S. Lawrence "Larry" Marple, Jr.
Professor
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Oregon State University
1148 Kelley Engineering Center
Corvallis, OR 97331-5501

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Biography
Larry Marple received the B.S. (1969) and M.E.E. (1970) degrees from Rice University of Houston, TX, and the Engr.D. from Stanford University (1976), all in electrical engineering. He is currently a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Oregon State University, with research interests in sensor signal processing.

Prior to joining OSU, he was for 11 years the Chief Scientist of the Orincon Corporation in San Diego, CA, a firm involved in DoD and intelligence sensor signal processing and target signature exploitation. Marple has 31 years of experience in the development and implementation of digital signal processing algorithms, software, and hardware for temporal, frequency, and spatial domain signals in sonar/underwater acoustics, radar, communications, intelligence, acoustic well logging, and ultrasound imaging. He has been involved in synthetic aperture radar R&D since 1978.

His recent work has been in the area of new feature exploitation (both imaged and nonimaged target features) from synthetic aperture radar, also including special focusing for moving targets. He is a former employee of Acuson (Mountain View, California), Martin Marietta Aero and Naval Systems (Baltimore, Maryland), Schlumberger Well Services (Houston, Texas), TASC (Reston, Virginia), Advent Systems (Mountain View, California), and ARGOSystems (Sunnyvale, California).

Marple has published widely in the journals IEEE Signal Processing Transactions, the Proceedings of the IEEE, Geophysics, Bell System Technical Journal, IEE Proceedings (UK), Chemical and Physical Letters, and the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. He is the author of the textbook Digital Spectral Analysis (Prentice Hall, 1987), and a new signal analysis text to be published in 2003. He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 1989 for "contributions to the theory and application of spectral analysis in digital signal processing." He also served in the Signal Corps of the U.S. Army during 1972-1977.