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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa

Overview

J.J. van Zyl was affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Lab in the United States during their career. Their professional activities included research contributions aligned with this institution.

Throughout the course of their career, van Zyl received recognition through notable awards. These include the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal awarded in 2019 and being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa, although the year for this fellowship is not specified.

There are no records of specific research papers, frequent co-authors, publication venues, book publications, or detailed areas of study available from the data provided.

Further details about van Zyl's research topics, fields of study, or publication history are not provided in the available information.

Best Publications

  • Measuring soil moisture with imaging radars

    P.C. Dubois;J. van Zyl;T. Engman

  • Change detection techniques for ERS-1 SAR data

    E.J.M. Rignot;J.J. van Zyl

  • Unsupervised classification of scattering behavior using radar polarimetry data

    J.J. van Zyl

  • Calibration of polarimetric radar images using only image parameters and trihedral corner reflector responses

    J.J. van Zyl

  • Radar polarimetry: analysis tools and applications

    D.L. Evans;T.G. Farr;J.J. van Zyl;H.A. Zebker

  • Model-Based Decomposition of Polarimetric SAR Covariance Matrices Constrained for Nonnegative Eigenvalues

    J. J. van Zyl;M. Arii;Yunjin Kim

  • Imaging radar polarimetry: a review

    H.A. Zebker;J.J. Van Zyl

  • A Time-Series Approach to Estimate Soil Moisture Using Polarimetric Radar Data

    Yunjin Kim;J.J. van Zyl

  • Modeling and observation of the radar polarization signature of forested areas

    S.L. Durden;J.J. van Zyl;H.A. Zebker

  • The hydrosphere State (hydros) Satellite mission: an Earth system pathfinder for global mapping of soil moisture and land freeze/thaw

    D. Entekhabi;E.G. Njoku;P. Houser;M. Spencer

  • Adaptive Model-Based Decomposition of Polarimetric SAR Covariance Matrices

    M Arii;J J van Zyl;Yunjin Kim

  • The effect of topography on SAR calibration

    J.J. van Zyl;B.D. Chapman;P. Dubois;J. Shi

  • The effect of topography on radar scattering from vegetated areas

    J.J. van Zyl

  • Overview of results of Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C, X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR)

    E.R. Stofan;D.L. Evans;C. Schmullius;B. Holt

  • Spaceborne applications of P band imaging radars for measuring forest biomass

    E. J. Rignot;R. Zimmermann;J. J. Van Zyl

  • Classification of Earth terrain using polarimetric synthetic aperture radar images

    H. H. Lim;A. A. Swartz;H. A. Yueh;J. A. Kong

  • Soil Moisture Retrieval Using Time-Series Radar Observations Over Bare Surfaces

    Seung-Bum Kim;Leung Tsang;J. T. Johnson;Shaowu Huang

  • Calibration of Stokes and scattering matrix format polarimetric SAR data

    A. Freeman;J.J. van Zyl;J.D. Klein;H.A. Zebker

  • Bayesian classification of polarimetric SAR images using adaptive a priori probabilities

    J. J. Van Zyl;C. F. Burnette

  • Unsupervised Segmentation of Polarimetric Sar Data Using the Covariance Matrix

    E. Rignot;R. Chellappa;P. Dubois;R. Kwok

Frequent Co-Authors

Howard A. Zebker
Howard A. Zebker Stanford University
Eric Rignot
Eric Rignot University of California, Irvine
Jiancheng Shi
Jiancheng Shi Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tom G. Farr
Tom G. Farr California Institute of Technology
Mahta Moghaddam
Mahta Moghaddam University of Southern California
Thomas J. Jackson
Thomas J. Jackson Agricultural Research Service
Peggy E. O'Neill
Peggy E. O'Neill Goddard Space Flight Center
Joel T. Johnson
Joel T. Johnson The Ohio State University
Leung Tsang
Leung Tsang University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Anthony Freeman
Anthony Freeman Jet Propulsion Lab

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