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Overview

James L. Foster is a researcher affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States. Their research activity primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a focus on several interconnected subfields including Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, as well as Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The scientist's recent scholarly contributions include the publication titled Pediatric Oncology Knowledge Mobilization in Canada: An Environmental Scan Protocol (Preprint), published in 2025 in the journal JMIR Research Protocols.

Their body of work covers multiple main topics related to oncology and patient care, including:

  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Advances in Oncology and Radiotherapy

James L. Foster has frequently collaborated with several coauthors throughout their research, which include:

  • Emily K. Drake
  • Catherine Foulem
  • Ekaterini Damoulianos
  • Stephanie Reid
  • Pamela M. Cossette

Their publications primarily appear in JMIR Research Protocols, reflecting a concentration of work published in this venue.

Best Publications

  • Nimbus-7 SMMR Derived Global Snow Cover Parameters

    A.T.C. Chang;J.L. Foster;D.K. Hall

  • A prototype AMSR-E global snow area and snow depth algorithm

    R.E. Kelly;A.T. Chang;Leung Tsang;J.L. Foster

  • Quantifying the uncertainty in passive microwave snow water equivalent observations

    James L Foster;ChaoJiao Sun;ChaoJiao Sun;Jeffrey Walker;Richard J Kelly;Richard J Kelly

  • A review of global satellite-derived snow products

    Allan Frei;Marco Tedesco;Shihyan Lee;James Foster

  • Global impacts of the 1980s regime shift

    Philip C. Reid;Renata E. Hari;Grégory Beaugrand;David M. Livingstone

  • Comparison of snow mass estimates from a prototype passive microwave snow algorithm, a revised algorithm and a snow depth climatology

    J.L. Foster;A.T.C. Chang;D.K. Hall

  • Development and evaluation of a cloud-gap-filled MODIS daily snow-cover product

    Dorothy K. Hall;George A. Riggs;James L. Foster;Sujay V. Kumar

  • Winter 2009–2010: A case study of an extreme Arctic Oscillation event

    Judah Cohen;James Foster;Mathew Barlow;Kazuyuki Saito;Kazuyuki Saito

  • Assessment of Snow-Cover Mapping Accuracy in a Variety of Vegetation-Cover Densities in Central Alaska

    D.K. Hall;J.L. Foster;D.L. Verbyla;A.G. Klein

  • Snow water equivalent estimation by microwave radiometry

    A.T.C. Chang;J.L. Foster;D.K. Hall;A. Rango

  • An overview of passive microwave snow research and results

    J. L. Foster;D. K. Hall;A. T. C. Chang;A. Rango

  • Accuracy and Resolution of ALOS Interferometry: Vector Deformation Maps of the Father's Day Intrusion at Kilauea

    D.T. Sandwell;D. Myer;R. Mellors;M. Shimada

  • Snow Cover and Snow Mass Intercomparisons of General Circulation Models and Remotely Sensed Datasets

    James Foster;Glen Liston;Randy Koster;Richard Essery

  • Mitigating atmospheric noise for InSAR using a high resolution weather model

    J. Foster;B. Brooks;T. Cherubini;C. Shacat

  • The 2010 Maule, Chile earthquake: Downdip rupture limit revealed by space geodesy

    Xiaopeng Tong;David Sandwell;Karen Luttrell;Benjamin Brooks

  • A blended global snow product using visible, passive microwave and scatterometer satellite data

    James L. Foster;Dorothy K. Hall;John B. Eylander;George A. Riggs

  • The Utilization of Spaceborne Microwave Radiometers for Monitoring Snowpack Properties

    A. Rango;A. T. C. Chang;J. L. Foster

  • Snow Cover and Temperature Relationships in North America and Eurasia

    James Foster;Manfred Owe;Albert Rango

  • Development of a technique to assess snow-cover mapping errors from space

    D.K. Hall;J.L. Foster;V.V. Salomonson;A.G. Klein

  • January 30, 1997 eruptive event on Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, as monitored by continuous GPS

    Susan Owen;Paul Segall;Michael Lisowski;Asta Miklius

Frequent Co-Authors

Dorothy K. Hall
Dorothy K. Hall Goddard Space Flight Center
Alfred T. C. Chang
Alfred T. C. Chang Goddard Space Flight Center
Albert Rango
Albert Rango United States Department of Agriculture
Dorothy K. Hall
Dorothy K. Hall Langley Research Center
David A. Robinson
David A. Robinson Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Sujay V. Kumar
Sujay V. Kumar Goddard Space Flight Center
Marco Tedesco
Marco Tedesco Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Son V. Nghiem
Son V. Nghiem California Institute of Technology
Leung Tsang
Leung Tsang University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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