Dr. Muhammad Amjad Iqbal | Remote Sensing |Young Scientist Award
Postdoctoral Researcher at CEOSpaceTech Research Center for Spatial Information, Romania
Dr. Muhammad Amjad Iqbal is a skilled researcher in remote sensing and signal processing, with a focus on oceanography, SAR imaging, and target detection. He holds a PhD from the National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Romania. With research experience across multiple countries, including Romania, Germany, Spain, and China, he specializes in compressive sensing and high-resolution radar imaging. Dr. Iqbal has contributed to various scientific publications and has worked on geocoded sea ice coverage, ship detection, and coastline engineering. His expertise spans across SAR, ISAR, and mm-wave imaging, alongside his development of novel radar algorithms.
Publication Profile
🎓Education
PhD: Electronics Telecommunication Technology, NUST POLITEHNICA of Bucharest (2023) . MS: Communication and Information Systems Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology (2020) . BSc: Electrical Engineering (Telecommunication), Government College University Faisalabad (2015)
💼Experience
Research Assistant: University of Naples, Italy (Dec 2023 – Nov 2024). Research Assistant: CEOSpaceTech Lab, NUST POLITEHNICA, Romania (Jan 2021 – Dec 2023). Software Test Engineer: CIENET Technologies, China (July 2019 – Dec 2019). Lab Engineer: Bahauddin Zakariya University, Pakistan (Feb 2017 – Sep 2017)
🏆Awards and Honors
Early Career Research Award: SERB (2017). Research Excellence Award: GEU, India (2015). DST Travel Grant: USA (2012). Best Paper Presentation Award: TriboIndia 2023 . Member: IAAM (5 years)
🔬Research Focus
Dr. Iqbal’s research focuses on advanced radar imaging, particularly synthetic aperture radar (SAR), inverse SAR, and compressive sensing. He specializes in high-resolution imaging techniques for target detection, ice-cover delineation, and ocean surface current estimation. His work involves using SAR and ISAR data for applications in environmental monitoring, including sea ice and coastline engineering. Dr. Iqbal aims to improve radar imaging algorithms for accurate environmental analysis and monitoring. 🌍
Conclusion
Dr. Muhammad Amjad Iqbal is a highly skilled researcher whose contributions to the field of remote sensing, particularly in ocean and ice-cover monitoring, have proven impactful. His innovative research in radar imaging, target detection, and signal processing, coupled with international experience and multiple high-quality publications, makes him an excellent candidate for the Young Scientist Award. With continued growth in public engagement and interdisciplinary collaborations, he is poised to make even greater contributions to the scientific community.
Publications
- Title: Coastline extraction from SAR data using Doppler centroid images
Year: 2022
Authors: MA Iqbal, A Anghel, M Datcu
Citations: 14
- Title: Doppler centroid estimation for ocean surface current retrieval from Sentinel-1 SAR data
Year: 2022
Authors: MA Iqbal, A Anghel, M Datcu
Citations: 8
- Title: On the de-ramping of SLC-IW Tops SAR data and ocean circulation parameters estimation
Year: 2022
Authors: MA Iqbal, A Anghel, M Datcu
Citations: 7
- Title: Towards Complex-Valued Deep Architectures with Data Model Preservation for Sea Surface Current Estimation from SAR Data
Year: 2023
Authors: MA Iqbal, R Mohammadi Asiyabi, O Ghozatlou, A Anghel, M Datcu
Citations: 4
- Title: Exploiting Inverse SAR Images and Dual-Pol Decomposition for the Estimation of Tree Scattering Properties
Year: 2023
Authors: MA Iqbal, A Anghel, M Datcu, A Bathelt, S Sieger
Citations: 4
- Title: Assessment of mm-Wave High Resolution Inverse SAR Imaging both with Compact and Sparse Data
Year: 2023
Authors: MA Iqbal, A Anghel, M Datcu, I Ederra, JC Iriarte
Citations: 3
- Title: 3-D localization of UAV and detection based on harmonics index and spectral entropy criteria
Year: 2020
Authors: MA Iqbal, Z Zhao, X ZhiYong, SU Rehman
Citations: 2
- Title: Coarse-to-fine estimation: Compressive sensing for high-resolution inverse SAR imaging
Year: 2024
Authors: MA Iqbal, MH Conde, A Anghel, M Datcu
Citations: 1
- Title: Ice Cover Delineation Over Devon Iceland Using Sentinel Polarimetric SAR and Optical Data
Year: 2023
Authors: MA Iqbal, A Anghel, M Datcu
Citations: 1
- Title: Feature extraction and classification of UAV’s acoustic signal using 4-microphones array in a real noisy environment
Year: 2019
Authors: MA Iqbal, SU Rehman
Citations: 1