Frey, Othmar, Dr.

 

Position

• Senior Research Fellow & Lecturer

Research Interests

• Earth observation and remote sensing

• Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing techniques and applications

• SAR imaging algorithms, SAR signal processing

• SAR tomography

• SAR interferometry techniques and applications

Publications of Othmar Frey

Professional Education

• 2010 Ph.D. 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. in Geomatic Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Employment Record

• 2011-date Senior Research Fellow & Lecturer at the Chair of Earth Observation and Remote Sensing, Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
  Main research activities are in SAR focusing algorithms, SAR tomography, SAR interferometry techniques and applications.

• 2011-date Project Scientist at GAMMA Remote Sensing Research and Consulting Ltd. Main tasks include software development, research and consulting activities related to SAR processing, as well as interferometric data processing.

• 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

• 2011-date Lecturer at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
  Applied Radar Remote Sensing for Environmental Parameter Estimation.

• 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

• Parts of this collection organized by keyword: SAR Tomography, SAR Interferometry, Azimuth Focusing (Chirp Scaling, Range-Doppler, omega-k, Time-Domain Back-Projection), Autofocus, Motion Compensation, Doppler Centroid Estimation, Doppler Ambiguity Resolver