AUTHORS
Jakob van Zyl received his Hons. B. Engineering (Cum Laude) in electronics engineering from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa in 1979. Dr. van Zyl received his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) in 1983 and 1986, respectively. He has been with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California since 1986. At JPL he contributed to the design and development of many synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems, including SIR-C, SRTM, AIRSAR, TOPSAR, and GeoSAR. In 1997 he received the Fred Nathanson Memorial Radar Award for advancement of radar polarimetry, radar interferometry, and synthetic aperture radar from the Aerospace and Electronics Society of the IEEE. In 2010 he received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society of the IEEE for his contributions to polarimatric SAR remote sensing. He is currently the Associate Director for Project Formulation and Strategy at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Yunjin Kim received his B.S. in electrical engineering from the California State University, Sacramento, in 1983. Dr. Kim received his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) in 1985 and 1987, respectively. From 1987 to 1989, he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark), as an assistant professor. Since 1989, Dr. Kim has been with the Jet ...
