Samuel W. McCandless Jr., John Curlander; The influence of pacing technologies on environmental application of space-based synthetic aperture radar, Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS'88 Conference, pp. 479 - 484, October 1988.
John C. Curlander, Benjamin Holt, Kevin J. Hussey; Determination of sea ice motion using digital SAR imagery, IEEE J. Oceanic Eng., vol. 10, pp. 358 - 367, October 1985.
John C. Curlander was born in Baltimore, MD, in 1954. He received the B.S.E.E. (Hons.) and M.S.E.E. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1976 and 1977, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1985.From 1977 to 1978 he was with the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences in Boulder, where he worked in the area of high-speed digital communication systems. In 1980 he joined the Radar Signal Processing Research Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. There his work has centered on research in the area of synthetic aperture radar digital image processing. He is currently involved in systems engineering for the Shuttle Imaging Radar project and Venus Radar Mapper and is Group Supervisor of the Radar Systems Development and Processing Group, responsible for SAR signal-processing research and development of ground-based processing systems.
Dr. Curlander is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu. He has received NASA Achievement Awards for his contributions to the development of the SEASAT SAR Digital Processor and the Shuttle Imaging Radar projects, the 1984 IEEE Browder J. Thompson Prize Paper Award for his paper, "Location of Spaceborne SAR Imagery," the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society's Centennial Award for Young Engineers, and the 1988 NASA Exceptional Service Medal for his work in SAR processing and post-processing techniques.