Dr Zheng-Shu Zhou

Zheng-Shu Zhou received his PhD in Engineering (radar remote sensing) from Tohoku University, Japan in 2003. Following post-doctoral work for the Japan Science and Technology, he moved to South Australia in 2005 and worked with the School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering at the University of Adelaide with the sponsorship of DSTO. He developed Australia’s first UWB Ground-based Polarimetric SAR Interferometry System for vegetation monitoring and quantitative bio-physical parameters retrieval. His work involved POLInSAR algorithm development and validation, polarisation coherence tomography, inverse SAR imaging and target recognition, and simulation of ATI-SAR for ground moving target indication.

In 2009 Zheng-Shu joined the Remote Sensing and Image Integration Team in Perth, Data61 of CSIRO. He has taken the leading role for radar methodology development for the team and all research alliance. As the founding coordinator, he has been leading the CSIRO’s SAR Community of Practice since late 2013, responsible for investigation, consultation and promotion of SAR techniques and applications to agriculture, energy, land and water, and maritime for various business units.

Zheng-Shu has organised several SAR workshops and training courses domestically, and was also an invited instructor for SLEEK SAR training course for Kenyan officials & USGS Remote Sensing Training Workshop in Manila. Dr Zhou is a senior member of the IEEE, the PI or Co-PI of major SAR missions with various space agencies, e.g., JAXA, DLR, ESA and NASA. He is the author or co-author of over 80 technical articles and reports on radar remote sensing techniques and applications. His research interests include radar system integration and calibration, signal processing and radar imaging, polarimetric SAR interferometry, quantitative radar remote sensing for environmental and biophysical parameter estimations, digital agriculture and marine target detection, and big Earth observation data processing etc.