| 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
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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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