Session 3A Emerging Technologies and Advances in Observations for Earth or Space Sciences to Address Unmet, Targeted Needs/Requirements in the Research or Operational Communities I

Monday, 13 January 2025: 1:45 PM-3:00 PM
343 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O)

Conveners: 
Eric J. Fetzer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Martin Yapur, NOAA/NESDIS,
Amber Emory, NASA/ESTO, and
Stephen A. Mango, NOAA/NESDIS/SAE Affiliate and ISS, Inc.

Papers:
1:45 PM
3A.1
The Maturation of GNSS Reflectometry to Provide Measurements of Essential Climate and Weather Variables
Christopher S. Ruf, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI; and C. Chew, J. A. Crespo, and Z. Pu

2:15 PM
3A.3
Emerging Microwave Radiometer Calibration Technologies using Metamaterials to Enhance Atmospheric Sounding and Remote Sensing of Clouds and Precipitation from Small Satellites
Steven C. Reising, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and O. Khatib, D. Gu, A. Whitney, J. A. Smith, N. Rozman, A. A. Gregg, W. R. Deal, K. Balogh, and W. J. Padilla

2:30 PM
3A.4
Next Generation Hyperspectral Millimeter-wave Radiometers for Sub-orbital Atmospheric Sounding
Omkar Pradhan, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and A. Mohamed, A. Babenko, S. T. Brown, S. C. Reising, R. Thomas, S. Farzana, Z. Mohamad, M. Abedin, A. Tanner, and P. Kangaslahti

2:45 PM
3A.5
Improved Spatial Resolution of Active and Passive Microwave Sensors’ Observations with High Efficiency Deployable Antennas
Marian Klein, Boulder Environmental Sciences and Technology, Boulder, CO; and M. D. Krause, M. M. Eble, and A. C. Madrid

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