Areas
of Expertise
Wave scattering and emission from rough surfaces and
random media with applications to soil, vegetation,
snow, ocean and sea ice; radar image simulations and
interpretation; and numerical simulation of terrain
scattering and scattering from objects.
Background
Dr. Fung has been conducting funded research sponsored
by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Army Research
Office, Navy, DARPA, NASA and other U.S. government
agencies. He was with the Electrical Engineering Department
of the University of Kansas from 1965 to 1984. He
has been a consultant to the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy,
NASA, the European Space Agency, and the International
Advisory Panel in Washington, D.C. He is the author
of Microwave Scattering Models and Their Applications,
1994, and a co-author of a three volume series on
Microwave Remote Sensing. He is the recipient of an
award from the European Chapter of the IEEE Geoscience
and Remote Sensing Society for his contribution to
microwave scattering theory in 1984, and he also received
the Distinguished Achievement Award from IEEE Geoscience
and Remote Sensing Society in 1989. Dr. Fung is a
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers.
