Greetings from Juan-Luis Valero !

I received a Licenciatura in Physics from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain in 1992. From September 1992 to August 1994 I worked at ESTEC, the European Space Agency Research Centre in Holland, on SAR calibration and validation. I then joined the Radar Remote Sensing Group of the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UBC to begin an M.A.Sc. program. My research interests are phase unwrapping and differential InSAR.

I am currently working at the Satellite Centre of the Western European Union at the Torrejon airbase near Madrid (since April 1996). The Centre is sponsored by 13 European nations and its mission is to exploit imagery derived from space observation satellites for security and defence purposes. I am managing SAR projects at the Centre.

I am still enrolled for the M.A.Sc. degree in the Radar Remote Sensing Group at UBC. I am writing a thesis on the use of ERS Tandem Mission data to measure the flow of alpine glaciers.

I enjoy a pint of Guinness every now and then.

Selected Papers

1. J.-L. Valero and I.G. Cumming, "A Survey of Phase Unwrapping Techniques, with Applications to InSAR", Technical Report JL-95-1, Radar Remote Sensing Group, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, The University of British Columbia, May 1995.
2. J.-L. Valero and I.G. Cumming, "Comparative Analysis of Phase Unwrapping Methods Using Self-Affine (Fractal) Models", In Proceedings of the Inter. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symp., IGARSS'96, pp. 336-338, Lincoln, Nebraska, May 27-31, 1996.
3. I.G. Cumming, J.-L. Valero, P.W. Vachon, M. Brugman, K. Mattar, D. Geudtner, M.S. Seymour and A.L. Gray, "Results of ERS Interferometry Measurements of Alpine Glaciers", In Proceedings of the 18th Annual Symp. of the Canadian Remote Sensing Society, pp. 324-329, Vancouver, BC, March 25-29, 1996.