David G. Long, Ph.D.

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Director, BYU Center for Remote Sensing Professor, BYU Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Head, Microwave Earth Remote Sensing (MERS) Laboratory PI, Scatterometer Climate Record Pathfinder (SCP)   450 Engineering Building Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 84602   (801) 422-4383 long@ee.byu.edu or long@byu.edu (801) 422-0201

ORCid 0000-0002-1852-3972   Scopus ID: 35508257500   Google Scholar: 7yXNIf4AAAAJ

Primary Research Interests

Microwave remote sensing, scatterometry, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), resolution enhancement and irregular sampling theory, signal processing, estimation theory, mesoscale atmospheric dynamics, systems engineering, and polar ice.

Research Description

As an essential tool for the study of the Earth microwave remote sensing can provide valuable information regarding the state of the oceans, polar regions, and vegetated areas. I am currently involved in interdisicplinary research and development of a variety of advanced microwave remote sensing instruments, techniques, and applications, including the development of mesoscale models of oceanic winds for use in model-based wind retrieval (estimation) algorithms from scatterometer data, resolution enhancement algorithms, irregular sampling theory, cryosphere studies, innovative SAR and scatterometer systems, and satellite systems engineering.

Selected specific research topics include:

• Spaceborne wind scatterometry and radiometry
• Scatterometer model functions and wind retrieval
• Rain modeling and measurement
• Remote sensing of polar ice
• Remote sensing of tropical and subtropical vegetaion
• Airborne and satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
• Interferometric SAR
• Ground-based radar remote sensing
• Resolution enhancement and reconstruction algorithms
• Irregular sampling and reconstruction theory
• Cubesats and satellite systems engineering
• Radiometry
• Compressive sensing

Selected information on past and current research

Curriculum Vitae

• Education & Professional Experience
• Publications
• Previous Students

Current and Recent Classes

• ECEn/MEEn Capstone Instructor
• ECEn493R: Spacecraft Systems Engineering
• ECEn541: Active and Passive Filters
• ECEn564: Radar and Communication Systems
• ECEn568: Microwave Remote Sensing

Major Addresses

• "Microwaves, Icebergs, and Global Warming", the Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Faculty lecture presented at the 27 Jan 2009 BYU Forum

Professional and Community Service

• IEEE Life Fellow
• (2003-) Associate editor for the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (GRSL)
• Former (2018-2022) Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Code LIbrary (RSCL)
• Former (2012-2024) president of the Timpanogos Canal Company which provides irrigation water to users in northeastern Provo, Utah.

Last updated: 3 Feb 2025