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Maurice Borgeaud
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Head of Department at the European Space Agency,
Senior Scientist at EPFL
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MISSION
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During 2004-2010, Maurice Borgeaud was the director of the Space Center EPFL . He left EPFL at the end of 2010 for a new professional challenge with the European Space Agency where he currently leads the Earth Observation department for Science, Applications, and Future Technologies. He is however keeping some research and teaching duties at EPFL as external Senior Scientist.
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BIOGRAPHY
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After earning in 1982 an “Ingénieur Electricien” diploma from EPFL in Lausanne, M. Borgeaud received a Master of Science and a Ph.D. Degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), both in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He worked in 1988 for the German Aerospace Agency (DLR) in Munich and was then member of the staff of the European Space Agency (ESA) from 1989 to 2002 in the European Space and Technology Center (ESTEC), the Netherlands. During this time, he was responsible for numerous space technology and Earth observation projects. He also spent a one-year sabbatical leave at the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in 1992 and received a Master of Space Systems Engineering from TU-Delft in 1997. From 2002 to 2004, he worked for the Swiss Space Office in Berne and was member of the Swiss delegation to ESA where he was in charge of the Earth observation, satellite navigation and communications sectors.
From 2004 to 2010, he worked for EPFL as Director of the Space Center . He was responsible for the promotion and the fostering of all space activities at EPFL in the academic, R&D, and industrial domains. He initiated and put together a successful Minor in space technologies at EPFL as well as new projects including SwissCube, the first Swiss satellite entirely built by students launched in September 2009 and the promotion of space system engineering in the frame of a the setup of the EPFL concurrent design facility. In 2009, he was appointed Senior Scientist at EPFL (Maître d'enseignement et de recherche).
Since 2011, M. Borgeaud is working for the European Space Agency at ESRIN, near Rome, as Head of the Department "Science, Applications, and Future Technologies" in the Directorate of Earth Observation.
M. Borgeaud is a Senior member of the IEEE, is an Associate Editor for “IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing”, and served between 2008 and 2010 as Chairman of the ESA Programme Board on Earth observation. While in Switzerland, M. Borgeaud was a member of several boards dealing with space affairs, notably the Swiss Commission for Remote Sensing and the Swiss Space Research Commission.
He has authored and co-authored more than 100 publications in refereed journals or conference proceedings.
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MAIN PUBLICATIONS
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Monitoring of land cover change using SAR and optical data from the ESA rolling archives, M. Borgeaud, ESA Living Planet Symposium, Bergen, Norway, 28 June - 2 July 2010
Toward a synergetic approach using SAR and Optical satellite imagery for biomass estimation, N. Ackermann, C. Thiel, M. Borgeaud, and C. Schmullius, EARSEL Workshop,. Bonn, Germany, 25-27 Nov 2009
Advanced Methods for Structural Machining and SwissCube: The first entirely-built Swiss student satellite with an Earth observation payload, M. Borgeaud, N. Scheidegger, M. Noca, G Roethlisberger, F. Jordan, T. Choueiri, and N Steiner, 7th IAA Symposium on Small Satellites for Earth Observation, Berlin, 4-8 May 2009
Analysis of temporal land cover changes using the ESA Rolling Archives, M. Borgeaud, M. Tschudi, D. Jeanbourquin, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS’2008, Boston, USA, 7-11 July 2008
Joint statistical properties of RMS height and correlation length derived from multisite 1-m roughness measurements, M. Davidson, F. Mattia, G. Satalino, N. Verhoest, T. LeToan, M. Borgeaud, M. Louis, E. Attema, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 41, No. 7, July 2003, pp. 1651-1658
Detecting pollution damage to forests in the Kola Peninsula using ERS SAR data, P. Saich, W.G. Rees, M. Borgeaud, Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 75, No. 1, pp. 22-28, 2001
On the soil moisture retrieval of bare soils with ERS SAR data, M. Borgeaud and N. Floury, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS’2000, Honolulu, USA, 24-28 July 2000, pp. 1687-1689
Analysis of Theoretical Surface Scattering Models for Polarimetric Microwave Remote Sensing of Bare Soils, M. Borgeaud and J. Noll, International Journal of Remote Sensing,Vol. 15, No. 14, pp. 2931-2942, 1994
Theoretical Models for Polarimetric Microwave Remote Sensing of Earth Terrain, M. Borgeaud, J.A. Kong, and R.T. Shin
, Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 61-81, 1989
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| Skills |
• Space system engineering
• Remote sensing
• Development of applications using space data
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| Teaching |
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
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| Phd Students |
De Morsier Frank
Stamenkovic Jelena
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| Teaching Activity |
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"Remote sensing of the Earth by satellites"
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Senior Scientist