Biografia: Dr. Luciano Vieira Dutra was
born in Sao Paulo, Brazil. 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 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 and Remote
Sensing Graduate Programs, where he has been in charge of the Image and
Signal Processing , Pattern Recognition and Radar Image Processing Courses.
From 2000 to 2005 he stayed as Visiting Researcher at Universidade Federal
de Minas Gerais sponsored by CNPq, National Research Council of Brazil and
FAPEMIG.
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