Dr. Brian Brisco

Brian Brisco is an internationally recognized authority on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and its application to a wide range of environmental monitoring applications. He received a Ph.D. degree in remote sensing/physical geography from the University of Kansas in 1985. He also earned a M.Sc. degree in soil science and a B.Sc. degree in ecology, both from the University of Guelph. He has been involved in remote sensing since 1975 and participated in the SURSAT project from 1977-1980 before spending 4 years at the Remote Sensing Laboratory at the University of Kansas under the supervision of Dr. Ulaby. He worked for Intera from 1989 until 1997 as a research associate after completion of an NSERC post-doctoral fellowship served at the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing. Since 1997 he has worked for Noetix Research Inc. where he is the Director of Research and Applications Development. His research activities focus on using remote sensing, particularly SAR, for mapping and managing renewable resources. His extensive publications include studies on vegetation characterization, crop identification and monitoring, conservation farming/ soil erosion mapping, soil moisture estimation, land cover mapping, wetland mapping, rangeland management, forestry, and developing tools and techniques for ground truth data acquisition. His work has included experience with interferometry, polarimetry, and radar backscatter modeling including software development and operational implementation.