F1  Surface and Sub-Surface Sensing

Thursday, January 4  08:20-10:00  Room 135

Session Chairs:  Leung Tsang, Jiefu Chen

08:20  F1-1  THE ULTRA-WIDEBAND SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIOMETER (UWBRAD) FOR ICE SHEET INTERNAL TEMPERATURE SENSING: RESULTS FROM THE SEPTEMBER 2017 CAMPAIGN

Mark J. Andrews*1, Alexandra Bringer1, Joel T. Johnson1, Kenneth C. Jezek2, Domenic Belgiovane1, Julie Miller2, Michael Durand2, Caglar Yardim1, Chi-Chih Chen1, Leung Tsang3, Shurun Tan3, Mohammedreza Sanamzadeh3, Vladimir Leuski4, Giovanni Macelloni5, Marco Brogioni5

1ElectroScience Laboratory, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
3University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
4Microwave Radiometers and Antennas, Inc., Louisville, CO
5Institute of Applied Physics, Florence, ITALY


08:40  F1-2  LARGE AREA OBSERVATIONS OF THE OCEAN SURFACE WITH HF RADAR SCATTER TO SATELLITE AND AIRBORNE RECEIVERS

Paul A. Bernhardt*1, Carl L. Siefring1, Stan J. Briczinski1, Mike McCarrick2, Andrew Howard3, Gordon James3, Andrew Yau3, William Bristow4

1Plasma Physics, NRL, Washington, DC
2Information Technology, NRL, Washington, DC
3Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, CANADA
4Physics, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK


09:00  F1-3  EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF AN ENDFIRE SAR AMBIGUITY FUNCTION

Omkar Pradhan*, Albin J. Gasiewski

University of Colorado, Boulder, CO


09:20  F1-4  SURFACE CHARACTERIZATION UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION: MONTE CARLO WITH COLLOCATION METHOD AND BAYESIAN INFERENCE METHOD

Qiuyang Shen*, Zhu Han, Jiefu Chen

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX


09:40  F1-5  MCMC FOR LARGE-SCALE GEOSTEERING INVERSION WITH A SCALABLE MPI IMPLEMENTATION

Han Lu*1, Qiuyang Shen1, Xuqing Wu2, Jiefu Chen1, Xin Fu1

1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
2Department of Information and Logistics Technology, University of Houston, Houston, Texas