Dr Stuart Anderson, DSTO, Australia

Radar investigations of ocean surface geometry and dynamics

Dr Stuart Anderson holds BSc (Hons) and PhD degrees from the University of Western Australia. Since 1972, Dr Anderson has worked in the Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation, where he was responsible for developing the ocean surveillance and remote sensing capabilities of the Jindalee over-the-horizon skywave radar system and the Iluka HF surface wave radar system. He has worked as a visiting scientist in several countries, contributing to various national and international HF radar programs, as well as holding adjunct appointments at Curtin University of Technology (Professor of Applied Physics), the University of New South Wales (Professor of Mathematics), and the University of Rennes I, France, (Professor and Docteur honoris causa). His active research interests include electromagnetic scattering, ionospheric physics, radio oceanography, physics-based signal processing, microwave radar polarimetry, passive coherent location, and the exploitation of HF radar systems for a wide variety of missions. This work has been reported in over 250 journal papers, book chapters, conference papers and DSTO publications.

Prof. Dr. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Carl E. Baum,  Distinguished Research Professor,  The University of New Mexico, USA.

Identification of Buried Unexploded Ordnance

Carl Baum has joined ECE, as a distinguished research professor after many years with the Air Force Research Laboratory. Dr. Baum is considered the world's foremost authority on transient phenomena in electromagnetics, and he will collaborate on research projects with ECE's Applied Electromagnetics Group. Dr. Baum was stationed at the Directed Energy Directorate of the AFRL at Kirtland AFB from 1963 to 1971. He then stayed on as a civil servant in the position of senior scientist until this summer. Among his many awards and honors, Dr. Baum is a fellow of IEEE, has published four books, and has served as editor of several interagency note series on electromagnetic pulse and related subjects. He earned his PhD in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

Prof Dennis Longstaff, University of Queensland, Australia

New technologies and new techniques – radar developments in Australia

Dennis Longstaff is currently Technology Consultant to Filtronic PLC and Emeritus Professor with the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the University of Queensland. During that time at the University of Queensland, Dennis cofounded the Cooperative Research Centre for Sensor Signal and Information Processing (CSSIP). He was also the Founder and Director of GroundProbe, now a thriving global company marketing products invented by him and developed by his research group. He also served as Head of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering for three years. From 1988 to 1991, he was at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) in Australia, where he was Research Leader to the Microwave Radar Division in Adelaide. Previous to this he spent 18 years as Senior Scientific Officer, then Principal Scientific Officer at the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (now QintiQ), Malvern, England, where he worked on airborne radar systems. His work has attracted a number of awards and prizes and his spinoff company, GroundProbe, received an Engineering Excellence Award from the IE(Aust) Qld 2003.He was granted a Queensland Government Smart State Award in 2004, and an Australian Emerging Exporter Award in 2005 (see www.groundprobe.com).

Professor John Roulston, CEO Scimus Solutions Ltd, UK

UK airborne radar development

Professor John Roulston OBE, FREng., FIEE, FRSE, CEng., BSc, MSc, DEng(Hons) has achieved a distinguished career in the Aerospace Industry before turning attention to mobile communications with Filtronic. He served for 15 years in board level positions with BAE SYSTEMS Avionics and its antecedent companies having gravitated towards this position through more than 15 years of engineering design and project management. His design specialisation lies in airborne radar where he has published and lectured widely and is recognised as an international expert and a pioneer of the European thrust into airborne active array radars. His technology experiences are highly relevant to mobile communications. He has been awarded the UK honour of an Officer of the British Empire for services to defence, notably his design leadership of the Sea Harrier radar and he led the Euroradar consortium of international companies to a successful product in the CAPTOR radar for the Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft.

John was awarded the US Aerospace and Defence Technology magazine laurel for excellence in electronics in 1999 and again in 2003. He holds the British Gold Medal of the Royal Aeronautical Society and the James Alfred Ewings Gold Medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Institution of Civil Engineers for technology innovation. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s learned society and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Industrial Professor of Electronics at Edinburgh University, John is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers

Professor Simon Watts, VP and Deputy Scientific Director Thales UK Aerospace Division, UK

Sea clutter - recent advances in research and future challenges

Prof. Simon Watts MBE, MA, MSc, PhD, CEng, FREng, FIEE, FIEEE Simon Watts graduated from the University of Oxford in 1971 and obtained an MSc from the University of Birmingham in 1972. He is currently Chief Scientist of Thales UK, Aerospace Division, and is also a Visiting Professor in the department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London. He joined Thales (then EMI Electronics) in 1967 and since then has worked on a wide range of radar and EW projects, particularly airborne maritime surveillance radars and synthetic aperture radar. His research interests include the modelling of radar sea clutter and the development of signal processing techniques for radar target detection, and he obtained a PhD for work in these areas from the CNAA in 1987. He has chaired a number of national and international committees including the Radar Research Consultative Committee in the UK and EDIG CIG1. He is author and co-author of over 35 journal and conference papers, and several patents. He also lectures regularly on radar topics and was chairman of the international radar conference RADAR-97. He was appointed MBE in 1996 for services to the UK defence industry and is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the IEE and Fellow of the IEEE.