CIRFA Annual Conference 2018

Time: 17-18 October 2018 Place: Sommarøy Arctic Hotel, Troms. Registration: Registration here! PROGRAM Wednesday 17 October 10:00     Bus from SIVA Innovasjonssenter 10:15     Bus from Prostneset/city centre 10:30     Bus from Tromsø…

Successful PhD defense for Jakob Grahn

Congratulations to Dr. Jakob Grahn for successfully defending his dissertation entitled "Multi-frequency radar remote sensing of sea ice". We expect to continue to collaborate with Jakob as he has now…

Two PhD Fellowships in Integrated Remote Sensing for Earth Observation Applications at CIRFA

The Department of Physics and Technology announces two vacant PhD Candidate positions in the area of Arctic Remote Sensing. The research themes are: “Multi-Sensor, Multi-Scale Integrated Remote Sensing for Arctic…

PhD position in Optical Remote Sensing for Water Quality Parameter Retrieval

PhD Candidate in Optical Remote Sensing for Water Quality Parameter Retrieval The Department of Physics and Technology announces a vacant PhD Candidate position in the area of optical remote sensing for…

EUSAR 2018

EUSAR, the European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, is the world leading international conference dedicated to SAR techniques, Technology and applications.http://conference.vde.com/eusar/2018/Pages/default.aspx Torbjørn was invited to chair the session Polarimetry III, and…

New intern

Jean-Claude Koumi is visiting CIRFA as an intern for three months and is continuing the work of one of our recently graduated master students on custom focusing of synthetic aperture…

Trial lecture and public defense – Master of Science Jakob Grahn

Master of Science Jakob Grahn will give his trial lecture for his Ph.D degree Friday 8th of June at 10:15 - 11:00, Aud. 1.022 Technology building https://sa.uit.no/tavla/artikkel/578071/proveforelesning_-_jakob_grahn The title of…

Visitors from Tromsø- Trondheim- and Stavanger municipality.

This week representatives from Tromsø-, Trondheim- and Stavanger municipality visited CIRFA. Camilla and Thomas presented the different research area within CIRFA and the SFI scheme.  

Shanghai FORUM 2018

Torbjørn Eltoft was invited to organize a session on “New Technologies for Arctic Operations” at the Shanghai Forum 2018. Shanghai Forum, launched in 2005, is known as one of the…

New publication!

The article "Machine Learning Automatic Model Selection Algorithm for Oceanic Chlorophyll-a Content Retrieval" by Katalin Blix and Torbjørn Eltoft has been published in Remote Sensing as part of the Special Issue Remote Sensing…