France
René Garello was born in 1953. He received the Ph.D. degree in Signal Processing at the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG) in 1981. From 1982 to 1984 he worked as a Research Associate at Aeronomy Lab, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) at Boulder, Colorado (USA). He joined the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne (Telecom Bretagne), Brest, France in 1985. In 1988 he became Professor in this engineering school in the field of signal processing and image processing and in 1995, Prof. Garello obtained his Habilitation (HDR; Habilitation to Supervise Research). His main research interests lie in Remote Sensing, 2D signal processing, statistical and spectral analysis applied to ocean surface features detection and characterization. Prof. Garello has authored or co-authored more than 40 papers, a hundred and thirty conference communications and three books. Prof. Garello was the General Chairman of the IEEE OCEANS’05 Conference held in Brest, France in June 2005. In 2005, he was elected Vice-President Conference Operations for the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society and then re-elected in 2006 and 2008. He was elevated to the grade of Fellow of the IEEE, class of 2006, “for contributions to signal processing applied to remote sensing of the ocean”. He received the OES Service Awards in 2006 for developing and implementing the two OCEANS conference policy. He was a Distinguished Lecturer from 2010 to 2017. He was elected President of the Oceanic Engineering Society in October 2012 for the period 2013-2014 and reelected On September, 15 for two more years, 2015-2016. For the last several years since 2018, Prof. Garello has been deeply involved in the topic of "Marine Debris / Litter and plastics in the oceans", running several workshops on the topic with participation to the GEO Blue Planet Working Group on Marine Debris (https://geoblueplanet.org/blue-planet-activities/marine-litter-working-group/). In September 2021, Prof. Garello was awarded the Distinguished Technical Achievement Award "for signal and image processing of remotely sensed measurements of the ocean and connecting to physical oceanography solutions". At the same time, Prof. Garello retired from IMT Atlantique, retaining the status of Professor Emeritus for the Institute. In 2022, Prof. Garello was elected President of the IEEE France Section, for a period of 3 years. Late in 2022, he was elected co-Chair of the Ocean Best Practices Systems (OBPS), an initiative from the UNESCO/IOC/IODE, for a period of 2 years.
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Retraité depuis le 1er Septembre 2021, mais toujours impliqué et actif, bien sûr.
Radar Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere