Prof. Eric Pottier is presently the head of the Radar Polarimetry Group of the Antenna, Radar and Telecommunication Laboratory at the University of Rennes 1, France, where he has been a full professor since 1999 and received his MSc in 1987 and PhD in 1990 in signal processing and telecommunications.
His current research and education activities centre on analog electronics, microwave theory and radar imaging with emphasis in radar polarimetry, including radar image processing, polarimetric scattering modelling, supervised/unsupervised polarimetric segmentation and basic theory. He is the coordinator of the research group’s Quantitative Data Inversion of the European Project TMR Radar Polarimetry, and a member of the U.S. Navy Research Interaction program on Wideband Interferometric and Polarimetric Surveillance and Sensing. He has authored five book, 19 papers in refereed journals and more than 120 papers in conference and symposium proceedings.