Director, Space Physics Research Laboratory
Professor, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences
Professor, Electrical Engineering
AOSS graduate advisor
Email: cruf@umich.edu
Telephone: (734) 764-6561
Fax: (734) 936-0503
Office: 1533 SRB
Website: http://ktb.engin.umich.edu/
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- Education:
Ph.D., Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
B.A., Physics, Reed College
- Research:
Earth and Planetary Remote Sensing
- Doctoral Students:
- Boon Lim
Sidharth Misra
Shannon Curry
David Fenigstein
Rachael Kroodsma
Amanda Mims
Specializations and Research Interests
- Earth Environmental Remote Sensing:
- Design and fabrication of next-generation satellite microwave radiometers
- Novel methods for maintaining high accuracy and stability calibration of satellite sensors to detect minute global change signatures
- Application of inversion techniques and multi-sensor assimilation to remote sensing
- Hardware and algorithmic aspects of satellite microwave radiometry
- Synthetic thinned aperture radiometry
- Mitigation of radio frequency interference
- Self-contained end-to-end radiometer calibration system
- Use of stationary statistical properties of upwelling radiances to constrain absolute accuracy and long term stability of satellite measurements
- Profiling of lower, middle and upper atmosphere using multispectral, multisensor and climatological databases
Honors, Awards and Accomplishments
- 2006 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Prize Paper Award for Detection of RFI by its Amplitude Probability Distribution
- Instrument Scientist, NASA TOPEX Microwave Radiometer
- Principle Investigator, calibration/validation of US Navy GEOSAT Follow-On Water Vapor Radiometer
- Science Team Member, NASA Jason-1 Microwave Radiometer
- Science Team Member, NASA Aquarius Microwave Radiometer
- Developed new method for estimating the depth of the marine boundary layer (BLD) from space using horizontal turbulence structure of vertically integrated atmospheric water vapor
- Developed new method for absolute and relative calibration of spaceborne microwave radiometers using lower bound on a cumulative statistic of the measured radiance
- Pushed several technologies needed to fly synthetic thinned aperture radiometer (STAR) in space (antenna arrays, real/synthetic aperture sharing, digital correlators, calibration techniques)
- Derived correction to standard model for pressure broadening of atmospheric absorption line of water vapor at 22.235 GHz based on microwave spectrometer observations
- Fellow, IEEE
- IEEE Judith A. Resnik Technical Field Award, Contributions to the absolute calibration of spaceborne microwave radiometers
- IEEE Transactions on Geoscience & Remote Sensing Prize Paper Award, Retrieval of tropospheric water vapor scale height from horizontal turbulence
- NASA Group Achievement Award, Lightweight Rainfall Radiometer
- NASA Group Achievement Award, TOPEX Joint Verification Team
- NASA Group Achievement Award, TOPEX precision orbit determination
- NASA Group Achievement Award, TOPEX Microwave Radiometer
- NASA Certificate of Recognition, Piezoelectric reflecting array for reflector surface distortion compensation
- NASA Certificate of Recognition, Synthetic aperture interferometric radiometer image reconstruction error analysis
- NASA Certificate of Recognition, Sparse aperture interferometric radiometer - Refining the two-dimensional antenna configuration
Professional Service
- Editor in Chief, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
- Member, URSI Commission F (Remote Sensing)
- Former Member, National Academies Committee on Radio Frequency
- Former Associate Editor, AGU Radio Science
- Former Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
- Former Guest Editor, AGU Radio Science
- Former Associate Editor, AMS Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
- Former Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
- Former Editor, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Newsletter
Publications
http://ktb.engin.umich.edu/RSG/pubs.htm
Updated: 2009-07-22