F2  Passive Remote Sensing of the Earth's Environment: In Honor of the Career of Dr. Hans J. Liebe

Wednesday, January 9  13:20-17:00  Room 150

Session Chairs:  Edgeworth Westwater, Albin Gasiewski, Steven Reising

13:20  F2-1  MICROWAVE SPECTRAL LINE MODEL DEVELOPMENT: A RETROSPECTIVE IN HONOR OF DR. HANS J. LIEBE

Albin J. Gasiewski*1, Ed R. Westwater1, Philip W. Rosenkranz2

1Dept of ECEE, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO
2Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA


13:40  F2-2  A UNIFIED MICROWAVE RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL WITH JACOBIAN FOR GENERAL STRATIFIED MEDIA: EXTENSION AND NUMERICAL RESULTS

Miao Tian*, Albin J. Gasiewski

ECEE, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado


14:00  F2-3  RETRIEVAL OF WET-PATH DELAY FROM SSMIS OBSERVATIONS OVER COASTAL AND INLAND WATER REGIONS USING THE BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE DEFLECTION RATIO METHOD

Kyle L. Gilliam*1, Xavier Bosch-Lluis1, Steven C. Reising1, Alan W. Tanner2, Shannon Brown2, Pekka Kangaslahti2

1Microwave Systems Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
2Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA


14:20  F2-4  HIGH-RESOLUTION WET-TROPOSPHERIC PATH DELAY CORRECTIONS FOR COASTAL AND INLAND WATER ALTIMETRY USING WIDE-BAND AIRBORNE MICROWAVE AND MILLIMETER-WAVE RADIOMETERS

Steven C. Reising*1, Pekka Kangaslahti2, Shannon T. Brown2, Alan B. Tanner2, Sharmila Padmanabhan2, Chaitali Parashare2, Xavier Bosch-Lluis1, Scott P. Nelson1, Thaddeus Johnson1, Victoria Hadel1, Douglas E. Dawson2, Oliver Montes2, Todd Gaier2, Behrouz Khayatian2, Kyle L. Gilliam1

1Microwave Systems Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
2California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA


14:40  F2-5  L-BAND RETRIEVAL OF OCEAN SURFACE SALINITY AND WIND USING AQUARIUS COMBINED ACTIVE-PASSIVE DATA

Simon Yueh*, Wenqing Tang, Alexander Fore, Akiko Hayashi

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California


15:20  F2-6  CUBESAT BASED SENSORS FOR GLOBAL WEATHER FORECASTING

Albin J. Gasiewski*1, Brian T. Sanders2, David Gallaher3

1Dept of ECEE, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO
2Colorado Space Grant Consortium, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO
3National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, Unites States


15:40  F2-7  A COMPACT 118 GHZ RADIOMETER FOR THE MICRO-SIZED MICROWAVE ATMOSPHERIC SATELLITE (MICROMAS)

I. Osaretin*1, W. Blackwell1, C. Galbraith1, R. Leslie1, M. Shields1, S. Conrad1, E. Thompson1, D. Toher1, C. Semisch1, B. Reid1, W. Osborn1, G. Allen1, N Erickson2

1MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA
2University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA


16:00  F2-8  SPATIAL RESOLUTION AND ACCURACY OF RETRIEVALS OF 2D AND 3D WATER VAPOR FIELDS FROM GROUND-BASED RADIOMETER NETWORKS

Swaroop Sahoo*1, Xavier Bosch-Lluis1, Steven C. Reising1, Jothiram Vivekanandan2

1Microwave Systems Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States of America
2Earth Observing Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States of America


16:20  F2-9  PERFORMANCE OF AN L-BAND ANTENNA FOR RADIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS

Mehmet Ogut*1, Roger H. Lang1, Wasyl Wasylkiwskyj1, Mehmet Kurum2, Peggy E. O'Neill2

1Electrical and Computer Engineering, The George Washington University, Washington DC
2Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland


16:40  F2-10  PARAMETRIZATION OF AN ANISOTROPIC OCEAN SURFACE EMISSIVITY MODEL BASED ON WINDSAT POLARIMETRIC OBSERVATIONS

Dean F. Smith*1, Albin J. Gasiewski1, Srikumar Sandeep1, Bob L. Weber2

1Dept. of ECEE, University of Colorado, Boulder CO
2De Tech, Inc., Longmont CO