Anders Ekelund is Vice President Bathymetric Lidar within Hexagon, overall responsible for Hexagon airborne bathymetric lidar solutions portfolio. For 18 years, he has managed the bathymetric lidar systems, software development and applications developments of this portfolio, a business that has grown about 10 times over the same period.
Anders Ekelund has an education as Master of Science with focus on automatic control theories and significant experience within engineering, project management, business development, international research collaboration within aerospace technologies, before he took the management role for topobathymetric lidar. He has over the last 18 years provided many presentations on international conferences airborne remote sensing technologies and have contributed to several patents and scientific papers within the topobathymetric lidar field.