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Overview

Leung Tsang is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Engineering, with significant contributions in several related subfields.

The scientist's main subfields of study include Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Aerospace Engineering, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Their published work covers a variety of topics, mainly centered around Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, Cryospheric studies and observations, Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, Climate Change and Permafrost, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Photonic Crystals and Applications, and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques.

Leung Tsang has authored several recent papers. Notable publications include:

  • Review article: Global monitoring of snow water equivalent using high-frequency radar remote sensing, 2022, The Cryosphere
  • Microwave Radiometry at Frequencies From 500 to 1400 MHz: An Emerging Technology for Earth Observations, 2021, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • Greenland Ice Sheet Subsurface Temperature Estimation Using Ultrawideband Microwave Radiometry, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • Wave Propagation in Vegetation Field Using a Hybrid Method, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
  • Snow Water Equivalent Retrieval Using Active and Passive Microwave Observations, 2021, Water Resources Research

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Leung Tsang include Joel T. Johnson, Shurun Tan, Simon Yueh, Haokui Xu, and Tien-Hao Liao.

The scientist's work has appeared predominantly in specific publication venues. These include:

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

Best Publications

  • The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission

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

  • Theory of microwave remote sensing

    Leung Tsang;Jin Au Kong;Robert T. Shin

  • Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves: Theories and Applications

    Leung Tsang;Jin Au Kong;Kung-Hau Ding

  • Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves, Numerical Simulations

    Leung Tsang;Jin Au Kong;Kung-Hau Ding;Chi On Ao

  • Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves: Advanced Topics

    Leung Tsang;Jin Au Kong

  • Scattering of electromagnetic waves from random media with strong permittivity fluctuations

    L. Tsang;J. A. Kong

  • Numerical evaluation of the transient acoustic waveform due to a point source in a fluid-filled borehole

    Leung Tsang;Dennis Rader

  • Dense media radiative transfer theory based on quasicrystalline approximation with applications to passive microwave remote sensing of snow

    Leung Tsang;Chi-Te Chen;Alfred T. C. Chang;Jianjun Guo

  • Backscattering enhancement of random discrete scatterers

    Leung Tsang;Akira Ishimaru

  • A parameterized surface reflectivity model and estimation of bare-surface soil moisture with L-band radiometer

    Jiancheng Shi;K.S. Chen;Qin Li;T.J. Jackson

  • Modeling Active Microwave Remote Sensing of Snow Using Dense Media Radiative Transfer (DMRT) Theory With Multiple-Scattering Effects

    Leung Tsang;Jin Pan;Ding Liang;Zhongxin Li

  • Microwave thermal emission from a stratified medium with nonuniform temperature distribution

    L. Tsang;E. Njoku;J. A. Kong

  • Monte-Carlo simulations of large-scale problems of random rough surface scattering and applications to grazing incidence with the BMIA/canonical grid method

    Leung Tsang;C.H. Chan;Kyung Pak;H. Sangani

  • Electric field control of optical second-harmonic generation in a quantum well

    L. Tsang;D. Ahn;S. L. Chuang

  • Dense medium radiative transfer theory: comparison with experiment and application to microwave remote sensing and polarimetry

    B. Wen;L. Tsang;D.P. Winebrenner;A. Ishimaru

  • Inversion of snow parameters from passive microwave remote sensing measurements by a neural network trained with a multiple scattering model

    L. Tsang;Z. Chen;S. Oh;R.J. Marks

  • Models of L-Band Radar Backscattering Coefficients Over Global Terrain for Soil Moisture Retrieval

    Seung-Bum Kim;Mahta Moghaddam;Leung Tsang;Mariko Burgin

  • 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

  • Monte Carlo simulations of the extinction rate of dense media with randomly distributed dielectric spheres based on solution of Maxwell's equations.

    Leung Tsang;Charles E. Mandt;Kung Hau Ding

  • 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

  • Electromagnetic Scattering by Bicontinuous Random Microstructures With Discrete Permittivities

    Kung-Hau Ding;Xiaolan Xu;Leung Tsang

Frequent Co-Authors

Chi Hou Chan
Chi Hou Chan City University of Hong Kong
Joel T. Johnson
Joel T. Johnson The Ohio State University
Guifu Zhang
Guifu Zhang University of Oklahoma
Xiaoxiong Gu
Xiaoxiong Gu IBM (United States)
Shun Lien Chuang
Shun Lien Chuang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mahta Moghaddam
Mahta Moghaddam University of Southern California
Chi-Chih Chen
Chi-Chih Chen The Ohio State University
Robert J. Burkholder
Robert J. Burkholder The Ohio State University

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