Rudiger Gens

Rudiger Gens (M'03–SM'09) received the M.Sc degree in surveying and mapping and Ph.D. degree in engineering from the University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany, in 1994 and 1998, respectively. He is currently a Remote Sensing Scientist with the Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF), Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). He is cooperating faculty member with the Department of Geology and Geophysics at UAF since 2005, where he teaches courses in the principles and applications of SAR and InSAR. His research specialization is in the processing and applications of SAR, PolSAR, and InSAR data, and their synergistic use with other remote sensing and GIS datasets. At ASF, he has developed a variety of software tools for making SAR data more accessible and usable, has provided technical support to a large remote sensing user community, and has used satellite data to improve understanding of the changing Arctic landscapes and the processes guiding these changes. He is an associate editor for the International Journal of Remote Sensing and co-chair of the ISPRS VII/2 working group on SAR interferometry. Dr. Gens is member of the American Geophysical Union and the Dutch Society for Remote Sensing and Geoinformation.