Microwave Wave Physics

Underneath every retrieval are first-principles models of how microwaves scatter inside snow and off rough, vegetated ground — solving the wave physics of terrain from the ground up rather than fitting curves to data. This is the core of my expertise, and the work recognized with the 2020 URSI Santimay Basu Prize.

It’s also the backbone that makes the rest possible: soil moisture, snow, and freeze–thaw are all only as trustworthy as the scattering physics that connects the measured signal to the ground. Get the physics right, and the products inherit that rigor.