René Garello

René Garello received the Ph.D. degree in Signal Processing at the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG) in 1981. From 1982 to 1984 he worked as a Research Associate at Aeronomy Lab, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) at Boulder, Colorado (USA). He joined the Institut Mines-Telecom Atlantique (IMT Atlantique), Brest, France in 1985.

His main research lies in Remote Sensing, 2D signal processing, statistical and spectral analysis applied to ocean surface features detection and characterization. For the last three decades, he has worked in the development of signal and image processing methods for the interpretation of radar signals and the extraction of sea surface features (wind, waves, currents, ships, pollutions). These application fields were supported by several European projects and industrial contracts. He is presently engaged in several initiatives on the topic of Marine Debris and Plastic in the oceans.

Prof. Garello has authored or co-authored more than 40 papers, a hundred and thirty conference communications and three books. He had supervised more than 30 PhD students. For all his works, Prof. Garello was elevated to the grade of Fellow of the IEEE, class of 2006, “for contributions to signal processing applied to remote sensing of the ocean”.