Albert Guissard (SM'71) received the degree of electrical engineer and the Ph.D. degree in applied sciences from the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium, in 1957 and 1965, respectively.
From 1961 to 1972, he was a Professor at Lovanium University, Zaire. In 1972, he joined, as Professor, the Telecommunication and Microwaves Laboratory (now Laboratoire de Télécommunications et Télédétection) of the Faculty of Applied Sciences, at UCL. He has taught fundamental electricity, electroacoustics, antennas and propagation, and microwave remote sensing. He has participated in research work in the field of nonlinear circuit theory, of basic problems in electromagnetism, of cylindrical antennas, and of attenuation and depolarization of microwaves by the atmosphere. Since 1978, he has been engaged in the field of microwave remote sensing. His research has concerned the observation of the oceans and of the atmosphere with radars, radiometers, and SAR's, along with the inversion of such measurements for the estimation of surface and atmospheric parameters. He is now engaged in research on vegetation and forest modelization and in the interpretation of polarimetric radar measurements.
Prof. Guissard is a member of URSI and the Remote Sensing Society.