Perspectives from the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI)
Principal Scientist
Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI)
On stage
Wed 28 Oct
New opportunities in spaceborne SAR
About
Atle Onar Knapskog is an expert in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). He holds an MSc in Telecommunications from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim (1996) and has been a scientist at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) since 1997. He is now a Principal Scientist in the Sensor and Surveillance Systems Department at FFI. Knapskog has worked on projects related to radar, particularly SAR and Inverse SAR (ISAR) from airborne and spaceborne platforms, throughout his career. He has experience in SAR and ISAR signal processing, image analysis and maritime surveillance. Among his fields of research have been methods for detection and classification of ships in SAR and ISAR imagery. He has extensive knowledge of satellite SAR systems and follows the development in that field closely.