Meyer wins early career award
March 14, 2011
Geophysical Institute Research Professor Franz Meyer of the Earth and Planetary Remote
Sensing group was recently awarded the GOLD Early Career Award of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society.
The GOLD Early Career Award recognizes young scientists and engineers who have demonstrated
outstanding ability and promise for significant contributions in the future. This
international recognition is awarded only once per year. Awardees are nominated by
peers in the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society and are selected by the IEEE
Major Award Committee. Meyer will receive a certificate and a $1,500 honorarium at
an award ceremony during the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
2011 in Sendai, Japan.
Meyer's main research interest is the development of advanced synthetic aperture radar
and interferometric synthetic aperture radar techniques and their application to geophysical
problems, such as surface deformation, coastal change, tropospheric and ionospheric
mapping, and permafrost change. He is internationally recognized for his work on the
correction of ionospheric and tropospheric effects in SAR and InSAR data and is science
team member for several spaceborne radar remote sensing missions. He is the author
of more than 70 scientific publications, three of which have acknowledged as Best
Papers.