Johan E. S. Fransson

Johan E. S. Fransson (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Karlshamn, Sweden, in 1967. He received the M.Sc. degree in forestry and the Ph.D. degree in forest remote sensing from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå, Sweden, in 1992 and 1999, respectively. Since 1993, he has been with the Department of Forest Resource Management, SLU. In 2000 and 2002, he was employed as an Assistant Professor and appointed as an Associate Professor in forest remote sensing, respectively. He was the Head of Department 2008 to 2019 and is at present Deputy Head. He has authored or coauthored more than 200 professional publications, of which more than 40 are in peer-reviewed scientific journals. His main research interests include analysis of SAR images for forestry applications. Dr. Fransson was the recipient of the International Space University Certificate from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1995, and the award from “Kungliga Skytteanska Samfundet” to a younger researcher at SLU, Umeå, in 2002. He has contributed to two paper awards (Forest Science and Remote Sensing).