ESTC2008 Sessions
Day One (Tues, 6/24) / Day Two (Wed, 6/25) / Day Three (Thurs, 6/26)

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Tuesday, June 24th - Day One
Session A1: Sensor Webs for Weather
Session Moderator: Marge Cole
A1P1 8:30 Ashit Talukder Global Cyclone Detection and Tracking using Multiple Remote Satellite Data
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A1P2 9:00 Helen Conover Intelligent Assimilation of Satellite Data into a Forecast Model Using Sensor Web Processes and Protocols
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A1P3 9:30 Michael Seablom Quantifying Sensor Web Capabilities Through Simulation: Recent Results
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Session A2: Sensor Data Fusion for Atmosphere and Climate
Session Moderator: Rob Sherwood
A2P1 10:30 Michael Burl Generation of Object-Centric Datasets with Adaptive Sky
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A2P2 11:00 Kevin Knuth Information-Theoretic Methods for Identifying Relationships among Climate Variables
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A2P3 11:30 Peter Fox Integrating Inter-disciplinary Science Data with Semantic Mediation
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Session A3: Reconfiguration & Routing in Sensor Webs I
Session Moderator: Phil Paulsen
A3P1 1:30 John Kinnebrew Application of Middleware and Agent Technologies to a Representative Sensor Network
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A3P2 2:00 Antidio Viguria A Robotic Mobile Sensor Network for Achieving Scientific Measurements in Challenging Environments
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A3P3 2:30 Godwin Shen Novel Distributed Wavelet Transforms and Routing Algorithms for Efficient Data Gathering in Sensor Webs
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Session A4: Reconfiguration & Routing in Sensor Webs II
Session Moderator: Phil Paulsen
A4P1 3:30 Mohammed Atiquzzaman Applicability and Performance of NEMO in Satellite Networks
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A4P2 4:00 Will Ivancic Delay/Disruption Tolerant Network Testing Using a LEO Satellite
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A4P3 4:30 David Piet What a 'Web Sensor' can do for 'Sensor Webs'
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Session B1: Microwave Antennas
Session Moderator: Joe Famiglietti
B1P1 8:30 Ubaldo Quijano High-Precision Adaptive Control of Large Antenna Surface
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B1P2 9:00 William Imbriale Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Actuated Wave Front Correcting Subreflector: Distortion Compensation for Large Reflector Antennas
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B1P3 9:30 John  Papapolymerou Recent Advances in the Development of a Lightweight, Flexible 16x16 Antenna Array with RF MEMS Shifters at 14 GHz
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Session B2: Passive Microwave
Session Moderator: Joe Famiglietti
B2P1 10:30 Christopher Ruf Development of an Agile Digital Detector for RFI Detection and Mitigation on Spaceborne Radiometers
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B2P2 11:00 John Ward Sensitive Broadband Receivers for Microwave Limb Sounding
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B2P3 11:30 Pekka Kangaslahti Broadband Receiver Technology for Atmospheric Humidity, Temperature and Precipitation Sounding
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Session B3: Passive Optical I
Session Moderator: Janice Buckner
B3P1 1:30 Anna-Britt Mahler Calibration and Performance Validation of Optical Elements in a Photoelastic Modulator-Based Polarimetric Camera
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B3P2 2:00 Shane Roark Passive A-Band Wind Sounder (PAWS) For Measuring Tropospheric Wind Velocity
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B3P3 2:30 Aidan Roche Tropospheric Infrared Mapping Spectrometers (TIMS) for CO Measurements With Much Improved Vertical, Temporal and Spatial Resolution
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Session B4: Passive Optical II
Session Moderator: Mariann Albjerg
B4P1 3:30 Jeng-Hwa Yee Using Fabry--Perot Interferometer Imagery from Space for the Measurement of Clouds and Trace Gases
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B4P2 4:00 Martin Mlynczak Enabling Technologies for the CLARREO Mission
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B4P3 4:30 Nan Yu Development of a Transportable Quantum Gravity Gradiometer for Gravity Field Mapping
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Wednesday, June 25th - Day Two
Session A5: Intelligence in Sensor Webs
Session Moderator: Vicki Oxenham
A5P1 8:00 Costas Tsatsoulis Sensor Webs As Multiagent, Negotiating Systems
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A5P2 8:30 Kenneth Witt Enabling Sensor Webs by Utilizing SWAMO for Autonomous Operations
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A5P3 9:00 Genong Yu Support of Asynchrony in Sensor Webs
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A5P4 9:30 Yunling Lou A Forest Fire Smart Sensor Concept with UAVSAR
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Session A6: Sensor Webs for Oceans
Session Moderator: Nikunj Oza
A6P1 10:30 John Dolan Smart Ocean Sensing Using the Telesupervised Adaptive Ocean Sensor Fleet
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A6P2 11:00 Ashit Talukder Improving the Science Return from Coastal Sensor Webs Using Autonomous Predictive Control and Resource Management
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A6P3 11:30 Payman Arabshahi A Smart Sensor Web for Ocean Observation: Integrated Acoustics, Satellite Networking, and Predictive Modeling
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Session A7: Sensor Webs for Solid Earth
Session Moderator: Rob Sherwood
A7P1 1:30 Andrea Donnellan QuakeSim: Efficient Modeling of Sensor Web Data in a Web Services Environment
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A7P2 2:00 Sharon Kedar OASIS - Optimized Autonomous Space In-situ Sensor-Web for Volcano Monitoring
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A7P3 2:30 Ashley Davies The Model-Driven Volcano Sensor Web: Progress in 2007
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Session A8: Sensor Webs for Environmental Monitoring
Session Moderator: Karen Moe
A8P1 3:30 Daniel Mandl Sensor Web 2.0:  Connecting the Earth's Sensors with the Internet
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A8P2 4:00 Wei Ye Architecture of A Satellite-Based Sensor Network for Environment Observation
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A8P3 4:30 Paul Houser Developing a Prototype Land Information Sensor Web
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A8P4 5:00 Mahta Moghaddam Initial Analyses and Demonstration of a Soil Moisture Smart Sensor Web
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Session B5: Active Microwave Instruments
Session Moderator: Ed Torres
B5P1 8:00 Russell Keith Raney Pathfinder Advanced Radar Ice Sounder: PARIS
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B5P2 8:30 Gerald Heymsfield Status of the High-Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler (HIWRAP)
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B5P3 9:00 Cathleen Jones Some First Results from the UAVSAR Instrument
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Session B6: Active Microwave Components
Session Moderator: Eastwood Im
B6P1 10:30 Brandon Heavey Technology Development of a Compact, Radar Digital Receiver
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B6P2 11:00 Paul Siqueira The Design and Characterization of a Ku- and Ka-band Downcoverter for Spaceborne Interferometric Radar
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B6P3 11:30 Simon Yueh Compact Ku-Band T/R Module for Wide-Swath High-Resolution Radar Imaging of Cold Land Processes
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Session B7: Active Optical I
Session Moderator: Keith Murray
B7P1 1:30 Doug McGregor A Multi Functional Fiber Laser Lidar for Earth Science & Exploration
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B7P2 2:00 Cathy Marx Status of the TWiLiTE airborne molecular Doppler lidar project
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B7P3 2:30 Cathy Marx Shared Aperture Diffractive Optical Element (ShADOE) Lidar Telescope System Development
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Session B8: Active Optical II
Session Moderator: Keith Murray
B8P1 3:30 Mark Stephen Laser Sounding Instrument using Oxygen A-Band for Atmospheric Pressure Sensing
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B8P2 4:00 Mark Witinski Development of Miniaturized Intra-Cavity DFG, Fiber-Optic, and Quantum Cascade Laser Systems
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B8P3 4:30 Nurul Abedin Progress of 2-micron Detectors for Application to Lidar Remote Sensing
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B8P4 5:00 Haris Riris Laser Sounder for Measurement of CO2 Concentrations in the Troposphere for the ASCENDS Mission - Progress
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Thursday, June 26th - Day Three
Session A9: Sensor Webs for Air Quality and Climate
Session Moderator: Nikunj Oza
A9P1 8:00 Meemong Lee Sensor-web Operations Explorer (SOX) for Integrated Air Quality Campaign
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A9P2 8:30 Don Sullivan Processing Services in Earth Observation Sensor Web Information Architectures
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A9P3 9:00 Matt Heavner  A Cryospheric Sensor Web use case on a Small Temperate Glacier
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Session A10: Task Planning in Sensor Webs
Session Moderator: Phil Paulsen
A10P1 10:00 David Lary An Objectively Optimized Earth Observing System
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A10P2 10:30 Stephan Kolitz Information Exploitation and Planning for a Sensor Web
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A10P3 11:00 Robert Morris A Model for Autonomous Reconfiguration of Earth Sensing Resources
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A10P4 11:30 Nikunj Oza Automated Data Assimilation and Flight Planning for Multi-Platform Observation Missions
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A10P5 12:00 Ryan Timmons Decision Task Driven Dynamic Configuration of Virtual Sensorweb
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Note: There are no "B" track sessions on Day 3 (Thursday, June 26)


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