Richard A. Kidd

Richard Kidd received the B.Sc. and B.Eng. (Hons) degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Hull, Hull, U.K., in 1993, and the M.Sc. degree in applied remote sensing from Cranfield University, Cranfield, U.K., in 1994. He received EU Comett fellowship, from 1994 to 1995, and EC fellowship, from 1997 to 2000, to study at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission focusing on the use of SAR within the MARS program for control of EU's common agricultural policy. In 2001, he was Project Manager and Technical Expert for the design of the Land Parcel Information System for the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture to support the EU's Integrated Agricultural Control System, and then until 2005, was a Research Scientist at I.P.F in the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Wien, Austria, investigating freeze-thaw detection from QuikSCAT scatterometer data. From 2006 to 2008, he supported the post-Tsunami reconstrucion efforts in Indonesia working as a Senior Mapping Officer with United Nations Humanitarian Information Centre, (UNOCHA-HIC) and the Spatial Information and Mapping Centre (SIM-Centre) at the Indonesian Government's post-Tsunami rehabilitation and reconstruction agency (BRR NAD-Nias). Since 2010, he re-joined I.P.F as the Scatterometer Application Manager where he is responsible for project and technical management of scatterometer-based projects. He is an accredited PRINCE 2 Project Manager, and a member of the European Association of Research Managers and Administrators. His research interests also focus on the use of GIS and EO data for disaster management and reconstruction and the audit of humanitarian aid. He is a reviewer of the Natural Hazards journal.