13:20  F2-1  RELATING CYGNSS OBSERVATIONS TO SOIL MOISTURE VARIATIONS DURING THE 2018 HURRICANE SEASON

Orhan Eroglu*, Dylan R. Boyd, Ali C. Gurbuz, Mehmet Kurum

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State

13:40  F2-2  L-BAND HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION SOIL MOISTURE MAPPING USING SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS

Eryan Dai*¹, Aravind Venkitasubramony¹, Albin Gasiewski¹, Maciej Stachura², Jack Elston²

¹ECEE, Colorado University at Boulder, Boulder
²Black Swift Technologies (BST) LLC, Boulder

14:00  F2-3  INVESTIGATION OF ROOT-ZONE SOIL MOISTURE PROFILE SENSITIVITY TO MULTIPLE SIGNAL OF OPPORTUNITY SOURCES

Dylan R. Boyd*¹, Mehmet Kurum¹, Orhan Eroglu¹, Ali Gurbuz¹, James Garrison², Benjamin Nold², Manuel Vega³, Jeffrey Piepmeier³, Rajat Bindlish³

¹Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS
²Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
³NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD

14:20  F2-4  NON-DESTRUCTIVE DIELECTRIC CONSTANT MEASUREMENT OF A LOSS-LESS DIELECTRIC SLAB USING COHERENT MULTIPATH INTERFERENCE OF A WIDEBAND RADIATION

Seyedmohammad Mousavi*¹, Roger De Roo², Kamal Sarabandi¹, Anthony England³

¹Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
²Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
³College of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI

14:40  F2-5  USING 0.5-2 GHZ MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY FOR ARCTIC SEA-ICE THICKNESS AND SALINITY RETRIEVAL

Oguz Demir*¹, Mark Andrews¹, Joel T. Johnson¹, Kenneth Jezek²

¹ElectroScience Laboratory, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
²Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OHIO

15:20  F2-6  EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF AN ENDFIRE SAR AMBIGUITY FUNCTION

Omkar P. Pradhan*, Albin J. Gasiewski

CU-Boulder, Boulder CO

15:40  F2-7  Detection, Analysis and Mitigation of Sea Clutter in Polarimetric Weather Radar

Amit Dutta*, Chandrasekar Venkatachalam

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins

16:00  F2-8  SIMULATIONS OF 3D CLOUD RADIATION FIELDS USING THE HORIZONTALLY INHOMOGENEOUS UNIFIED MICROWAVE RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL

Kun Zhang*, Albin J. Gasiewski

University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO

16:20  F2-9  IDENTIFYING LIQUID CLOUD DROPLETS AND FROZEN HYDROMETEORS IN MIXED-PHASE CLOUDS USING 35-GHZ VERTICALLY POINTING RADAR VELOCITY SPECTRA

Christopher R. Williams*¹, Maximilian Maahn^2,3, Joseph C. Hardin⁴, Gijs de Boer^2,3

¹Smead Aerospace Engineering Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO
²Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO
³NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO
⁴Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA

16:40  F2-10  UTILIZATION OF CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS IN CLASSIFICATION OF SNOWFLAKES BASED ON IMAGES BY A MULTI-ANGLE SNOWFLAKE CAMERA

Adam C. Hicks*, V.n. Bringi, Branislav M. Notaros

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins