Songxin Tan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor  Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department Room 204, Harding Hall South Dakota State University Brookings, SD 57007 Telephone:  605-688-4994 Fax:  605-688-5880 Email: Songxin.Tan@sdstate.edu

Education

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
MS, Sichuan University, Sichuan, China
BS (with honor), Sichuan University, Sichuan, China
 

Research Interests

Lidar design and instrumentation, lidar remote sensing
Optical 3-D sensing and fringe analysis
 

Lidar Remote Sensing Lab
Research activities 
 
Selected Publications

Songxin Tan, Jason Stoker, and Susan Greenlee, Detection of Foliage-Obscured Vehicle Using a Multiwavelength Polarimetric Lidar, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium ’07, Vol. 4423, 2503-2506, 2007

Songxin Tan, Ram Narayanan, and Sunil Shetty, Polarized Lidar Reflectance Measurements of Vegetation at Near-infrared and Green Wavelengths, International Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, 26(8), 1175-1194, 2005

Songxin Tan, Ram Narayanan, and Dennis Helder, Polarimetric Reflectance and Depolarization Ratio from Several Tree Species Using a Multiwavelength Polarimetric Lidar, Proc SPIE, Polarization Science and Remote Sensing II, Vol. 5888, 5888-23, 2005

Songxin Tan, Ram Narayanan, Design and Performance of a Multiwavelength Airborne Polarimetric Lidar (MAPL) for Vegetation Remote Sensing, Applied Optics, 43(11), 2360-2368, 2004

Songxin Tan, Ram Narayanan, A Multiwavelength Airborne Polarimetric Lidar for Vegetation remote sensing: Instrumentation and Preliminary Test Results, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium ’02, Vol. 5, 2675-2677, 2002

Songxin Tan, Ram Narayanan, and James Kalshoven, Measurement of Stokes Parameters of Materials at 1064-nm and 532-nm Wavelengths, Proc. SPIE, laser radar technology and applications VI, Vol. 4377, 263-271, 2001

Courses

EE 316 Signals and Systems I
EE 317 Signals and Systems II
EE 320/EE 320L Electronics I
EE 321/EE 321L Electronics II
EE 385 Electromagnetics
EE 422 Engineering Economy
EE 475/575 Digital Image Processing 
EE 492/592 Introduction to Fourier Optics
EE 464 Senior Design I
EE 465 Senior Design II
EE 615 Linear Systems Theory
GSE792 Active Sensor Systems 
 

Opportunities

If you are a motivated student and are interested in lidar remote sensing research, please contact Dr. Tan for current research opportunities.

For more information please contact: Songxin.Tan@sdstate.edu