EFJ1  Radio Frequency Interference Mitigation and Spectrum Usage

Wednesday, January 9  08:20-12:00  Room 265

Session Chairs:  Andrew Clegg, Charles Baylis, David Kunkee

08:20  EFJ1-1  SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT FOR SCIENCE IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Michael M. Davis*

Committee on Radio Frequencies, Board on Physics and Astronomy National Academies, Washington, DC


08:40  EFJ1-2  SPECTRUMWIKI: A FRAMEWORK FOR A CROWD-SOURCED REPOSITORY OF INFORMATION ON SPECTRUM USAGE

Andrew Clegg*

National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia


09:00  EFJ1-3  PERFORMANCE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE SMAP RFI MITIGATION ALGORITHM USING DIRECT-SAMPLED SMAPVEX 2012 DATA

Sidharth Misra*1, Joel Johnson2, Mustafa Aksoy2, Jeffrey Piepmeier3, Damon Bradley3, Hsin Li3, James Mederios3, Ian O'Dwyer1

1Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
2Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
3Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD


09:20  EFJ1-4  RFI CHARACTERIZATION FOR SMAP USING L-BAND DIRECT SAMPLED DATA OBTAINED DURING THE SMAPVEX12 AIRBORNE CAMPAIGN

Mustafa Aksoy*1, Joel T. Johnson1, Sidharth Misra2, Ian ODwyer2

1The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA


09:40  EFJ1-5  PRECISE ESTIMATION OF PASSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL MICROWAVE BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES IN THE PRESENCE OF WEAK DIGITAL INTERFERING SIGNALS

Eric M. McIntyre*, Albin J. Gasiewski

Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder


10:20  EFJ1-6  FUTURE CHALLENGES FOR RADIO ASTRONOMY

Karen Oneil*, John Ford, Mike McCarty, Toney Minter, Richard Prestage

National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Green Bank, WV


10:40  EFJ1-7  RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT EFFORTS AT THE NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY GREEN BANK SITE

Carla Beaudet, John Ford*, Toney Minter, Mike McCarty, Karen O'Neil, Richard Prestage

National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Green Bank, WV


11:00  EFJ1-8  RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE IDENTIFICATION AND MITIGATION IN PULSAR OBSERVATIONS USING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES

Mike McCarty1, Gary Doran2, T. Joseph W. Lazio2, David R. Thompson2, John Ford*1, Richard Prestage1

1National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Green Bank, WV
2Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA


11:20  EFJ1-9  A METHODOLOGY FOR RADIO NOISE MEASUREMENT AND MODELING

Qingsheng Zeng*

Communications Research Centre Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada


11:40  EFJ1-10  ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION OF CANADIAN ELECTROMAGNETIC ENVIRONMENT

Qingsheng Zeng*

Communications Research Centre Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada