Call for Papers
HD-12: Microwave Remote Sensing of Snow
Sunday Afternoon, July 6, 13:30 - 17:30
Presented by
Edward J. Kim, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Potential topics to be covered in this tutorial
- Applications and importance of snow remote sensing
- Physical basis of the microwave signature of snow
- Radiative transfer within snowpacks
- How well can we forward model snow radiances?
- Satellite remote sensing retrieval algorithms for snow
- How well can we retrieve snow parameters from microwave satellite measurements?
- Snow remote sensing issues (spatial heterogeneity, vegetation, atmosphere)
- Snow emissivity as a background for atmospheric retrievals
- Radiance assimilation for snow remote sensing
- Satellite systems for snow remote sensing: past, present, future
- Advances from snow remote sensing field campaigns
- Future measurement needs
Speaker Biography
Edward J. Kim (S’90–M’99–SM’05) received three degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and completed a joint PhD from the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1998. Since 1992, he has been involved in remote sensing field experiments primarily related to the cryosphere and soil moisture. Since 1999, he has been at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in the Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, developing and applying remote-sensing techniques, particularly for the cryosphere. His interests include the modeling of snow, ice, soil, and vegetation; radiative transfer theory; radiance assimilation, and the development of new observational tools. He is Principal Investigator for several NASA airborne and ground-based microwave radiometers. For the past several years, he has been spearheading efforts at Goddard in support of dedicated snow satellite concepts, including the Cold Land Processes Pathfinder and the Decadal Survey’s Snow and Cold Land Processes (SCLP) concept. Dr. Kim serves the U.S. National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program as Instrument Scientist for the ATMS microwave sounder on the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite, and as a Member of the Microwave Operational Algorithm Team. Recently, he was selected by the European Space Agency to serve on the Validation and Retrieval Team for the SMOS soil moisture mission. Dr. Kim is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters.