Alejandro C. Frery

Alejandro C. Frery IEEE Fellow
Born	(1960-02-21) February 21, 1960 (age 65) Mendoza, Argentina
Nationality	Argentine
Alma mater	Universidad de Mendoza
Known for	SAR/PolSAR image analysis, Information theory in remote sensing
Awards	IEEE GRSS Regional Leader (2018)
Scientific career
Fields	Computational statistics, Signal processing, Remote sensing
Institutions	Victoria University of Wellington Federal University of Alagoas Federal University of Pernambuco INPE
Website	people.wgtn.ac.nz/alejandro.frery

Alejandro C. Frery (born 21 February 1960) is an Argentine-born computational statistician and image processing expert. He is a full professor of Statistics and Data Science at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His research focuses on statistical computing, stochastic modeling, and the analysis of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) imagery.

Early life and education

Frery was born in Mendoza, Argentina, in 1960. He received a B.Sc. in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from Universidad de Mendoza in 1983. M.Sc. degree in Applied Mathematics (Statistics) from the Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada in 1990. Ph.D. degree in Applied Computing from the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, São José dos Campos, Brazil, in 1993. ^[1]

Research and contributions

Frery's research intersects computational statistics and image processing, with significant work in:

• Statistical modeling of SAR/PolSAR data ^[2]
• Entropy and complexity measures in remote sensing ^[3]
• Information-theoretic image classification ^[4]
• Image filtering and clustering in remote sensing application ^[5]

Honors and roles

• IEEE GRSS Distinguished Lecturer (2015) ^[6]
• Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing (2014-2018) ^[7]
• Huashan Scholar at Xidian University, Xi’an, China (2019-2020)
• IEEE Fellow (2025) ^[8]

Selected publications

• Frery, Alejandro C.; Wu, Jie; Gomez, Luis (20 July 2022). SAR Image Analysis - A Computational Statistics Approach: With R Code, Data, and Applications. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN   978-1-119-79546-9.

References

1. "Alejandro Frery". openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
2. Frery, Alejandro C.; Nascimento, Abraão D. C. (17 December 2024). "Statistical Information Theory in SAR and PolSAR Image Analysis". Information-Theoretic Radar Signal Processing. pp. 181–215. doi:10.1002/9781394216956.ch7. ISBN   978-1-394-21692-5.
3. Frery, Alejandro C.; Cintra, Renato J.; Nascimento, Abraao D. C. (June 2013). "Entropy-Based Statistical Analysis of PolSAR Data". IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 51 (6): 3733–3743. arXiv: 1210.4154 . Bibcode:2013ITGRS..51.3733F. doi:10.1109/TGRS.2012.2222029.
4. Frery, A. C.; Nascimento, A. D. C.; Cintra, R. J. (2014). "Information Theory and Image Understanding: An Application to Polarimetric SAR Imagery". arXiv: 1402.1876 [stat.ME].
5. Ferreira, Jodavid A.; Nascimento, Abraão D. C.; Frery, Alejandro C. (11 October 2022). "PolSAR Models with Multimodal Intensities". Remote Sensing. 14 (20): 5083. Bibcode:2022RemS...14.5083F. doi: 10.3390/rs14205083 .
6. "Past Distinguished Lecturers". GRSS-IEEE. IEEE . Retrieved 21 July 2025.
7. Gamba, P. (January 2014). "Editorial". IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 11 (1): 3–4. Bibcode:2014IGRSL..11....3G. doi:10.1109/LGRS.2013.2291472.
8. "IEEE Fellow Class of 2025" (PDF). www.ieee.org. IEEE . Retrieved 21 July 2025.

External links

• Alejandro C. Frery publications indexed by Google Scholar