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Tuesday, June 13 - Day One
Session A1: Clouds, Aerosols, and Precipitation I
Session Moderator: Pamela Millar
A1P1 9:00 Matthew Lebsock
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The Vapor/Ice Profiling Radar
A1P2 9:20 Eva Peral
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RainCube, a Ka-band precipitation radar in a 6U CubeSat
A1P3 9:40 Douglas Linkhart
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Compact magnet-less circulators and isolators for Ka-band radar and other instruments
A1P4 10:00 Steven Reising
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Enabling Temporally-Resolved Measurements of Clouds and Precipitation from 6U-Class Satellite Constellations: Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems Technology Demonstration (TEMPEST-D) Mission
A1P5 10:20 Yahya Rahmat-Samii
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Ka-Band Highly Constrained Deployable Antenna For RainCube
A1P6 10:40 Manuel Vega
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SWIRP: Compact Submm-Wave and LWIR Polarimeters for Cirrus Ice Properties
A1P7 11:00 Wei-Kuo Tao
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Empowering Data Management, Diagnostics, and Visualization of Cloud-Resolving Models (CRMs) via a Cloud Library based upon Spark and Hadoop 
A1P8 11:20 Constantine Lukashin
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Earth Science Data Fusion: NAIADS Framework
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Session B1: IT in Support of Operations and Sensor Webs
Session Moderator: Michael Little
B1P1 1:30 Mike Lieber
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Model Predictive Control Architecture for Optimizing Earth Science Data Collection (PCAES) – Computational Challenges and Initial Test Results
B1P2 1:50 Paul Grogan
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Knowledge Base for Distributed Spacecraft Mission Design using the Trade-space Analysis Tool for Constellations (TAT-C)
B1P3 2:10 Joseph Ishac
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Channel Bonding of Multiple, Low-Rate Links using MPTCP for Airborne Flight Research
B1P4 2:30 Matthew French
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SpaceCubeX: Emulation Results of Hybrid On-board Processing Architectures
3:00 - 4:00: Group Discussion
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Session A2: Clouds, Aerosols, and Precipitation II
Session Moderator: Eastwood Im
A2P1 1:30 Michael Kelly
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Compact Midwave Imaging System (CMIS)
A2P2 1:50 Nick Gorkavyi
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Development of the Multi-Angle Stratospheric Aerosol Radiometer (MASTAR) Instrument
A2P3 2:10 Steven Reising
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Enabling Observations of Temperature and Humidity Profiles and Cloud Ice Particle Size Distribution in the Upper-Troposphere/Lower-Stratosphere from 6U-Class Satellites: Tropospheric Water and Cloud ICE (TWICE)
A2P4 2:30 William Deal
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Highly-Integrated Submillimeter-Wave Radiometric Receivers based on 25-nm InP HEMT Low-Noise Amplifiers
A2P5 2:50 Mauricio Sanchez-Barbetty
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MASTR, The Multi-Application Smallsat Tri-band Radar
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Session A3: Winds
Session Moderator: David Mayo
A3P1 4:00 Dragana Perkovic-Martin
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DopplerScatt Instrument Concept for Simultaneous Measurements of Ocean Surface Vector Winds and Currents – First results of surface current and wind retrievals
A3P2 4:20 John Marquardt
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The OAWL instrument: a direct-detection aerosol wind lidar for airborne and space-based wind profiles
A3P3 4:40 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 - An Update
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Wednesday, June 14 - Day Two
Session A4: Land Imaging
Session Moderator: Sachidananda Babu
A4P1 8:30 William Johnson
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HyTES transition to the ER-2 platform
A4P2 8:50 Thomas Kampe
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Pathway to Future Sustainable Land Imaging: The Compact Hyperspectral Prism Spectrometer
A4P3 9:10 Jeffery Puschell
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Advanced Technology Land Imaging Spectroradiometer
A4P4 9:30 Stephanie Sandor-Leahy
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SLI-T Integrated Spectrometer
  10:00 Break
A4P5 10:30 David Ting
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Type-II Superlattice (T2SL) Barrier Infrared Detector (BIRD) for Earth Science Applications  
A4P6 10:50 Paula Wamsley
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REMI-Reduced Envelope Multispectral Imager for Sustained Land Imaging
A4P7 11:10 S.J. Ben Yoo
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A New Method of Imaging: Photonic Integrated Interferometric Telescopes (PIITs) 
A4P8 11:30 Tomasz Stepinski
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GeoPAT 2.0 - Software for Pattern-Based Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Large Earth Science Datasets
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Session B2: Machine Learning and Computer Aided Discovery
Session Moderator: Marjorie Cole
B2P1 1:30 Victor Pankratius
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Computer-Aided Discovery in Earth Science
B2P2 1:50 Kwo-Sen Kuo
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An Environment for Systemizing Data Preparation and Machine/Deep Learning
B2P3 2:10 Alan Li
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Machine Learning Augmentation & Data Fusion using cm-scale Fluid Lensing for Enhanced Coral Reef Assessment
B2P4 2:30 Kamalika Das
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Hierarchical Modeling for Vegetation Dynamics
3:00 - 4:00: Group Discussion
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Session A5: Atmospheric Composition
Session Moderator: Nahal Kardan
A5P1 1:30 Carl Weimer
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Status on the Lidar Orbital Angular Momentum Sensor ACT
A5P2 1:50 Mark Stephen
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Fiber-based, trace-gas, laser transmitter technology development for space
A5P3 2:10 Haris Riris
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Methane measurements from space: technical challenges and status
A5P4 2:30 Xiaoli Sun
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Advances in the CO2 Sounder Lidar for Measurements from Aircraft and in Scaling for Space
A5P5 2:50 Robert Wright
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Thermal Infrared Compact Imaging Spectrometer (TIRCIS): laboratory characterization and first test flights
  3:10 Break  
A5P6 3:30 Jacob Kooi
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Update on the Compact Adaptable Microwave Limb Sounder (CAMLS)
A5P7 3:50 Adrian Tang
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CMOS System-on-Chip Synthesizer development for the Stratospheric Water Inventory, Tomography of Convective Hydration (SWITCH) Instrument
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Thursday, June 15 - Day Three
Session A6: Temperature, Humidity, Weather, and Climate
Session Moderator: Charles Norton
A6P1 8:30 Constantine Lukashin
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ARCSTONE: Calibration of Lunar Spectral Reflectance from Space
A6P2 8:50 William Swartz
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The RAVAN CubeSat Mission: On-Orbit Demonstration
A6P3 9:10 Joel Johnson
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Development of the CubeSat Radiometer Radio Frequency Interference Technology Validation (CubeRRT) System
A6P4 9:30 Ken Cooper
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Schottky Diode Sources and Initial Testing of a 183 GHz FMCW Humidity-Sounding Cloud Radar Transceiver
A6P5 10:30 David Peter Osterman
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CIRiS: A mission to optimize radiometric calibration in a CubeSat infrared imager 
A6P6 10:50 Thomas Pagano
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Technology advancements in the CubeSat Infrared Atmospheric Sounder (CIRAS)
A6P7 11:10 Kerri Cahoy
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Calibration and Test of the Microwave Radiometer Technology Acceleration (MiRaTA) CubeSat
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Session A7: Water, Oceans, Snow, and Ice
Session Moderator: David Mayo
A7P1 1:30 Joel Johnson
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The Ultra-Wideband Software Defined Radiometer for Internal Ice Sheet Temperature Sensing: Results from 2016 flights in Greenland
A7P2 1:50 Holly Bender
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The Snow and Water Imaging Spectrometer: Assembly and test
A7P3 2:10 Susan Owen
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GNSS H2O: A Global Network of In Situ Hydrologic Sensors Derived from GNSS Data 
A7P4 2:30 James Garrison
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Signals of Opportunity Airborne Demonstrator (SoOp-AD): Results of First Field Experiment
A7P5 2:50 Chaowei Yang
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MUDROD:  Improving Ocean Data Discovery Through Enhanced Searching Relevance 
A7P6 3:10 Thomas Huang
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An Introduction to OceanWorks
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