"This is a proposal to support Dr. Ali Cafer Gurbuz’s reintegration as a full-time faculty member at TOBB University of Economics and Technology (ETU) in January 2009, leaving his post-doctoral position at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. Dr. Gurbuz’s expertise is in the areas of signal, image and array processing, with emphasis on radar, subsurface imaging, and compressive sensing. The technical objective of the proposed research is to develop novel data acquisition and processing techniques for newly emerging compressive sensing systems. Dr. Gurbuz brings unique experience to ETU as he has collaborated with one of the pioneers of compressive sensing, Dr. Romberg, and has an invention disclosure in the area of compressive wireless sensor networks. The three-year research plan outlined in this proposal builds upon his expertise acquired over his last six years in the US and continues his successful collaboration with researchers in the US while also ensuring transfer of that knowledge to potential collaborators in Europe. Our research plan is comprised of three sub-thrusts: 1) compressive remote sensing, with applications to subsurface imaging using GPR and EMI sensors; 2) multi-sensor and distributed compressive sensing; and 3) detection and estimation algorithms based directly on compressive data. These are timely research projects since compressive sensing is a newly emerging technology, especially in the area of remote sensing, where there are many unexplored areas of research and since initial results have shown its potential in a variety of applications. ETU is in a good position to lead his project as one of the fastest growing universities in Turkey with modern facilities and a dynamic faculty. ETU is very confident of Dr. Gurbuz’s potential to become one of the leading researchers in Europe in his field and is ready to do its part for his successful reintegration. But support from this grant is extremely critical to achieve success."