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Guest Editorial Foreword to the Special Issue on the 9th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing Applications (MicroRad ’06)
HE 9th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and
Remote Sensing Applications (MicroRad ’06) was held
from February 28 to March 3, 2006, in San Juan, Puerto Rico,
a Commonwealth of the USA. The conference was chaired by
Dr. Steven Reising of Colorado State University, Fort Collins,
and the local organizing chair was Dr. Sandra Cruz-Pol of
the University of Puerto Rico at MayagĂĽez. The objective of
MicroRad ’06 was to provide an open forum to report and
discuss recent advances in the field of microwave radiometry
and to gather all parties, including the research, industrial,
and academic communities, who are involved in projects and
studies in microwave radiometry of the land, oceans, and atmosphere.
The meeting was highly successful, with 125 participants
from 15 countries, 146 submitted abstracts, 80 oral
presentations, and 50 interactive posters during four full days of
sessions.
MicroRad ’06 is the most recent in a series of meetings
focusing on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of
the Environment, dating back to 1983 when the first MicroRad
meeting was organized and hosted by the late Prof. Giovanni
d’Auria of the University “La Sapienza” of Rome, Italy. An
In Memoriam article for Prof. d’Auria appeared on p. 8 of the
IEEE GRSS Newsletter, Issue #142, March 2007. The second
MicroRad meeting was held in Florence, Italy, organized and
chaired by Dr. Paolo Pampaloni at Istituto di Ricerca sulle Onde
Elettromagnetiche, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. Since
then, MicroRad meetings have been held approximately every
2 1/2 years, alternating between the USA and Italy. Previous
MicroRad meetings in the USA were held in Boulder, CO (1992
and 2001), and in Boston, MA (1996). The MicroRad meetings
in Italy were convened in Rome at “La Sapienza” (1983 and
2004) and at “Tor Vergata” (1994), as well as in Florence (1988
and 1999).
The technical program of MicroRad ’06 opened with a
session on microwave radiometer calibration, featuring presentations
on current and planned radiometer systems by representatives
of government agencies, industry, and universities. The
focus on sensors continued with a session devoted to instru-
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mentation and advanced techniques and one on radiofrequency
interference (RFI) mitigation. The first day concluded with a
session on experimental campaigns, which included airborne
and ground-based measurements as well as calibration and validation
of spaceborne sensors. The second day shifted to consideration
of science application areas, which began with a session
on soil moisture and salinity satellite missions at L-band. This
was followed by sessions focusing on ocean wind, sea ice,
electromagnetic modeling of the sea surface, and snow cover.
The morning of the third day focused on land surfaces with sessions
on snow cover, soil moisture, vegetation, and electromagnetic
modeling of microwave emission from the land and the
cryosphere.
On the afternoon of the third day, the emphasis shifted to
weather and the atmosphere, starting with two sessions on
retrieval methodologies and radiance assimilation. These included
four presentations from government laboratories on both
sides of the Atlantic to highlight rapid advances in numerical
weather prediction and direct applications of satellite radiances.
Finally, the fourth and final day of MicroRad ’06 focused on
atmospheric remote sensing, which emphasized temperature
and humidity in the morning and clouds and precipitation in
the afternoon, including many presentations on ground-based
techniques and sensor design.
At the conclusion of each of the 16 oral sessions of
MicroRad ’06, the co-chairs introduced the poster papers on
the topic of the session. The long coffee breaks each morning
and afternoon provided plenty of time for discussion with poster
presenters, which gave the conference the distinctive academic
flavor typical of MicroRad meetings
Abstracts on Radio Direction Finding (1899 - 1995)
The files on this record represent the various databases that originally composed the CD-ROM issue of "Abstracts on Radio Direction Finding" database, which is now part of the Dudley Knox Library's Abstracts and Selected Full Text Documents on Radio Direction Finding (1899 - 1995) Collection. (See Calhoun record https://calhoun.nps.edu/handle/10945/57364 for further information on this collection and the bibliography).
Due to issues of technological obsolescence preventing current and future audiences from accessing the bibliography, DKL exported and converted into the three files on this record the various databases contained in the CD-ROM.
The contents of these files are:
1) RDFA_CompleteBibliography_xls.zip [RDFA_CompleteBibliography.xls: Metadata for the complete bibliography, in Excel 97-2003 Workbook format; RDFA_Glossary.xls: Glossary of terms, in Excel 97-2003 Workbookformat; RDFA_Biographies.xls: Biographies of leading figures, in Excel 97-2003 Workbook format];
2) RDFA_CompleteBibliography_csv.zip [RDFA_CompleteBibliography.TXT: Metadata for the complete bibliography, in CSV format; RDFA_Glossary.TXT: Glossary of terms, in CSV format; RDFA_Biographies.TXT: Biographies of leading figures, in CSV format];
3) RDFA_CompleteBibliography.pdf: A human readable display of the bibliographic data, as a means of double-checking any possible deviations due to conversion