Luciano Vieira Dutra

He received the B.S.E.E degree, in 1976, from Aeronautical Technological Institute (ITA), Brazil, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE), in 1981 and 1989 respectively. He was a Visiting Scholar at Sheffield University in 1991. Also, he went to the German Space Establishment (DLR) in 1995, 1997, 1998 and 1999 as a Visiting Scientist, to work with radar imagery information extraction. Since 1977, he has been with the Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE) where he is, currently, a Senior Researcher (retired) at the Image Processing Division (DPI). He has been working in several national and international large scale remote sensing projects. His areas of interest includes SAR image processing, interferometry, pattern recognition and remote sensing applications. He is currently a Principal Investigator for the ALOS (JAXA) project, as a INPE representative. He is also a lecturer at INPE´s Computer Science Program where he has been in charge of the Image and Signal Processing , Pattern Recognition and Radar Image Processing Courses. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)