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3824
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to ocean surface remote sensing using microwave systems

Overview

Joel T. Johnson is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States.

Their research primarily spans fields related to Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Within these broad areas, their work focuses on subfields including Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Oceanography, and Ocean Engineering.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques
  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Mohammad M. Al-Khaldi
  • Kenneth C. Jezek
  • Alexandra Bringer
  • Leung Tsang
  • Marco Brogioni

Joel T. Johnson has published extensively in several major venues, notably:

  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
  • The Cryosphere

Recent notable papers include:

  • "Sentinel-1 soil moisture at 1 km resolution: a validation study" (2021), published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Review article: Global monitoring of snow water equivalent using high-frequency radar remote sensing" (2022), published in The Cryosphere
  • "An Algorithm for Detecting Coherence in Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System Mission Level-1 Delay-Doppler Maps" (2020), published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • "Inland Water Body Mapping Using CYGNSS Coherence Detection" (2021), published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • "Geolocation, Calibration and Surface Resolution of CYGNSS GNSS-R Land Observations" (2020), published in Remote Sensing

In 2008, Joel T. Johnson was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to ocean surface remote sensing using microwave systems.

Best Publications

  • The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission

    Dara Entekhabi;Eni G Njoku;Peggy E O'Neill;Kent H Kellogg

  • Cognitive Radar Framework for Target Detection and Tracking

    Kristine L. Bell;Christopher J. Baker;Graeme E. Smith;Joel T. Johnson

  • A novel acceleration algorithm for the computation of scattering from rough surfaces with the forward‐backward method

    Hsi-Tseng Chou;Joel T. Johnson

  • Tests of the SMAP Combined Radar and Radiometer Algorithm Using Airborne Field Campaign Observations and Simulated Data

    Narendra Narayan Das;Dara Entekhabi;Eni G. Njoku;Jiancheng J. C. Shi

  • A numerical study of scattering from an object above a rough surface

    J.T. Johnson

  • Radio-Frequency Interference Mitigation for the Soil Moisture Active Passive Microwave Radiometer

    Jeffrey R. Piepmeier;Joel T. Johnson;Priscilla N. Mohammed;Damon Bradley

  • Microwave Radiometer Radio-Frequency Interference Detection Algorithms: A Comparative Study

    Sidharth Misra;Priscilla N. Mohammed;Bariş Güner;Christopher S. Ruf

  • A STUDY OF THE FOUR-PATH MODEL FOR SCATTERING FROM AN OBJECT ABOVE A HALF SPACE

    Joel T. Johnson

  • Backscattering enhancement of electromagnetic waves from two-dimensional perfectly conducting random rough surfaces based on Monte Carlo simulations

    Kyung Pak;Leung Tsang;Chi H. Chan;Joel Johnson

  • Backscattering enhancement of electromagnetic waves from two-dimensional perfectly conducting random rough surfaces: a comparison of Monte Carlo simulations with experimental data

    J. T. Johnson;Leung Tsang;Robert T. Shin;K. Pak

  • Numerical simulations and backscattering enhancement of electromagnetic waves from two-dimensional dielectric random rough surfaces with the sparse-matrix canonical grid method

    Kyung Pak;Leung Tsang;Joel Johnson

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

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

  • Sentinel-1 soil moisture at 1 km resolution: a validation study

    Anna Balenzano;Francesco Mattia;Giuseppe Satalino;Francesco P. Lovergine

  • SMAP L-Band Microwave Radiometer: RFI Mitigation Prelaunch Analysis and First Year On-Orbit Observations

    Priscilla N. Mohammed;Mustafa Aksoy;Jeffrey R. Piepmeier;Joel T. Johnson

  • Formulation of forward-backward method using novel spectral acceleration for the modeling of scattering from impedance rough surfaces

    Hsi-Tseng Chou;J.T. Johnson

  • Comparison of monostatic and bistatic radar images

    R.J. Burkholder;L.J. Gupta;J.T. Johnson

  • A polarimetric survey of radio-frequency interference in C- and X-bands in the continental united states using WindSat radiometry

    S.W. Ellingson;J.T. Johnson

  • Time and Frequency Blanking for Radio-Frequency Interference Mitigation in Microwave Radiometry

    B. Guner;J.T. Johnson;N. Niamsuwan

  • Third-order small-perturbation method for scattering from dielectric rough surfaces

    Joel T. Johnson

  • Surface Soil Moisture Retrieval Using the L-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar Onboard the Soil Moisture Active–Passive Satellite and Evaluation at Core Validation Sites

    Seung-Bum Kim;Jakob J. van Zyl;Joel T. Johnson;Matha Moghaddam

  • Experiments with cognitive radar

    Graeme E. Smith;Zach Cammenga;Adam Mitchell;Kristine L. Bell

  • Examination of a simple pulse-blanking technique for radio frequency interference mitigation

    Noppasin Niamsuwan;Joel T. Johnson;Steven W. Ellingson

Frequent Co-Authors

Leung Tsang
Leung Tsang University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Chi-Chih Chen
Chi-Chih Chen The Ohio State University
Robert J. Burkholder
Robert J. Burkholder The Ohio State University
Christopher J. Baker
Christopher J. Baker University of Birmingham
Muralidhar Rangaswamy
Muralidhar Rangaswamy United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Mahta Moghaddam
Mahta Moghaddam University of Southern California

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