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Philippe Paillou received the Engineer Diploma

Gilles Ruffié, photograph and biography not available at the time of publication.

from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique

de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, in 1989, and

the Ph.D. degree in image processing from the

Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg, Strasbourg,

France, in 1992.

Gilles Grandjean, photograph and biography not available at the time of

Since September 1993, he has been an Assistant

publication.

Professor at the University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux,

France, and is a Researcher at the Astronomical

Observatory of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France. His

research activities concern application of SAR to

relief reconstruction, surface roughness measurement, and subsurface imaging.

He is a Principal Investigator for several national and international projects

related to radar remote sensing.

Thomas August-Bernex received the Ph.D. degree

in radar remote sensing from the University of Bor-

deaux, Bordeaux, France, in 2002, where he focused

on the subsurface exploration with the SAR over arid

zones.

He is currently working on prototyping activities

for the operational processing chain of the Infrared

Atmospheric Sounder at the European Organisation

for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites,

Darmstadt, Germany.