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Tuesday, June 12 - Day One
Session A1: Greenhouse Gases
Session Moderator: Keith Murray
A1P1 8:40 Thomas Hanisco
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Airborne Remote sensing of the OH tropospheric column with an Integrated Path Differential LIDAR: Motivation and Transmitter
A1P2 9:00 Amin Nehrir
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The High Altitude Lidar Observatory (HALO): A multi-function lidar and technology testbed for airborne and space-based measurements of water vapor and methane 
A1P3 9:20 Haris Riris
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Measuring Methane from space and airborne platforms
A1P4 9:40 Mark Stephen
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Fiber-based, Trace-gas, Laser Transmitter Technology Development for Space
A1P5 10:00 Upendra Singh
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Ground and airborne testing of an advanced 2-micron triple-pulse IPDA for atmospheric carbon dioxide and water vapor active optical remote sensing
A1P6 10:20 Xiaoli Sun
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Advanced Infrared Detector Development for Space lidar applications
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Session B1: Enabling Distributing Missions and Constellation
Session Moderator: Michael Little
B1P1 9:00 Graeme Smith
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Progress in the Development of the Simulation Toolset for Adaptive Remote Sensing (STARS)
B1P2 9:20 Matthew French
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Heterogeneous On-board Processing for Distributed Measurement and Multi-Satellite Missions
B1P3 9:40 Daniel Selva
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TAT-C ML: Machine Learning for Enhanced Trade-space Analysis of Constellations
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Session A2: Aerosols, Ozone, and Trace Gases
Session Moderator: Eastwood Im
A2P1 10:40 Matthew DeLand
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Status of the Multi-Angle Stratospheric Aerosol Radiometer (MASTAR) Instrument
A2P2 11:00 Nathaniel Livesey
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Update on the Stratospheric Water Inventory: Tomography of Convective Hydration (SWITCH) project
A2P3 11:20 Charles Hill
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The Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE) IV Pathfinder
A2P4 11:40 Richard Bevilacqua
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The GLO (GFCR Limb Occultation) Sensor: A New Sensor Concept for Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere (UTLS) Composition and Transport Studies
A2P5 12:00 Jeffrey Beck
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High Dynamic Range UV to SWIR Photon Counting  Sensor for PEM-based imaging polarimeter  
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Session A3: Clouds, Convection, and Precipitation
Session Moderator: Robert Connerton
A3P1 14:40 Mauricio Sanchez-Barbetty
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AirMASTR - Airborne demonstration of the Multi-Application Smallsat Tri-band Radar
A3P2 15:00 Helen Conover
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Cloud Research in the VISAGE Project
A3P3 15:20 Douglas Linkhart
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Small, Low-mass Radar Components for Wideband Passive Radar Reflectivity Measurements
A3P4 15:40 Angela Crews
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Small Satellite Passive Microwave Radiometers: MiRaTA and MicroMAS-2A
A3P5 16:00 Jonathan Hobbs
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Level 2 UQ: Enabling Simulation-Based Uncertainty Quantification for Remote Sensing Retrievals
A3P6 16:20 Steven Reising
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The Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems Technology Demonstration (TEMPEST-D) to Enable Temporally-Resolved Observations of Clouds and Precipitation on a Global Basis using 6U-Class Satellite Constellations
A3P7 16:40 Steven Reising
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Tropospheric Water and Cloud ICE (TWICE) 6U-Class Satellite Instrument: Enabling Observations of Cloud Ice Particle Sizes as well as Temperature and Humidity Profiles in the Upper Troposphere
A3P8 17:00 Richard Roy
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Boundary-Layer Humidity Sounding Using a G-Band Differential Absorption Radar
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Wednesday, June 13 - Day Two
Session A4: Atmospheric Winds and Ocean Surface
Session Moderator: Keith Murray
A4P1 8:00 Alexander Wineteer
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Estimating Ocean Vector Winds and Currents with DopplerScatt
A4P2 8:20 Michael Kelly
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Expected Performance of the Compact Midwave Imaging System 
A4P3 8:40 Michael Kavaya
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Advancing Coherent-Detection 2-Micron Doppler Wind Lidar Technology towards Space Qualification
A4P4 9:00 Floyd Hovis
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Lifetime Testing of a 355 nm, Space-Qualifiable Laser
A4P5 9:20 Thomas Huang
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OceanWorks: Ocean Science Data Analytics using Apache Science Data Analytics Platform
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PANEL SESSION: Emerging Technologies (10:00 - 12:00)
Panel Chairs: Michael Little and Parminder Ghuman

David Crouse,
Clarkson University

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Outline of Frontiers of Metamaterials for Remote Sensing

Sreeja Nag,
NASA Ames Research Center

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Autonomous Scheduling of Agile Spacecraft Constellations for Rapid Response Imaging

Jonathan Klamkin,
UC Santa Barbara

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Photonic Integrated Circuits for Free Space Communications and Sensing
Victor Pankratius,
MIT

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Machine Learning and Impacts for Earth Science

Adrian Tang,
Jet Propulsion Lab

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CMOS Systems-on-Chip for NASA Millimeter-Wave & THz Space Instruments
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Session A5: Radiance Intercalibration
Session Moderator: Amber Emory
A5P1 13:30 Constantine Lukashin
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ARCSTONE: Calibration of Lunar Spectral Reflectance from Space
A5P2 13:50 James McDuffie
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ReFRACtor: Reusable Framework for Retrieval of Atmospheric Composition
A5P3 14:10 Kevin Turpie
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The Airborne Lunar Spectral Irradiance (air-LUSI) Mission
A5P4 14:30 William Swartz
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RAVAN: Technology Demonstration and Applicability to Earth Radiation Budget Measurements
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Session A6: Snow Depth and Snow Water Equivalent
Session Moderator: Robert Smith
A6P1 15:20 Roger De Roo
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Measurement Concept Demonstration: Wideband Autocorrelation Radiometry for Deterministic Passive Microwave Measurement of Lake Ice and Snow Depth
A6P2 15:40 Charlie Zender
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The JAWS Workflow to harmonize polar Automatic Weather Station data
A6P3 16:00 Chris Ball
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The CubeSat Radiometer Radio Frequency Interference Technology (CubeRRT) Validation Mission: Instrument Pre-Launch Testing and Project Status
A6P4 16:20 Joel Johnson
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The Ultra-Wideband Software-Defined Microwave Radiometer For Ice Sheet Subsurface Temperature Sensing: Results from 2017 Campaigns
A6P5 16:40 Bart Forman
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Global Snow from Space: Development of a Satellite-based, Terrestrial Snow Mission Planning Tool
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Thursday, June 14 - Day Three
Session A7: Sustainable Land Imaging
Session Moderator: Sachidananda Babu
A7P1 8:00 S. J. Ben Yoo
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Multi-Spectral, Low-Mass, High-Resolution Integrated Photonic Land Imaging Technology
A7P2 8:20 Paula Wamsley
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Progress on a New Architecture for SLI
A7P3 8:40 Philip Ely
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Multiband Uncooled Radiometer Instrument (MURI)
A7P4 9:00 Stephanie Sandor-Leahy
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Progress on the NGAS Photonic Spectrometer for SLI-T
A7P5 9:20 Thomas Kampe
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The Compact Hyperspectral Prism Spectrometer for Sustainable Land Imaging: Continuing the Landsat data record and enabling new discoveries
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Session A8: Soil Moisture, Mass Change, and Surface Deformation
Session Moderator: Eastwood Im
A8P1 10:00 Stephen Lowe
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A GNSS-Reflectometry Instrument for Wetland Extent and Dynamics
A8P2 10:20 Branko Kosovic
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Estimations of fuel moisture content for improved wildland fire spread prediction
A8P3 10:40 Chris Ruf
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Next Generation GNSS Bistatic Radar Receiver
A8P4 11:00 Ruzbeh Akbar
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Autonomous Moisture Continuum Sensing Network: Intelligent and Energy Efficient in situ Wireless Sensor Networks
A8P5 11:20 Lauren Wye
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SRI CubeSat Imaging Radar for Earth Science (SRI-CIRES): Flight Demonstrations 
A8P6 11:40 Johnathan York
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Combined observations of GNSS and astronomical sources: Can you see both world's through a single lens?
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Session A9: Surface Topography, Geology, Biology and Vegetation
Session Moderator: Robert Connerton
A9P1 13:20 Philip Townsend
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Spectral data discovery, access and analysis through EcoSIS toolkits
A9P2 13:40 Victor Pankratius
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Machine Learning for Error Characterization and Correction in InSAR Satellite Data
A9P3 14:00 James Clark
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Combining NEON and remotely sensed habitats to forecast climate impacts on community dynamics
A9P4 14:20 Tomasz Tkaczyk
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Tunable Light-guide Image Processing Snapshot Spectrometer (TuLIPSS) for Earth Observations
A9P5 14:40 Anne Wilson
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Hyperspectral Image Analysis in the Cloud via a Functional Data Model
A9P6 15:00 Jeremy Malczyk
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Scaling biodiversity data processing and analysis workflows with Apache Beam
A9P7 15:20 Pantazis Mouroulis
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SWIS CubeSat configuration progress
A9P8 15:40 Christopher Neigh
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Enhanced Very-High Resolution (EVHR) Products for NASA’s Earth Science Investigators
A9P9 16:00 Ved Chirayath
NeMO-Net & Fluid Lensing – The Neural Multi-Modal Observation & Training Network for Global Coral Reef Assessment using Fluid Lensing Augmentation of NASA EOS Data
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