New mission concept

This new mission concept has had me as algorithm contributor for over a decade, across several proposal rounds — CubeSat, EVI, and EVM announcements of opportunity, none yet funded. My side of it is the retrieval physics: how a P-band signal scatters off soil and vegetation, and what that means for sensing root-zone moisture and snow water equivalent at a depth L-band can’t reach.

Two funded precursor studies have supported that work directly, as Co-I: a signals-of-opportunity concept for root-zone soil moisture and snow, and the theoretical basis for P-band SWE retrieval. Both draw on the same scattering-physics toolkit — dense-media radiative transfer and bicontinuous microstructure models — that underlies my snow and soil retrievals across L-, X-, and Ku-band.