Dr. Othmar Frey

Dr.  Othmar Frey

Dr. Othmar Frey

Lecturer at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering

ETH Zürich

Institut für Umweltingenieurwiss.

HIF D 12.1

Laura-Hezner-Weg 7

8093 Zürich

Switzerland

Position

  • Senior Scientist & Lecturer (Faculty),
    leader of the research group SAR Remote Sensing Technology,
    associated with the Chair of Earth Observation and Remote Sensing.

Selected Projects

    See also : Current / Previous Projects

PhD Students / PostDocs

  • Magnus Heimpel
  • Dr. Philipp Bernhard
  • Fanyun Xu (Guest PhD student)

Former PhD Students:

Professional Education

  • 2010 Ph.D. (Hons.) in Science from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, for a thesis on "Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging in the Time Domain for Nonlinear Sensor Trajectories and SAR Tomography".
  • 2002 M.Sc. (Hons.) in Geomatic Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Employment Record

  • 2011-date Senior Scientist & Lecturer (faculty member with permanent position since 2017) at ETH Zurich, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Enginnering.
    Current main activities: leading the research group on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Remote Sensing Technology and teaching/supervision at MSc and PhD level.
  • 2004-2010 Research Associate & PhD Position at the Remote Sensing Laboratories, University of Zurich.
    Research and development in the field of SAR signal processing. Implementation of a signal-processing software for data processing of advanced imaging modes, such as airborne SAR tomography and SAR data acquisitions from nonlinear flight tracks. Design of airborne SAR experiments.
  • 2002-2004 Research Associate at the Remote Sensing Laboratories, University of Zurich.
    Pre-phase studies related to the spaceborne SAR system TerraSAR-X on behalf of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) including a geometric error budget analysis for TerraSAR-X data products and a study on atmospheric effects in synthetic aperture radar data.
  • 2002 Research Associate at the Soil Physics Group, Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - ETH Zurich.
    Geostatistical analysis and filtering of X-ray computed tomography scans of soil samples.

Teaching

  • 2007-2010 Associate Lecturer at University of Zurich, Switzerland, teaching at bachelor and master level.
    SAR & LiDAR
    Remote Sensing III: Geometry, Radiometry, Classification
    Matlab Programming

A non-exhaustive collection of literature on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Remote Sensing

 

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