A method of image reconstruction for snow search radar using an estimated permittivity of snow

Ryuichi Mitsuhashi

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Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan 060

Ryuichi Mitsuhashi: graduated in 1988 from the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Hokkaido University, where he obtained a Dr. of Eng. degree in 1993. In that year, he became a Lecturer in the Dept. of Applied Electronics Engineering at Hokkaido Institute of Technology. He has been engaged in research on snow search radar, long wavelength holography, signal processing, satellite communication and image processing.

Yoshinao Aoki

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Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan 060

Yoshinao Aoki: graduated in 1964 from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Hokkaido University, where he obtained an M.S. in 1966 and a Dr. of Eng. degree later. In 1966, he became a Lecturer at the same university, was promoted to Assoc. Professor in 1967 and to Professor in 1979. In 1987, he became a Professor in the Department of Information Engineering. From 1969 to 1971, he was on leave at Laval University in Canada. He was a Visiting Professor at Shinyan Technical University, Computer Science Institute. He is Chairman for the Sapporo Electronics Center Steering Committee. He has been engaged in research on long wavelength holography, signal processing, computer image processing, microcomputer applications and snow search radars. He received a Yonezawa Award in 1968. He is the co-author of Visualization of Invisible Information (Shoko-do); and Lectures on Microcomputers (Shoko-do) and is author of BASIC Numerical Computation Methods (Corona Publ.); Wave Signal Processing (Morikita); and Chinese Computer World (Kyodo Bunka Publ.). He is a member of the Information Processing Society; Applied Physics Society; Japan Acoustic Society; IEEE; and OSA.