Xavier Fàbregas

Xavier Fabregas (M'xx) received the B.S. degree in physics from Barcelona University, Barcelona, Spain, in 1988, and the Ph.D. degree in applied sciences from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 1995. In 1990, he joined the Photonic and Electromagnetic Engineering Group, Signal Theory and Communications Department, UPC. Since 1996, he has been an Associate Professor with UPC. In 2001, he spent an eight-month sabbatical with the HR Institute of the German Aerospace Agency, Oberpfaffenhofen. He has authored or co-authored 32 refereed papers in international journals, 135 conference proceedings, and has received a patent. His current research interests include radar polarimetry, polarimetric-retrieval algorithms, polarimetric calibration, polarimetric speckle models, ground-based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors and their applications, and time series for multidimensional SAR data applications for urban and terrain deformation monitoring. Dr. Fabregas is a Reviewer in several international journals.