HFG1  GNSS, Radio Beacons and Remote Sensing

Friday, January 8  08:20-12:00  Room 245

Session Chairs:  Valery Zavorotny, Paul Bernhardt, Anthea Coster

08:20  HFG1-1  EARTH REMOTE SENSING WITH THE GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM REFLECTOMETRY

Cinzia Zuffada*1, Rashmi Shah1, Zhijin Li1, Maria Paola Clarizia2, Steve Lowe1, Clara Chew1

1Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, California
2University of Michigan, Michigan


08:40  HFG1-2  GNSS-REFLECTOMETRY WITH NASA'S SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE/PASSIVE MISSION

Stephen T. Lowe*, Samuel Chan, Stephan Esterhuizen, Adam Freedman, Shadi Oveisgharan, Larry Young

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA


09:00  HFG1-3  AN EXAMINATION OF TDS-1 GNSS-R RETURNS OVER LAND SURFACES

Jeonghwan Park*1, Joel T. Johnson1, Andrew O'Brien1, Stephen T. Lowe2

1The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA


09:20  HFG1-4  SENSITIVITY OF GNSS REFLECTED SIGNALS TO CHANGES IN LAND SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS, AS RECORDED BY TECHDEMOSAT-1

Clara C. Chew*, Cinzia Zuffada, Anthony J. Mannucci, Rashmi Shah

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA


09:40  HFG1-5  MEASUREMENT OF SURFACE REFLECTIVITY USING SIGNALS OF OPPORTUNITY

Rashmi Shah*1, Simon Yueh1, Xiaolan Xu1, Yunjin Kim1, Kelly Elder2, James Garrison3, Abi Komanduru3

1NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
2United States Forest Service, Fort Collins
3Purdue University, West Lafayette


10:20  HFG1-6  CONSTELLATION OBSERVING SYSTEM FOR METEOROLOGY, IONOSPHERE AND CLIMATE: OVERVIEW OF THE COSMIC-2 MISSION

William S. Schreiner*

UCAR, Boulder, CO


10:40  HFG1-7  PROPCUBE RADIO BEACONS SATELLITES FOR IONOSPHERIC AND RADIO ASTRONOMICAL APPLICATIONS

Paul A. Bernhardt*1, Namir Kassim1, Mike Sulzer2, John Abel3

1Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research laboratory, Washington, DC
2Aeronomy, Arecibo Observatory, Arecibo, PR
3Nanosat, TYVAK, Irvine, CA


11:00  HFG1-8  DISTRIBUTION OF COMMON-VOLUME LEO-BASED AND GROUND-BASED GNSS IONOSPHERE OBSERVATIONS

Brian Breitsch*

Colorado State University, Fort Collins


11:20  HFG1-9  A COMBINED GROUND AND SPACE IONOSPHERIC OBSERVATION NETWORK WITH INTER-SEGMENT COORDINATION (IONIC)

Andrew K. Kennedy*, Kerri L. Cahoy

Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Ma


11:40  HFG1-10  RECENT ADVANCES IN LARGE-SCALE GNSS PROCESSING

Anthea Coster*, Juha Vierinen, William Rideout, Victor Pankratius, Frank Lind, Philip Erickson

MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA