Wireless Communication, Satellite Systems, Expert Consultant Resume

• Computer Engineering
• Computer Science
• Electrical Engineering
• Geoscience and Remote Sensing
• Geophysical Research
• Geospatial Intelligence

This expert attended the University of Kansas and holds both a Ph.D. and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from that university.

Wireless Communication, Satellite Systems, Expert Consultant Resume

This expert specializes in electronic circuits, signal processing, probability, and digital and wireless communication systems. Electromagnetics, microwave engineering, RF/microwave systems, and satellite remote sensing are other areas of this expert's specialization.

Research interests of this expert include radar systems, RF and microwave signal propagation, wireless communication systems, and satellite and airborne remote sensing systems. This expert has also researched satellite altimetry, high resolution earth image processing, ice sheet mapping and change detection. This expert also has interests in digital elevation models, urban mapping and feature extraction, and geospatial information processing.

This consultant's research involves the use of satellite, airborne, and ground-based microwave and optical remote sensing systems for applications in the areas of earth observation and science, ice sheet mapping and change detection, and geospatial information processing. This consultant's ice sheet mapping and change detection research has been continuously funded by NASA and/or NSF for more than a decade and has involved experimental systems and measurements, modeling and algorithm development, geophysical parameter estimation, and scientific analyses and interpretation. This consultant is an internationally recognized expert in the measurement of polar ice sheet change using precision satellite altimeters, the influence of climate on these changes, and the impact of these changes on global sea levels.

This consultant founded an interdisciplinary center that involves faculty and researchers in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, and geography. The center leverages significant ongoing R&D activities in the areas of satellite and airborne remote sensing, advanced geospatial data processing, automated feature extraction and target recognition, and video surveillance. Other research involves computer vision, intelligent databases, information retrieval, and the detection and characterization of underground structures. By leveraging these multi-disciplinary research skills, the center conducts leading-edge research focused on geospatial intelligence needs for critical for national security, homeland defense, and military combat support. The center occupies a recently constructed multi-million dollar R&D facility, which has both secure and classified areas for research in support of national security objectives. This consultant holds an active TS/SCI security clearance and research focuses on the automated processing and development of high-resolution geospatial information products over urban areas. Examples include high-resolution digital elevation models, urban land cover maps, automated feature extraction of anthropogenic features, and automated change detection.

Consultant, Kevin Kennedy Associates Inc.

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, major university

Director, Center for Geospatial Intelligence, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, major university

Croft Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, major university

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, major university

Associate Chairman, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, major university

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, major university

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, major university

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Kansas

NASA Fellow, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Kansas

Graduate Research Assistant Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Kansas

Design, development, and testing of pulse radar system used for measuring ice thickness of glaciers. Team leader of radar survey expedition to Antarctica sponsored by NSF. Planned, coordinated, and executed survey under remote field camp conditions.

President, Experience Earth Perspectives, LLC, Columbia, MO

Served company formed to commercialize search engine technologies for high-resolution satellite imagery.

Alert Technologies, Rolling Meadows, IL

Designed, developed, and demonstrated prototype laser ranging sensor for monitoring product levels in underground storage tanks.

Proposal Reviewer

NASA Cryospheric Sciences Program

NASA Global Change Fellowship Program

NASA Earth Science Enterprise

NSF Office of Polar Programs

NSF Arctic Natural Sciences

Natural Environment Research Council (U.K.)

Journal Reviewer

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience & Remote Sensing

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

IEEE Transactions on Antennas & Propagation

IEEE Transactions on Education

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace & Electronic Systems

Geophysical Research Letters

Journal of Geophysical Research

Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing

Pattern Recognition Letters

Earth & Planetary Science Letters

Journal of Glaciology

Session Chairman for IGARSS Symposium (multiple years)

Selected Research Funding

• Center for Geospatial Intelligence R & D Program
• Electronic Intelligence Geolocation Algorithms
• Elevation Change, Mass Balance, and Sea Level Contribution from the Greenland Ice Sheet and Coastal Outlet Glaciers using ICESat and CryoSat Data
• Decadal Mass Balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet and its Contribution to Global Sea Level Rise
• Content-Based Information Mining and Visualization of Multi-Modal Databases
• Elevation Change of the Antarctic Ice Sheet from Satellite Radar Altimetry
• 20-year Elevation Change of the Southern Greenland Ice Sheet from Satellite Radar Altimetry
• Remote Sensing Information Products from High Resolution Satellite Imagery of Local Government Applications,

   

• Remote Sensing Demonstration Project
• Institute for Commercial Development of Remote Sensing Technology (ICREST)

   

• Center for Local and Regional Government Applications (CLARA)

   

• Elevation change of the southern Greenland ice sheet: interpretation
• Seasonal, interannual, and long-term elevation change of the East Antarctic ice sheet from satellite radar altimetry
• Greenland ice sheet elevation change studies using radar altimetry with improved orbit error analysis
• Long term elevation change of the Greenland ice sheet from satellite radar altimetry
• Long term elevation change of the Greenland ice sheet from Seasat, Geosat, and GFO radar altimetry
• Analysis of Ice-Sheet Altimetry Data Using a Surface/Volume Scattering Model