F5*: Microwave Remote Sensing of Vegetation and Ocean Salinity in Honor of Roger H Lang
Fri, 10 Jan, 08:20 - 12:00 MT (UTC -7)
Location: Room 245
Session Type: Lecture
Session Chair: Mehmet Kurum, University of Georgia
Track: Special Sessions
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Fri, 10 Jan, 08:20 - 08:40 MT (UTC -7)

F5*.1: The Continuing Contribution of Roger Lang to the Measurement of the Dielectric Constant of Sea Water
David Le Vine, Goddard Space Flight Center; Roger Lang, Ming Li, The George Washington University; Emmanuel Dinnat, Goddard Space Flight Center; Yiwen Zhou, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
Fri, 10 Jan, 08:40 - 09:00 MT (UTC -7)

F5*.2: Resonant-Perturbation Method Applied to UHF Cryogenic Dielectric Measurements of Saline Ice
Jake Sahli, Albin Gasiewski, University of Colorado Boulder; William Stone, Vickie Siegel, Stone Aerospace, Inc.
Fri, 10 Jan, 09:00 - 09:20 MT (UTC -7)

F5*.3: Ocean Salinity Measurements with L-band Passive Airborne and Ground Based Instruments
Mehmet Ogut, Sidharth Misra, Ian Fenty, Severine Fournier, Simik Ghookasian, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Doug Vandemark, University of New Hampshire
Fri, 10 Jan, 09:20 - 09:40 MT (UTC -7)

F5*.4: Development of the SESAR-LITE P-band Synthetic Aperture Radar
Rafael Rincon, NASA/GSFC
Fri, 10 Jan, 09:40 - 10:00 MT (UTC -7)

F5*.5: Coherence Modeling of Land Cover Observations from Repeat Pass Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
Simon Yueh, Xiaolan Xu, Tianlin Wang, Mario Chaubell, California Institute of Technology
Break
Fri, 10 Jan, 10:20 - 10:40 MT (UTC -7)

F5*.6: Bistatic GO Solution to the Mean RCS of an Object Above a Rough Surface: 2D TE Case
Joseph Gedney, Joel Johnson, Robert Burkholder, The Ohio State University
Fri, 10 Jan, 10:40 - 11:00 MT (UTC -7)

F5*.7: GNSS-T Forest Transmissivity Simulations based on LiDAR-derived Tree Structure
Mohammad Ehsanul Hoque, Mehmet Kurum, University of Georgia
Fri, 10 Jan, 11:00 - 11:20 MT (UTC -7)

F5*.8: Modelling the effective vegetation optical depth and scattering albedo for coniferous forests from P- to Ka- band
Yiwen Zhou, Mike Schwank, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL; Mehmet Kurum, University of Georgia; Roger Lang, The George Washington University
Fri, 10 Jan, 11:20 - 11:40 MT (UTC -7)

F5*.9: Coherent backscatter from a vegetation canopy – Model vs Experiment
Avinash Sharma, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Fri, 10 Jan, 11:40 - 12:00 MT (UTC -7)

F5*.10: Interpolating SMAP Soil Moisture to 3 km using CYGNSS and Spire Reflectivity Observations: Regional Case Study
Ming Li, Jiahua Zhang, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research; Liza Wernicke, University of Colorado Boulder; John Braun, Jan Weiss, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research