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The
EPFL Press and the World Knowledge Dialogue
As transdisciplinary studies attract
ever more attention from scholars and teachers all around the world,
the EPFL Press is pleased to announce its collaboration with the World
Knowledge Dialogue Foundation.
A first volume based on the discussions of the WKD Foundation is under
way, with plans to pursue the publication program this fall at its
second Symposium. The first book spans topics from natural
complexity to neuroscience, from education theory to climate change,
from immunology to archaeology, as a goup of renowned
multidisciplinarians engage each other, through a series of original
essays, in a climate of constructive criticism and with the amibition
to build a new foundation for the transdisciplinary approach.
 | |  | |  | | The book first elaborates on the current ecology of the World Wide Web, where autonomous information sources come and go in dynamic and unpredictable ways.
| Leader of the current generation of architects, Rem Koolhaas with his Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) is justly considered as the most important protaganist of contemporary architecture. | This book unites an international team of leading researchers and educators around the theme of knowledge dialogue. |
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a field that has been transformed by
the recent availability of data from a new generation of space and
airborne systems, and the authors take full advantage of this data to
offer a synthetic geometrical approach to the description of the SAR
technique, one that addresses physicists, radar specialists, as well as
experts in image processing. The book begins with a “theoretical
emergency kit” that provides the foundation necessary to understand the
math and science behind the SAR technology. It then provides a
comprehensive description of the technique itself, stressing the
geometrical approach to radar processing, followed by a description of
how these principles are applied by considering SAR design from a
radiometric perspective. The authors then turn their attention to radar
interferometry, explaining the practical aspects behind obtaining
interferometric products from radar data, in the context of resolving
ambiguity interpretation, the availability of space-borne systems,
radar-data archives and software-processing resources. The book closes
with a detailed description of radar polarimetry.
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About the
authors:
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Didier
Massonnet of the Centre
National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) studed at the Ecole Polytechnique
(Paris) and at the Ecole Nationale Supériore des Techniques
Avancées
(Paris), after which he spent a year at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
in Paasadena. He has worked on he design of synthetic aperture
radar
missions, playing a role in the development of radar interferometric
techniques. He ahs received several awards, including one from
the
French Academy of Sciences and the Appleton Prize. He is the
uathor of
several patents, notably the interferometric cartwheel. He is an
IEEE
fellow and a member of the AGU.
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Jean-Claude
Souyris received
his engineering degree in Electronics from the ENSEEIHT, Toulouse,
(1989) and the PH.D. degree from the Université Paul Sabatier in
Toulouse (1992). He was a visiting scientist at the MIT in 1994
before
joining the CNES, Toulouse, in 1997, where he is currently hed of the
altimetry and radar department. He ahs authored or co-authored
numerous articles dedicated to radar-image processing, radar
polarimetry and radar altimetry. He is an IEEE member and
Associate
Editor for Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. |
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