Philippe Paillou

Philippe Paillou received the Engineer Diploma from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, in 1989 and the Ph.D. degree in image processing from the University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, in 1992. Since 2004, he has been a Full Professor with the University of Bordeaux, UMR 5804 (LAB), Floirac, France. He is involved in several orbital radar missions (Advanced Land Observing Satellite / Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (operated by Japanese Space Agency), RADAR instrument onboard the CASSINI Spacecraft to Saturn (operated by NASA), and Biomass mission of the European Space Agency), with the aim to study arid regions on Earth and planetary surfaces. He served as a Scientific Advisor for the Earth Observation Division, French Space Agency (CNES), Paris, France; the Mission Science Division, European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands; and the Planetary Science Division, NASA. He published more than 50 papers in international journals and presented more than 200 communications in international conferences. His most significant research results are the discovery of impact craters in Libya and Egypt, the discovery of a major paleo-river in Libya, and the participation to the discovery of methane lakes on Titan.