NOAA-CREST PUBLICATIONS: REFEREED PROCEEDINGS

2007-2008
2006-2007
2005-2006
2004-2005
2003-2004
2002-2003
2001-2002

Ramirez-Beltran, N. D., Cruz-Pol, S., Kuligowski, R, Castro, J.M., and Ortiz, X. Validation of the hydro-estimator rainfall retrieval algorithm over Puerto Rico. 22nd Conference in Hydrology, AMS, Hew Orleans, January, 2008.

Andres Bonilla, Hamed Parsiani, “Aerosol Size Density Calculations for Single Scattering Using Artificial Neural Network”, to be presented at AMS 88th conference, Jan. 2008.

S. Ahmed, A. Gilerson, J. Zhou, I. Ioannou, S. Hlaing, B. Gross, and F. Moshary. The Effect of Reabsorption of Chlorophyll Fluorescence and Elastic Scattering in Coastal Waters on the Efficacy of Retrieval Algorithms. Proceedings of 87th AMS Annual Meeting. 11th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS). San Antonio, TX, January, 2007.

S. Ahmed, A. Gilerson, J. Zhou, J. Chowdhary, I. Ioannou, R. Amin, B. Gross, F. Moshary. Evaluation of the impact of backscatter spectral characteristics on Chl retrievals in coastal waters. Proc. SPIE Vol. 6406, 64060A, Remote Sensing of the Marine Environment; Robert J. Frouin, Vijay K. Agarwal, Hiroshi Kawamura, Shailesh Nayak, Delu Pan; Eds. Goa, India, November, 2006.

S. Ahmed, A. Gilerson, J. Zhou, I. Ioannou, S. Hliang, B. Gross, F. Moshary ”Impact of Apparent Fluorescence Shift on Retrieval Algorithms for Coastal Waters”, Proceedings of Ocean Optics, XVIII, Montreal, October, 9-13, 2006.

Daniela Viviana Vladutescu, Barry Gross, Fred Moshary, Wu Yonghua, Samir Ahmed “Water vapor mixing ratio using different lidar calibration techniques’, WSEAS Systems Transactions. v. 6, 651-8 (2007)

Leona A. Charles, Shuki Chaw, Viviana Vladutescu, Fred Moshary, Barry Gross, Stanley D. Gedzelman, Sam Ahmed, Yonghua Wu, “Application Of CCNY Lidar and Ceilometers to the study of Aerosol Transport And PM2.5 Monitoring”, AMS Conference San Antonio TX (Jan 2007) http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/119919.pdf

Eduardo H. Hernandez, Min Min Oo, Leona Charles, Barry Gross, Margarita Mihailidi, Fred Moshary ,”Assessing The Land Albedo Model Of The New MODIS Aerosol Retrieval Over Land Algorithm For Urban Scenes” AMS Conference San Antonio TX (Jan 2007) http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/ 119895.pdf

Stanley David Gedzelman*, Kwan-yin Kong, Fred Moshary, Heather Glickman, Leona Charles, “Fair Weather Climatology Revealed by the CCNY Lidar”, AMS Conference San Antonio TX (Jan 2007) http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/119040.pdf

Jia-Yeong Ku, Chris Hogrefe, Gopal Sistla, Shuki Chaw, Leona Charles, Barry Gross, “ Use of lidar backscatter to determine the CBL heights in New York City in support of regional CMAQ Validation”, Proceedings 5th Annual CMAS Conference, October 2006

Engel-Cox, Jill, Raymond Hoff, Jassim Al-Saadi, Fred Dimmick, Brad Johns, Chieko Kittaka, Shobha Kondragunta, Kevin McCann, Ana Prados, James Szykman, Anthony Wimmers, and Erica Zell, 2007. Integration of satellite-derived data into EPA’s air quality decision support systems., 2007 EPA National Air Quality Conference: Air Quality Forecasting, Mapping, and Monitoring, Orlando FL Feb. 11-14, 2007.

Wimmers, Anthony, Thomas Rink, Steven Ackerman, Scott Bachmeier, Ray Hoff, Jill Engel-Cox, 2007. Visualizing a new generation of remotely-sensed aerosol observations in three dimensions, 2007 EPA National Air Quality Conference: Air Quality Forecasting, Mapping, and Monitoring, Orlando FL Feb. 11-14, 2007.

Nikisa S. Jordan, Charles Ichoku, and Raymond Hoff, 2007. Estimating Smoke Emissions Over the U.S Southern Great Plains Using MODIS Fire Radiative Power (FRP) Measurements. AEROCENTER Seminar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD Jan 30, 2007.

Whiteman, D. N., B. B. Demoz, E. Joseph, D. Venable, R. M. Hoff, B. Bojkov, T. McGee, H. Voemel, L. Miloshevich, J. Ftizgibbon, F. J. Schmidlin, C. D. Barnet, and I. M. Restrepo, 2007. Water Vapor Validation Experiment - Satellite/Sondes - Overview and Preliminary Results. AMS Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, January 2007.

Hoff, R. M., O. Torres, R. Delgado and R. Rogers, 2007. Lidar Validation of Calipso and OMI Using Ground-Based Sensors From REALM. AMS Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, January 2007.

Jordan, N. S., C. Ichoku, and R. M. Hoff, 2006. Smoke Emissions Over the U.S. Southern Great Plains Using Satellite Fire Radiative Energy (FRE), Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 11¬15, 2006.

Whiteman, D. N., B. B. Demoz, E. Joseph, D. Venable, R. M. Hoff, B. Bojkov, T. McGee, H. Voemel, L. Miloshevich, J. Ftizgibbon, F. J. Schmidlin, C. D. Barnet, and I. M. Restrepo, 2007. Water Vapor Validation Experiment - Satellite/Sondes - Overview and Preliminary Results, Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 11-15, 2006.

McCann, K., R. Rogers, M. Adam, B. Demoz, E. Joseph, R. Hoff, D. Whiteman, 2006. Investigation of Sub- Pixel Variability with a Tri- Raman Water Vapor Network during WAVES. Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 11-15, 2006.

Hoff, R., R. Delgado, R. Rogers, O. Torres and K. McCann, 2006. Temporally Coincident Lidar Measurements from UMBC with CALIPSO during the Initial Validation Period, Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 11-15, 2006.

Delgado, R., R. M. Hoff, R. R. Rogers, K. McCann, C. A. Hostetler and J. W. Hair, 2006. Comparison of the ELF/AHSRL/CALIPSO during the Initial Summer Validation Period over the Baltimore Region. Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 11-15, 2006.

Delgado R., R. M. Hoff, R. R. Rogers, and K. McCann, 2006. Comparison of the ELF/CALIPSO during the Initial Summer Validation Period over the Baltimore 4th Region, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Educational Partnership Program Meeting, Tallahassee, FL, Oct. 29-31, 2006.

McCann, K., R. Delgado, R. Rogers and R. M. Hoff, 2006. CALIPSO Overpasses in the Mid-Atlantic Region with coincident observations by the UMBC 355 nm Raman Lidar and the 532/1064 ELF lidar. CALIPSO Science Team Meeting, Annapolis, MD. October 3-5, 2006.

Maantay, J.A., “The Geography of Asthma and Air Pollution in the Bronx: Using GIS for Environmental Health Justice Research,” presented at New York Academy of Sciences, January 23, 2007, with e-briefing proceedings to appear on NYAS web site.

Loughman, R., D. Rault and T. Deshler, “Retrieval of Aerosol Properties from SAGE III Limb Scattering Measurements: Future Applications for OMPS”, Proceedings of the OSA FTS/HISE Meeting, Santa Fe, NM, Feb. 11-15, 2007.

Ramirez-Beltran, N.D., Calderon, C. and Vasquez R. An empirical model to estimate soil moisture over vegetated areas. 21th Conference on Hydrology, 87th Annual AMS Meeting. San Antonio TX, January 14-19, 2007.

Ramirez-Beltran, N.D., Calderon, C. Vasquez, R. Vertical Soil Moisture Profile Based on In-Situ and Satellite Observations. The NOAA/EPP Fourth Education and Science Forum, Tallahassee, FL, October 30-November 1, 2006.

E Azar, Amir,Lakhankar T. (2007) Ghedira H., Romanov P., Shahroudi N., and Khanbilvardi, R., Using land cover data to improve estimated snow pack properties by microwave data, 21th Conference on Hydrology, 87th AMS Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, January 14 - 19, 2007.

Louis Salazar, et al. submitted an abstract for SPIE Europe Remote Sensing conference 17 - 20 September 2007 to be held in Florence, Italy. The abstract is awaiting the chair’s review and will be notified by email by 14 May 07.

Tatyana Babakaeva, Mike Hill, M.P. McCormick, Bill Grose, and Tom Kovacs. The Evolution of the Southern Polar Region during Austral Winter/Spring 2006, , Fall AGU Meeting, December 2006, San Francisco, California.

A Review of Spaceborne Lidar and a Look to the Future, M. Patrick McCormick, AMS 3rd Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications, 17 January 2007, San Antonio, Texas.

Mohammad Z. Rahman, Leonid Roytman, and Felix Kogan, “Removing long-term errors from AVHRR-based brightness temperature (BT)." Oral Presentations, SPIE Europe Symposium on Remote Sensing, Florence, Italy, September 2007.

I. Gladkova, S. Gottipati, M.D. Grossberg, A new lossless compression algorithm for satellite earth science multispectral imagers, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 6683, 2007, Satellite Data Compression, Communications, and Archiving III

M.D. Grossberg, I. Gladkova, S. Gottipati, The impact of striping artifacts on compression, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 6683, 2007, Satellite Data Compression, Communications, and Archiving III

S. Gottipati, J. Goddard, M. D. Grossberg, I. Gladkova, A comparative study of lossless compression algorithms on MODIS data, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 6683, 2007, Satellite Data Compression, Communications, and Archiving III

L. Charles, S. Chaw, D. V. Vladutescu, Y. Wu, F. Moshary, B. M. Gross, S. A. Ahmed, “Atmospheric transport of smoke and dust particulates and their interaction with the PBL as observed by multiwavelength lidar and supporting instrumentation”, SPIE-Optics-and-Photonics-2007 Lidar Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring VIII, SanDiego (Aug 2007)

B. M. Gross, M. Bustamante, F. Moshary, R. Aspey, S. A. Ahmed, “Improved processing of multifilter rotating shadowband radiometer network for distributed monitoring of atmospheric aerosols”, SPIE-Optics-and-Photonics-2007 , Atmospheric and Environmental Remote Sensing Data Processing and Utilization III San Diego (Aug 2007)

B. M. Gross, M. M. Oo, E. Hernandez, F. Moshary, S. A. Ahmed , “Improved MODIS aerosol retrieval over urban areas”, SPIE-Optics-and-Photonics-2007 , Atmospheric and Environmental Remote Sensing Data Processing and Utilization III SanDiego (Aug 2007)

Daniela Viviana Vladutescu, Yonghua Wu, Barry Gross, Leona Charles, Fred Moshary, Samir Ahmed , “Examination of Hygroscopic Properties of Aerosols Using a Combined Multiwavelength Elastic – Raman Lidar” Proceedings IGARSS’07 Barcelona (July 2007)

Shuki Chaw, Yonghua Wu, Barry Gross, Fred Moshary, Samir Ahmed , “Intercomparison of Calibration Techniques for the 1064nm Channel on a Nd:YAG Elastic Lidar” SPIE-Optics-and-Photonics-2007 , Atmospheric and Environmental Remote Sensing Data Processing and Utilization III SanDiego (Aug 2007)

. A. Gilerson, J. Zhou, R. Fortich, I. Ioannou, S. Hlaing, B. Gross, F. Moshary and S. Ahmed "Spectral dependence of the bidirectional reflectance function in coastal waters and its impact on retrieval algorithms," Proc. of IEEE 2007 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Simposium (IGARSS 2007), Barcelona, Spain, July 2007.

A. Gilerson, J. Zhou, S. Hlaing, I. Ioannou, R. Amin, B. Gross, F. Moshary, S. Ahmed, "Fluorescence contribution to reflectance spectra for a variety of coastal waters," Proc. of SPIE 6680, San Diego, CA, August, 2007

Zell, E., J. Engel-Cox, L. Friedl, and R. Hoff, Three Dimensional Air Quality System (3D-AQS) Air Quality Applications w/ SERVIR, slides included in the plenary of the 32nd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, San José, Costa Rica, June 25 - 29, 2007

Origins of the Caribbean Bimodal Rainfall Pattern, J E Gonzalez, M Angeles, D Comarazamy, N Ramirez, C.Tepley, 2007 AGU Joint Conference in Acapulco, México, May 22-25, 2007.

Zell, E., J. Engel-Cox, L. Friedl, and R. Hoff, Three Dimensional Air Quality System (3D-AQS) Air Quality Applications w/ SERVIR, slides included in the plenary of the 32nd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, San José, Costa Rica, June 25 - 29, 2007

Hoff, R., J. Engel-Cox, F. Dimmick, J. Szykman, B. Johns, A. Wimmers, S. Ackerman, S. Kondragunta, J. Al-Saadi, C. Kittaka, E. Zell, H. Zhang, K. McCann, A. Prados, 3D-AQS: A Three Dimensional Air Quality System, Applications of Environmental Remote Sensing into Air Quality and Public Health, Potomac, MD May 8-9, 2007.

Carn, S., N. Krotkov, A. Krueger, R. Hoff, K.Yang, F. Prata, 2007. New insights into volcanic degassing from OMI and the A-Train. ENVISAT Symposium, Montreux, Switzerland, 23-27 April 2007

Delgado, R., R. R. Rogers, Z. Li, N. S. Jordan, K. Mubenga, K. McCann and R. M. Hoff, 2007. Active and Passive Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Aerosols: UMBC Atmospheric Lidar Group, 4th Lidar Workshop in Latin America, Ilhabela, Brazil, June 2007.

Harmsen, E. W., I. Garcia and A. Rojas, 2007. Rainfall variation in a 4 km x 4 km area in western Puerto Rico. World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2007, Tampa Florida, May 15-19.

Ramirez-Beltran, N. D., Cruz-Pol, S., Ortiz, X., Castro, J.M., and Kuligowski, R. J., An algorithm to improve the NEXRAD rain rate estimates. IEEE International Geosciences and Remote Sensing Symposium, Barcelona, Spain, 23-27, July, 2007.

Mejia, Y., H. Ghedira, S.E. Mahani, and R. Khanbilvardi; Snowfall Rate Estimation from Multi-Spectrum Remotely Sensed Data; IGARSS Journal, 2007.

Rault, D. and R. Loughman, “Stratospheric and Upper Tropospheric Aerosol Retrieval from Limb Scatter Signals”, Proceedings of the SPIE Europe Remote Sensing Conference, Florence, Italy, Sept. 17-20, 2007.

Maantay, J.A., Maroko, A.R., Herrmann, C., Perfecting the Denominator: Developing a Cadastral-based Expert Dasymetric System (CEDS) in New York City. Proceedings of the International Cartographic Association, Moscow, Russia, August 4-10, 2007.

Maantay, J.A., and Maroko, A.R. Perfecting the Denominator: Developing a Cadastral-based Expert Dasymetric System (CEDS) in New York City. Proceedings of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, April 17-21, 2007.

Steiner, J. C., Alimova, A., Katz, A., Steiner, N., Rudolph, R., and Gottlieb, P., Clay-bacteria systems and biofilm production, Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl. Abstract, (in review for Dec., 2007).

Rudolph, E., Steiner, J. C., Environmental Earth System Science/Engineering within an earth systems curriculum at City College of the City University of New York, Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl. Abstract , (in review for Dec., 2007).

Mejia, Y., S. Mahani, H. Ghedira, and R. Khanbilvardi; Multi-Spectral Snowfall Detection And Estimation; Poster presentation at the CoRP Science Symposium, College Park, Maryland, June 19–20, 2007.

Mejia, Y., H. Ghedira, S. Mahani, and R. Khanbilvardi; A Neural Network Based Approach For Multi-Spectral Snowfall Detection And Estimation; Oral presentation at the IEEE International Geosciences and Remote Sensing Symposium, Barcelona, Spain, July 23-27, 2007.

Amirrezvani, A., S. Mahani, and R. Khanbilvardi; Poster presentation; Developing a Rainfall Estimation Algorithm using Multi-Source Remotely Sensed IR and Lightning Data; NOAA-CREST Day, CCNY, New York, New York, 10031, March 29, 2007.

Amirrezvani, A., S. Mahani, and R. Khanbilvardi; Poster presentation; Developing a Rainfall Estimation Algorithm using Multi-Source Remotely Sensed and Lightning Data IR and Lightning Data for Summer Thunderstorms; 4th Annual NOAA-CoRP Symposium, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, Jun 19-20, 2007.

Amirrezvani, A., S. Mahani, and R. Khanbilvardi; Oral presentation; Multi-Source Thunderstorm Rainfall Classification and Estimation using IR and Lightning Data; NOAA CoRP/STAR Student Exchange Program at CICS. University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742; August 27-31, 2007

Mhando, B., N. Nourozi, S. Mahani, and R. Khanbilvardi; Poster presentation; Satellite-based Nowcasting Capability over NY Metropolitan Area; 4th Annual NOAA-CoRP Symposium, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, Jun 19-20, 2007.

Glickman, H., S. Mahani, and R. Khanbilvardi; Poster presentation; Interaction between Aerosols, UHI, and Hydrologic Variables; and ; 4th Annual NOAA-CoRP Symposium, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, Jun 19-20, 2007.

Clerbaux, C., and D.M. Cunnold (Lead Authors), J. Anderson, A. Engel, P.J. Fraser, E. Mahieu, A. Manning, J. Miller, S.A. Montzka, R. Nassar, R. Prinn, S. Reimann, C.P. Rinsland, P. Simmonds, D. Verdonik, R. Weiss, D. Wuebbles, Y. Yokouchi, Long-Lived Compounds, Chapter 1 in Scientific Assessment of ozone depletion: 2006, Global Ozone Research and Monitoring Project-Report No. 50, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 2006.

S. Ahmed, A. Gilerson, M. Oo, J. Zhou, J. Chowdhary, B. M. Gross, F. Moshary. The Polarization Properties of Optical Scattering in Sea Water and their Impact on Bio-Optical Retrieval Algorithms. American Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, HI, 20-24 February 2006.

Gedzelman, S., and H. Y. Glickman, B. Gross, E. E. Hindman, K.-Y. Kong, S. Mahani, and F. Moshary., 2005: Mesoscale weather features in NYC Revealed by CCNY lidar. Proceedings, 86th Annual AMS meeting, Atlanta, GA, January 29 – February 2, 2006.

Hernandez, C.A., S., Mahani, and R. Khanbilvardi: Developing a Remotely Sensed Rainfall Retrieval Algorithm using Multi-Spectral Information; Poster presentation at 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, of the 86th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 29th – February 2nd , 2006.

Hernandez, C.A., S., Mahani, and R. Khanbilvardi: Developing a Remotely Sensed Rainfall Retrieval Algorithm using Multi-Spectral Information; Poster presentation at the 9th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing Applications (MicroRad’06), San Juan, Puerto Rico, 28 February - 3 March, 2006.

Amirrezvani, A. S., Mahani, S., and R. Khanbilvardi: Improving Real-Time Precipitation Estimation over the Mountainous Regions of the Western United States, using Multi-Sources Remotely Sensed and Lightning Data, Abstract, The 86th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, P1.6, Atlanta, Georgia, January 29 – February 22 2006.

Mejia, Y., S., Mahani, and R. Khanbilvardi: Detecting and Estimating Snowfall using Multi Spectral IR and Microwave Data; Poster presentation at 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, of the 86th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 29th – February 2nd , 2006.

Mejia, Y., S., Mahani, and R. Khanbilvardi: Detecting and Estimating Snowfall using Multi Spectral IR and Microwave Data; Poster presentation at the 9th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing Applications (MicroRad’06), San Juan, Puerto Rico, 28 February - 3 March, 2006.

Kanguli, K., Validation of Operational NESDIS Rainfall Algorithms; Poster presented at 20th Conference of Hydrology, Atlanta, GA, 86th AMS Annual Meeting. January 29th – February 2nd, 2006.

Ghedira, H., J.C. Arevalo, T. Lakhankar and R. Khanbilvardi (2006) “The Effect of Vegetation Cover on Snow Cover Mapping from Passive Microwave Data”, In proc. Microrad 06 (9th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing Applications), San Juan, Puerto Rico, 28 Feb- 03 March 2006.

Lakhankar, T., Ghedira, H., Azar A. E., and R. Khanbilvardi (2006), “Effect of Sub-pixel Variability of NDVI and Land-cover on Soil Moisture Retrieval from RADARSAT-1 Data”, In proc. Microrad 06 (9th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing Applications), San Juan, Puerto Rico, 28 Feb-03 March 2006.

Azar, A.E., Ghedira H., Lakhankar T., and R. Khanbilvardi (2006) “Improvement in Estimating Snowpack Properties with SSM/I Data and Land-cover Using an Artificial Neural Network”, In proc. Microrad 06 (9th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing Applications), San Juan, Puerto Rico, 28 Feb-03 March 2006.

Lakhankar T., Ghedira, H., and R. Khanbilvardi, (2006) “Non-Parametric Tools for Soil Moisture Mapping Using Active Microwave Data”, Presented at American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meetings, Georgia, Atlanta, USA, 29 January- 2 February, 2006.

Tarendra Lakhankar, Hosni Ghedira and Reza Khanbilvardi, (2006) “Spatial Mapping of Soil Moisture using RADARSAT-1 Data”. Prospecting for Geospatial Information Integration, ASPRS Annual Conference, Reno, Nevada, USA, May 1-5, 2006.

Tarendra Lakhankar, Hosni Ghedira and Reza Khanbilvardi, (2006) “Combine Neural Network and Fuzzy Logic for an Improved Soil Moisture Estimation”. Prospecting for Geospatial Information Integration, ASPRS Annual Conference, Reno, Nevada, USA, May 1-5, 2006.

Lakhankar T., Ghedira, H., and R. Khanbilvardi, (2006) “Improving the Efficiency of Neural Network Retrieval of Soil Moisture from Active Microwave Data”, American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meetings, Georgia, Atlanta, USA, 29 January- 2 February, 2006.

Juliana Maantay. Asthma and Air Pollution in the Bronx, New York City: Using GIS for Health Disparities and Environmental Justice Research. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, March 7-11, 2006, Chicago, IL.

Andrew Maroko. Predicting West Nile Virus Risk by Characterizing Optimal Breeding Habitats of Four Mosquito Species. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, March 7-11, 2006, Chicago, IL

Padilla, D., Steiner, J.C. (2006) Characterization of Biomass Burning: Fourier Transform Infrared Analysis of North American Woods and Vegetation Combustion Products. Junior scientist Conference 2006, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria April 19th to 21st 2006

Md Z. Rahman, Leonid Roytman, and Felix Kogan, “Improving stability of NDVI data for NOAA environmental satellite,” Proc. SPIE Vol. 6412, Paper No. 641217, December 2006.

Md Z. Rahman, Leonid Roytman, and Felix Kogan, “Improving stability of NDVI data for NOAA environmental satellite,” Oral Presentations, Fifth International Conference on Asia –Pacific Remote Sensing, Goa, India, November 2006.

Initial Results from CALIPSO, David M. Winker, Jacques Pelon, and M. Patrick McCormick, pp 991 – 994. 23rd International Laser Radar Conference, 24-28 July 2006, Nara, Japan. Editors: Chikao Nagasawa and Nobuo Sugimoto. ISBN4¬9902916-0-3.

E. Maturi, W.L. Smith, and S.V. Kireev, Physical Retrieval for Precise Satellite SST Measurements – GOES-R Risk Reduction Study, The 86th AMS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 29 Jan-2 Feb 2006.

Hoff, R. M., J. A. Engel-Cox, F. Dimmick, J. J. Szykman, B. Johns, S. Kondragunta, R. Rogers, K. McCann, D. A. Chu, O. Torres, A. Prados, J.Al-Saadi, C.Kittaka, V.Boothe, S. Ackerman, A. Wimmers, 2006. “3D-AQS, a Three-Dimensional Air Quality System”, 22nd International Laser Radar Conference, Nara, Japan, July 24¬28, 2006.

Whiteman, D. N., M. Adam, B. Bojkov, B. Demoz, J. Fitzgibbon, R. Forno, R. Herman, R. Hoff, E. Joseph, E. Landulfo, K. McCann, T. McGee, L. Miloshevich, I. Restrepo, F. Schmidlin, B. Taubman, A. Thompson, D. Venable, H. Vomel, C. Walthall, 2006. “WAVES (Water Vapor Variability - Satellite/Sondes) An AURA satellite validation field campaign hosted at the Howard University Research Campus in Beltsville, MD”, 7th ISTP Symposium, Boulder, CO, June 2006.

Rogers, Raymond, Shobha Kondragunta, Jeff McQueen, Fred Moshary, Barry Gross, Raymond Hoff, 2006. Validation of CMAQ-Modeled Planetary Boundary Layer Height with Elastic Lidar, 7th ISTP Symposium, Boulder, CO, June 2006.

Hoff, R. M., J. A. Engel-Cox, F. Dimmick, J. J. Szykman, B. Johns, S. Kondragunta, R. Rogers, K. McCann, D. A. Chu, O. Torres, A. Prados, J.Al-Saadi, C.Kittaka, V.Boothe, S. Ackerman, A. Wimmers, 2006. “3D-AQS”, AGU Joint Meeting, Baltimore MD May 2006

Prados A. I., S. Kondragunta, P. Ciren, R. Hoff, K. McCann and R. Rogers, 2006 "The GOES Aerosol/Smoke Product Over North America: Comparisons To Aeronet, Modis And Lidar Observations." AGU Joint Meeting, Baltimore MD May 2006.

Rogers, R., S. Kondragunta, J. McQueen, F. Moshary, B. Gross, R. Hoff, 2006. “Validation of CMAQ-Modeled Planetary Boundary Layer Height with Elastic Lidar”, AGU Joint Meeting, Baltimore MD May 2006

Russo, F., D. N. Whiteman, B. B. Demoz, R. M. Hoff, 2006 “Comparison of Aerosol Extinction from two Raman Lidars”, AGU Joint Meeting, Baltimore MD May 2006.

Erwin A. C., R. Hoff, L. Sparling, S. Palm, 2006. “Description of an African Dust Storm and Biomass Burning Event Using Horizontal and Vertical Satellite Profiles”, AGU Joint Meeting, Baltimore MD May 2006

Mubenga, K., R. Hoff, K. McCann, A. Chu, A. Prados, 2006. “Comparing MODIS-Terra and GOES surface albedo for New York City NY, Baltimore MD and Washington DC for 2005”, AGU Joint Meeting, Baltimore MD May 2006

Garcia, V., S. Kondragunta, D. Holland, F. Dimmick,V. Boothe, J. Szykman, D.A. Chu, Chieko Kittaka, J. Al-Saadi, J. Engel-Cox, R. M. Hoff, R. Wayland, S. T. Rao, L. Remer, 2006. “Integration of Satellite, Modeled, and Ground Based Aerosol Data for use in Air Quality and Public Health Applications”, AGU Joint Meeting, Baltimore MD May 2006.

Berkoff, T., R. Rogers, K. McCann, K. Evans, W. McMillan, R. Hoff, R. Alvarez, R. Richter, J. Intrieri, W. Eberhard, 2006. “Initial Results Using a Depolarization and Backscatter Unattended Lidar (DABUL2) System Operating at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)”, AGU Joint Meeting, Baltimore MD May 2006.

Jordan, N. S., R. Rogers, S. Kondragunta, K. McCann, A. Prados, K. Mubenga, and R. Hoff, 2006. "GOES Aerosol and Smoke Product AOD Compared with In-situ PM2.5 Measurements" AGU Joint Meeting, Baltimore MD May 2006.

Kondragunta, S, J. J. Szykman, C. Xu, Q. Zhao, J. Engel-Cox, R. Hoff, C. Kittaka F. Dimmick, D. Holland, 2006. Integration of Satellite, Modeled, and Ground Based Aerosol Data for use in Air Quality and Public Health Applications, Proc. SPIE, 6412, #12, 2006.

Hoff,, Raymond M., Jill A. Engel-Cox, Fred Dimmick, James J. Szykman, Brad Johns, Shobha Kondragunta, Raymond Rogers, Kevin McCann, D. Allen Chu, Omar Torres, Ana Prados, Jassim Al-Saadi, Chieko Kittaka, Vickie Boothe, Steve Ackerman, Anthony Wimmers, 2006. 3D-AQS, a Three-Dimensional Air Quality System. Paper #6299-1. SPIE Optics and Photonics 2006, San Diego, CA, August

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Hoff, R. M., 2006. “Measuring air pollution at the Speed of Light”, Physics Department Seminar, UMBC, February 15, 2006. 101. Hoff, R.M., 2006. “3D-AQS“, Aerocenter Presentation, Goddard Space Flight Center, February 14, 2006.

Engel-Cox, Jill A., Raymond M. Hoff, Fred Dimmick, James J. Szykman, Brad Johns, Shobha Kondragunta, Raymond Rogers, Jassim Al-Saadi, Chieko Kittaka, D. Allen Chu, Omar Torres, Vickie Boothe, and Anthony Wimmers, 2006. “Three-Dimensional Air Quality System”, National Air Quality Conference, San Antonio, TX, Feb 5-8, 2006.

Garcia, V., S. Kondragunta, D. Holland, F. Dimmick,V. Boothe, J. Szykman, J. Engel-Cox, Chieko Kittaka, J. Al-Saadi, R. M. Hoff, S. T. Rao, L. Remer, 2006. “Integration of Satellite, Modeled, and Ground Based Aerosol Data for use in Air Quality and Public Health Applications”, Paper 7.1, 14th Satellite Meteorology Conference, American Meteorological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, January 29 - February 3, 2006.

Jordan, N.S., K. McCann, R. Hoff, J. Engel-Cox. “Analysis Of Air Pollutant Transport to Class I Areas Using Multiple Satellite Products and In-Situ Ground Based Measurements, 7th Joint Symposium on Atmospheric Chemistry, Paper P1.9, American Meteorological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, January 29 - February 3, 2006.

Rogers, Raymond, Kevin McCann, and Raymond Hoff, 2006. "Quantifying the Effect of Humidity on Aerosol Scattering", 7th Joint Symposium on Atmospheric Chemistry, Paper P1.1, American Meteorological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, January 29 - February 3, 2006.

Garcia, Val, Sally Tinkle, Shobha Kondragunta, George Thurston, Ray Hoff, Jim Szykman, Dave Holland, S. T. Rao, Jassim Al-Saadi, Lorraine Remer, 2006. Integration of Satellite-derived and Ground Based Aerosol Data for use in Air Quality and Public Health Applications, American Meteorology Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 29 January- 2 February 2006.

Jordan, N., J. Engel-Cox, R. M. Hoff, 2006. Analysis of air pollutant transport to Class I Areas Using Multiple Satellite Products, In Situ Ground Based Measurements", submitted for the Eighth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, American Meteorological Society Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

S. Ahmed, A. Gilerson, J. Chowdhary, B. M. Gross, F. Moshary, M. Oo. Retrieval of the Fluorescence and Chlorophyll Concentration from Reflectance Spectra Using Polarization Discrimination and Improved Baseline Approach. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 5-9 December 2005.

Ghedira, H., J.C. Arevalo, T. Lakhankar and R. Khanbilvardi (2005). “Capabilities and Limitations of Neural Networks in Snow Cover Mapping from SSM/I Images”, Physical Measurements and Signature in Remote Sensing Proceedings. Vol. 1. pp. 211-214.

Lakhankar, T., Ghedira, H. and R. Khanbilvardi (2005). “Vegetation Effect on Soil Moisture Retrieval from Active Microwave Data”, Physical Measurements and Signature in Remote Sensing Proceedings. Vol. 2. pp. 811-814.

Amirrezvani, A. S., Mahani, S., and R. Khanbilvardi: Improving Precipitation Estimation Using Multi-Sources Remote Sensing and Lightning Data, Particularly for Thunderstorms Over Mountainous Regions; Poster Presentation, AGU Fall Meeting 2005, GC41A-0383, Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, December 4 – 9 2005.

Kanguli, K., S. Mahani, and R. Khanbilvardi: Validation of Operational NESDIS Rainfall Algorithms; Poster presented at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 5-9, 2005.

Sobolowski, S., A. Frei, S.E. Mahani, and R. Khanbilvardi; Exploring the Relationship between Snow Pack and Modes of Atmospheric Circulation, over the North America; AAG International Conference, Denver, Colorado, April 5-9, 2005.

Gilerson, M. Oo, J. Chowdhary, B. M. Gross, F. Moshary, S. A. Ahmed. Polarization discrimination fluorescence retrieval from reflectance spectra of algae in seawater: comparison of multicomponent Mie scattering and polarized radiative transfer models with laboratory and field tests. Proceedings of SPIE, v.5977, September 2005, Bruges, Belgium.

Jing Zhou, Alexander Gilerson, Fred Moshary, Barry Gross, and Samir Ahmed. Fluorescence extraction from reflectance spectra of ocean water using polarization discrimination. Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Commission for Optics. August 2005, Changchun, China.

Gilerson, A., M. Oo, J. Chowdhary, B. M. Gross, F. Moshary, S. A. Ahmed. Polarization characteristics of water-leaving radiance: application to separation of fluorescence and scattering components in coastal waters. Proceedings of SPIE, v.5885, August 2005, San Diego.

Gilerson, A., J. Zhou, B. Elmaanaoui, B. Gross, F. Moshary, S. Ahmed. “Separation of fluorescence and scattering from algae and suspended solids in seawater through polarization: modeling and experiments.” Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 17-19 May 2005

R. Khanbilvardi, B. Shteinman, V. Kushnir, S. Stanichny, S. Ahmed, A. Gilerson, B. M. Gross, F. Moshary. Optical inhomogeneities of water in the New York coastal zone determined using multispectral satellite data. Proc. 7-th International Conference on Modeling, Measurements, Engineering and Management of Seas and Coastal Regions, 13-15 April 2005, Algarve, Portugal, 57-66.

Padilla, D., Steiner, J.C., (2005), Satellite Characterization of Biomass Burning: Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) and Scanning Electron Microscope Study of Combustion Experiments, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract A21B-0849

Niebauer, M., Alimova, A., Katz, A., Xu, M., Rudolph, E., Steiner, J.C., Alfano, R., (2005), Detection of Biomass in New York City Aerosols: Light Scattering and Optical Fluorescence Techniques, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract B53B-03.

Gedzelman, S. D., H. Glickman, B. Gross, K-y. Kong, Mahani, and F. Moshary 2006: Mesoscale weather features in NYC revealed by CCNY vertical lidar profiles. To be presented at American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta 30 January 2006.

B. Gross, M. M. Oo, F Moshary, S. Ahmed B. Cairns, “MODIS aerosol retrieval over urban areas,”, Proceedings of SPIE V5890 San Diego Aug 2005

Y. Hassebo, B. Gross, F.Moshary, Y. Zhao, S. Ahmed, “Polarization Discrimination Technique to Maximize Lidar Signal to Noise Ratio” Proceedings of SPIE V5887 San Diego Aug 2005

Maantay, J.A: “Expulsive Zoning in New York City: The Environmental Health and Justice Implications of Gentrification and Intensification of Industrial Zones” – Environmental Justice and the City paper session, AAG Annual Meeting Denver, CO April 5-9, 2005.

Hindman, E., W. Cotton and O. Liechti, 2005: Merging the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) and "Top Task" system to improve the prediction of soaring flight in the USA. Oral presentation to the OSTIV Meteorological Panel, 16¬18 September, Istanbul, Turkey.

Hindman, E. E., R. D. Borys, D. H. Lowenthal and N. A. Phillip, 2005a: Aerosol variations and snowfall rates in the northern Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA. Oral presentation at the semi-annual Weather Modification Association Meeting, 21-24 September, Athens, Greece.

Gedzelman, S. D., 2005: A simple 2-dimensional chaotic rain gush model. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Ed Lorenz Symposium, San Diego, 13 January 2005.

Hindman, E. E., 2004: Proposal to the OSTIV Meteorological Panel for "Top Task" support at the 2005 pre-World’s and 2006 World Gliding Championships. DLR, Oberpaffenhofen, Germany, 20 November 2004.

Hindman, E. E., R. D. Borys, D. H. Lowenthal and N. A. Phillip, 2005: Long-term, wintertime aerosol, cloud and precipitation measurements in the northern Colorado Rocky Mountains, US, Weather Modification Association Annual Meeting, 27-29 April, Washington, D. C.

Hindman, E., D. Matthew, M. Lopez, K. Kong and R. Borys, 2005: Mid-morning behavior of condensation nuclei at a mountaintop site during the wintertime. Poster presentation at the 24th Annual Conference, American Association for Aerosol Research,17-21 October 2005, Austin TX.

Ghedira, H., J.C. Arevalo, T. Lakhankar and R. Khanbilvardi (2005). An Adaptive Neural Network System for Improving the Filtration of Non-Snow Pixels from SSM/I Images. In Proc. IEEE International Geosciences and Remote Sensing Symposium. IGARSS’2005, vol. 8, No 167, pp. 5459-5463, Seoul, South Korea, 25 – 29 July, 2005.

Ghedira, H., and T. Lakhankar (2005). Capabilities and Limitations of Satellite Microwave Data in Soil Moisture Retrieval in Semi-Arid Regions. In proc. Kuwait First International Remote Sensing Conference and Exhibition. Kuwait City, Sept 26¬28, 2005.

Ghedira, H., J.C. Arevalo, T. Lakhankar and R. Khanbilvardi (2005). Capabilities and Limitations of Neural Networks in Snow Cover Mapping from Passive Microwave Data. In proc. 9th International Symposium on Physical Measurements and Signatures in Remote Sensing (ISPMSRS). Oct. 17-19, 2005, Beijing, China.

Lakhankar, T., H. Ghedira, and R. Khanbilvardi (2005). Vegetation Effect on Soil Moisture Retrieval from Active Microwave Data. In proc. 9th International Symposium on Physical Measurements and Signatures in Remote Sensing (ISPMSRS). Oct. 17-19, 2005, Beijing, China.

Amir E Azar, Hosni Ghedira and Reza Khanbilvardi, (2005), Using Artificial Neural Networks to evaluate the effect of land cover in estimating snowpack properties with SSM/I data. Prospecting for Geospatial Information Integration, ASPRS Annual Conference, Reno, Nevada, USA, May 1-5, 2006.

Amir E Azar, Hosni Ghedira and Reza Khanbilvardi, (2005), Combination of Active and Passive Microwave to estimate snowpack properties using artificial neural networks in Great Lakes, United States Prospecting for Geospatial Information Integration, ASPRS Annual Conference, Reno, Nevada, USA, May 1-5, 2006.

Amir E Azar, H. Ghedira, J. C. Carlos, and R. Khanbilvardi (2005), Potentials and limitations of Radarsat SAR in estimating Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) in the Great Lakes region of the United States", American Meteorological Society Annual Meetings, Georgia, Atlanta, USA, 29 January- 2 February, 2006.

Amir E Azar, Hosni Ghedira and Reza Khanbilvardi, (2005), A time series analysis approach to assess the effect of snowpack dynamics on SSM/I brightness temperatures for various land covers in Great Lakes area. American Meteorological Society Annual Meetings, Georgia, Atlanta, USA, 29 January- 2 February 2006.

Tarendra Lakhankar, Hosni Ghedira and Reza Khanbilvardi, (2005), “Effect of Sub-Pixel Variability of Land-Cover Data on Soil Moisture Retrieval using SAR data”, submitted to AGU, Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA.

Amir E Azar, R. Khanbilvardi, H. Ghedira , T. Lakhankar, (2005), Improvement in Estimating Snowpack Properties with SSM/I Data and Land Cover Using an Artificial Neural Network. Microrad 06 (9th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing Applications), San Juan, Puerto Rico, 28 Feb-03 March 2006.

Amir E Azar, R. Khanbilvardi, H. Ghedira (Fall 2005). “Analysis and improvement of estimated snow water equivalent (SWE) using Artificial Neural Networks”. Submitted to AGU, Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA.

Gladkova, L. Roytman, M. Goldberg, J. Weber, Compression Algorithm for Infrared Hyperspectral Sounder Data, Data Compression Conference, March 29-31, 2005, Snowbird, UT.

Gladkova, L. Roytman, M. Goldberg, Adaptive clustering for hyperspectral sounder data compression, Satellite Data Compression, Communications, and Archiving, SPIE's 50th Annual Meeting, July 31- August 5, 2005, San-Diego, CA,

S. V. Kireev, I. V. Petropavlovskikh, L. E. Flynn, P. M. McCormick, Use of SBUV/2 and Dobson Datasets to Validate a New Brewer Ozone Profile Algorithm, AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, December 2005.

Petropavlovskikh, E. Weatherhead, A. Cede, S. J. Oltmans, S. Kireev, E. Maillard, P. K. Bhartia, L. E. Flynn, Validation of OMPS Ozone Profile Data with Expanded Dataset from Brewer and Automated Dobson Network, AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, December 2005.

Hoff, R.M., L. Sparling and D. M. Winker, 2005. "Calipso Impacts on Assessment of Global and Regional Scale Aerosol Transport", Paper 3A3, American Association for Aerosol Research Annual Conference, Austin, Texas, October 17-21, 2005, p. 97.

Hoff, R.M., L. Sparling and D.M.Winker, 2005. "Calipso Impacts on Assessment of Global and Regional Scale Aerosol Transport", Paper 3A3, American Association for Aerosol Research Annual Conference, Austin,Texas, October 17-21, 2005, p. 97.

Svoysky, Roman, Raymond Rogers, Kevin McCann, Raymond Hoff, 2005, “A Better ELF: Improving the Near-Field Data of the Elastic LIDAR Facility (ELF) Telescope System”, UMBC Physics Summer Internship Symposium, August 2005.

Engel-Cox, J., R. Hoff, R. Rogers, A. Rush, F. Dimmick, and J. Szykman, “Application of Satellite Sensor Data for Regional and Urban Scale Air Quality,” American Association for Aerosol Research Annual Conference, Austin, Texas, October 2005

Nikisa S. Jordan, Jill Engel-Cox, Kevin McCann, and Raymond Hoff, 2005. 3D Integrated Empirical Product that Focuses on the Impact of Regional/Urban Pollutants to Eastern U.S & Class I Areas, Marine Estuarine and Environmental Science Program Annual Symposium, Baltimore, October 6-7, 2005

Pu, Z.-X., B. Demoz, X. Li and C. Liu, D. Whiteman, D. Turner, R. Hoff, 2005: Characteristics of water vapor structure of two cold front systems over the central US: High-resolution numerical simulations. AMS 21st Conference for Weather and Forecasting/17th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction. August 1-5, 2005, Washington,D.C.

S. Kondragunta, J. McQueen, P. Lee, C. Kittaka, A. Prados, P. Ciren, I. Laszlo, R. Hoff, B. Pierce, 2005. Air Quality Forecast Verification using Satellite Data, ICARTT Meeting, Vermont.

Mubenga, K., N. Jordan, J. Engel-Cox, R. Hoff, K. McCann, R. Rogers, 2005. Blogging Smog: The U.S. Air Quality Weblog, National Council on Science and Environment Annual Meeting, Washington DC, February 4, 2005.

Engel-Cox, J., B. Coutant, M. Cupp, F. Dimmick, A. Rush, J. Szykman, B. Bloomer, R. Hoff, K. McCann, R. Rogers, N. Jordan, and K. Mubenga, 3-D Integrated Air Quality Monitoring: Regulatory accountability and exceptional transport of PM2.5, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2005 National Air Quality Conference, San Francisco, California, February 2005.

McMillan, W.W., R. Hoff, K. McCann, R. Rogers, A. Chu, C. Barnet, W. Wolf, G. Sachse, G. Diskin, and B. Pierce, 2005. Tropospheric Dynamics and Chemistry as revealed by AIRS Ultraspectral Remote Sensing during INTEX-A. OSA Hyperspectral Imaging and Sensing of the Environment,Alexandria, VA.

Engel-Cox, J., R. M. Hoff, F. Dimmick, 2005. 3-D Integrated Air Quality Monitoring: Regulatory accountability and exceptional transport of PM2.5, presentation to EPA Management, Research Triangle Park, NC, January 31, 2005.

Hoff, Raymond M., Kevin J. McCann, W. Wallace McMillan, Raymond Rogers, Nikisa Jordan, Kamonayi Mubenga, Fred Moshary, Mike Newchurch, Thomas J. Duck, and Edwin W. Eloranta., 2005. Realm Lidar Observations During The Intex/Ne-Neaqs Study Period, Paper 1.12, 2nd Symposium on Laser Atmospheric Studies, American Meteorological Society, San Diego, CA.

McCann, K J, R. Hoff, R. Rogers, N. Jordan, J. Engel-Cox, K.Mubenga, S. Kondragunta, A.Prados, 2004. The Vertical Dimension in Air Quality Measurements . Paper A41A-0025, 2004 American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Jordan, N., J. Engel-Cox, K. McCann, K. Mubenga, and R. Hoff, Visibility analysis of Class I Areas using multiple, satellite products and in situ ground based measurements, Proc. 98th Annual Meeting, Air and Waste Management Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2005.

S. Kondragunta, R. Mathur, J. McQueen, J. Szykman, P. Lee, A. Prados, D. Roy, B. Pierce, C. Kittaka, K. Schere, R. Hoff, R. Dickerson, K. Mcann McMillan, Wallace, J. Warner, M. McCourt, L. Strow, L. Sparling, 2005. Air Quality Forecast Verification using Satellite Data. Eastern Fire Conference, Reston, VA., May 2005.

Hoff, R., E. Eloranta, J. Engel-Cox, N. Jordan, K. McCann, K. Mubenga, S. Palm and R. Rogers, 2005. Multisensor Observations of the Long-Range Transport of Three Large Forest Fires Plumes to the Northeastern U.S., Paper #416, Air and Waste Management Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, June 2005.

Russo, F., D. N. Whiteman, B. B. Demoz, R. M. Hoff, 2005. Improvement of Raman lidar techniques for quantifying aerosol extinction, SPIE Optics and Photonics Conference, San Diego, CA, August 2005.

Kondragunta, S., J. McQueen, P. Lee, C. Kittaka, A. Prados, P. Ciren, I. Laszlo, R. Hoff, B. Pierce, 2005. Air Quality Forecast Verification using Satellite Data, ICARTT Meeting, Vermont.

Hamed Parsiani, Enrico Mattei, “Open Field Moisture Measurements with Radar”, Proceedings of WSEAS 2005, Nov. 2-5, 2005, Venice, Italy.

Hamed Parsiani, Enrico Mattei, Allen Lizarraga, Mairim Ramos, “Soil Moisture Determination based on MCFD/NN-GUI Algorithm using Wideband Radar Images of Land”, Proceedings of IASTED SIP 2005, Aug. 15-17, 2005, Hawaii.

Ramirez-Beltran, N.D., R. Vasquez, H. Cruzado and E. Harmsen. A Short- and Long-Term Memory Model to Estimate Soil Moisture. This paper was published in the proceeding of the 31st International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment – 2005 “Global Monitoring for Sustainability and Security.” June 20¬24, 2005, Saint Petersburg Russia.

Society for Economic Botany Conference, (June 7, 2005, Forth Worth, Texas). Porter-Morgan, H. Sustainable Use of the Palm Chamaedorea ernesti-augustii: Effects of Defoliation on Growth and Reproduction.

Enrico Mattei, Mairim G. Ramos, C. Allen Lizárraga, June 2005. Soil Moisture Determination Based on MCFD/NN-GUI Algorithm Using Wideband Radar Images of Land. IASTED-SIP at Hawaii.

Loughman, R., D. Rault, D. Flittner, R. McPeters, E. Hilsenrath, S. Janz, T. Brown, P.K. Bhartia, M. Hill, and K. Lee (2005), Ozone Retrievals from Limb Scattered Radiance Measurements, poster presented at the 2005 NASA SOSST Workshop, Columbia, MD.

Gedzelman, S. D., K-y. Kong, and S. A., Austin, 2005: Observations and simulations of intense spring sea breezes along the New York – New Jersey coast. In Sixth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 9-13 Jan 2005, San Diego, CA.

Barry Gross, Min Min Oo and Changyang Cao “The Effect of HIRS Spectral Uncertainty on Cloud Retrievals with CO2 Slicing”, 2004 CALCON Technical Conference Logan Utah (Aug 2004).

Barry Gross, Leona Charles, Min Min Oo, Fred Moshary, Samir Ahmed “SST retrieval using scene dependant two band and three band multi-window algorithms for the GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) ” 3rd GOES-R Users’ Conference Boulder, CO (May 2004) 121. S. Ahmed, A. Gilerson, A. Gill, B.M. Gross, F. Moshary, J. Zhou, “Polarization Technique for Separating Overlapping Fluorescence and Reflectance Spectra Applied to Algae in Seawater in the Presence of Suspended Matter”, Proceedings of the Ocean Optics XVII, Fremantle, Australia, October 25-29, 2004.

S. Ahmed, A. Gilerson, A. Gill, B. M. Gross, F. Moshary, J. Zhou “Characteristics of Polarization Techniques for the Separation of the Overlapping Fluorescence and Reflectance Applied to Algae in Seawater”, Proceedings of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (IGARSS)-2004, Fairbanks, Alaska, September 20-24, 2004.

Ravil Agishev, Adolfo Comeron, Barry Gross, Fred Moshary, Samir Ahmed, Alexander Gilerson, Valery Vlasov, “Simple signal-to-noise parameterization scheme to assess lidar performance and its applications”, Remote Sensing Europe, Conference on Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere, Canary Islands, Spain, Proceedings of SPIE,, vol.5571 (2004)

Alexander Gilerson, Jing Zhou, Adrian Gill, Barry M. Gross, Fred Moshary and Samir Ahmed, “Properties and Potential of a Polarization Technique for the Separation of the Overlapping Fluorescence and Elastic Scattering Applied to Algae in Seawater”, Remote Sensing Europe, Remote Sensing of Ocean and Sea Ice 2004, Proceedings of SPIE, v. 5569, Canary Islands, Spain (2004).

Ravil Agishev, Barry Gross, Fred Moshary, Alexander Gilerson, Samir Ahmed, Rafael Sagdiev, Adolfo Comeron, “Development principles of frequency-modulated CW-ladar for remote detection of atmospheric trace constituents”, International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, Conference on Remote Sensing in Atmospheric Pollution Monitoring and Control, Denver, Colorado. Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 5547, 2004.

Jing Zhou, Alexander Gilerson, Adrian Gill, Barry M. Gross, Fred Moshary and Samir Ahmed. “Polarization Discrimination Technique to Separate Overlapping Fluorescence and Elastic Scattering Applied to Algae in Seawater”, International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, Remote Sensing and Modeling of Ecosystems for Sustainability, Proceedings of SPIE, v.5544, 2004, Denver, Colorado, 2004.

B. Herman, B. Gross, F. Moshary, S. Ahmed, “Intercomparisons of multiwavelength optical data using a graphical approach with improved confidence bounds”, International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, Conference on Remote Sensing in Atmospheric Pollution Monitoring and Control, Denver, Colorado. Proceedings of SPIE, vol.5547, 2004.

B. Gross, O. Ogunwuyi, F. Moshary, S. Ahmed, “Aerosol retrieval over land using spatial regression between V/NIR and MIR Modis channels”, International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, Conference on Remote Sensing in Atmospheric Pollution Monitoring and Control, Denver, Colorado. Proceedings of SPIE, vol.5547 2004.

Ravil Agishev, Barry Gross, Fred Moshary, Alexander Gilerson, Samir Ahmed, Rafael Sagdiev, Adolfo Comeron, “Atmospheric trace constituent detection by CW¬FM-LD-ladar: a concept development”, International Symposium on Defense and Security, Conference of Laser Radar Technologies, Orlando, 2004.Proceedings of SPIE, 2004, vol.5412A, 2004.

Benjamin R. Herman, Barry Gross, Fred Moshary, Samir Ahmed, , “Methods of Assessing Uncertainty in Determining Particle Size Distribution Parameters from Optical Backscatter and Extinction Measurements” Proceedings 22nd International Laser Radar Conference (ILRC 2004) pg 357-360 Matera, Italy 12-16 July, 2004.

Benjamin R. Herman, Barry Gross, Fred Moshary, Samir Ahmed, “Determination of confidence bounds for the graphical estimation of Particle Size Distribution Parameters from Optical Backscatter and Extinction Measurements” Proceedings 22nd International Laser Radar Conference (ILRC 2004) pg 463-466 Matera, Italy 12-16 July, 2004.

Shteinman B., A. Gitelson, R. Khanbilvardi, Y. Yacobi. Remote Estimation of Phytoplankton in Productive Turbid Water. The Sixth International Conference on Hydro-Science and Engineering, Brisbane, Australia, May 30-June 3, 2004

A.Karmanchuk, Mandychev A., Khanbilvardi R., V. Khazin, Shteinman B. Some Results of a Multi-Disciplinary Study of Distribution of the Suspended Material in Lake Issyk-Kul (Kyrgyzstan), Using Remote Sensing, Fluorescent Tracers and Hydrologic Observations. Sixth International Conference on Hydro-Science and Engineering, Brisbone, Australia, May 30-June 3, 2004, 11p (CD Publ.).

Stanichny S., Kushnir V., Khanbilvardi R., Shteinman B. The Potential Use of Satellite Remote Sensing for Natural Resources Development in the Shelf Zones. The Sixth International Conference on Hydro-Science and Engineering, Cairns, Australia, May 30- 3, 2004, 10p (CD Pub.)

Gitelson, A., Khanbilvardi, R., Yacobi, Y., Shteinman, B., Khazin V. Remote quantification of chlorophyll in productive turbid waters. Fourth International Conference on Management Information Systems, incorporating GIS and Remote Sensing, 13 - 15 September 2004 , Malaga, Spain 2004, pp:226-237.

Gitelson A., Khanbilvardi R., Yacobi Y., Shteinman B., V. Khazin. “Requirements for Satellite Sensors with Limited Spectral Resolution for Monitoring Quality of Productive Aquatic”. Conference on Water Observation and Information System for Decision Support. Ohrid, FY Republic of Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004, 21p (CD Pub.).

Khanbilvardi, R., A.Gitelson, S. Stanichny, A. Mandychev, V. Kushnir, V. Khazin, B. Shteinman. Remote monitoring of Water Dynamics and Estimation of Chlorophyll Concentration. Proceedings of the Ninth Biennial ASCE Aerospace Division International Conference of Engineering, Construction and Operation in Challenging Environments (Earth and Space 2004)/ League City, March 07-10, 2004, pp: 263-268.

Gitelson, A., R. Khanbilvardi, B. Shteinman, Y. Yacobi. Remote estimation of Phytoplankton distribution in Aquatic Ecosystems. Proc. Of the Ninth Biennial ASCE Aerospace Division International Conference of Engineering, Construction and Operation in Challenging Environments(Earth and Space 2004)/ League City, March 07-10, 2004, pp:255-262.

Shteinman, B., A.Gitelson, R. Khanbilvardi, Y. Yacobi 2004. Remote Assessment Water Dynamics in Inland Waters 2004. Proc. The Sixth International Conference on Hydro- and Engineering. May 30-June 2, 2004, Brisbane, Australia, CD-ROM, 8p (CD Publ).

Hindman, E. E., S. D. Gedzelman and K. Kong, 2004: A weather station and computer laboratory. On UCAR Unidata Program Website, 10 August 2004, (my.uunidata.ucar.edu).

Hindman, E. E., 2004: An American pilot in Aspres-sur-Buech, France, July 2004. Aufwind [Swiss AFG Club publication], 6 pp., October 2004.

Hindman, E. E., Randolph D. Borys and Douglas H. Lowenthal, 2004: Long-term cloud droplet and condensation nucleus measurements in the northern Colorado Rockies, USA. In Preprints 14th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation, 18-23 July 2004, Bologna Italy, 100-103.

Gedzelman, S. D., and J. R. Lawrence 2004: Stable isotope climatology of landfalling hurricanes. 26th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 3-7 May, Miami Beach, FL.

Kong, K-y, and S. D. Gedzelman, 2004: MM5 simulations of sub-tropical storm Allison over Southern Mississippi Valley. 26th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 3-7 May, Miami Beach, FL.

Wee, Hunjung (Maria), E. E. Hindman and R. D. Borys, 2004: Wintertime aerosol particle nucleation events in the northern Colorado Rockies, USA. Presented at 8th Intl. Global Atmospheric Chemistry Conference, Christchurch, NZ, 4-9 September 2004.

Ghedira, H., J.C. Arevalo, A.E. Azar and R. Khanbilvardi (2004). Evaluation of SSM/I Filtering Algorithm for Snow Cover Identification in Northern New York State. In proc. IEEE International Geosciences and Remote Sensing Symposium. IGARSS’2004, vol. 6, pp. 3677-3679, Anchorage, Alaska USA, 20 – 24 September, 2004.

Ghedira, H., T. Lakhankar, N. Jahan and R. Khanbilvardi (2004). Combination of Passive and Active Microwave Data for Soil Moisture Estimates. In proc. IEEE International Geosciences and Remote Sensing Symposium. IGARSS’2004, vol. 4, pp. 2783 - 2786, Anchorage, Alaska USA, 20 – 24 September, 2004.

Ghedira, H., and M. Bernier (2004). The Effect of Some Internal Neural Network Parameters on SAR Texture Classification Performance. In proc. IEEE International Geosciences and Remote Sensing Symposium. IGARSS’2004, vol. 6, pp. 3845 - 3848, Anchorage, Alaska USA, 20 – 24 September, 2004.

Ghedira, H., Jahan N., and R. Khanbilvardi (2004). The effect of the land cover/vegetation category on spatial and temporal soil moisture variation. Eos. Trans. AGU, 85(17), H51C-06, American Geophysical Proceedings, Montreal, Canada May 17-21, 2004.

Ghedira, H., Lakhankar T., and R. Khanbilvardi (2004). Integration of Multi-Source and Multi-Resolution Data for Soil Moisture Estimates. Eos. Trans. AGU, 85(17), H23A-07, American Geophysical Proceedings, Montreal, Canada May 17¬21, 2004.

Ghedira, H., Arevalo J-C., and R. Khanbilvardi (2004). Estimation of snow-cover parameters using a combination of microwave and optical remote sensing data. Eos. Trans. AGU, 85(17), H23A-09, American Geophysical Proceedings, Montreal, Canada May 17-21, 2004.

Steiner, J., Elizabeth Rudolph, Cesaire, M., and Aparna Lakhankar, 2004. Scanning Electron Microscope Evaluation of Aerosol Speciation in New York City: Metal Content in Sulfate Aerosols Relative to Total Suspended Particulates. Paper presented in Annual AGU conference, December 2004.

Kovacs, T. A., M. P. McCormick, Charles R. Trepte, David M. Winker, Anne Garnier, and Jacques Pelon, 2004: Coordination of quid pro quo ground –bases measurements of cloud and aerosol optical properties for validation of the CALIPSO mission. Proc. 22nd International Laser Conf., 991-994.

McCormick, M. P., 2004: Space lidar for earth and planetary missions. Proc. 22nd International Laser Conf., 933-936.

Ardanuy, P. E., S. A. Ahmed, K. Blasius, B. Gross, R. M. Hoff, L. Mtetwa, J. J. Puschell, S. T. Shipley and L. L. Strow, 2004. An integrated urban environmental observation system for 2010-2020, Proceedings of SPIE, Paper AE04-AE104-133, Multispectral and Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Instruments and Applications II, a conference in the SPIE AE04 Fourth International Asia-Pacific Environmental Remote Sensing Symposium 2004: Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, Ocean, Environment, and Space. November 2004.

Russo, F., D. N. Whiteman, B. Demoz, I. Veselovskii, S. H. Melfi, and R.M. Hoff, 2004. Development of Raman Lidar Techniques to Address the Aerosol Indirect Effect: Retrieving the Liquid Water Content of Clouds. 22nd International Laser Radar Conference, ESA Special Publication SP-561 (2 volumes), European Space Agency, Nordvik, Holland, pp 411-414.

Gambacorta, A., D. N. Whiteman, Z. Wang, D. H. DeSlover, and R. M. Hoff, 2004. Particle Size Retrieval in Cirrus Clouds by Use of a Multiple Scattering Raman Lidar Technique. 22nd International Laser Radar Conference, ESA Special Publication SP-561 (2 volumes), European Space Agency, Nordvik, Holland, pp.275-278.

Hoff, R. M., J. Engel-Cox, N. Krotkov, S. Palm, R. Rogers, K. McCann, L. Sparling, N. Jordan, O. Torres, and J. Spinhirne, 2004. Long-Range Transport Observations of Two Large Forest Fire Plumes to the Northeastern U.S. 22nd International Laser Radar Conference, ESA Special Publication SP-561 (2 volumes), European Space Agency, Nordvik, Holland, pp.683-686.

Hoff, R. M., K. McCann, B. Demoz, and D. N. Whiteman, 2004. Aerosol profiling in the Washington-Baltimore urban corridor: a REALM application. Paper 1.12, 6th Symposium on Atmospheric Chemistry. Amer. Met. Soc. Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA.

Hamed Parsiani, Maritza Torres, Pedro Rodriguez, Material characteristics in Fourier Domain (MCFD) formulation, a signature to determine soil type, moisture, and vegetation health, based on multilayer ground penetrating radar reflection”, Proceedings on Signal and Image Processing, IASTED SIP 2004, Pages 602-607 , Hawaii.

Hamed Parsiani, Maritza Torres, “High-resolution vegetation index as measured by radar and its validation with spectrometer”, Proceedings on image processing for remote sensing, SPIE 2004, Gran Canaria, Spain, 2004.

Hamed Parsiani, Pedro Rodriguez, “Subsurface Material Type Determination from Ground Penetrating Radar Signatures”, Proceedings on image processing for remote sensing, SPIE 2004, Gran Canaria, Spain, 2004.

Nazario D Ramirez-Beltran and A. Veneros (2004). Upper Air Information and Neural Networks to Estimate Hurricane Intensity. AMS Pre-prints pp. 542-543. The 26th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology. Miami FL, May 2¬7, 2004

Nazario D Ramirez-Beltran, and J.M. Castro, (2004). Deep Layer of Upper Air and Multivarite Time Series Models to Predict Hurricane Tracks. AMS Pre-prints pp. 413-414. The 26th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology. Miami FL, May 2-7, 2004.

Nazario D. Ramirez-Beltran, W.K.M. Lau, A. Winter, A. Veneros. (2004) An Algorithm for Variable Selection with an Application to Meteorological Teleconections. AMS Preprints CD-ROM. The 17th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences. 84th Annual AMS Meeting. Seattle WA. January 10-15, 2004.

Ana J. Picon and R. Vasquez, “Top Height Retrieval Over the Caribbean by Using MISR and MODIS Data”, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS), Annual Conference, May 2004, Denver, Colorado.

Ana J. Picon and R. Vasquez, “Retrieval of Cloud Top Heights Over the Caribbean”, SPIE Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere IX Conference, September 2004, Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Spain

Marco Vargas, Barry Gross, Fred Moshary, Sam Ahmed, “Stability of an iterative multiwavelength lidar scheme”, Proc. SPIE Vol. 5240, p. 83-93, Laser Radar Technology for Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing Europe, Barcelona, Spain 2003; Christian Werner; Ed., 2003.

Gross, B., Vargas, M., Moshary, F., and Ahmed, S. 2003. Sensitivity Analysis of an iterative multiwavelength lidar scheme SPIE Annual Meeting August 2003, [5140-40].

Marco Vargas, Barry Gross, Fred Moshary, Samir Ahmed, “Stability of an iterative multiwavelength lidar scheme”, Proc. SPIE Vol. 5154, p. 216-224, International Symposium Optical Science and Technology, Lidar Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring IV, San Diego, CA 2003; Upendra N. Singh; Ed. (2003).

Ben R. Herman, Barry Gross, Fred Moshary, Samir Ahmed, “Methods of assessing uncertainty in determining particle size distribution parameters from optical backscatter and extinction measurements”, Proc. SPIE Vol. 5154, p. 208¬215, Lidar Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring IV, International Symposium Optical Science and Technology, San Diego, CA 2003; Upendra N. Singh; Ed., 2003.

Herman, Benjamin R., Gross Barry, Moshary, Fred, Ahmed, Samir. “Methods of assessing Uncertainty in Determining Particle Size Distribution Parameters From Optical Backscatter and Extinction Measurements” Proceedings of SPIE V5154 Lidar Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring IV ; pp 208-215 (2003)

Marco Vargas, Barry Gross, Fred Moshary, Samir Ahmed” Multiwavelength iterative lidar processing” Proceedings of SPIE 10th Annual Symposium on Remote Sensing”, (2003).

Elias, T., Cairns, B, and Chowdhary, J. 2003. “Surface Optical Properties Measured by the Gross, B., Herman, B., Moshary, F., and Ahmed, S. "Multiwavelength Analysis of Particle Size Distribution Uncertainty Error" SPIE Annual Meeting, August 2003, [5140-39].

Elias, Thierry, Cairns, Brian, Chowdhary, Jacek. “Surface Optical Properties Measured by the Airborne Research scanning Polarimeter during the CLAMS Experiment” Proc SPIE, Vol. 5235, #79, Barcelona, Spain, September 2003.

Cairns, B., Carlson, B.E., Ying, R., Lacis, A.A., and Oinas, V. 2003. “Atmospheric Correction and its Application to an Analysis of Hyperion Data”. I.E.E.E. TGARS, 41, # 6, June 2003.

Russell, E.E., Joseph, D. LaVeigne, Tennant, Philip, M.W., and Cairns, B. 2003. "Research Scanning Polarimeter and Airborne usage for Remote Sensing of Aerosols”. Proceeding of the Symposium on Spectral Sensing Research, 2003. Santa Barbara, CA, June 2003.

Austin, S., Johnson, L., Frost, J., and Steiner, J., 2003. Enhancing diversity in earth and space science. EOS Trans. AGU, 38(47), Fall Meet. Suppl. Abstract ED71B¬0051.

Johnson, L. P., Austin, S., and Steiner, J. C., 2003. The evolution of a computational earth and space science course. Bulletin American Astronomical Society, 35, #3, 10.12.

Steiner, J. C., and Mustart, D. A., 2003. Experimental investigation of fluid phases in the system haplogranite-water-alkali chloride. No. 52374, Cordilleran Section - 99th Annual (April 1–3, 2003).

Hindman, E. E., Cotton, W.R., McAnelly, R, Pattist, T. and Worthington, R.M. 2003: “Analyses of an unusually high summertime wave flight”. Presented XXXVII OSTIV Congress, 30 July - 6 August 2003, Leszno, Poland.

Gedzelman, S. D., 2003: Simulating glories and cloudbows in color. Appl. Opt. LP, 42, 429-435.

Anderson, J. Burton, S.P. and Thomason, L.W. 2003. “An Evaluation of the Geophysical variability in Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment II Water Vapor Measurements”. Citc. Abstracts as Eos. Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Mcct. Suppl., Abstract, 2003. F139p.

Hovakim Nazaryan McCormick, P.M., Russell, J.M. and Anderson, J.A. “New Studies on SAGE II and HALOE Comparisons”. Citc. Abstracts as Eos. Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Mcct. Suppl., Abstract, 2003. F140p.

Yucel, I. 2003. Impact of Using Remotely Sensed Cloud Analysis in the Performance of PSU-NCAR MM5. Proc. of 30th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, Honolulu, Hawaii, Nov. 10-14, 2003.

Suleiman, A., Crago, R. “Analytical Land-Atmosphere Radiometer Model (ALARM) Applied to Canopies of Varied Density” [International symposium on Remote Sensing of the Environment, Honolulu, HI, November, 10-14, 2003].

McCann, K. J., R. M. Hoff, R. Rogers, J. Comer, W. McMillan, C. Barnet, J. Gou, S. DeSouza-Machado, L. Strow “A Comparison of Measurements of Cloud Optical Depth Made from the AIRS/AQUA Instrument and the UMBC Elastic LIDAR Facility (ELF)”, International Symposium on Tropospheric Profiling: Needs and Technologies (ISTP-6), Leipzig, Germany, September, 2003.

Engel-Cox, Jill A., A.D. J. Haymet, Raymond M. Hoff, 2003. Review and Recommendations for the Integration of Satellite and Ground based Data for Urban Air Quality, Proceedings of the Air and Waste Management Association Annual Meeting, Paper No. 69594.

Eric Harmsen, Hamed Parsiani, “Evaluation of Several Dielectric Mixing Models for Estimating Soil Moisture Content”, Proceedings of ASAE’2003, Paper No. 032278, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, July 26-30, 2003.

Ana J. Picon and R. Vasquez, "A Study On Cloud Top Height Retrieval by Using MISR and MODIS Data”, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2003), July 2003, Toulousse, France.

Hamed Parsiani, Leonid Tolstoy, “Application of Fourier Descriptors and Fuzzy Logic to Classification of Radar Subsurface Images”, SPIE 2003, Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 8-12, 2003.

Jorge L. Ortiz, Hamed Parsiani, Leonid Tolstoy “Application of Morphological Associative Memories and Fourier Descriptors for Classification of Noisy Subsurface Signatures”, SPIE 2003, Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 8-12, 2003.

Lawrence, W.T., Imhoff, M.L., Sick, T.D. and Stutzer, D. "Bird Habitat Mapping in the Kakadu National Park, Australia using Synthetic Aperture Radar (NASA/JPL AIRSAR)". in Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 4898 Image Processing and Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing, edited by Stephen G. Ungar, Shiyi Mao, Yoshifumi Yasuoka (SPIE, Bellingham, WA, 2003), pgs 109-119.

Barry Gross, Ben Herman, Fred Moshary, Samir Ahmed, “Analysis of an iterative multiwavelength lidar scheme to determine vertically inhomogeneous aerosol profiles”. Proceedings of the International Laser Radar Conference ILRC Quebec pg 571-577 (July 2002). Lidar Remote Sensing in Atmospheric and Earth Sciences. Reviewed and Revised Papers presented at the Twenty-First International Laser Radar Conference (ILRC21) (vol.2) 577-80.

K-H Szekielda, C. Gobler, Barry Gross, F. Moshary, and S. Ahmed, “Reflectance Changes in Near-Coastal Waters”, Seventh International Conference Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environment, May 2002 (invited paper), Miami, Florida.

Gedzelman, S. D., and Lawrence, J.R. 2002: Extra tropical transition of hurricanes. 25th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology 30 Apr – 05 May 2002, San Diego, CA.

Kong, K. Y, 2002: Anomalous intensification of the remnants of TS Allison over land.. AMS Conf. Hurricanes and Tropical Meteor, San Diego, CA.

Kovacs, T. and M. P. McCormick, 2002: Observations of Typhoon Melissa during the Lidar In-Space Technology Experiment (LITE). Proc., 21st International Laser Radar Conf., 531-534.

Kovacs, T., M. P. McCormick, C. Trepte, D. Winker, A. Garnier, and J. Pelon, 2002: Cloud Aerosol Lidar Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) Quid Pro Quo Validation. Proc., 21st International Laser Radar Conf., 795-797.

Winker, David M. Jacques Pelon, and M. P. McCormick, 2002. The CALIPSO Mission: Aerosol and Cloud Observations from Space. Proc. 21st International Laser Radar Conf., 735-738.

Omar, Ali H., Jae-Gwang Won, Sun-Chang Yoon, and M. P. McCormick, 2002: Estimation of Aerosol Extinction-to-Backscatter Ratios using AERONET Measurements and Cluster Analysis. Proc. 21st International Laser Radar Conf., 373-376.

Poole, L. R., J. R. Pelon, and M. P. McCormick, 2002: CALIPSO: Global aerosol and cloud observations from lidar and passive instruments. Proc. of the 9th International Symposium on Remote Sensing.

Winker, David M., Jacques Pelon, and M. P. McCormick, 2002: The CALIPSO Mission: Spaceborne lidar for observation of aerosols and clouds. Proc. of the SPIE. 208. Hoff, R. and McCann, K. 2002. “A Regional East Atmospheric LIDAR Mesonet, REALM”. 2002 AGU Annual Fall Symposium, San Francisco, December 2002 (Poster/Paper)

Hoff, R.M.; McCann, K.J.; Demoz, B.; Reichardt, J.; Whiteman, D.N.; McGee, T.; McCormick, M.P.; Philbrick, C.R.; Strawbridge, K.; Moshary, F.; Gross, B.; Ahmed, S.; Venable, D.; Joseph, E, “Regional East Atmospheric Lidar Mesonet: REALM”,.Lidar Remote Sensing in Atmospheric and Earth Sciences. Reviewed and Revised Papers presented at the Twenty-First International Laser Radar Conference (ILRC21): (vol.1) 281-4, 2002, Quebec, Canada

Russo, F., B. D. Demoz, I. Veselovskii, J. Welton, R. M. Hoff, D. N. Whiteman, J. Campbell, and R. Ferrare, 2002. Comparison of Raman Lidar and MicroPulse Lidar Aerosol Measurements, in in Lidar Remote Sensing in Atmospheric and Earth Sciences, Luc Bissonette, Gilles Roy and Gilles Vallée, eds., Defence R&D Canada Valcartier, Val-Bélair, Québec, Canada, 599-602.

Fernando Gilbes, Roy Armstrong, Richard L. Miller, Carlos E. Del Castillo, Marcos Rosado, and Nazario Ramirez, "Bio-Optical Evidence Of Land-Sea Interactions In The Western Coast Of Puerto Rico", Proceedings of XVI Ocean Optics Meeting, Santa Fe, Nuevo Mexico, pp. 1-12. 2002.

Vásquez R., and Manian, V. 2002. “Texture based cloud detection in MODIS images”. Proceedings of SPIE, Intl. Conf. on Remote Sensing, Sept. 2002.