Schedule of ESTO-Funded and ESTO-Affiliated Project Presentations at IGARSS 2008
July 7-11, 2008
Boston, MAhttp://www.igarss08.org/


Monday, July 7, 2008

MO4.210.3; 16:00 - 16:20: The Design and Implementation of a Virtual Sensor Web Platform of Target Observing for Bad Weather Monitoring
Authors: Hong Fan; Wuhan University
http://igarss08.org/Papers/viewpapers.asp?papernum=33788    
Location: Room 210

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

TU1.203.4; 09:20 - 09:40: Active and Passive Observations of Soil Moisture - Implementation Concept for the Smap Mission
Authors: Eni Njoku, California Institute of Technology; Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Peggy O'Neill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
http://www.igarss08.org/Papers/viewpapers.asp?papernum=2968
Location: Room 203

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

WE1.210.2 08:45 - 09:10: The Soil Moisture Active/Passive Mission (SMAP)              
Authors: Dara Entekhabi, MIT; Eni Njoku, JPL; Peggy O'Neill, NASA GSFC; Thomas Jackson, USDA ARS; Jared Entin, NASA HQ; Eastwood Im, JPL
http://www.igarss08.org/Papers/viewpapers.asp?papernum=4125
Location: Room 210

WE1.210.3; 09:10 - 09:35: Deformation, Ecosystem Structure, and Dynamics of Ice (DESDynI)
Authors: Andrea Donnellan, Paul Rosen, Howard Zebker, Jon Ranson; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
http://www.igarss08.org/Papers/viewpapers.asp?papernum=4204
Location: Room 210

WE2.203.4; 11:20 - 11:40: A Baseline for the Decadal-Survey Path Mission
Authors: Bjorn Lambrigtsen, Alan Tanner, Todd Gaier, Pekka Kangaslahti, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
http://www.igarss08.org/Papers/viewpapers.asp?papernum=3690
Location: Room 203

WE2.210; 10:20-12:00: Invited session - Observation Technologies For The Next Generation In Geoscience I
Session Chairs: Mariann Abjerg, NASA ESTO; Glenn Prescott, University of Kansas
http://igarss08.org/Papers/PublicSessionIndex3.asp?Sessionid=1058
Location: Room 210 

WE3.210; 13:20-15:00: Invited session - Observation Technologies For The Next Generation In Geoscience II
Session Chairs: Mariann Abjerg, NASA ESTO; Glenn Prescott, University of Kansas
http://igarss08.org/Papers/PublicSessionIndex3.asp?Sessionid=1258
Location: Room 210 

Thursday, July 10, 2008

TH1.203.4; 09:20 - 09:40: Broadening TRMM-PR Reflectivity Spectrum Based on Highly-Sensitive CloudSat-CPR Data for Use in Augmented Diurnal Precipitation Studies
Authors: Eric A. Smith, NASA Goddard SFC; Kwo-Sen Kuo, GEST/Caelum Research Corporation; Hezekiah M. Carty, Univ. of Maryland
http://www.igarss08.org/Papers/viewpapers.asp?papernum=3915
Location: Room 203

TH2.111.3; 11:00 - 11:20: Recent Experience In Assembling Data Sets For Precipitation Research And Recommendations For Data System Improvements           
Authors: Kwo-Sen Kuo, GEST/Caelum Research Corporation; Hezekiah M. Carty, Univ. of Maryland; Eric A. Smith, NASA Goddard SFC; Steve Bilanow, RSIS LLC; Michael A. Hensley, RSIS LLC; Deborah Vane, California Institute of Technology; Graeme L. Stephens, Colorado State University
http://www.igarss08.org/Papers/viewpapers.asp?papernum=3775
Location: Room 111

TH4.102.1; 15:20 - 15:40: Polarimetric And Polarimetric-Interferometric Applications of the NASA/JPL UAVSAR
Authors: Scott Hensley, Howard Zebker, Bruce Chapman, Charles Le, Cathleen Jones, Thierry Michel, Paul Rosen, Marc Simard
http://igarss08.org/Papers/viewpapers.asp?papernum=1458
Location: Room 102 

THP; 17:00 - 19:00: The UAVSAR Flight Planning System                        
Authors: Bruce Chapman  Joanne Shimada  Scott Hensley  Anhua Chu  Elaine Chapin
http://igarss08.org/Papers/viewpapers.asp?papernum=2315  
Location: Poster Area BB.2           Paper Number: 2315

Friday, July 11, 2008

FR1.102.1; 08:20 - 08:40: The Application of Digital Beamforming Techniques to Enable Swath Mapping of Land Ice and Glacial Topography
Authors: Delwyn Moller; Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technlogy. et al
http://www.igarss08.org/Papers/viewpapers.asp?papernum=2115
Location: Room 102

FR1.210.2; 08:53 - 09:26: A remote-sensing perspective of cloud feedback in the climate system
Authors: Graeme Stephens; colorado state university
http://www.igarss08.org/Papers/viewpapers.asp?papernum=2403
Location: Room 210

FR1.111; 08:20 - 10:00: Invited Session - Earth Observation Sensor Web I
Session Chairs: Karen Moe, NASA ESTO; Liping Di, George Mason University
http://igarss08.org/Papers/PublicSessionIndex3.asp?Sessionid=1017 
Location: Room 111

FR1.111; 10:20 - 12:00: Invited Session - Earth Observation Sensor Web II
Session Chairs: Karen Moe, NASA ESTO; Liping Di, George Mason University
http://igarss08.org/Papers/PublicSessionIndex3.asp?Sessionid=1277
Location: Room 111

FR3.203.4; 14:20 - 14:40: Interactive Generation of Realistic Particle Designs for Scattering Calculations Using DDSCAT
Authors: Kwo-Sen Kuo, GEST/Caelum Research Corporation; Eric A. Smith, NASA Goddard SFC
http://igarss08.org/Papers/viewpapers.asp?papernum=3853
Location: Room 203