Keynote Speaker - Felix J. Yanovsky

Felix Yanovsky

Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
National Aviation University, Ukraine

Monitoring and forecasting meteorological conditions are critical to the safe and regular operation of the global air transport system. The introduction of new millimeter-wave radars into the practice of meteorological observations not only opens up opportunities for obtaining more detailed information about cloudiness, but also necessitates the development of appropriate calibration methods to ensure reliable quantitative results.

This talk is devoted to discussing peculiarities of W-band cloud radar calibration. After brief overview on meteorological radar calibration for quantitative information obtaining, we will focus on problems and their possible solutions in respect to mm-wave radar calibration using multi-instrument measurements. Experimental part of the research is based on measurements of rain provided during several years at the experimental range located in Cabauw, the Netherlands. The stored data are used for comparison and fusion of 94 GHz radar data with non-radar measurements of drop size distribution, provided by laser disdrometers, and weather station synchronous data. Specialized MATLAB software tool developed for this sophisticated processing complex data and radar calibration will be demonstrated.

Felix J. Yanovsky (IEEE M’94–SM’96–F’08–LF’20) graduated (with Honors) from the National Aviation University (NAU), Kyiv, Ukraine. He got his PhD degree in Radar & Radio Navigation, DSc degree (habilitation) in Aviation Meteorology, and the one more DSc in Radar & Radio Navigation in 1979, 1992, and 1993 respectively. He is currently a Senior Researcher in the Delft University of Technology, Geoscience and Remote Sensing department and (remotely) the Professor of Electronics, Robotics, Monitoring and IoT Technologies (ERMIT) Department in NAU. He was visiting professor and/or scientist in different Universities in the Netherlands, USA, Germany, Jordan, Republic of Korea, China, Poland, India, and Kenya. He promoted 16 PhD & DSc holders and hundreds of M.S. and Engineers. He was the Chair of IEEE Ukraine Section (2016-2022), founder and Chairman of the Ukraine SP/AES Joint Chapter, and IEEE Microwaves, Radar and Remote Sensing Symposium (MRRS). General Assembly member of the European Microwave Association (EuMA). Research activity in electronics, IT, radar, remote sensing, signal processing. He took part in numerous projects in Ukraine, the Netherlands, and Republic of Korea. He has numerous awards and International Grants. Author of 12 books and book chapters (CRC, Springer, Momentum Press, Elsevier, Tekhnika, NAU), more than 550 papers, and 42 invention patents.