Environmental sensors, embedded systems, remote sensing

Environmental sensors, embedded systems, remote sensing

 

Research in Environmental Sensors, Embedded Systems, and Remote Sensing draws on a wide variety of scientific and engineering disciplines and approaches that advance the state-of-the-art in geoscience remote sensing instrumentation and technologies that improve knowledge for the betterment of society and the global environment.  This work often supports scientific investigations with the design and development of hardware (RF engineering, Microwave and mm-wave circuits, Antennas, active and passive microwave remote sensing, sensor networks) and data processing (applied EM, signal processing for remote sensing data, imaging, scattering modeling/theory) techniques used in geophysics, geology, hydrology, meteorology, and planetary science. Examples include operating systems, networks, and software design, especially for embedded systems, wireless technology such as battery-free sensing, low-cost low-power communication and IoT systems, the development and application of science-optimized geophysical radar systems, new techniques and tools, specifically new programming languages, compilers, and runtime systems, that enable end-users to more easily develop computations that exploit the potential of emerging computing platforms that exhibit analog behaviors, interferometric radar remote sensing applications and technique development, large-scale monitoring, sensor fusion, data analytics and stochastic control for infrastructure networks, low-power and smart-power ASICs, mixed-signal integrated circuit design, including sensor interfaces, data conversion, high-speed communication, and embedded machine learning, computational photography, low-power mixed-signal circuit design, next generation high capacity wireless networks using techniques from information and coding theory,  end-to-end design of high-performance RF and Microwave electronic systems, new physical phenomena, to designing electronic systems (with custom silicon ICs).

 


This course listing is an example; Please speak with your Advisor about what courses are best suited for your individual interest areas.

EE 234: Photonics Laboratory
EE 236A: Modern Optics
EE 236B: Guided Waves
EE 236C: Lasers
EE 242: Electromagnetic Waves
EE 255: Green Electronics (EE 155)
EE 258: Introduction to Radar Remote Sensing (GEOPHYS 258J)
EE 259: Principles of Sensing for Autonomy
EE 262: Three-Dimensional Imaging (GEOPHYS 264)
EE 264: Digital Signal Processing
EE 269: Signal Processing for Machine Learning
EE 274: Data Compression: Theory and Applications
EE 276: Information Theory
EE 278: Introduction to Statistical Signal Processing
EE 284A: Introduction to Internet of Things
EE 292D: Machine Learning on Embedded Systems (CS 329E)
EE 292Q: 3D+ Imaging Sensors
EE 332: Laser Dynamics
EE 355: Imaging Radar and Applications (GEOPHYS 265)
EE 358: Wireless System Design
EE 359: Wireless Communications
EE 364A: Convex Optimization I (CME 364A)
EE 364B: Convex Optimization II (CME 364B)
EE 414: RF Transceiver Design Laboratory
EE 314A: RF Integrated Circuit Design
EE 384: Networked Wireless Systems
EE 252: Antennas
EE 247: Introduction to Fiber Optic Communications
EE 373A: Adaptive Signal Processing
EE 261: The Fourier Transform and Its Applications
GEOPHYS 230: Ice Penetrating Radar (in the process of being cross-listed in EE)
GEOPHYS 281 Geophysical Inverse Problems
ENERGY 240 Data Science for Geoscience