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Introduction

Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez is Ph.D. in Telecommunication Engineering.

Currently, he is a Full Professor in Signal Theory and Communications at the Department of Physics, System Engineering and Signal Theory of the University of Alicante.

His research activities are carried out at the Signals, Systems and Telecommunication Group (SST).

Since 2007 he is part of the University Institute for Computing Research (IUII).


CONTACT:


Address:
DFISTS, Universidad de Alicante
P. O. Box 99
03080 Alicante, Spain

Phone number: +34 965909597
Fax: +34 965909750
E-mail: Juanma.Lopez@ua.es


Education

  • Ph.D. in Telecommunication Engineering at the Polytechnical University of Valencia in 2000

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  • Telecommunication Engineer at the Polytechnical University of Valencia in 1996


Teaching

  • Course 1999/2000:

    • Circuit Analysis, Tec. Eng. Telecommunication (Sound and Image)

  • Course 2000/2001:

    • Television, Tec. Eng. Telecommunication (Sound and Image)
    • Radar. Fundamentals and application to remote sensing, Ph. D. Course
    • Electromagnetic models with application to microwave remote sensing, Ph. D. Research

  • From course 2001/2002:

    • Television, Tec. Eng. Telecommunication (Sound and Image)
    • Circuit Analysis, Tec. Eng. Telecommunication (Sound and Image)
    • Radar. Fundamentals and application to remote sensing, Ph. D. Course
    • Microwave remote sensing, Ph. D. Research


    Research

    • Final Year Project: "Analysis of Two-Dimensional Multiple Scattering Problems by Spectral Techniques" 

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    • Ph.D. Thesis: "Analysis and Estimation of Biophysical Parameters of Vegetation by Radar Polarimetry" (5.5 MB)
      Download it from the Virtual Library "Miguel de Cervantes"

       
    • Current Research Fields:
      • Numerical Methods in Electromagnetics: Method of Moments, Spectral Techniques, FDTD, etc.
      • Near-Field Radar Imaging: Algorithms and Applications
      • Retrieval of Biophysical Parameters by Active Microwave Remote Sensing

       
    • Participation in Research Projects:

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      • Title: "Development of an Electromagnetic Scattering Model of Tree Trunks Above a Tilted Rough Ground Plane"

        • Financial Support: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC)
        Contract 11846-96-05 F1E1 ISP E
        July 1996 - December 1996
         
      • Title: "Radar Polarimetry: Theory and Applications"

        • Financial Support: European Commission, Directorate General XII: Science, Research and Development
        TMR Network ERB-FMRX-CT98-0211 [Homepage]
        April 1998 - March 2001
         
      • Title: "Development of an advanced electromagnetic simulator, based on the FDTD method, SEADIF"

        • Financial Support: Generalitat Valenciana
        Code: GV00-036-14
        January 2001 - December 2002
         
      • Title: "Design of antennas for UMTS base stations"

        • Financial Support: Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology
        Code: TIC2001-2364-C03-02
        January 2002 - December 2004
         
      • Title: "Microwave remote sensing for vegetation covers monitoring and buried structures identification"

        • Financial Support: Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology
        Code: TIC2002-04451-C02-02
        December 2002 - November 2005
         
      • Title: "DInSAR monitoring of combined land events over a complex region in the South East of Spain: active and latent landslides induced by simultaneous erosion and tectonic processes in a coastal area, and urban subsidence produced by phreatic level changes"

        • Financial Support: European Space Agency (ESA)
        Code: EO-Cat.1-2494
        December 2003 - December 2005
         
      • Title: "Digital cartography of subsidence in the low course of the Segura river (province of Alicante) by means of satellite differential SAR interferometry"

        • Financial Support: Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology
        Code: BTE2002-12456-E
        July 2004 - July 2005
         
      • Title: "Polarimetric and interferometric techniques for radar remote sensing"

        • Financial Support: Spanish Ministry of Education and Science
        Code: TEC2005-06863-C02-02
        December 2005 - December 2008
         
      • Title: "Agricultural crop monitoring by TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X missions"

        • Financial Support: Spanish Ministry of Education and Science
        Code: HA2007-0075
        January 2008 - December 2009
         
      • Title: "Polarimetric and interferometric radar systems for Earth observation: technology and applications"

        • Financial Support: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
        Code: TEC2008-06764-C02-02
        January 2009 - December 2011


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