2021 MRSL News & Updates

UAlbany PhD student John Bradburn sits by a large telescope in an observatory as Assistant Professor Mustafa Aksoy stands in the background
PhD student John Bradburn and Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Mustafa Aksoy were featured in Today at UAlbany. (Photo by Patrick Dodson)

In 2021,we received an exciting grant, presented our research across the country, and continued to publish our work here at the Microwave Remote Sensing Lab!

December

Rahul Kar received a travel grant of $375 to travel to Boulder, Colorado for the 2022 National Radio Science Meeting, where he presented his research on remote sensing of the Antarctic firn. Congrats Rahul!
 

October

Our publication "Radio Frequency Interference Detection in Microwave Radiometry Using Density Based Spatial Clustering" is now available on IEEExplore.

Our publication "Potential of the Global Precipitation Measurement Constellation for Characterizing the Polar Firn" is now available. 

Our publication "Accuracy: A Novel Approach to Calibrate Cubesat Radiometer Constellations" is now available.
 

August

PhD student Imara Nazar presented at URSI GASS on RFI Detection in Microwave Radiometry using Density Based Spatial Clustering.

John Bradburn presented at CALCON, check out his presentation here.
 

July

Our lab member, John Bradburn, was featured today on UAlbany news in the article “A UAlbany Summer: NASA Technologist”. John was selected for the highly competitive 2021 NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities program for his proposal “Enabling Low-power Smart Sensors with Machine Learning Calibration”. He will be working as a NASA Technologist for the next four summers with funding of $80,000 per year. John has been working in our lab with Dr. Aksoy for almost two years on projects regarding remote sensing and CubeSat technologies. Congratulations to John for this remarkable achievement! To learn more about this, please read the article by clicking the image below.

PhD student Rahul Kar recently presented at IGARSS 2021 on the Potential of the Global Precipitation Measurement Costellation for Characterizing the Polar Firn.

PhD student John Bradburn presented ACCURaCY: A Novel Approach to Calibrate Cubesat Radiometer Constellations this month at IGARSS 2021.

Congratulations to John Bradburn and all other awardees of 2021 NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities (NSTGRO)!
 

April

To read a recently published journal about the potential advantages and applications of 500–1400 MHz microwave radiometry for Earth observation, click here.
 

January

We have recently published another open-access journal about the properties of the radio frequency interference in the protected portion of L-band.