Stefan V. Baumgartner

Biography

Stefan V. Baumgartner received the Dipl.-Ing. (M.S.) degree (Hons.) in electrical and communication engineering from the Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria, in 2004 and the Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.) degree (Hons.) in electrical and communication engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany, in 2014.
Since 2004, he has been with the Microwaves and Radar Institute, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. He was involved in several national projects, where he was responsible for the moving target indication (MTI) processor concept, the performance analyses, the processor development and implementation, as well as for the planning of TerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X MTI data acquisitions and airborne flight campaigns with DLR’s airborne radar sensor F-SAR. He also planned the first successful bistatic experiment between F-SAR and TerraSAR-X, whose results were presented at the European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (EUSAR) in 2008. From 2012 to 2017, he had the technical lead of the European Space Agency project “Study of Multi-Channel Ka-Band SARs for Ground Moving Target Indication”. Since 2010 he gives lectures on “SAR Moving Target Techniques” for the Carl-Cranz-Gesellschaft and since 2016 he is also active at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen, Germany. Currently he has the lead of a maritime security project, with a focus on the development of novel ship detection and inverse SAR (ISAR) algorithms using airborne radars operated along arbitrary flight tracks. He has authored or co-authored over 15 peer-reviewed journal papers, about 60 conference papers and an invited book chapter on multichannel SAR for GMTI in the Academic Press Library in Signal Processing. He holds one patent in the field of SAR-MTI.
His research interests include the development of novel MTI algorithms for road and maritime traffic monitoring applications using single- and multic hannel air- and spaceborne SARs, along-track interferometry, space-time adaptive processing (STAP), ISAR imaging, digital beamforming on receive, time-frequency analysis, and other advanced signal and image processing techniques.
Dr. Baumgartner successfully participated in the DLR Graduate Program, a DLR high-quality qualification initiative that accompanies the doctoral phase. In 2016 he was selected for the DLR Talent Management Program, a high calibre and very individual personnel development tool which provides outstanding employees with intensive support over the course of two years.