13:20  F3-1  ACTIVE-PASSIVE FORWARD AND INVERSE MODELING IN SUPPORT OF SMAP AND SOIL MOISTURE REMOTE SENSING

Ruzbeh Akbar*, Mahta Moghaddam

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

13:40  F3-2  A STUDY OF SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION FROM MULTI-TEMPORAL L-BAND RADAR OBSERVATIONS OF VEGETATED SURFACES

Jeffrey D. Ouellette*¹, Joel T. Johnson¹, Anna Balenzano², Francesco Mattia², Giuseppe Satalino², Seungbum Kim³, Jeff Walker⁴, Rocco Panciera⁵

¹Electrical Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
²Istituto di Studi sui Sistemi Intelligenti per lAutomazione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Bari, ITALY
³Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
⁴Civil Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, NSW, AUSTRALIA
⁵Infrastructure Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, NSW, AUSTRALIA

14:00  F3-3  REMOTE SENSING OF SEA ICE COVER USING SUPERDARN HF RADARS

Evan G. Thomas*¹, Kevin T. Sterne¹, Pasha V. Ponomarenko^1,2, J. Michael Ruohoniemi¹, Joseph B. H. Baker¹

¹Bradley Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
²Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, CANADA

14:20  F3-4  PHASE CALIBRATION OF AN ALONG-TRACK INTERFEROMETRIC FMCW SAR

Huazeng Deng*¹, Yuriy V. Goncharenko², Gordon Farquharson³

¹Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, SEATTLE, WA
²Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics NAS of Ukraine, Ukraine, UKRAINE
³Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

14:40  F3-5  QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION USING DUAL-POLARIZATION RADAR NETWORK OVER THE DALLAS-FORT WORTH (DFW) METROPLEX

Haonan Chen*, V. Chandrasekar

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado