Prof. Dr. Eric POTTIER Professor in Electrical Engineering Deputy Director of the I.E.T.R (Institut d'Electronique et de Telecommunications de Rennes) UMR CNRS 6164 University of Rennes 1 Image Processing and Remote Sensing Group - SAPHIR Team Campus de Beaulieu, Bat 11 D 263 Avenue General Leclerc - CS 74205 35042 Rennes Cedex, France Tel: +33 (0)2 23 23 57 63 Fax: +33 (0)2 23 23 69 63 Email: eric.pottier@univ-rennes1.fr Website: http://www.ietr.org/Equipes/SAPHIR/saphir.html
Background	Eric Pottier  received the MSc (87) and Ph.D. (90) in signal processing and telecommunication from the University of Rennes 1 and defended his Habilitation from the University of Nantes in 1998 on the topic Contribution to Radar Polarimetry : From Theoretical Approach to Applications. From 1988 to 1999 he held an associate professor position at IRESTE -University of Nantes, France where he was the head of the Polarimetry Group of the Electronic and Informatic Systems laboratory. Since 1999, he is full professor at the University of Rennes 1, France, where he is presently the Deputy Director of the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes (I.E.T.R CNRS UMR 6164) a staff of 224 Professors, assistant-professors and researchers. He is also the Head of the SAPHIR team (Sar Polarimetry Holography Interferometry Radargrammetry) of the Image Processing and Remote Sensing Group. His current activities of research and education are centered in the topics of analog electronics, microwave theory and radar imaging with emphasis in radar polarimetry. His research covers a wide spectrum of areas in connection with a number of different applications of Radar and SAR data. His experience is within a number of disciplines related to processing and analysis of Radar data (ISAR Target Imaging, RCS analysis and reduction, scatterer fluctuating modelisation, scatterer time-frequency analysis, SAR system modelling and simulation) and POLSAR data (polarimetric speckle analysis and reduction, polarimetric segmentation, and classification, polarimetric theorem decomposition) to fundamentals and basic theory of polarimetry. He is member of the US-Navy ONR-NICOP-WIPSS (Wideband Interferometric and Polarimetric Surveillance and Sensing) Research Interaction Program directed by Prof. W.M. Boerner. He was the coordinator of the research group Quantitative Data Inversion of the European TMR Project Radar Polarimetry : Theory and Applications (1999-2002) and now, member of the European RTN project AMPER (2003-2005). He is a permanent member of the Evaluation Committees of both the Electromagnetic and Radar Department (DEMR) of ONERA and the DCE Division of DGA (French Defense Agency). He is the Project Manager of the ESA-ESRIN project Development of a Polarimetric SAR Image Analysis Tool: PolSARpro in collaboration with DLR-HR and the University of Adelaide. He was member of the Organizing Committee of the two first International Workshop of Radar Polarimetry (1990, 1992) the Scientific co-Organizer with Dr; S.R Cloude of the 3th edition (1995) and the Scientific Chairman of the 4th edition (1998). He was member of the National Local Organizing Committee of PIERS’98 (Progress In Electromagnetic Symposium), of the Technical and Scientific Committees of EUSAR (European SAR) in 2000, 2002 and 2004, of the CEOS SAR Workshop (Committee on Earth Observation Satellite SAR) in 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2004, of the Commission-F Triennium Open Symposium on Radiowave Propagation and Remote Sensing in 2002 and 2004, of the ESA-POLINSAR Workshop 2003 and 2005 (Workshop on Applications of SAR Polarimetry and Polarimetric Interferometry), and finally, member of the National Local Organizing Committee of IGARSS’03 (International Geosciences and Remote Sensing Symposium) as the Session Chair Coordinator.He was member of the Editorial Committee of the Special Issue on New Technologies in Signal Processing for Electromagnetic-wave Sensing and Imaging, IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) Transactions, published in December 2001. Since 1989, he has supervised more than 50 research students to graduation (MSc and Ph.D) in Radar Polarimetry covering areas from theory to remote sensing applications. He was co-director of 8 PhD Thesis, director of 10 PhD Thesis and participated to 30 PhD Thesis Defenses as member, reviewer (25) or President of the Defense Jury (5). He has chaired and organized 21 sessions in International Conferences. He has been invited to present 26 presentations in International Conferences and 14 in National Conferences. He has 7 publications in book chapters, 29 papers in refereed journals and presented more than 180 papers during International Conferences, Symposiums and Workshops.
Activities in education	E. Pottier has presented advanced courses on Radar Polarimetry in the frame of the European TMR Project Radar Polarimetry : Theory and Applications and seminars to a wide range of organization (DLR, NASDA, JRC, RESTEC). He was invited as a Keynote Speaker during the following symposiums: SPIE1992, ISAP2000, IGARSS03, EUSAR2004, NATO RTA 2004, POLinSAR2005, IGARSS2005. Eric Pottier was a lecturer for the Dragon advanced training course in land remote sensing 2005.
Distinctions / Memberships	E. Pottier received the Award For A Very Significant Contribution In The Field Of Synthetic Aperture Radar during EUSAR2000 for his research activities, co-authored with J.S. Lee (US Navy / NRL), in the topic of POL-SAR unsupervised segmentation.
Selected publications	Around 220 in total including: Books chapters (7) Reviewed journal papers (29) Conference presentations / abstracts (more than 180) Books chapters E. POTTIER Contribution of radar polarimetry in radar target discrimination. The Poincare Planisphere : a new representation method dans "Electromagnetic and Acoustic Scattering : Detection and Inverse Problem",World scientific Ed., pp 123-133. ISBN 9971-50-748-X, Edition 1989. X. MORIN, E. POTTIER, J. SAILLARD, C. PASDELOUP, C. DELHOTE Polarimetric Detection of Slowly Moving Targets Embedded in Ground Clutter in "Progress In Electromagnetics Research" Volume 16.J.A. Kong. Chief Editor, Ed. New York Elsevier, Vol. 16, ch. 1, 33p, 1997. W-M. BOERNER, H. MOTT, E. LUNEBURG, C. LIVINGSTONE, B. BRISCO, R.J. BROWN, J. SCOTT PATERSON, S.R. CLOUDE, E. KROGAGER, J.S. LEE, D.L. SCHULER, J.J. VAN ZYL, D. RANDALL, P. BUDKEWITSCH et E POTTIER Polarimetric in Radar Remote Sensing : Basic and Applied Concepts, Chapter 5, pp 271 - 358. in"Principles and Applications of IMAGING RADAR"Manual of Remote Sensing, Third Edition, Volume 2, 867p, 1998.Edited by Floyd M. Henderson and Anthony J. Lewis, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.ISBN 0-471-29406-3. A.L. GERMOND, E. POTTIER, J. SAILLARD Bistatic Radar Polarimetry TheoryChapter 14, pp 379 414, in "Ultrawideband Radar Technology".J. Taylor Editor, CRC Press LLC, Septembre 2000. ISBN 0-8493-4267-8 L. FERRO-FAMIL, E. POTTIER Dual Frequency Polarimetric SAR Data Classification and Analysis in "Progress In Electromagnetics Research" Volume 24.J.A. Kong. Chief Editor, Ed. New York Elsevier, Vol. 24, pp 251-276, 2001. E. HANLE, F. CHRISTOPHE, J.M. COLLIN, J.M. DIEUDONNE, A. FARINA, P. FLETCHER, G. GARNIER, C. HAMILTON, H. JUNGE, T.Q. LIEM, W. LUSCHNITZ, W. MANSFELD, W. MANZ, M. PEICHL, E. POTTIER, H. SUSS, E. WOLFLE Radar and General Radio Location. Glossary of Terms and Definition in English, French, and German. Ed. VDE Verlag GmbH, Berlin, Offenbach, 332 pages, 2002, ISBN 3-8007-2444-8L. FERRO-FAMIL, E. POTTIER, J.S LEE Unsupervised Classification of Natural Scenes from Polarimetric Interferometric SAR Data in "Frontiers of Remote Sensing Information Processing".C.H. CHEN. Chief Editor, Ed. World Scientific Publishing, July 2003, ISBN 981-238-344-1 Reviewed journal papers E. POTTIER, J. SAILLARD Optimal Polarimetric Detection of Radar Target in a Slowly Fluctuating Environment of Clutter IEEE AES Magazine. Vol. 5, n° 11, pp 4-9, November 1990. E. POTTIER, J. SAILLARD Fondements mathematiques de la Polarimetrie et son application au domaine du Radar Annales des Telecommunications. 47, n° 7-8, pp 314-336, 1992. D. LAURENT, E. POTTIER, J. SAILLARD Estimation of the Wind on the Sea Surface by Using a New Polarimetric Descriptor : The Huynen Vector Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications. Vol. 7, n°8 pp 1057 - 1073, 1993. S.R. CLOUDE, E. POTTIER Matrix Difference Operators as Classifiers in Polarimetric Radar Imaging, L'Onde Electrique. Vol 74, n°3, May-June 1994. D. LAURENT, E. POTTIER, J. SAILLARD The Euler Vector: a polarimetric descriptor of the Ocean Surface Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications. Vol. 9, n°1/2 pp 217-240, 1995. S.R. CLOUDE, E. POTTIER The concept of Polarisation Entropy in Optical Scattering Optical Engineering. Vol 34, N°6, pp 1599-1610, June 1995. S.R. CLOUDE, E. POTTIER A review of Target Decomposition in Radar Polarimetry IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol 34, n°2, pp 498-518, March 1996. L. CHALLE, E. POTTIER, J. SAILLARD Reconstruction Polarimetrique de la Signature d’une Cible Radar dans la Bande VHF malgre la Presence de Trajets Multiples Annales des Telecommunications. 51, n° 11-12, pp 627-640, 1996. T. GUILLEMOT, E. POTTIER, J. SAILLARD, J.R. LEVREL, E. LEBRETON Correction des Effets de Champ Proche en Mesure Radar - Correction of Near Field. Effects of R.C.S. Measurements. L’Onde Electrique. REE n°2, pp 90-94, February 1996. T. GUILLEMOT, E. POTTIER, J. SAILLARD, J.R. LEVREL, E. LEBRETON Obtention de la S.E.R. en champ lointain a partir de la reponse a un front d’ondes cylindriques. Determining the far field RCS from the response to a cylindrical wavefront Aerospace Science and Technology. Vol n°3, pp 215-223, n°0034-1223, 1997. T. GUILLEMOT, E. POTTIER, J. SAILLARD, J.R. LEVREL, E. LEBRETON Transformation Champ Proche-Champ Lointain Bidimensionnelle et Monodimensionnelle Appliquee a des Mesures de S.E.R. Annales des Telecommunications, 52, n° 1-2, pp 81-93, 1997. X. MORIN, E. POTTIER, J. SAILLARD, C. PASDELOUP, C. DELHOTE Polarimetric Detection of Slowly Moving Targets Embedded in Ground Clutter Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications. Vol. 11, pp 429-433, 1997.(Summary: The complete text appears in Progress in Electromagnetics Research). S.R. CLOUDE, E. POTTIER An Entropy Based Classification Scheme for Land Applications of Polarimetric SAR IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol 35, n°1, pp 68-78, January 1997. A.L. GERMOND, E. POTTIER, J. SAILLARD Nine Polarimetric Bistatic Target Equations Electronics Letters, Vol 33, n°17, pp 1494-1495, August 1997. E. POTTIER Radar Polarimetry : Towards a future Standardization. Annales des Telecommunications, Vol 54, n° 1-2, pp 137-141, January 1999. L. FERRO-FAMIL, E. POTTIER Description of Dual Frequency Polarimetric Data Using Gelmann Parameters Set Electronics Letters, Vol 36, n°19, pp 1646 1647, September 2000. L. FERRO-FAMIL, E. POTTIER Dual Frequency Polarimetric SAR Data Classification and Analysis Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications. Vol. 14, pp 1673 - 1675, 2001. (Summary: The complete text appears in Progress in Electromagnetics Research). L. FERRO-FAMIL, E. POTTIER Classification de donnees SAR multifrequence polarimetriques Annales des Telecommunications N°9-10, pp 510-522, September October 2001 L. FERRO-FAMIL, E. POTTIER, J.S. LEE Unsupervised Classification of Multi-Frequency and Fully Polarimetric SAR based on the H/A/a Wishart Classifier IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol 39, n° 11, pp 2332 - 2342, November 2001. J.S. LEE, M.R. GRUNES, E. POTTIER Quantitative Comparison of Classification Capability : Fully Polarimetric versus Multipolarisation SAR IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol 39, n° 11, pp 2343 2351, November 2001. S. R CLOUDE, K. PAPATHANASSIOU, E. POTTIER Radar Polarimetry and Polarimetric Interferometry Invited Paper : Special Issue on New Technologies in Signal Processing for Electromagnetic-wave Sensing and Imaging. IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) Transactions, Vol E84-C, n°12, December 2001, pp1814-1823. E. POTTIER, S. R CLOUDE, W.M. BOERNER Recent Development of Data Processing in Polarimetric and Interferometric SAR Invited Tutorial Lecture during URSI General Assembly - Commission F Wave Propagation and Remote Sensing Maastricht, Pays Bas, 18-24 aout 2002.Invited Paper : Radio Science Bulletin N° 304, March 2003, pp48-59, ISSN 1024-4530I. HAJNSEK, E. POTTIER, S.R CLOUDE Inversion of Surface Parameters from Polarimetric SAR IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol 41, n° 4, pp 727-744, April 2003. L. FERRO-FAMIL, A. REIGBER, E. POTTIER, W.M. BOERNER Scene Characterization Using Subaperture Polarimetric SAR Data IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol 41, n° 10, October 2003. D. L. SCHULER, J. S. LEE, D. KASILINGAM, E. POTTIER Measurement of ocean surface slopes and wave spectra using polarimetric SAR image data Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 91, Issue 2, 30 May 2004, Pages 198-211 J.S. LEE, M.R. GRUNES, E. POTTIER, L. FERRO-FAMIL Unsupervised terrain classification preserving polarimetric scattering characteristics IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol 42, n° 4, pp 722 – 731, April 2004. L. FERRO-FAMIL, A. REIGBER, E. POTTIER Non-stationary natural media analysis from polarimetric SAR data using a 2-D Time-Frequency decomposition approach. Invited paper - Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, Volume 31, n°1, February 2005, Pages 20-29, E-ISSN 1712-7971 C. LOPEZ, X. FABREGAS, E. POTTIER Multidimensional Speckle Noise Model IEE-EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing vol. 2005, no. 20, pp. 3259-3271, 2005. A. MARTINI, L. FERRO-FAMIL, E. POTTIER Dry snow discrimination in alpine areas from multi-frequency and multi-temporal sar data Invited Paper, accepted to be published in IEE Radar Sonar and Navigation (2005). C. LOPEZ, I. HAJNSEK, J.S. LEE, E. POTTIER, X. FABREGAS Polarimetric Speckle Noise Effects in Quantitative Physical Parameters Retrieval Invited Paper, accepted to be published in IEE Radar Sonar and Navigation (2005). S. ALLAIN, L. FERRO-FAMIL, E. POTTIER, J. FORTUNY Modélisation de la diffusion par des surfaces rugueuses pour l’imagerie radar haute résolution . Revue de l’Electricité et de l’Electronique (REE), n° 6/7, pp 66 – 72, June / July 2005 S. GUILLASO, L. FERRO-FAMIL, A. REIGBER, E. POTTIER Building characterization using L-band polarimetric interferometric SAR data IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Vol 2, n° 3, pp 247 – 351, July 2005. C. LOPEZ, E. POTTIER, S.R. CLOUDE Statistical Assessment of Eigenvector-Based Target Decomposition Theorems in Radar Polarimetry IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol 43; n°9, pp 2058-2074, September 2005 C. LOPEZ, X. FABREGAS, E. POTTIER Wavelet Transform Based Interferometric SAR Coherence Estimator IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 12, no. 12, pp. 831 - 834, December 2005 S. GUILLASO, A. REIGBER, L. FERRO-FAMIL, E. POTTIER Range resolution improvement of airborne SAR images IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Vol 3, n° 1, pp 135 – 139, January 2006 J.S. LEE, M.R. GRUNES, E. POTTIER, L. FERRO-FAMIL Scattering-model-based speckle filtering of polarimetric SAR data IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol 44, n° 1, pp 176 - 187, January 2006. C. DAHON, L. FERRO-FAMIL, C. TITIN-SCHNAIDER, E. POTTIER Computing the double bounce reflection coherent effect in an incoherent electromagnetic scattering model IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Vol 3, n°2, pp 241-245, April 2006. O. D’HONDT, L. FERRO-FAMIL, E. POTTIER Nonstationary Spatial Texture Estimation Applied to Adaptive Speckle Reduction of SAR Data IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Vol 3, n°4, pp 476-480, October 2006.