Imaging". Congratulations, Felipe!

Doctor's Degree Ph.D. - Li Dexin

06 December 2017 - We are very happy to announce that our colleague Li Dexin successfully defended his thesis on 27 November 2017 at the National University of Defence Technology (NUDT), School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Changsha, China with great enthusiasm of his reviewers! His thesis entitled "Processing Aspects, Simulation and Analysis of the Impact of the Atmosphere on GEO SAR Observations" had been under supervision of Dr. Marc Rodriguez-Cassola (see pictures, right), here at the Intitute, who also joined him for this defence in China. Congratulations, Li Dexin, from all colleagues here at the Institute!

Helmut Rott Doctoral Candidate Award - Silvan Leinss

24 October 2017 - We are very happy to announce that our colleague Silvan Leinss (ETH Zurich) has been awarded the Helmut Rott Doctoral Candidate Award on October 19, 2017. Silvan had a talk "Depths, Anisotropy and Water Equivalent of Snow estimated by Radar Interferometry and Polarimetry" here at the Institute on October 20, 2015, successfully defended his thesis in November 2015 and received his doctorate in March 2016 from the ETH Zurich. All the best from all colleagues!

Otto Lilienthal Sabbatical 2017 - Marwan Younis

24 October 2017 - We are very glad to announce that our collegue Prof. Dr. Marwan Younis has been awarded the "Otto Lilienthal" Sabbatical 2017 from the Society of Friends of the German Aerospace Center (GvF). The Awards presentation took place during a scientific colloquium at DLR Bonn on October 19, 2017. Best wishes from all colleagues!

Young Scientist Award for Excellence - Hannah Jörg

29 September 2017 - We are happy to announce that our colleague Hannah Jörg received the "Young Scientist Award for Excellence" at the Kleinheubacher Tagung, 25 - 27 September 2017, from Awards Commitee Chairman Prof. Klinkenbusch (University Kiel). The title of her contribution was "Polarimetric SAR Tomography for Monitoring Changes in Agricultural Crops". Congratulations, Hannah!

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Letter Prize Paper Award 2017 - M. Villano, G. Krieger, and A. Moreira

31 July 2017 - We are very happy to announce that our colleagues Michelangelo Villano, Gerhard Krieger and Alberto Moreira, Microwaves and Radar Institute, received the 2017 GRS Letter Paper Prize Award, for their paper “Onboard Processing for Data Volume Reduction in High-Resolution Wide-Swath SAR”. The certificate has been handed over to them by IEEE GRSS President Professor Adriano Camps during IGARSS 2017 in Forth Worth, Texas.

ITG Dissertation Prize 2017 - Michelangelo Villano

14 July 2017 - We are very happy to announce that our colleague Dr. Michelangelo Villano has been awarded the "ITG Dissertation Prize 2017" for his thesis entitled „Staggered Synthetic Aperture Radar“. ITG is VDE's Informationstechnische Gesellschaft (Association of Engineers in Information Technology) and VDE is Germany's IEEE-like association of electrical engineers. The Prize will be presented to him during an event taking place on November 27, 2017 in the "Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften", Berlin. Cordially congratulations from all our Institute!

Werner-von-Siemens-Ring Foundation Young Scientist Award - Michelangelo Villano

12 July 2017 - We are very proud to announce that the Werner-von-Siemens-Ring Foundation will be awarding their Young Scientist Award to our colleague Michelangelo Villano on December 13, 2017 during a ceremonious colloquium in Schwanau, Germany. Since 1977, the Werner-von-Siemens-Ring Foundation acknowledges with this award highly promising results of young scientists. This award will give him the opportunity to be part of a broad network of young scientists who are engaged in promoting technology research. The foundation provides for this purpose an annual, dedicated budget for related events and publications. The awards ceremony will be accompanied by a 15-minute talk of the award winner. He will receive a silver medal with a relief of Werner von Siemens and a certificate with the appreciation of his recent results.

Professor at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - Marwan Younis

01 June 2017 - After two years of appointment procedures, we are happy to announce that our colleague Dr. Marwan Younis has been appointed Professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Karlsruhe, Germany, beside his present research group leader position within the Radar Concepts department (RKO) at our Institute. Sincere congratulations from all colleagues!

Best Poster Award - Paola Rizzoli et. al.

20 March 2017 - We are pleased to announce that our colleagues Paola Rizzoli, Michele Martone, Christopher Wecklich, Carolina Gonzalez, Jose Luis Bueso Bello, Paolo Valdo, Gerhard Krieger and Manfred Zink won the BEST POSTER AWARD with their poster "Deriving Forest/Non-Forest Maps from TanDEM-X Interferometric SAR Data" at the WorldCover 2017 Conference. The winners were announced during the conference closing session. Congratulations from all the Insitute!

Doctor's Degree Dr. sc. - Octavio Ponce

22 December 2016 - We are happy to announce that our colleague Octavio Ponce successfully defended yesterday his PhD thesis "Multicircular Holographic SAR Tomography over Forested Areas" at the Institute of Environmental Engineering of the ETH Zurich. Ocavio already left DLR and will now work for a Google startup. Congratulations, Octavio, and all the best!

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Muriel Pinheiro

20 Dezember 2016 - It is a great pleasure to congratulate our colleague Muriel Pinheiro for the very successful defense of her PhD thesis "Multi-Mode SAR Interferometry for High-Precision DEM Generation" yesterday, 20 December 2016, at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). She passed with distinction. With the results of her thesis we are now able to create Digital Surface Models (DSM) with nearly laser-scanning quality. Her results do also apply to TanDEM-X data for example. Congratulations, Muriel!

Full Professor at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich - Irena Hajnsek

09 December 2016 - Prof. Dr. Irena Hajnsek, DLR Mircowaves and Radar Institute and up to now Associate Professor at ETH Zurich, has been appointed Full Professor of Earth Observation and Remote Sensing at ETH Zurich. Irena Hajnsek is one of the world’s leading scientists in the field of remote sensing using radar waves and in the application of satellite radar data. A key focus of her work is the development of bio/geophysical inversion models for determining environmental parameters such as soil moisture from multi-parametric SAR data. Her results contribute significantly to improving global environmental monitoring and forecasting harvests and food security. Irena Hajnsek’s versatility offers ETH Zurich considerable potential for networking and innovation. Congratulations from all colleagues! Read more at the ETH website.

SET Panel Excellence Award - Andrey Osipov

22 November 2016 - We are glad to announce that our colleague Dr. Andrey Osipov, Microwaves and Radar Institute, has been awarded the NATO SET Panel Excellence Award for his excellent contributions to the SET Task Group on „Metamaterials for Defence and Security Applications“. Congratulations, Andrey.

"DLR Science Award" in recognition of scientific achievements - Michelangelo Villano

22 November 2016 - We are happy to announce that our colleague Dr. Michelangelo Villano has been awarded with the DLR Science Award "DLR-Wissenschaftspreis". This Prize is awarded every year primarily to young scientists at DLR in honor of their outstanding scientific achievements which must be documented in refereed scientific journals. The awarded work of Michelangelo is entitled: “Staggered SAR: High-Resolution Wide-Swath Imaging by Continuous PRI Variation”, published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 52, No. 7, July 2014. Congratulations, Michelangelo!

Franz-Xaver-Erlacher-Förderpreis 2016 - Nida Sakar

20 October 2016 - We are very happy to announce that our colleague Nida Sakar recently received the Franz-Xaver-Erlacher-Förderpreis (Franz Xaver Erlacher Promotion Award) - an award for promoting young scientists and PhD students granted by the Society of Friends of DLR. We would like to congratulate her to this award and wish her furthermore all the best and success in the future.

Young Scientist Award for Excellence - Muriel Pinheiro

06 October 2016 - We are very glad to announce that our colleague Muriel Pinheiro has received the "Young Scientist Award for Excellence" at the Kleinheubacher Tagung 2016 in September 26-28, 2016. The title of her contribution was "Large-Baseline InSAR for Precise Topographic Mapping: A Dual-Baseline Framework for TanDEM-X Interferometric Data". Congratulations, Muriel!

OHB Award - Octavio Ponce, Felipe Queiroz de Almeida und Tobias Rommel

29 September 2016 - We are very glad to annonce that our colleague Octavio Ponce and co-authors Felipe Queiroz de Almeida and Tobias Rommel, Microwaves and Radar Institute, received the OHB - Award "Future of Radar Based Earth Observation" at the 15th Space Generation Congress (SGC) / 67th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), September 21-30, 2016 in Guadalajara, Mexico, for their contribution "Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Circular SAR for High Altitude Pseudo Satellite". Congratulations!

IEEE TGRS Prize Paper Award 2016 - Andreas Reigber and Marc Jäger

19 July 2016 - We may announce that our colleagues Andreas Reigber and Marc Jäger have been honored as co-authors of the award winning article "NL-SAR: A Unified Nonlocal Framework for Resolution-Preserving (Pol)(In)SAR Denoising" of Charles Deledalle et. al. (he has also been a guest scientist at our institute) at IGARSS 2016 in Begijng. Their journal contribution won the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society "2016 Transactions Prize Paper Award". Congratulations from all colleagues!

EUSAR 2016 - Best Paper Award - Gerhard Krieger, Tobias Rommel, Alberto Moreira

17 June 2016 - We are happy to announce that our colleagues Gerhard Krieger, Tobias Rommel and Alberto Moreira, Microwaves and Radar Institute, received the Best Paper Award for their paper "MIMO SAR Tomography" at the European Synthetic Aperture Radar Conference, EUSAR 2016, in Hamburg, Germany. Congratulations from all colleagues!

Professor at the Technische Universität (TU) Berlin - Andreas Reigber

16 June 2016 - We may announce that PD Dr. Andreas Reigber has been appointed Professor at the Technische Universität Berlin for remote sensing and digital image processing. The University recognizes therewith his outstanding achievements in research and teaching in this field. Dr. Reigber is already giving lectures at TU Berlin since 2002 about photogrammetry and radar. He habilitated in 2008 and has been appointed as Privat-Dozent (PD) since then at TU Berlin. We wish him every success for his research, both at the University and at our Institute!

Recognition in Young Scientist Contest - Russel Que

14 June 2016 - We are very glad to annonce that our colleague Russel Que, Microwaves and Radar Institute, received the "Recognition in Young Scientist Contest" at the 17th International Radar Symposium (IRS 2016), 10 - 12 Mai 2016 in Krakow, Poland. Congratulations, Russel!

DLR_Graduate_Program - Michelangelo Villano

17 May 2016 - Our colleague Michelangelo Villano just finished his DLR_Graduate_Program successfully and received his certificate. Congratulations, Michelangelo!

Doctor's Degree Dr. rer. silv. - Astor Torano Caicoya

03 May 2016 - We are happy to announce that our colleague Astor Torano Caicoya successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Allometric Estimation of Aboveground Forest Biomass using Forest Structure Parameters estimated by means of Multi-Baseline SAR Measurements" at the Chair of Forest Growth and Yield Science of the Technical University Munich (TUM) already on Friday, 29 April 2016. In his thesis he addressed the estimation of forest biomass using allometric techniques based on forest structure parameters estimated by SAR. Astor performed his presentation as well as the questions round in a very convincing and settled way. We would like to congratulate Astor for his well deserved achievement, thank him for the time we spend together and wish him a successful future.

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Francescopaolo Sica

25 April 2016 - We are happy to announce that our colleague Francescopaolo Sica successfully defended his thesis entitled "Non-Local Methods for InSAR Parameter Estimation" on Thursday, 21 April 2016, at the Neapel Federico II University. We wish him all the best for his future career.

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Jan Eilers

22 April 2016 - We are very glad to announce that our colleague Jan Eilers successfully defended his thesis entitled "Planning Procedures for SAR Satellite Systems for Interferometric Product Generation" on Monday, 18 April 2016, at the Bundeswehr University Munich. We wish him all the best for his future career.

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Michelangelo Villano

25 February 2016 - It is our pleasure to congratulate our colleague Michelangelo Villano for the successful defense of his PhD thesis at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The title of his thesis is “Staggered Synthetic Aperture Radar”. With a very clear and perfectly recited presentation, Michelangelo convinced the board of examiners about the quality of his thesis, which provides the basis for a new generation of synthetic aperture radars for high-resolution ultra-wide-swath SAR imaging like Tandem-L.

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Björn Döring

24 February 2016 - We are happy to announce that our colleague Björn Döring successfully defended his thesis yesterday on February 23, 2016 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The topic of his thesis is „Traceable Radiometric Calibration of Synthetic Aperture Radars”. He especially succeeded in laying foundations in the field of radar calibration in order to be able to advance into new classes of accuracy. On behalf of all colleagues we cordially congratulate him to this success.

Certified Systems Engineer - Mathias Weigt

19 January 2016 - We are glad to announce that our colleague Mathias Weigt has been granted the title "Certified Systems Engineer (Level C)". This certification presumes a University degree and up to four years of working experience in Systems Engineering. The title has been awarded by the Gesellschaft für Systems Engineering e.V. (GfSE), German Chapter of INCOSE. The certificate can, amongst other things, help to successfully acquire new projects.

Certified Systems Engineer - Johannes Böer

19 January 2016 - We are glad to announce that our colleague Johannes Böer has been granted the title "Certified Systems Engineer (Level B)". This certification presumes a University degree and at least five years of working experience in Systems Engineering. The title has been awarded by the Gesellschaft für Systems Engineering e.V. (GfSE), German Chapter of INCOSE. The certificate can, amongst other things, help to successfully acquire new projects.

Project Management Professional - Daniel Schulze

19 January 2016 - We are glad to announce that our colleague Daniel Schulze has been granted the title "Project Management Professional". This certification presumes multiple years of working experience in project management. The title has been awarded by the Project Management Institute which is the largest among three worldwide leading institutions that grant such certifications. The certificate can, amongst other things, help to successfully acquire new projects.

Doctor's Degree Dr. rer. silv. - Florian Kugler

25 January 2016 - We are very glad to announce that our colleague Florian Kugler successfully defended his thesis entitled "Pol-InSAR Forest Height Estimation at Different Frequencies: Opportunities and Limitations" at the Chair of Forest Growth and Yield Science of the Technical University Munich (TUM) already on 22 December 2015. Florian's work was essential in understanding and solving many problems and open issues on quantitative forest height estimation from several acquisition configurations and sensors. In a convincing discussion Florian mastered SAR and forestry questions with the same virtue. This was the last "Chapter" of PhD work that ended with a well deserved Doctor rer. silv. title ... and probably the best X-mas present ever! We would like to congratulate Florian to this achievement and wish him a very successful future.

Doctor's Degree Dr. sc. - Giuseppe Parella

26 November 2015 - We are very happy to inform you that Giuseppe Parrella successfully defended his PhD thesis "Characterization of Glacier Facies using SAR Polarimetry at Long Wavelengths" yesterday at the Institute of Environmental Engineering of the ETH Zurich. It was a challenging discussion that lasted almost two hours and gave Giuseppe the possibility to prove with bravery that he fully deserves his PhD title. Congratulations, Giuseppe!

Elevation to IEEE Fellow - Andreas Reigber

24 November 2015 - The IEEE Board of Directors, at its November 2015 meeting, has elevated Dr. Andreas Reigber to "IEEE Fellow", the highest grade of membership in the IEEE. This prestigious honour has been awarded to him with the citation: "for contributions to SAR tomography and airborne multi-band SAR" and recognises his distinguished achievements in this area.

Elected Member of GRSS AdCom 2016-2018 and Vice-President of Technical Activities – Irena Hajnsek

11 November 2015 - We are very happy to announce that our colleague Prof. Dr. rer. nat Irena Hajnsek has again been elected for being a member in the Administrative Committee (AdCom) of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS), this time for the period of 2016 - 2018. Additionally, she will be the "Vice-President of Technical Activities“. Prof. Hajnsek is IEEE Fellow and in the last three years she had the lead within the IEEE GRSS Advisory Committee for conferences and symposia.

Franz-Xaver-Erlacher-Förderpreis 2015 - Felipe Queiroz de Almeida

30 October 2015 - We are very happy to announce that our colleague Felipe Queiroz de Almeida recently received the 5th Franz-Xaver-Erlacher-Förderpreis (Franz Xaver Erlacher Promotion Award) - an award for promoting young scientists and PhD students granted by the Society of Friends of DLR. The awards presentation took place during a scientific colloquium at DLR in Cologne on October 27, 2015. We congratulate him to this award and wish him furthermore all the best and success in the future.

APSAR 2015 - Student Paper Award - Michelangelo Villano

12 October 2015 - We are very glad to annonce that our colleague Michelangelo Villano, Microwaves and Radar Institute, received the APSAR 2015 Student Paper Award at the 5th Asia-Pacific Synthetic Aperture Radar Conference (APSAR, 01 - 04 September 2015) in Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. Congratulations, Michelangelo!

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Transactions Prize Paper Award 2015 - Gerhard Krieger

25 September 2015 - We are happy to announce that our colleague Gerhard Krieger, Microwaves and Radar Institute, received the 2015 GRS Transactions Paper Prize Award for his paper “MIMO-SAR: Opportunities and Pitfalls”. The certificate has been handed over to him by IEEE GRSS President Prof. Kamal Sarabandi during IGARSS 2015 in Milan, Italy.

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Letter Prize Paper Award 2015 - M. Villano, G. Krieger, and A. Moreira

25 September 2015 - We are happy to announce that our colleagues Michelangelo Villano, Gerhard Krieger and Alberto Moreira, Microwaves and Radar Institute, received the 2015 GRS Letter Paper Prize Award for their paper “A Novel Processing Strategy for Staggered SAR”. The certificate has been handed over to them by IEEE GRSS President Prof. Kamal Sarabandi during IGARSS 2015 in Milan, Italy.

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Markus Bachmann

21 July 2015 - We are happy to announce that our colleague Markus Bachmann successfully defended his thesis yesterday on 20 July, 2015, enitled “Antenna Pattern Modeling and Calibration for Spaceborne SAR Systems“, at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) with a highly interesting talk and a stimulating discussion. Congratulations and all the best, Markus!

"Otto Lilienthal" Sabbatical 2015 - Paco López-Dekker

01. Juli 2015 - We are very glad to announce that our collegue Dr. Francisco (Paco) López-Dekker has been awarded the "Otto Lilienthal" Sabbatical 2015 from the Society of Friends of the German Aerospace Center (GvF). The Awards presentation will take place during a scientific colloquium at DLR in Cologne on October 27, 2015. Paco will start his sabbatical next year at IFREMER (Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la MER), Laboratoire d'Océanographie Spatiale near Brest, France. All the best!

ISO 9001 certificate awarded to HR Institute

28 April 2015 - Yesterday, on April 27, 2015, an external audit took place at our Institute with the aim of obtaining an ISO 9001 (Quality Management) certificate. And, yes, the external auditor recommended that we will receive the ISO 9001 certificate. We would like to thank all colleagues who contributed to this success.

DLR_Graduate_Program - Stefan Baumgartner

28 April 2015 - Our colleague Stefan Baumgartner just finished his DLR_Graduate_Program successfully and received a certificate. Congratulations, Stefan!

Culmann Prize - Jun Su Kim

23 April 2015 - We are happy to announce that our colleague Jun Su Kim won the Culmann Prize from the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zurich, for his doctoral thesis "Development of Ionosphere Estimation Techniques for the Correction of SAR Data."

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Mariantonietta Zonno

23 March 2015 - Dear all, we are happy to annoumce that Mariantonietta Zonno is now (approx. two weeks ago) Dr. Mariantonietta Zonno. Mariantonietta did her Ph.D. at the Politecnico de Bari. The title of her thesis is “SAR Images Processing: Advancements in GB-SAR Data Focusing and InSAR Applications”. This research includes her work with Francesco De Zan on the lack of phase consistency in interferometric stacks (triplets) during her stay as a visiting scientist at our Institute last year. Presently, she is working on performance models for all kinds of applications. Congratulations, Mariantonietta!

Best Poster Award - Daniel Rudolf et. al.

19. März 2015 - We are very glad to announce that some colleagues have just returned from the German Microwave Conference (GeMIC) 2015 in Nuremburg - with good news: Their paper „Absolute Radiometric Calibration oft he Novel DLR 'Kalibri' Transponder“, authors Daniel Rudolf, Sebastian Raab, Björn Döring, Matthias Jirousek, Jens Reimann and Marco Schwerdt received the GeMIC Best Poster Award 2015. We will show you a picture soon. Contratulations to all authors!

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Harald Anglberger

03 March 2015 - We are very glad to announce that our colleague Harald Anglberger successfully defended his PhD thesis yesterday at the Bundeswehr University Munich entitled „Simulation and Analysis of SAR Signatures with high Resolution“. Congratulations, Harald, to this success!

"DLR Science Award" in recognition of scientific achievements - Thomas Jagdhuber

10 December 2014 - We are happy to announce that our colleague Dr. Thomas Jagdhuber has been awarded with the DLR Science Award (DLR-Wissenschaftspreis). The award has been presented to him during the DLR General Assembly Meeting, beginning of December in Bremen. The Prize is awarded every year primarily to young scientists at DLR in honor of their outstanding scientific achievements which must be documented in refereed scientific journals. The awarded work of Thomas Jagdhuber is entitled: “Soil Moisture Estimation Under Low Vegetation Cover Using a Multi-Angular Polarimetric Decomposition”, published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 51, No. 4, April 2013. Congratulations, Thomas!

DLR Recognition as Center of Excellence in “Spaceborne Radar Remote Sensing”

20 October 2014 - The DLR executive board recently awarded the Microwaves and Radar Institute (HR) together with IMF and DFD the title “DLR Center of Excellence” concerning “Spaceborne Radar Remote Sensing”. This recognizes our world-wide acknowledged end-to-end system expertise in radar remote sensing, starting from conception and specification of new SAR sensors and missions, with development of new technologies and algorithms up to data processing and application of data products in earth science and safety responsibilities. The Microwaves and Radar Institute (HR) is carrying this title together with IMF and DFD from 2001. It has now been extended until end of 2015.

Asto Aerospace Promotion Prize 2014 - Anton Heistser

06 October 2014 - We are very glad to announce that our colleague Anton Heistser, Microwaves and Radar Institute, has been awarded the Asto Aerospace Promotion prize 2014 by the DLR friends association "Gesellschaft von Freunden des DLR" in order to support his dissertation. Congratulations, Anton!

Certificate of Merit - Michelangelo Villano

06 October 2014 - We are very happy to announce that our colleague Michelangelo Villano was among the finalists for the “Young Scientists Award” and was honored with a “Certificate of Merit” for his presentation “Staggered SAR: Imaging a Wide Continuous Swath by Continuous PRI Variation“ at the U.R.S.I. Kleinheubacher Tagung. We congratulate him very much to this appreciation and wish him all the best for the future.

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Esteban Aguilera

29 September 2014 - On Friday last week, our former colleague Esteban Aguilera came to TU Berlin in order to defend his doctoral thesis entitled "Synthetic Aperture Radar Tomography - Compressed Sensing Models and Algorithms”. After a very professional presentation and more than one hour of answering questions, the promotion committee decided to award him a Doctorate with "summa cum laude". On behalf of all DLR colleagues, we would like to congratulate him to this success! Esteban now works for Hansje Brinker, a company in the Netherlands, performing PSI deformation analysis.

2014 IEEE Distinguished Achievement Award - Alberto Moreira

20 August 2014 - We are very happy to announce that our colleague Prof. Dr. Alberto Moreira, Director of the Microwaves and Radar Institute, received the „2014 IEEE Distinguished Achievement Award“ during the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposiums (IGARSS), Plenary Session in Quebec. This award recognizes his distinguished achievements in the field of radar remote sensing. It belongs to the highest honors awarded by the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society.

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Benjamin Bräutigam and Stefan Baumgartner

29 July 2014 - We are happy to announce that our colleagues Benjamin Bräutigam and Stefan Baumgartner successfully defended their doctoral theses yesterday at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Despite the heat, both kept cool head and with their clearly structured and very professionally performed final presentations they not only convinced their peers but also inspired all present colleagues. The topics of the dissertations are: Benjamin Bräutigam: „Instrument Calibration of Spaceborne SAR Systems“ and Stefan Baumgartner: „Air- and Spaceborne Traffic Monitoring with Synthetic Aperture Radar“. On behalf of all colleagues we cordially congratulate Benjamin and Stefan to this success!

IRS 2014 Young Scientist Award - Octavio Ponce

20 June 2014 - We are very glad to annonce that our colleague Octavio Ponce with co-authors Tobias Rommel, Marwan Younis, Pau Prats and Alberto Moreira, all Microwaves and Radar Institute, received the IRS 2014 Young Scientist Award on Wednesday this week at the 15th International Radar Symposium (June 16-18, 2014) in Gdansk, Poland, for the contribution "Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Circular SAR". Congratulations, Octavio and all co-authors!

EUSAR 2014 - 1st Place - Best Student Award - Michelangelo Villano

10 June 2014 - We are very glad to annonce that our colleague Michelangelo Villano, Microwaves and Radar Institute, received the EUSAR 2014 - 1st Place - Best Student Award on Thursday last week at the 10th European Synthetic Aperture Radar Conference (EUSAR, 03 - 05 June 2014) in Berlin, for his excellent work entitled "Staggered SAR: From Concept to Experiments with Real Data". Congratulations, Michelangelo!

EUSAR 2014 - 2nd Place - Best Student Award - Octavio Ponce

10 June 2014 - We are very glad to annonce that our colleague Octavio Ponce, Microwaves and Radar Institute, received the EUSAR 2014 - 2nd Place - Best Student Award on Thursday last week at the 10th European Synthetic Aperture Radar Conference (EUSAR, 03 - 05 June 2014) in Berlin, for his excellent work entitled "Study of the 3-D Impulse Response Function of Holographic SAR Tomography with Multicircular Acquisitions". Congratulations, Octavio!

EUSAR 2014 - 3rd Place - Best Student Award - Jun Su Kim

10 June 2014 - We are very glad to annonce that our colleague Jun Su Kim, Microwaves and Radar Institute, received the EUSAR 2014 - 3rd Place - Best Student Award on Thursday last week at the 10th European Synthetic Aperture Radar Conference (EUSAR, 03 - 05 June 2014) in Berlin, for his excellent work entitled "SAR Observation of Ionosphere Using Range/Azimuth Sub-Bands". Congratulations, Jun Su!

Assignment to Quality Manager of the Institute - Martin Maier

7 May 2014 - Martin Maier has been assigned to Quality Manager of the Institute by Britta Schade, Quality Manager of DLR, and Alberto Moreira, Institute Director of HR. Martin Maier is following Karl-Heinz Bethke on its post of Quality Manager of the Institute who introduced a quality management system at HR. Martin Maier has now constructed the quality management at HR in a way such that we will be able to approach the DLR intern quality audit according to ISO 9001 by the and of July 2014.

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Sigurd Huber

26 February 2014 - We are very glad to announce that our colleague Sigurd Huber defended his PhD yesterday at the faculty of Electrical Engineering of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) with great success. His clearly structured and professional presentation not only inspired his peers but also all present colleagues.

The title of his dissertation is "Spaceborne SAR Systems with Digital Beamforming and Reflector Antennas". Sigurd Huber works in Marwan Younis' group and developed and optimized a promising novel SAR concept that combines the advantages of large reflector antennas (narrow antenna beam/high gain) and digital phased arrays (high flexibility while forming antenna diagrams via digital beamforming).

An important contribution of his work is the development of optimized techniques for the combination of feed signals in real-time. On one hand, by using these new techniques the gain of received echoes can be maximized and on the other hand the contribution of ambiguities can be minimized. Another substantial contribution is the development of a reflector with two different focal levels which simultaneously distributes the power of an incoming plane wave to several feed elements. This leads in combination with the digital signal processing to a balanced performance for different incidence angles on the one hand and to a significant reduction of possible performance losses after fail of a feed element on the other hand. Sigurd's developments, hence, will play a critical role during the development of a high-performance SAR instrument for the Tandem-L mission. Dear Sigurd well done, congratulations!

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Eric Schreiber

07 February 2014 - We are very glad to announce that our colleague Eric Schreiber successfully defended his PhD yesterday at Karlsruhe University (KIT). He could convince his peers regarding his novel, fully electronic microwave imaging system. We would like to use the opportunity to say thank you for this extraordinary work he has achieved here since being with us. Furthermore, we congratulate him to this achievment and wish him a maximum of success for his future work. Eric will stay with us, in the TIRAMISU project but also in other activities. Dear Eric, well done, congratulations!

+++ The winner of DLR_Science_Slam 2013 is: Team REMOTE SENSING +++

06 December 2013
As last year, the final of this year's DLR_Science_Slam took place at the evening event of DLR's annual general assembly, held yesterday on 05 December 2013 in Göttingen and DLR colleagues could join the event via a live video broadcast. Two teams reached the final: TEAM SOLAR: Christoph Prahl and Christoph Hilgert (Institute for Solar Research, Almeria in Spain) and TEAM REMOTE SENSING: Michele Martone, Maria Tello Alonso (both Microwaves and Radarinstitute, Oberpfaffenhofen), Daniele Cerra, Claas Hendrik Grohnfeldt, Aliaksei Makarau, Kevin Alonso Gonzalez (each Remote Sensing Technology Institute, Oberpfaffenhofen). The voting of a jury, the hall audience and those connected via internet and mobil phones after both presentations resulted in a "The winner is: TEAM REMOTE SENSING!!!" Cordially congratulations to both teams!

Youtube: https://youtu.be/qCOkVhciu1c.

Elevation to IEEE Fellow - Irena Hajnsek and Kostas Papathanassiou

28 November 2013 - It is our great pleasure to announce that the IEEE Board of Directors, at its November 2013 meeting, elevated Irena Hajnsek and Kostas Papathanassiou to "IEEE Fellow", effective, 1 January 2014, with the following citations: „for contributions to synthetic aperture radar imaging using airborne sensors and spaceborne missions“ and „for contributions to polarimetric interferometry for synthetic aperture radar“, respectively. Within the next two months, they will receive their IEEE Fellow pin and certificate. Both serve as visible recognition of his elevation to the highest grade of membership in the IEEE. Recognizing the achievements of its members is an important part of the mission of the IEEE. Each year, following a rigorous evaluation procedure, the IEEE Fellow Committee recommends a select group of recipients for one of the IEEE’s most prestigious honors, elevation to IEEE Fellow. Cordially congratulations to Irena and Kostas!

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Noora Al-Kahachi

12 November 2013 - After a not too short presentation and a convincing question round Noora Al-Kahachi successfully defended today her PhD with her work entitled "Polarimetric SAR Modelling of a Two-Layer Structure - A Case Study Based on Subarctic Lakes" at the Technical University of Munich. We congratulate and wish all the best into the new - post doctoral - life !

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Jaime Hueso González

04 November 2013 - We are happy to announce that our former colleague Jaime Hueso González successfully defended his thesis entitled "Analysis of Wedge-Shaped Waveguides and Design of Multipactor-Resistant Microwave Bandpass Filters" on 29 October 2013 at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Jaime would like to thank all colleagues who directly or unwittingly contributed to the success of his work and accompanied him throughout his years at DLR. Congratulations, Jaime!

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Jens Reimann

29 October 2013 - We are very glad to announce that our colleague Jens Reimann successfully defended his dissertation on Monday, 21 October 2013 at the Chemnitz University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. His work, supervised by Prof. Chandra and Prof. Wanielik, entitled „On Fast, Polarimetric Non-Reciprocal Calibration and Multipolarization Measurements on Weather Radars“ has been finilised in the framework of his engagement at the DLR Institute of Atmospheric Physics. Congratulations, Jens!

IEEE Senior Member - Pau Prats

23 October 2013 - Our colleague Pau Prats, head of group "Multimodal Algorithms" has been awarded the IEEE grade "Senior Member". Cordially congratulations, Pau!

Doctor's Degree Dr. sc. - Maria Sanjuan-Ferrer and JunSu Kim

02 October 2013 - On Wednesday, 02 October 2013 afternoon, after 30 min presentation and 1 hour questions the dissertation committee congratulated Maria Sanjuan-Ferrer and JunSu Kim for their excellent research work entitled "Detection of Coherent Scatterers in SAR Data: Algorithms and Applications" (Maria Sanjuan-Ferrer) and "Development of Ionosphere Estimation Techniques for the Correction of SAR Data" (JunSu Kim) and awarded them the doctoral degree. The doctoral degree "Dr. sc." is awarded from the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering. We would like to congratulate Maria and JunSu very much and wish them all the best for the future.

Certificate of Merit - Tobias Rommel

25 September 2013 - We are very happy to announce that our colleague Tobias Rommel was among the finalists for the “Young Scientists Award” and was honored with a “Certificate of Merit” for his presentation “Abbildendes MIMO-Radar mit modifizierten Chirp-Signalen “ at the U.R.S.I. Kleinheubacher Tagung. We congratulate him very much to this appreciation and wish him all the best for the future.

Elected GRSS AdCom Member – Irena Hajnsek

21 August 2013 - We are glad to announce that our colleague Prof. Dr. rer. nat Irena Hajnsek has been elected as Administration Committee (AdCom) member of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) for the time period of 2013 until 2015.

Chair of the Instrumentation and Future Technologies Technical Committee - Marwan Younis

21 August 2013 - We are glad to announce that our colleague Dr.-Ing. Marwan Younis has been elected to chair the "Instrumentation and Future Technologies Technical Committee“ of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) for a period of two years.

ITG Advancement Award "Förderpreis" 2013 - Eren Culhaoglu

29 July 2013 - We are very glad to announce that our colleague Ali Eren Culhaoglu has been granted the ITG Advancement Award "ITG-Förderpreis" 2013 for his dissertation entitled „Microwaves Metamaterials: Superlensing and Design of Low Reflection Coatings“. Congratulations to Eren! The ITG-Förderpreis recognizes outstanding dissertations in the field of Information Technology.

IGARSS'13 Student Paper Award - Octavio Ponce

29 July 2013 - Our colleague Octavio Ponce has been granted a Student Paper Award at the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) in Melbourne, Australia, for his work entitled “First Demonstration of 3-D Holographic Tomography with Fully Polarimetric Multi-Circular SAR at L-band”. Octavio became second among nine finalists. All together, 67 applications have been submitted for the Student Paper Competition at IGARSS in Melbourne. Cordially congratulations to Octavio!

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Martina Gabele

03 May 2013 - Martina Gabele, our former colleague at the Radar Concepts department defended her thesis today on 3 May 2013 entitled „SAR/GMTI for Space-Based Radar with Two-Dimensional Antenna Arrays" at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - very successfully! Her work is an important contribution for the design of future SAR satellites with GMTI capability. Dear Martina, our sincere congratulations!

Among the Best Degrees in 2012 - Patrick Thiemer

18 January 2013 - We are very glad to announce that our Diploma student Patrick Thiemer, Department Reconnaissance and Security - Microwave Sensors, has been awarded the title "Among the Best Degrees in 2012" for his Diploma thesis „Aufbau und messtechnische Verifikation eines breitbandigen digitalen Pulsradars“ at the Hochschule Würzburg-Schweinfurt and the Hans-Wilhelm-Renkhoff-Stiftung. We congratulate him very much to this outstanding work and wish him all the best with his new engagement at TESAT Spacecom.

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Marc Rodríguez-Cassolà

14 December 2012 - We are glad to announce that Marc Rodríguez-Cassolà successfully defended his dissertation on Thursday, 13 December 2012, at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), with the work: "Bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar Data Processing". His work is a milestone in the history of SAR due to the innovation of his contributions, both theoretical and experimental, which have brought the Institute to be recognized as a worldwide reference for bistatic SAR data processing. We congratulate him for his outstanding work!

Elevation to IEEE Fellow - Gerhard Krieger

12 November 2012 - It is our great pleasure to announce that the IEEE Board of Directors, at its November 2012 meeting, elevated Gerhard Krieger to "IEEE Fellow", effective, 1 January 2013, with the following citation: For Contributions to Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar Systems. Within the next two months, Gerhard will receive his IEEE Fellow pin and certificate. Both serve as visible recognition of his elevation to the highest grade of membership in the IEEE. Recognizing the achievements of its members is an important part of the mission of the IEEE. Each year, following a rigorous evaluation procedure, the IEEE Fellow Committee recommends a select group of recipients for one of the IEEE’s most prestigious honors, elevation to IEEE Fellow.

Member of the Advisory Board of the Bundeswehr Agency for Geoinformations (AGeoBw) - Prof. Dr. Helmut Süß

7 November 2012 - Prof. Dr. Helmut Süß, department leader of department Reconnaissance and Security at the Microwaves and Radar Institute, has been appointed to be a member of the advisory board of the Bundeswehr Agency for Geoinformations for a period of three years.

Among the IET RADAR 2012 Five Best Student Papers - Michelangelo Villano

26 October 2012 - We are very pleased to announce that our colleague Michelangelo Villano has been awarded being one of the five best students at the IET Radar 2012, the International Conference on Radar Systems, held in Glasgow, UK, 22nd - 25th October 2012. His paper entitled "Staggered-SAR for High Resolution Wide Swath Imaging" is co-authored with Gerhard Krieger and Alberto Moreira. We would like to congratulate Michelangelo and his co-authors to this achievement.

Doctor's Degree Dr. sc. - Seung-Kuk Lee

24 October 2012 - We are very glad to distribute the message that Seung-Kuk Lee defended successfully his dissertation on Wednesday, 24 October 2012, at the ETH Zurich. He presented his research work in 20 minutes and were 1 hour examined by the committee. His thesis is entitled: "Forest Parameter Estimation Using Polarimetric SAR Interferometry Techniques at Low Frequencies". The doctoral degree "Dr. sc." has been awarded from the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering. We would like to congratulate him for this milestone in his professional carrier.

"DLR Science Award" in recognition of scientific achievements - Pau Prats

19 September 2012 - Pau Prats, head of the Multimodal Processing Group of the Institute, has been awarded with the DLR Science Award (DLR-Wissenschaftspreis). This Prize is awarded every year primarily to young scientists at DLR in honor of their outstanding scientific achievements which must be documented in refereed scientific journals. The awarded work of Pau Prats is entitled: “Processing of Sliding Spotlight and TOPS SAR Data Using Baseband Azimuth Scaling”, published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 48, No. 2, February 2010. Congratulations to Pau Prats! The award will be presented during the DLR General Assembly Meeting, beginning of December in Cologne.

Novel radar satellite technology nominated for the German Award for Technology and Innovation (Deutscher Zukunftspreis)

12 September 2012 - Scientists of the Microwaves and Radar Institute with their project "Radar Eyes in Space - Revolutionary Technology for Earth and Environment" are nominated for the German Future Award "Deutscher Zukunftspreis". This award of the German president for Technology and Innovation is presented every year to scientist and developers whose innovations lead to application-oriented and herewith marketable products. The prestigious award will be presented by the German president Bundespräsident Joachim Gauck, end of November in Berlin.

IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award 2012 goes to 7 scientists of the Microwave and Radar Institute

23 July 2011 - The IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award has been handed over today, on 23 July 2012, to seven scientists of our institute during the Plenary Session on IGRASS 2012 in Munich. The IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award is presented by the IEEE Board of Directors for a most outstanding professional article published in an IEEE publication reporting original work. No more than one award may be given in any year. The award will be presented in 2012 for the first time since 2002. The prized paper is entitled „TanDEM-X: A Satellite Formation for High-Resolution SAR Interferometry” published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 45, Issue 11, Nov. 2007, co-authored by Dr. Gerhard Krieger, Prof. Alberto Moreira, Dr. Hauke Fiedler, Prof. Irena Hajnsek, Marian Werner, Dr. Marwan Younis and Dr. Manfred Zink.

Doctor's Degree Dr. rer. nat. - Eren Culhaoglu

24 July 2012 - It is a great honour for us to tell you that our colleague Eren Culhaoglu defended today on 24 July 2012 his thesis entitled "Microwave Metamaterials: Superlensing and Design of Low Reflection Coatings" at the Technische Universität München "with distinction".

Doctor's Degree Dr. rer. nat. - Thomas Jagdhuber

06 July 2012 - Yesterday, on Thursday, 05 July 2012 afternoon, after 6 hours sweating, 30 min presentation and 1 hour questions the dissertation committee congratulated Thomas Jagdhuber for this excellent research work entitled "Soil parameter retrieval under vegetation cover using SAR polarimetry" and awarded him with the doctoral degree. The degree has been awarded from the University of Potsdam, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. We would like to congratulate him for this milestone in his professional carrier.

Senior Scientist – Irena Hajnsek

21 June 2012 - Prof. Dr. Irena Hajnsek, Head of the „Pol-InSAR“ group at the DLR HR Institute and Professor at ETH Zurich has been awarded the title „Senior Scientist“ of DLR on June 18, 2012. This recognition has been presented to Prof. Hajnsek from DLR executive board members during a commemorative event. The award "Senior Scientist" appreciates outstanding achievements of DLR scientists.

Certificate of Recognition of TanDEM-X Achievements and Impact to all the TanDEM-X Team

30 April 2012 - A satellite mission has been awarded for the first time during the EUSAR 2012 conference in Nuremburg, Germany: The TanDEM-X mission received a "Certificate of Recognition of TanDEM-X Achievements and Impact". A percentage of 30% of all EUSAR 2012 contributions referred to TanDEM-X and all TanDEM-X presentations have been presented excellently at the conference. The award was handed over to Dr. Manfred Zink who received it representing the whole TanDEM-X team at DLR and in the industry. Congratulations to all the TanDEM-X team!

DLR IDEA Award 2011 - Markus Peichl and Stephan Dill

16 January 2012 - We are very glad to annonce that Dr.-Ing. Markus Peichl and Dipl.-Ing. Stephan Dill, Microwaves and Radar Institute, have been granted the „DLR IDEA Award 2011“ for their project proposal „Mikro-Vol“ in the frame work of the DLR wide call for proposals in „Safety First – Sicherheit im Griff“.

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Junghyo Kim

05 December 2011 - On Friday, 02 December 2011 our colleague Junghyo Kim successfully defended his thesis entitled „Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Synthetic Aperture Radar for Multimodal Operation“ at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). His work is very innovative and depicts an important contribution for future radar missions.

ARGUS-Preis 2011 - Christopher Hepner

19 October 2011 - Mr. Christopher Hepner has been awarded this year's ARGUS-Preis granted by EADS-Cassidian. His master's thesis "Preparation of 3-D Radar Signatures from Tower Turntable Measurements with Sparse Aperture" done in Research Group Microwave Sensors was sucessfully defended at Prof. Münzner, Hochschule Ulm. The Award will be presented to him on 20 October 2011. For this, he will give a talk at EADS Ulm. We congratulate Christopher to this success and would like to thank him again for this extraordinary work.

DLR Research Semester - Josef Mittermayer

19 September 2011 - Recognizing his outstanding research achievements and for the promotion of further studies, Dr.-Ing. Josef Mittermayer, Microwaves and Radar Institute, has been grated a "DLR Research Semester" by the DLR Executive Board. The DLR Research Semester allows DLR scientists conducting their studies for one semester at a research institution abroad. Josef has been informed about this award decision in a personal letter already in May this year.

Sustainable Resource Management (SRM) Award - Astor Torano Caicoya

12 August 2011 - We are glad to announce that Astor Torano Caicoya received the Sustainable Resource Management (SRM) Award donated by the Audi Foundation for Environment "Audi Stiftung für Umwelt". The SRM Award has been issued by the Audi Foundation for Environment in 2010 for promoting great achievements in the field of sustainable resource management. It honours graduates in course Sustainable Resource Management of Technische Universität München (TUM) with great achievements. Astor finished his master thesis in the Pol-InSAR Group and is working towards his doctoral thesis since 2010 with the goal to derive innovative forest biomass algorithms based on the 3D forest structure and on Pol-InSAR techniques. Astor's work poses a bridge-building function between the complex nature and new technologies and is a basic contribution to the aimed Tandem-L mission goal. We congratulate him to this award and wish him furthermore success in the future.

DLR Research Semester - Helmut Süß

05 August 2011 - Recognizing his outstanding research achievements and for the promotion of further studies, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Helmut Süß, Microwaves and Radar Institute, has been grated a "DLR Research Semester" by the DLR Executive Board - already in May last year. The DLR Research Semester allows DLR scientists conducting their studies for one semester at a research institution abroad. Professor Süß just returned from his DLR Research Semester now. He has been at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, from April until July this year.

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Matthias Jirousek

25. Juli 2011 - We are glad to announce that on Friday, 22 July 2011, Matthias Jirousek defended his doctoral thesis "Abbildendes Mikrowellen-Spektrometer mit Apertursynthese" (Imaging Microwave Spectrometer with Aperture Synthesis) with great success. Congratulations!

Franz-Xaver-Erlacher-Förderpreis 2011 - Astor Torano Caicoya

08. Juli 2011 - We are glad to announce that Astor Torano Caicoya received the Franz-Xaver-Erlacher-Förderpreis 2011 (Franz-Xaver-Promotion-Award) - an award promoting young scientists and PhD students. Astor finished his master thesis in the Pol-InSAR Group and is working towards his doctoral thesis since 2010 with the goal to derive innovative forest biomass algorithms based on the 3D forest structure and on Pol-InSAR techniques. Astor's work poses a bridge-building function between the complex nature and new technologies and is a basic contribution to the aimed Tandem-L mission goal. We congratulate him to this award and wish him furthermore success in the future.

Senior Scientist - Kostas Papathanassiou

10 June 2011 - Dr. Kostas Papathanassiou, Head of the Group “Information Retrieval” at the Microwaves and Radar Institute has been awarded the title „DLR Senior Scientist“. This title recognizes the achievement of outstanding scientists in DLR. The award has been presented to Dr. Papathanassiou by a member of the DLR executive board at a commemorative event in DLR on 6 June 2011.

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Fritz Jochim

29 March 2011 - Today we are proud announcing that Fritz Jochim defended yesterday (28/03/2011) his Doctoral thesis with great success at the Bundeswehr University, Faculty of Aeronautics and Aerospace. The topic was "The Application of Hansen-Systems in Celestial Mechanics and Astro Dynamics". Cordially congratulations Dr. Jochim!

Young Scientist Award - Esteban Aguilera

14 March 2011 - We are proud to announce that our PhD student Esteban Aguilera won the "Young Scientist Award" for his presentation last week at the URSI Symposium in Garmisch-Partenkirchen! Herr Aguilera is DAAD awardee. He is with us since more than one year now. His doctoral thesis is, mainly, about polarimetric SAR tomography. Within the next weeks his work also be presented in the framework of our Institute seminar.

Best graduate in his course - Thomas Oberwallner

22 November 2010 - We are glad to announce that Thomas Oberwallner who worked for 3 years half-and-half here at DLR, Microwaves and Radar Institute, Department of Reconnaissance and Security, Group Signatures and also at the Dual Academy Baden-Württemberg (DHBW) in Mannheim, Germany, finished his Bachelor degree as Best in his course on 19 November 2010. He has been honored in front of an audience of 6000 attendees, also DLR as the education facility has been valued in this context.

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Esra Erten

17 November 2010 - Yesterday, our former colleague Esra Erten defended her thesis entitled "Information theory of multi-temporal SAR systems with application to motion detection and change detection" at the Technische Universität Berlin with great success. Her work was supported by DAAD and took place half-and-half at TU Berlin and DLR Oberpfaffenhofen. Esra will further serve science and especially the SAR field: She will have a postdoc position at ETH Zurich, chair of Prof. Irena Hajnsek. We wish great success for the future and hope to see more thrilling scientific results from her.

"Phillip-Matthäus-Hahn-Stiftung" Award - Bastian Calaminus

02. November 2010 - We are glad to announce that our colleague Herr Bastian Calaminus, Group System Engineering, Department Reconnaissance and Security, finished his Master course in „Systems Engineering“ at the Gratuate School of Albstadt-Sigmaringen with certificate "Best of the Year". He has been granted thus with the "Phillip-Matthäus-Hahn-Stiftung" award. We congratulate him very much to this award and his very successfull Masters degree.

"DLR Wissenschaftspreis 2010" in honor of scientific achievements - Nico Gebert

08 September 2010 - We are glad to accounce that Nico Gebert received this years's "DLR Wissenschaftspreis" in honor of his outstanding scientific achievements with respect to the conception and analysis of novel multi-aperture digital beamforming SAR Systems. We cordially congratulate Nico to this award!

Best Paper Award - Matteo Nannini and Ralf Horn

We are glad to accounce that Matteo Nannini and Ralf Horn recently received the Best Paper Prize at the 7th Joint SEAS & EMRS DTC Technical Conference 2010 in Edinburgh. The title is: Nick Walker, Ralf Horn, Armando Marino, Matteo Nannini, Ian Woodhouse: "The SARTOM Project: Tomography and polarimetry for enhanced target detection for foliage penetrating airborne P-band and L-band SAR".

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Koichi Iribe

Since today, 19 August 2010, Koichi Iribe is Dr. Koichi Iribe. We are very happy to let you know that Koichi Iribe successfully defended his PhD thesis at the Tohoku University, in Sendai, Japan. Koichi spend two years in our institute working in the Pol-InSAR group on the Detection and Application of Coherent Scatterers. Since August 2009 he is back in Japan writing up his thesis on "Investigation on Coherent Scatterers in Natural Environment for SAR Multi-Image Applications" that finally defended with success today (19 August 2010). We congratulate and wish him all the best for his future.

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. with "summa cum laude" - Jayanti J. Sharma

We are very happy to inform you that Jayanti J. Sharma successfully defended yesterday, 12 August 2010, her PhD with distinction at the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Fakultät for Elektrotechnik und Informationtechnik. She was working the last four years at the Pol-InSAR research group on the thesis entitled "Estimation of Glacier Ice Extinction Coefficient using Long-wavelength Polarimetric Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar". We like to congratulate her for this achievement and wish her a successful continuation of her research career.

First Place Student Award, EUSAR 2010 - Jayanti J. Sharma

We are glad to announce that Jayanti J. Sharma was awarded the „Best Student Paper Award“ at EUSAR 2010. The award certificate reads as "First Place Student Award" to Jayanti J. Sharma "For a very significant contribution to the field of Synthetic Aperture Radar entitled": "Long-wavelength Pol-InSAR for glacier ice extinction estimation" co-authored with Irena Hajnsek and Konstantinos Papathanassiou. Cordial congratulations to Jayanti and her co-authors!

Best Master Degree Thesis Prize, 2010 IEEE Gold Remote Sensing Conference - Anna Fontana

We are very happy to inform you that Anna Fontana was awarded with the prize for the best Master Degree thesis on remote sensing topics discussed in Italy in 2009 during the IEEE GOLD Remote Sensing Conference, held 29/30 April 2010 in Livorno, Italy. This is a national prize awarded every year by the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing South Italy Chapter. Anna performed her master thesis on forest structure estimation in our institute within the PolInSAR group in 2009 and defended the thesis successful in December 2009 at the University of Napoli. She was supervised by Seung-Kuk Lee and Kostas Papathanassiou.

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Alberto Di Maria

28 April 2010 - We are very glad to announce that our colleague Alberto Di Maria defended his thesis today on 28 April 2010 at the University of Siena, Italy, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione (Information Engineering department). His work is entitled "Fast Numerical Techniques for the Design of Planar and Quasiplanar Arrays". We congratulate him very much to this milestone in his career.

Center of Excellence, SAR Technology and Applications, 2010 – 2012

Our Institute, the Microwaves and Radar Institute, has been awarded the title "Center of Excellence, SAR Technology and Applications" for another three years: from 2010-2012.

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Christian Beine

Dipl.-Ing. Christian Beine, fomerly with the Microwaves and Radar Institute, received a doctor's degree "Dr.-Ing." on 11 November 2009 with his thesis „Theoretische und experimentelle Untersuchungen zu einem vollpolarimetrischen, breitbandigen Mehrfrequenz-Radarsystem mit synthetischer Apertur für komplexe Szenarien“ from the Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum.

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Matteo Nannini

Dipl.-Ing. Matteo Nannini, Microwaves and Radar Institute, received a doctor's degree "Dr.-Ing." on 15 December 2009 from the University Karlsruhe with his dissertation about „Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar Tomography: Processing Algorithms and Constellation Design”.

Doctor's Degree Dr.-Ing. - Michele Galletti

Dipl.-Ing. Michele Galletti, Microwaves and Radar Institute, received a doctor's degree "Dr.-Ing." on 30 June 2009 from the Technische Universitaet Chemnitz with his dissertation about „Polarimetric Weather Radar”.