Dr. Justin Legarsky joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Missouri-Columbia as an Assistant Professor in fall semester 2000. His current research interests at the University of Missouri include Remote Sensing from spaceborne, airborne and ground platforms. He has authored or coauthored over 20 refereed professional journal papers and international conference papers. During the summer of 2002, he was awarded a U.S. Army summer faculty fellowship near Washington, DC. He was awarded the University of Missouri, College of Engineering Faculty Fellow Award in 2003.
His collaborative-multidisciplinary research (~$5M over career) is funded through various Government and Private Industry sources. His research includes Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) processing, Advanced Radar Development, Remote Sensing in local Government, ground penetrating SAR sensor data processing for landmine detection and Radioglaciology of the Greenland ice sheet. Other research interests include microwave signal propagation, radar system design and multi-sensor spatial-data fusion.
Prior to joining the university, Dr. Legarsky was employed at the California Institute of Technology’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in the Radar Science and Engineering Section. His research at JPL included the radar remote sensing of Mars (i.e. Radar for Mars Express arrived in December 2003) and the Earth. Prior to joining JPL, he worked for five years at Radar Systems and Remote Sensing Laboratory (RSL) at the University of Kansas. His research at RSL was primarily focused on radar applications of the ocean and glacial ice.
Dr. Legarsky received the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from The University of Kansas. His graduate studies were funded primarily through two consecutive fellowships one from the NAVY and the other from NASA. His dissertation topic was SAR processing of glacial-ice depth-sounding data. He is a member of the IEEE, American Geophysical Union (AGU), and International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE).