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Tuesday, October 28 - Day One
Session A1:
Session A1: Data Collection & Handling
Session Moderator: Robert Connerton
A1P1 10:00 Jeffrey Beyon
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High-Speed On-Board Data Processing for Science Instruments (HOPS)
A1P2 10:30 Paula Pingree
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On-board Processing to Advance the PanFTS Imaging System for GEO-CAPE, Second Year Progress
A1P3 11:00 David Lary
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Using Zero-Emission Aerial Vehicles in Support of the ACE Mission
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Session A2: Emerging Information Systems Technology Applications I
Session Moderator: Karen Moe
A2P1 1:30 Daniel Mandl
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An Airborne Onboard Parallel Processing Testbed
A2P2 2:00 Stephan Kolitz
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Extending the Earth Phenomena Observation System (EPOS) for Coordination of Asynchronous Sensor Webs
A2P3 2:30 Petr Votava
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Semi-Automatic Science Workflow Synthesis for High-End Computing on the NASA Earth Exchange
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Session A3: Emerging Information Systems Technology Applications II
Session Moderator: Karen Moe
A3P1 3:30 Danford Smith
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Trends in Mission Requirements and Technologies - How should we prepare for 2020 and beyond?
A3P2 4:00 John Evans
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Uses, Roles, And Likely Impacts Of Emerging Earth Science Technologies For Disaster Management
A3P3 4:30 John Evans
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Enabling Volunteered Cloud Computing
A3P4 5:00 Jennifer Haase
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Geodetic Sensor Web for Natural Hazards Research and Applications
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Session B1: Clouds, Aerosols, and Precipitation
Session Moderator: Eastwood Im
B1P1 10:00 King Man Andy Fung
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Advanced W-Band Gallium Nitride (GaN) Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMICs) For Cloud Doppler Radar
B1P2 10:20 Paul Racette
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Antenna Technologies Enable Wide-swath Imaging with the ACE Radar
B1P3 10:40 Meredith Kupinski
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Development and Application of Dual Photoelastic Modulator-Based Polarimetric Imaging Systems: GroundMSPI, AirMSPI, and AirMSPI-2
B1P4 11:00 Gregory Sadowy
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Three Band Cloud and Precipitation Radar (3CPR)
B1P5 11:20 Dong Wu
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IceCube: Spaceflight Validation of an 874-GHz Submillimeter Wave Radiometer for Ice Cloud Remote Sensing
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Session B2: Temperature, Humidity, and Radiation
Session Moderator: Pamela Millar
B2P1 1:30 William Blackwell
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Technology Development for a Hyperspectral Microwave Atmospheric Sounder (HyMAS)
B2P2 1:50 Bjorn Lambrigtsen
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Approaching the finish line with GeoSTAR
B2P3 2:10 Kerri Cahoy
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The Microwave Radiometer Technology Acceleration (MiRaTA) Cubesat
B2P4 2:30 Martin Mlynczak
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Toward direct measurements of Earth's far-infrared (far-IR)
B2P5 2:50 Shane Topham
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Phase Change cell demonstration onboard the International Space Station
B2P6 3:10 Steven Reising
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Demonstration of High-frequency Airborne Microwave and Millimeter-wave Radiometer (HAMMR) to Improve Spatial Resolution of Wet-Tropospheric Path Delay Measurements for Coastal and Inland Water Altimetry
B2P7 3:30 Pekka Kangaslahti
Miniaturized Receivers for Temperature and Humidity Sounding
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Session B3: Snow, Ice, and Soil Moisture
Session Moderator: Parminder Ghuman
B3P1 4:30 Mustafa Aksoy
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The Ultrawideband Software-Defined Microwave Radiometer (UWBRAD)
B3P2 4:50 Pantazis Mouroulis
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Optical design of the Snow and Water Imaging Spectrometer (SWIS) for small satellites and CubeSats 
B3P3 5:10 James Garrison
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Signals of Opportunity Airborne Demonstrator (SoOp-AD)
B3P4 5:30 Tim Durham
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Progress on the 8-40 GHz Wideband Instrument for Snow Measurements
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Wednesday, October 29 - Day Two
Session A4: Data Exploitation and Information Production
Session Moderator: Thomas Grubb
A4P1 8:30 Wei-Kuo Tao
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Empowering Cloud-Resolving Models Through GPU and Asynchronous I/O 
A4P2 9:00 Bo-Wen Shen
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Analyzing Tropical Waves Using the Parallel Ensemble Empirical Model Decomposition Method: Preliminary Results from Hurricane Sandy
A4P3 9:30 Alexander Berk
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Acceleration of PLUME TRACKER Volcanic Emission Analysis Software
A4P4 10:00 Manil Maskey
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The Collaborative Workbench (CWB) to Accelerate Science Algorithm Development
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Session A5: Search, Access, Analysis and Display
Session Moderator: Charles Norton
A5P1 1:30 Svetla Hristova-Veleva
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Analysis tools for online evaluation of the operational hurricane forecasts using satellite data
A5P2 2:00 Thomas Clune
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The Automated Event Service: Efficient and Flexible Searching for Earth Science Phenomena
A5P3 2:30 Grey Nearing
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Data Assimilation to Mitigate Structural Error in Land Surface Models
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Session A6: Search, Access, Analysis and Display
Session Moderator: Charles Norton
A6P1 3:30 Sujay Kumar
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A mission simulation and evaluation platform for terrestrial hydrology using the NASA Land Information System (LIS)
A6P2 4:00 Amy Braverman Multivariate Data Fusion and Uncertainty Quantification for Remote Sensing
A6P3 4:30 Noppasin Niamsuwan
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NASA Earth Observing System Simulator Suite (NEOS3)
A6P4 5:00 James Tilton
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A Multi-Kernel Active Learning Framework
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Session B4: Earth Surface and Vegetation
Session Moderator: Irene Bibyk
B4P1 8:30 Nan Yu
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An Atomic Gravity Gradiometer for Earth Gravity Mapping and Monitoring Measurements
B4P2 8:50 James Hoffman
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Enabling Lightweight SweepSAR Architectures
B4P3 9:10 Rafael Rincon
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Advanced Antenna for Digital Beamforming SAR
B4P4 9:30 Temilola Fatoyinbo
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EcoSAR The first P-band Digital Beamforming Polarimetric Interferometric SAR instrument to measure Ecosystem Structure, Biomass and Water
B4P5 9:50 Xiaoli Sun
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Linear Mode Photon Counting HgCdTe Avalanche Photodiode Arrays Sensitive from 0.4 to 4.2 μm for Space Lidar and Passive Spectrometers
B4P6 10:10 Robert Wright
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TIRCIS: Thermal Infrared Hyperspectral Imaging Using an Interferometric Imaging Approach
B4P7 10:30 David Tratt
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Hyperspectral TIR Camera for Geostationary Earth Observation          
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Session B5: Oceans
Session Moderator: Joseph Famiglietti
B5P1 1:30 Gregory Agnes
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Precision Deployable Mast for the SWOT KaRIn Instrument
B5P2 1:50 Pantazis Mouroulis
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The Portable Remote Imaging Spectrometer (PRISM): High altitude platform installation
B5P3 2:10 Ved Chirayath
Fluid Lensing & Applications to High-Resolution 3D Subaqueous Imaging from Airborne and Space-borne Platforms
B5P4 2:30 Ernesto Rodriguez
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Ka-band Doppler Scatterometer for Measurements of Ocean Surface Vector Winds and Currents
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Session B6: Winds
Session Moderator: Pamela Millar
B6P1 3:30 Sara Tucker
OAWL Sound Bites: FIDDL and HOAWL
B6P2 3:50 + PRESENTATION
(B6P1 and B6P2)
HSRL for Aerosols, Winds, and Clouds using Optical Autocovariance Wind Lidar (HAWC-OAWL)
B6P3 4:10 Kevin Maschhoff
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MISTiC Winds, a Distributed Architecture Approach to Dynamic Weather Observations 
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Thursday, October 30 - Day Three
Joint Session A7: Enabling SAR Measurements
Session Moderator: Michael Little
A7P1 8:30 Hook Hua
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The Advanced Rapid Imaging andAnalysis for Monitoring Hazards (ARIA-MH) Science Data System
A7P2 9:00 Andrea Donnellan
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GeoGateway:The  Geodetic Imaging Gateway for Modeling, Analysis, and Response
A7P3 9:30 Eric Gurrola
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InSAR Scientific Computing Environment 
A7P4 10:00 Tim Durham
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Progress on the 8-40 GHz Wideband Instrument for Snow Measurements
A7P5 10:15 Temilola Fatoyinbo
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EcoSAR The first P-band Digital Beamforming Polarimetric Interferometric SAR instrument to measure Ecosystem Structure, Biomass and Water
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Session B7: Atmospheric Composition I
Session Moderator: Keith Murray
B7P1 8:30 Nathaniel Livesey
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The Compact Adaptable Microwave Limb Sounder (CAMLS) 
B7P2 8:50 Goutam Chattopadhyay
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Cryogenic Amplifier Based Receivers for Submillimeter-Wave Sounders
B7P3 9:10 Roy Johnson
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Upgrade of the NASA 4STAR (Spectrometer for Sky-Scanning, Sun-Tracking Atmospheric Research) to its Full Science Capability of Sun-Sky-Cloud-Trace Gas Spectrometry in Airborne Science Deployments 
B7P4 9:30 Floyd Hovis
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High Efficiency UV Demonstrator
B7P5 9:50 Haris Riris
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A Compact Remote Sensing Lidar for High Resolution Measurements of Methane
B7P6 10:10 Michael Obland
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The ASCENDS CarbonHawk Experiment Simulator (ACES)
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Session B8: Atmospheric Composition II
Session Moderator: Keith Murray
B8P1 11:00 James Abshire
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Progress in developing the CO2 Sounder Lidar as a candidate for the ASCENDS Mission
B8P2 11:20 Upendra Singh
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Airborne Pulsed 2-µm Direct Detection Lidar for CO2 Column Measurement
B8P3 11:40 Jirong Yu
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Single-mode, High Repetition Rate Ho:YLF Laser for Space-borne Lidar Applications
B8P4 12:00 Mahmood Bagheri
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Monolithic High Power Semiconductor Seed Lasers Near 2.05 μm
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