Dr. George Lampropoulos is a leader in industry and academia in the areas of radar, space, photonics and environmental engineering. He has made outstanding contributions to engineering in many fields and his advances have had impact in the areas of mineral exploration, earth observation from space, defence and intelligent water quality monitoring. The company that he founded has commercialized these advances and has grown to become an internationally known source of expertise. His techniques have been adopted worldwide and have helped place Canadian engineering in remote sensing at the forefront of global capability.