Cranfield University

Dr Keith Morrison

Keith Morrison

Senior Lecturer
Location: MH195
E: k.morrison@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1793 785473
Department of Informatics and Sensors

Current activities

• A research-active senior lecturer.
• Provides postgraduate teaching of radar theory internally, and to external specialist courses.
• Has several current research activities involving radar, particularly experimentally-based synthetic aperture radar with a novel ground-based radar imaging system. This was funded last winter by the European Space Agency, within its Earth Explorer Programme, to carry out an Alpine snow-characterisation measurement campaign.
• An additional campaign this winter will be funded by NERC.
• Another current activity is the determination of soil moisture using differential radar interferometry, funded by the US Department of Defence.
• A major new research direction is sonar, and a project to identify difficult marine targets funded by the MoD.
• Has an interest in the development of noise radar waveforms, and acts as an Expert Advisor on this topic to a NATO Panel.
• He supplied a Technical Veracity Report to the private company Geospatial Consultants, Australian their “SaltSAR” product.
• He is frequently involved in international conferences as a committee member, session chair, and invited speaker.
• He supervises research students and other staff members, and has also acted as external examiner at other Universities.

Clients

US Department of Defense, USA.

Background

• Keith Morrison received the B.Sc. in physics with astrophysics from the University of Leicester, U.K. in 1983
• A Ph.D. in astronomy and astrophysics from the University of St.Andrews, St.Andrews, U.K. in 1987.
• From 1987-1994 he was with the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, carrying out research in space plasma physics.
• Between 1994 and 2000 he was at the University of Sheffield, which included a three-year role as programme manager of the GB-SAR project.
• From 2000 to 2002 he was with the UK’s Defence and Evaluation Research Agency at Malvern, involved in the characterisation of radar stealthy platforms.
• Since 2002 he has been a senior lecturer at Cranfield University.
• A research interest in synthetic aperture radar techniques has been continued and developed at Cranfield, particularly applied to environmental remote sensing.
• He lectures on both internal MSc postgraduate courses and external specialist courses.
• He supervises PhD students and manages several research projects.

Selected publications

1. Morrison,K., Bennett,J.C., Cookmartin,G., McDonald,A.J., Race, A. and Quegan,S. 2001. Three-dimensional X-band SAR imaging of a small conifer tree. Int.J.Remote Sens., 22, p705. Mz full movie, mxy full movie, tree movie
2. Brown,S.C.M., Quegan,S., Morrison,K., Bennett,J.C. and Cookmartin,G. 2003. High resolution measurements of scattering in wheat canopies – Implications for crop retrieval. IEEE Transactions of Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 41, p1602-1610.
3. Morrison,K., Cookmartin,G, Bennett,J.C., Quegan,S. and Race,A. 2005. Polarimetric Calibration Strategy for Long-Duration Imaging with a Ground-Based SAR. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, 31, p1-6.
4. Morrison, K. 2006. Effective Bandwidth SF-CW SAR Increase Using Frequency Agility. IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, Vol. 21, Issue, p28-32.
5. Laboratory Measurement of the DInSAR Response to Spatio-Temporal Variations in Soil Moisture - Keith Morrison, John Bennett, Matt Nolan, and Raghav Menon.download pdf
6. Tomographic Profiling (TP) - A Technique for Multi-Angle Vertical SAR Backscatter Profiling of Biogeophysical Targets - Keith Morrison and John Bennett download pdf
7. SubSAR – A New Scheme for the Discrimination Between Surface and Sub-Surface Features at Large Stand-Off Distances  - Keith Morrison, John Bennett, and Matt Nolan download pdf

Other Publications:

• Morrison K Norway Final Report Issue 1 May 22 Part 3 download pdf
• Morrison, K., Rott, H., Nagler, T., Rebhan, H., Wursteisen, P., 2007. The SARALPS-2007 Measurement Campaign on X-Band and Ku-Band Backscatter of Snow. In proceedings of International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Barcelona.
• Morrison, K. 2007. Use of frequency-randomized SAR waveforms for the detection and mitigation of small-motion effects in precision RCS measurement. In proceedings of International Waveform Diversity and Design Conference, Pisa, p321-325.
• Morrison, K. 2006. The use of frequency-randomised waveforms with intelligent processing for UAV SAR imaging. In proceedings of International Radar Symposium 2006, Krakow, p363-366.
• Morrison, K. and Williams, M.L. 2005. High Resolution PolInSAR with the ground-based SAR (GB-SAR) System: Measurement and Modelling. In proceedings of International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Seoul. Vol. 2, p1105–1108.
• Gomez-Dans, J.L., Quegan, S. and Morrison, K. 2005. Indoor C-band polarimetric observations of a mature wheat canopy. In proceedings of International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Seoul. Vol. 6, p4088–4091.
• Morrison,K. 2004. Recovery of Badly Motion-Degraded SAR Imagery by the use of Frequency-Randomized Waveforms. In proceedings of IEEE 2004 RADAR Conference, Philadelphia, p59-64.
• Morrison,K. 2004. An Area Compensation Technique for the Extraction of True RCS from Badly-Degraded SAR Imagery. In proceedings of European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, Ulm, p129-132.
• Morrison,K. 2003. Towards a quantitative understanding of the effects of wind motion on airborne and satellite SAR imagery of vegetation. In proceedings of International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Toulouse. p3281-3283.
• Morrison,K. and Oldfield,L. 2002. The effect of target motion on ISAR imagery. In proceedings of Antenna Measurement Techniques Association, Cleveland. p307-312.