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Ernesto Rodriguez

Ernesto Rodriguez

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
42
Citations
22780
World Ranking
7233
National Ranking
2571

Overview

Ernesto Rodriguez is affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Lab in the United States. Their research primarily spans the disciplines of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a notable focus on subfields including Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Aerospace Engineering, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

The core topics of Ernesto Rodriguez's research include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Climate Variability and Models, Planetary Science and Exploration, and Flood Risk Assessment and Management.

The scientist has published extensively in a variety of venues. Frequent publication outlets encompass Remote Sensing, Geophysical Research Letters, Preprints.org, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics, and Environmental Research Letters.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Ernesto Rodriguez are:

  • The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, 2021, UNC Libraries
  • KaRIn, the Ka-Band Radar Interferometer of the SWOT Mission: Design and in-Flight Performance, 2024, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • Observing Rivers With Varying Spatial Scales, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • On the Surface Current Measurement Capabilities of Spaceborne Doppler Scatterometry, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters

Ernesto Rodriguez collaborates frequently with other researchers. Notable coauthors include Alexander Wineteer, Héctor Torres, Patrice Klein, Dragana Perkovic-Martin, and Dimitris Menemenlis.

Best Publications

  • The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission

    Tom G. Farr;Paul A. Rosen;Edward Caro;Robert Crippen

  • Synthetic aperture radar interferometry

    P.A. Rosen;S. Hensley;I.R. Joughin;F.K. Li

  • A Global Assessment of the SRTM Performance

    Ernesto Rodríguez;Charles S. Morris;J. Eric Belz

  • Theory and design of interferometric synthetic aperture radars

    E. Rodriguez;J. M. Martin

  • Measuring surface water from space

    Douglas E. Alsdorf;Ernesto Rodríguez;Dennis P. Lettenmaier

  • The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris

    Erik van Sebille;Stefano Aliani;Kara Lavender Law;Nikolai Maximenko

  • The Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission: Observing Terrestrial Surface Water and Oceanic Submesoscale Eddies

    Michael Durand;Lee-Lueng Fu;Dennis P Lettenmaier;Douglas E Alsdorf

  • The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission

    T. G. Farr;S. Hensley;E. Rodriguez;J. Martin

  • Mapping Height and Biomass of Mangrove Forests in Everglades National Park with SRTM Elevation Data

    Marc Simard;Keqi Zhang;Victor H. Rivera-Monroy;Michael S. Ross

  • Toward the integrated marine debris observing system

    Nikolai Maximenko;Paolo Corradi;Kara Lavender Law;Erik Van Sebille

  • An intercomparison of remote sensing river discharge estimation algorithms from measurements of river height, width, and slope

    M. Durand;C. J. Gleason;P. A. Garambois;D. Bjerklie

  • Assimilation of virtual wide swath altimetry to improve Arctic river modeling

    S. Biancamaria;S. Biancamaria;M. Durand;K.M. Andreadis;P.D. Bates

  • Estimating reach-averaged discharge for the River Severn from measurements of river water surface elevation and slope

    Michael Durand;Jeffrey Neal;Ernesto Rodríguez;Konstantinos M. Andreadis

  • Altimetry for non‐Gaussian oceans: Height biases and estimation of parameters

    Ernesto Rodríguez

  • Estimating River Depth From Remote Sensing Swath Interferometry Measurements of River Height, Slope, and Width

    M. Durand;E. Rodriguez;D.E. Alsdorf;M. Trigg

  • Measuring currents, ice drift, and waves from space: the Sea surface KInematics Multiscale monitoring (SKIM) concept

    Fabrice Ardhuin;Yevgueny Aksenov;Alvise Benetazzo;Laurent Bertino

  • Preliminary Characterization of SWOT Hydrology Error Budget and Global Capabilities

    S. Biancamaria;K.M. Andreadis;M. Durand;E.A. Clark

  • SWOT: The Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission. Wide- Swath Altimetric Elevation on Earth

    Lee-Lueng Fu;Douglas Alsdorf;Rosemary Morrow;Ernesto Rodriguez

  • Remotely Sensed Winds and Wind Stresses for Marine Forecasting and Ocean Modeling

    Mark A. Bourassa;Thomas Meissner;Ivana Cerovecki;Paul Chang

  • Integrated Observations of Global Surface Winds, Currents, and Waves: Requirements and Challenges for the Next Decade

    Ana B. Villas Bôas;Fabrice Ardhuin;Alex Ayet;Alex Ayet;Mark A. Bourassa

  • Point-Wise Wind Retrieval and Ambiguity Removal Improvements for the QuikSCAT Climatological Data Set

    Alexander G. Fore;Bryan W. Stiles;Alexandra H. Chau;Brent A. Williams

  • Remotely Sensed Winds and Wind Stresses for Marine Forecasting and Ocean Modeling

    Mark A. Bourassa

Frequent Co-Authors

Lee-Lueng Fu
Lee-Lueng Fu Jet Propulsion Lab
Michael Durand
Michael Durand The Ohio State University
Anthony Freeman
Anthony Freeman Jet Propulsion Lab
Kenneth C. Jezek
Kenneth C. Jezek The Ohio State University
Douglas Alsdorf
Douglas Alsdorf The Ohio State University
Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Dennis P. Lettenmaier University of California, Los Angeles
Scott Hensley
Scott Hensley Jet Propulsion Lab
Bryan Stiles
Bryan Stiles Jet Propulsion Lab
Mark A. Bourassa
Mark A. Bourassa Florida State University
Marc Simard
Marc Simard California Institute of Technology

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