ESTF2010 Sessions Detail

Day One (Tues, 6/22) / Day Two (Wed, 6/23) / Day Three (Thurs, 6/24)
Click the "Abstract" link under each name to view the abstract (HTML). Click on the paper title to view/download the paper (PDF - all papers are less than 5MB). Click on the "Presentation" link to view/download the presentation given at the forum (PDF - all presentations are less than 14MB).

Tuesday, June 22nd - Day One
Session A1: In-Situ Sensor Webs for Sensor Calibration
Session Moderator: Nikunj Oza
A1P1 10:00 Mahta Moghaddam Ground Network Design and Dynamic Operation for Validation of Space-Borne Soil Moisture Measurements
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A1P2 10:30 Payman Arabshahi A Smart Sensor Web for Ocean Observation: System Design, Modeling, and Optimization
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A1P3 11:00 Matt Heavner SEAMONSTER: A wireless Sensor Web prototype applied to studying glaciated watersheds
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A1P4 11:30 Lonnie Parker Real-Time Robotic Surveying for Unexplored Arctic Terrain
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Session A2: Science Planning Strategies
Session Moderator: Thomas Grubb
A2P1 1:30 Stephen Talabac End-to-End Design and Objective Evaluation of Sensor Web Modeling and Data Assimilation System Architectures: Phase II
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A2P2 2:00 Meemong Lee An Atmospheric Science OSSE System Architecture
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A2P3 2:30 Catherine  Slesnick Exploitation of Coincident Earth Observations
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Session A3: Data Uncertainty and Integration Strategies for Interdisciplinary Science
Session Moderator: Jacqueline Le Moigne
A3P1 3:30 Amy Braverman Geostatistical Data Fusion for Remote Sensing Applications
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A3P2 4:00 Sujay Kumar Use of Inverse Modeling Tools for Improved Utilization of Earth Science Data in Land Surface Modeling and Data Assimilation
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A3P3 4:30 Bo-Wen Shen Coupling NASA Advanced Multi-Scale Modeling and Concurrent Visualization Systems for Improving Predictions of Tropical High-Impact Weather (CAMVis)
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A3P4 5:00 Shen-Shyang Ho Moving Object Database Technology for Ad-Hoc Querying and Satellite Data Retrieval  of Dynamic Atmospheric Events
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A3P5 5:30 Liping Di Earth Science Web Service Advertisement and Discovery
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Session B1: Passive Optical - I, UV-VIS-IR Sensors & Detectors
Session Moderator: Pepper Hartley
B1P1 10:00 Brian Daugherty Mueller Matrix Imaging Polarimeter for UV Metrology
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B1P2 10:30 Stanley Sander Panchromatic Fourier Transform Spectrometer for the GEO-CAPE Mission
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B1P3 11:00 Martin Mlynczak From Incubator to Space: Ten Years of Infrared Sensor Technology Development at NASA Langley
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B1P4 11:30 Rainer Illing Optical and Structural Performance of the PolZero-Lm Time Domain Polarization Scrambler
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Session B2: Passive Optical - II, Radiometric Sensors
Session Moderator: Eduardo Torres-Martinez
B2P1 1:30 Doreen Neil Infrared Correlation Radiometer for Tropospheric Carbon Monoxide Measurements from GEO
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B2P2 2:00 Charles McClain The Ocean Radiometer for Carbon Assessment (ORCA)
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Session B3: Active Optical - I, Atmospheric Composition & Winds
Session Moderator: Keith Murray
B3P1 3:30 Johnathan Hair Development of the Global Ozone Lidar Demonstrator (GOLD) for the Global Hawk
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B3P2 4:00 Jirong Yu Development of a Coherent Differential Absorption LIDAR for Range Resolved Atmospheric CO2 Measurements
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B3P3 4:30 William Heaps Goddard Program for Measurement of Carbon dioxide using a Broadband LIDAR
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B3P4 5:00 Syed Ismail Design, Development and Evaluation of a 2-Micron Differential Absorption LIDAR for Profiling CO2
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B3P5 5:30 Christian Grund Development and Demonstration of an Optical Autocovariance Direct Detection Wind Lidar
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Wednesday, June 23rd - Day Two
Session A4: On-board Processing for Decadal Survey Sensors
Session Moderator: Charles Norton
A4P1 10:00 Thomas Flatley Advanced Hybrid On-Board Science Data Processor - SpaceCube 2.0
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A4P2 10:30 Matthew French Advances in Fault Tolerance Support for FPGA Embedded Processors
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A4P3 11:00 Paula Pingree Real-Time On-Board Processing Validation of MSPI Ground Camera Images
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A4P4 11:30 Yunling Lou Onboard Radar Processing Concepts for the DESDynI Mission
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Session A5: Sensor Data Processing and Real-Time Scalable Network Communications
Session Moderator: Phillip Paulsen
A5P1 1:30 Dan Mandl SensorWeb 3G: Extending On-Orbit Sensor Capabilities to Enable Near Realtime User Configurability
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A5P2 2:00 Eric Gurrola InSAR Scientific Computing Environment
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A5P3 2:30 William Ivancic Efficient Delivery of  Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Data
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A5P4 3:00 Mohammed Atiquzzaman Survivability and Scalability of Space Networks
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Note: Track A Adjourns After Session A5 on Day 2, there is no A6 Session
Session B4: Passive Optical - III, Hyperspectral Sensors
Session Moderator: Parminder Ghuman
B4P1 10:00 Greg Kopp Hyperspectral Imagery Radiometry Improvements for Visible and Near-Infrared Climate Studies
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B4P2 10:30 Bjorn Eng QWEST and HyTES: Two New Hyperspectral Thermal Infrared Imaging Spectrometers for Earth Science
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B4P3 11:00 Byron van Gorp Design of an airborne Portable Remote Imaging Spectrometer (PRISM) for the coastal ocean
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B4P4 11:30 Louise Hamlin Imaging Spectroscopy Science Measurements for Terrestrial Ecology: AVIRIS and Next Generation AVIRIS Characteristics and Developmental Status.
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Session B5: Active Optical - II, Atmospheric Composition
Session Moderator: Joseph Famiglietti
B5P1 1:30 David Strafford Low-weight, Low-cost, Low-cycle Time, Replicated Mirrors
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B5P2 2:00 James Abshire Pulsed Lidar for Measurement of CO2 Concentrations for the ASCENDS Mission - Progress
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B5P3 2:30 Jeffrey Beyon Data Acquisition and Processing System for Airborne Wind Profiling with a Pulsed, 2-Micron, Coherent-Detection, Doppler Lidar System
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B5P4 3:00 Jeremy Dobler Laser Absorption Spectrometer Measurements of Atmospheric O2 in the 1.27 µm Band
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Session B6: Active Microwave
Session Moderator: Eastwood Im
B6P1 4:00 Robert Taylor Large Aperture, Solid Surface Deployable Reflector
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B6P2 4:30 James Hoffman Thermally Stabilized RF Hybrids for Improved Power Handling and Reliability
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B6P3 5:00 Paul Siqueira A single stage, two channel Ka-band to digital, thermal compensating receiver for SWOT
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B6P4 5:30 Yunling Lou Development of the Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) for the Global Hawk
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Thursday, June 24th - Day Three
Session A7: Active Optical - III, Altimetry
Session Moderator: Keith Murray
A7P1 8:30 Carl  Weimer An Electroncially Steerable Flash Lidar
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A7P2 9:00 Anthony  Yu Airborne Lidar Simulator for the Lidar Surface Topography (LIST) Mission
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A7P3 9:30 David Harding The Slope Imaging Multi-polarization Photon-counting Lidar: an Advanced Technology Airborne Laser Altimeter
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Session A8: Active Optical - IV, Altimetry
Session Moderator: Joseph Famiglietti
A8P1 10:30 Michael Krainak Wide-bandwidth near-infrared avalanche photodiode
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A8P2 11:00 William Folkner Laser Frequency Stabilization for GRACE-2
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Session B7: Passive Microwave - I
Session Moderator: Eastwood Im
B7P1 8:30 Todd Gaier Progress in GeoSTAR technology development and risk reduction for PATH
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B7P2 9:00 Pekka Kangaslahti Miniature MMIC Low Mass/Power Radiometer Modules for the 180 GHz GeoSTAR Array
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B7P3 9:30 Richard Cofield Thermal stability of a 4 meter primary reflector for the Scanning Microwave Limb Sounder
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Session B8: Passive Microwave - II
Session Moderator: Robert Smith
B8P1 10:30 Steven Reising Advanced Component Development to Enable Low-Mass, Low-Power High-Frequency Microwave Radiometers for Coastal Wet-Tropospheric Correction on SWOT
 

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B8P2 11:00 Pekka Kangaslahti Radiometer testbed development for SWOT
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