Sessions Detail
A Sessions are within the Instruments and Components Track
B Sessions are within the Information Systems Track

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Tuesday, June 14 - Day One
A SESSIONS
Session A1: Clouds, Aerosols, and Precipitation I
Session Moderator: Pamela Millar
A1P1 10:00 Lihua Li
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Technology Development for a Wide-swath Shared-aperture Cloud Radar (WiSCR)
A1P2 10:30 Jose Valderlei Martins
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The HARP (Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter) CubeSat Satellite

A1P3 11:00 Dong Wu
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IceCube: 883-GHz Cloud Radiometer Ready for its Space Journey
A1P4 11:30 Steven Reising
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Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems Technology Demonstration (TEMPEST-D): Risk Reduction for Constellations of 6U-Class Nanosatellites
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Session A2: Climate and Weather I
Session Moderator: Joseph Famiglietti
A2P1 1:30 Jose Siles
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Progress Towards a 183 GHz Humidity Sounding Radar Transceiver
A2P2 2:00 Bjorn Lambrigtsen GeoSTAR final test results
A2P3 2:30 Dragana Perkovic-Martin
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DopplerScatt Instrument Concept for Simultaneous Measurements of Ocean Surface Vector Winds and Currents - Spaceborne Architecture and Airborne Instrument Test Results
A2P4 3:00 Kevin Maschhoff
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MISTiC Winds, A Micro-Satellite Constellation Approach to High Resolution Observations of the Atmosphere using Infrared Sounding and 3D Winds Measurements
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Session A3: Atmospheric Composition I
Session Moderator: Eastwood Im
A3P1 3:30 Richard Cofield
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A 4 Meter 180 to 680 GHz antenna for the Scanning Microwave Limb Sounder
A3P2 4:00 Nathaniel Livesey
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Update on the Compact Adaptable Microwave Limb Sounder (CAMLS)
A3P3 4:30 Cynthia Brooks
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Development of Immersion Gratings to Enable a Compact Architecture for High Spectral and Spatial Resolution Imaging
A3P4 5:00 Russell Chipman
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Advances in Photoelastic Modulator-Based Polarimetric Imaging
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B SESSIONS
Session B1: Flight Mission Planning and Support
Session Moderator: Michael Little
B1P1 10:00 Matthew French
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SpaceCubeX: Initial Simulation-level Results of Hybrid On-board Processing Architectures
B1P2 10:30 Mike Lieber
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An Advanced Architecture for Optimizing Earth Science Data Collection Based Upon Model Predictive Control
B1P3 11:00 Jacqueline Le Moigne
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A Trade-space Analysis Tool for Constellations
B1P4 11:30 Veronica Foreman
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Satellite Constellation Cost Modeling: An Aggregate Model
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Session B2: Information Systems for Oceanography
Session Moderator: Nikunj Oza
B2P1 1:30 Thomas Huang
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OceanXtremes: Oceanographic Data-Intensive Anomaly Detection and Analysis Portal
B2P2 2:00 Shawn Smith
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Developing a Distributed Oceanographic Match-up Service
B2P3 2:30 Chaowei Yang
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Mining the scientific user knowledge from log files to improve data discovery
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Session B3: Data Exploitation and Information Production
Session Moderator: Charles Norton
B3P1 3:30 Milton Halem
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A Quantum Annealing Computer Team Addresses Climate Change Predictability.
B3P2 4:00 Mahta Moghaddam
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SoilSCAPE Wireless Sensor Network: Demonstration of Energy Efficiency, Extensibility, and NASA Mission Cal/Val Support 
B3P3 4:30 Wei-Kuo Tao
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Empowering Data Management, Diagnosis, and Visualization of Cloud-Resolving Models by Cloud Library upon Spark and Hadoop 
B3P4 5:00 Ved Chirayath Multispectral Imaging, Detection and Active Reflectance Instrument (MiDAR)-fused Machine Learning for Augmenting Earth Science Datasets
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Wednesday, June 15 - Day Two
A SESSIONS
Session A4: Atmospheric Composition II
Session Moderator: Keith Murray
A4P1 8:30 Haris Riris
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A Methane Lidar for Greenhouse Gas Measurements
A4P2 9:00 Upendra Singh
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2-micron triple-pulse integrated path differential absorption lidar development (IPDA) for simultaneous airborne column measurements of carbon dioxide and water vapor in the atmosphere
A4P3 9:30 Mark Stephen
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Fiber-based, trace-gas, laser transmitter technology development for space
A4P4 10:00 Thomas Hanisco
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Airborne in situ Measurements of Formaldehyde
A4P5 10:30 Carl Weimer
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Lidar Orbital Angular Momentum Sensor
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Session A5: Clouds, Aerosols, and Precipitation II
Session Moderator: Janice Buckner
A5P1 1:30 Trifon Fitchorov
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Miniaturized, low-cost, self-biased circulators for space and airborne applications
A5P2 2:00 Andy Fung
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Development of Gallium Nitride Monolithic Microwave Circuits for the Modular Dual-Band Ku/Ka Antenna Tile with Digital Calibration (K-Tile)
A5P3 2:30 Steven Reising
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Tropospheric Water Vapor and Cloud ICE (TWICE) Millimeter-wave to Terahertz Radiometer Instrument for 6U-Class Nanosatellites
A5P4 3:30 William Deal
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25 nm InP HEMT LNAs and Receiver Technology for the TWICE Instrument
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Session A6: Climate and Weather II
Session Moderator: Charles Norton
A6P1 4:00 Adam Schoenwald
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Performance Analysis of a Hardware Implemented Complex Signal Kurtosis Radio-Frequency Interference Detector
A6P2 4:30 Angela Crews
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Development of the Microwave Radiometer Technology Acceleration (MiRaTA) CubeSat for all-weather atmospheric sounding
A6P3 5:00 Joel Johnson
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The CubeSat Radiometer Radio Frequency Interference Technology Validation (CubeRRT) mission
A6P4 5:30 William Swartz
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CubeSat Mission: Developing Technologies for Measuring Earth's Climate
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B SESSIONS
Session B4: Search, Access, Analysis and Display I
Session Moderator: Nikunj Oza
B4P1 8:30 Manil Maskey
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Illuminating the Darkness: Exploiting Untapped Data and Information Resources in Earth Science
B4P2 9:00 Amy Braverman
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Probabilistic Climate Model Evaluation
B4P3 9:30 Aashish Chaudhary
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Minerva: Data Intensive Analysis and Visualization on NASA's NEX platform using Spark
B4P4 10:00 Kamalika Das
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Predicting the future of the Amazon rainforests using regression analysis
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Session B5: Systems Management
Session Moderator: Michael Little
B5P1 1:30 Jennifer Haase
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Next-Generation Real-Time Geodetic Station Sensor Web for Natural Hazards Research and Applications
B5P2 2:00 Jim Wiedman
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AIST Managed Cloud Environment
B5P3 2:30 Jonathan Gleason
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Ontology-based Metadata Portal for Unified Semantics (OlyMPUS)
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Session B6: Data Containers and Models
Session Moderator: Brandi Quam
B6P1 4:00 John Readey
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HDF5 Performance on OpenStack
B6P2 4:30 Hook Hua
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A Cloud-based Data Processing Foundry to Expedite SAR Science Products
B6P3 5:00 Hook Hua
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Agile Big Data Analytics of High-Volume Geodetic Data Products for Improving Science and Hazard Response 
B6P4 5:30 Kwo-Sen Kuo
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Vision for Data-Intensive Analysis Centers and the Challenges to Its Realization
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Thursday, June 16 - Day Three
A SESSIONS
Session A7: Surface, Soil, and Snow
Session Moderator: Robert Connerton
A7P1 8:30 Joel Johnson
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The Ultra-Wideband Software Defined Radiometer (UWBRAD) for Ice Sheet Sensing: Instrument Status and Experiment Results
A7P2 9:00 Pantazis Mouroulis
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Snow and Water Imaging Spectrometer
A7P3 9:30 Lauren Wye
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SRI CubeSat Imaging Radar for Earth Science (SRI-CIRES)
A7P4 10:00 William Johnson
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HyTES recent campaigns and transition to high altitude platform
A7P5 10:30 Jeff Piepmeier
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Airborne P-Band (UHF) Signal-of-Opportunity Airborne Demonstrator (SoOp-AD) for Root-Zone Soil Moisture Sensing: Development Status
Overview of the Sustainable Land Imaging Technology Program - Sachidananda Babu, ESTO
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B SESSIONS
Session B7: Search, Access, Analysis and Display II
Session Moderators: Nikunj Oza
B7P1 8:30 Svetla Hristova-Veleva
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Fusion of Hurricane Models and Observations: Addressing the Needs of Operations and Research 
B7P2 9:00 Constantine Lukashin
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Earth Science Data Fusion: NAIADS Concept and Framework
B7P3 9:30 Tomasz Stepinski
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GeoPAT - Pattern-based GIS Software for Understanding Content of Large Earth Science Datasets
B7P4 10:00 Eric Gurrola
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The InSAR Scientific Computing Environment (ISCE): An Earth Science SAR Processing Framework, Toolbox, and Foundry
Session B8: Information Systems for Hydrology
Session Moderators: Brandi Quam
B8P1 10:30 Albert Kettner
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Global Flood Risk from Advanced Modeling and Remote Sensing in Collaboration with Google Earth Engine
B8P2 11:00 Kristine Larson
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GNSS H2O: A Global Network of In Situ Hydrologic Sensors Derived from GNSS Data
B8P3 11:30 Martyn Clark
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Advancing process based hydrologic models for risk assessments
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