Sidharth Misra
Researcher
About
Bio
Dr. Sidharth Misra is currently a technologist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. He has previously worked as a Research Engineer at the University of Michigan, and Technical University of Denmark.
Dr. Misra's expertise includes radio frequency interference algorithm development and mitigation, microwave radiometer system development and calibration. He has been on the science team and calibration team of several space-borne microwave radiometers such as Aquarius, SMAP, CubeRRT, COWVR, Juno. He is currently the Instrument Scientist for the EZIE mission.
Dr. Misra is also the Executive Vice President of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS), he was an Associate Editor for the IEEE GeoScience and Remote Sensing Letters and Guest Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing . He was also the General Co-Chair of IGARSS 2023. Dr. Misra is the recipient of several NASA and JPL awards, including the JPL Charles Elachi Early Career Award in 2016, a NASA Early Career Award in 2017, NASA Technical Achievement Award in 2019, and a JPL Lew Allen Award in 2020.
Education
University of Michigan, Graduate Student Research Assistant, August 2007 –April 2011
Ph.D., 2011, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences
Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
University of Michigan, Graduate Student Research Assistant, August 2007 –April 2011
M.S., 2010, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences
Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
University of Michigan, Graduate Student Research Assistant, August 2004 – May 2006
M.S, 2006, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
Gujarat University, August 2000-May 2004
B.E., 2004, Electrical Engineering
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Topic Area(s)
- Sensors, Microdevices and Instruments | Observatory Technologies
- Planetary Science | Solar System Origin, Structure And Evolution
- Earth Science | Atmospheric Physics And Weather Processes
- Astrophysics and Space Science | Heliophysics and Space Physics
- Earth Science | Oceans, Sea Level Rise, And Coastal Management
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Achievements
Awards & Recognitions
- The Lew Allen Award for Excellence | For exceptional contributions to digital microwave radiometry. (2020)
- NASA Award | Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal | For exceptional achievement in the development and on-orbit demonstration of the (CubeRRT) Digital Backend System (2019)
- NASA Award | Early Career Public Achievement Medal | For early career achievement in advancing the microwave and millimeter radiometer technologies for Earth science missions. (2017)
- JPL Award | Charles Elachi Award: For outstanding performance in the field of microwave radiometry for Earth remote sensing of soil moisture, ocean salinity and RFI (2016)
Publications
Walker, C. C., J. D. Millstein, B. W. J. Miles, S. Cook, A. D. Fraser, L. D. Trusel, A. Colliander, S. Misra, S. Adusumilli, and H. A. Fricker (2024): The Multi-Decadal Collapse of East Antarctica’s Conger-Glenzer Ice Shelf. Accepted, Nature Geoscience.
Peng J, Piepmeier JR, Misra S, Mohammed P, Bringer A. One-Point Calibration for Soil Moisture Active/Passive (SMAP) L-band Microwave Radiometer. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 2024 Nov 21.
Ogut, M., Misra, S., Bosch-Lluis, X., Ramos, I., Williamson, R., Chae, C.S., Colliander, A. and Yueh, S., 2024. Demonstration of a Combined Active/Passive L-Band Microwave Remote Sensing Airborne Instrument. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.
Drushka, K., Westbrook, E., Bingham, F., Gaube, P., Dickinson, S., Fournier, S., Menezes, V., Misra, S., Perez, J., Rainville, E.J. and Schanze, J., 2024. Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge (SASSIE): An oceanographic field campaign in the Beaufort Sea. Earth System Science Data Discussions, 2024, pp.1-56.
Munoz-Martin JF, Bosch-Lluis X, Pradhan O, Brown ST, Kangaslahti PP, Tanner AB, Ogut M, Misra S, Lim BH. The Microwave Temperature and Humidity Profiler: Description and Preliminary Results. Sensors. 2023 Oct 18;23(20):8554
Akins A, Brown S, Lee T, Misra S, Yueh S. Simulation framework and case studies for the design of sea surface salinity remote sensing missions. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 2023 Jan 5;16:1321-34.
Zhang Z, Brown S, Bolton S, Levin S, Adumitroaie V, Bonnefoy LE, Feng J, Hartogh P, Lunine J, Misra S, Siegler M. Microwave Observations of Ganymede's Sub‐surface Ice: 2. Reflected Radiation. Geophysical Research Letters. 2023 Jun 16;50(11):e2022GL101565.
Brown S, Zhang Z, Bolton S, Bonnefoy LE, Ermakov A, Feng J, Hartogh P, Levin S, Misra S, Siegler M, Stevenson D. Microwave Observations of Ganymede's Sub‐Surface Ice: I. Ice Temperature and Structure. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. 2023 Jun;128(6):e2022JE007609.
J. X. Yang, Y. You, W. Blackwell, Q. Liu, R. Ferraro, D. Draper, N. Atkinson, T. Hewison, Misra, S., J. Peng, "Adaptive Calibration Window for Noise Reduction of Satellite Microwave Radiometers," in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 60, pp. 1-16, 2022, Art no. 5304616, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2022.3184670
J. X. Yang, Y. You, W. Blackwell, S. Misra, and R. A. Kroodsma, "Quantifying and Characterizing Striping of Microwave Humidity Sounder With Observation and Simulation," in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 60, pp. 1-13, 2022, Art no. 5302413, doi: 10.1J.
Peng. J., Misra, S, Piepmeier, J.R., Yueh, S., Le Vine D., Dinnat, E., Dunbar, S., Mohammed, P.N., Chan, S.K., Meissner, T., "Soil Moisture Active/Passive (SMAP) L-Band Microwave Radiometer Post-Launch Calibration Revisit: Approach and Performance," in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 14, pp. 11406-11416, 2021, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2021.3121176.109/TGRS.2021.3132560.
A. Bringer, J.T. Johnson, Y. Soldo, D.M. LeVine, P.N. Mohammed, S. Misra, P. de Matthaeis, "Properties of the RFI Environment at 1400–1427 MHz as Observed by the Soil Moisture Active/Passive Mission Microwave Radiometer," in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 14, pp. 7259-7267, 2021, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2021.3092996.
Bolton, Scott J., et al. "Microwave observations reveal the deep extent and structure of Jupiter’s atmospheric vortices." Science 374.6570 (2021): 968-972.
J. T. Johnson et al., "Microwave Radiometry at Frequencies From 500 to 1400 MHz: An Emerging Technology for Earth Observations," in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 14, pp. 4894-4914, 2021
A. Bringer et al., "Properties of the RFI Environment at 1400–1427 MHz as Observed by the Soil Moisture Active/Passive Mission Microwave Radiometer," in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 14, pp. 7259-7267, 2021, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2021.3092996.
Peng, J., Misra, S., et al., JPL-D 56295SMAP Radiometer Brightness Temperature Calibration for the L1B_TB (Version 5), L1C_TB (Version 5), and L1C_TB_E (Version 3) Data Products Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Project, August 2020
Oyafuso, F., Levin, S., Orton, G., Brown, S.T., Adumitroaie, V., Janssen, M., Wong, M.H., Fletcher, L.N., Steffes, P., Li, C, Misra S,. and Gulkis, S., 2020. Angular Dependence and Spatial Distribution of Jupiter's Centimeter‐Wave Thermal Emission From Juno's Microwave Radiometer. Earth and Space Science, 7(11), 2020
Li, Cheng, Andrew Ingersoll, Scott Bolton, Steven Levin, Michael Janssen, Sushil Atreya, Jonathan Lunine et al. "The water abundance in Jupiter’s equatorial zone." Nature Astronomy 4, no. 6 (2020): 609-616.
Zhang, Z., et al., 2020. Residual study: Testing Jupiter atmosphere models against Juno MWR observations. Earth and Space Science, 7(9), 2020
Colliander, A., Cosh, M.H., Kelly, V.R., Kraatz, S., Bourgeau‐Chavez, L., Siqueira, P., Roy, A., Konings, A.G., Holtzman, N., Misra, S. and Entekhabi, D., 2020. SMAP Detects Soil Moisture Under Temperate Forest Canopies. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(19), 2020
Johnson, J.T., et al., “Real Time Detection and Filtering of Radio Frequency Interference On-board a Spaceborne Microwave Radiometer: The CubeRRT Mission”, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics, 12, 2020
M. Neelam, A. Colliander, B. P. Mohanty, M. H. Cosh, S. Misra and T. J. Jackson, "Multiscale Surface Roughness for Improved Soil Moisture Estimation," in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 58, no.8, 2020
N. Rodriguez-Alvarez, S. Misra, M. Morris, “The Polarimetric Sensitivity of SMAP-Reflectometry Signals to Crop Growth in the U.S. Corn Belt,” MDPI Remote Sensing, 2020
N. Rodriguez-Alvarez, S. Misra, E. Podest, M. Morris, X. Bosch-Lluis, “The Use of SMAP-Reflectometry in Science Applications: Calibration and Capabilities,” MDPI Remote Sensing, 2019, 11, 2442
Peng, J., S. Misra, Piepmeier, J., Dinnat, E., Le Vine D., Hudson, D., De Amici, G., Mohammed, P., Chan, S., Bindlish, R., Yueh, S., Meissner, T., Jackson, T., Shelton., K., Dunbar, S., Freedman, A., Liang, H., “Soil moisture Active/Passive (SMAP) L-band Microwave Radiometer Post-Launch Calibration Upgrade,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics., vol. 12, no. 6, 2019
O’Neill, P. et al., “SMAP Project Calibration and Validation of L2/3_SM_P version 6 and L2_3_SM_PE Version 3 data product”, NSIDC, 2019
S. Misra, Kocz. J., Jarnot, R., Brown, S., Bendig, R., Felten, C., Johnson, J., “Development of an On-board Wide-band Processor for Radio Frequency Interference Detection and Filtering,” IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 57, no. 6, 2019
A. Colliander, M. H. Cosh, S. Misra, T. J. Jackson, W. T. Crow, J. Powers, H. McNairn, P. Bullock, A. Berg, R. Magagi, Y. Gao, R. Bindlish, R. Williamson, I. Ramos, B. Latham, P. O'Neill, S. Yueh, “Comparison of high-resolution airborne soil moisture retrievals to SMAP soil moisture during the SMAP validation experiment 2016 (SMAPVEX16)”, Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 227, Pages 137-150, 2019
N. Vinogradova, et al. “Satellite Salinity Observing System: Recent Discoveries and the Way Forward”. Frontiers in Marine Science, Frontiers Media, 2019, 6, pp.243, 2019.
Brown, S., Janssen, M., Adumitroaie, V., Atreya, S., Bolton, S., Gulkis, S., Ingersoll, A., Levin, S., Cheng, L., Liming, L., Lunine, J., S. Misra, Orton, G., Steffes, P., Tabataba-Vakili, F., Kolmasova, I., Imai, M., Santolik, O., Kurth, W., Hospodarsky, G., Gurnett, D., Connerney, J., “Prevalent lightning sferics at 600 megahertz near Jupiter’s poles,” Nature 558, 2018
Peng, J., S. Misra, and SMAP L1 team“SMAP Radiometer Brightness Temperature Calibration for the L1B_TB (Version 4), L1C_TB (Version 4), and L1C_TB_E (Version 2) Data Products”, NSIDC, 2018
Peng, J., S. Misra, Piepmeier, J.R., E. Dinnat, D. Hudson, D. Le Vine, G. De Amici, P. N. Mohammed, S. Yueh, T. Meissner, R. Bindlish, “SMAP L-Band microwave radiometer post-launch calibration,” IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 55, no. 9, 5339-5354, 2017
S. Misra and S. T. Brown, “Enabling the extraction of climate scale temporal salinity variations from Aquarius: An instrument based long-term radiometer drift correction,” IEEE Trans. Geosci Remote Sens., vol. 55, no. 5, 2913-2923, 2017
A. Colliander, M.H.Cosh, S. Misra, T.J.Jackson, W.T.Crow, S.Chan, R. Bindlish, C. Chae, C. Holifield-Collins, S. Yueh, “Validation and Scaling of Soil Moisuture in a Semi-Arid Environment: SMAP Validation Experiment 2015 (SMAPVEX15)” Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 196, 101-112, July 2017
Li C., et al., “The distribution of ammonia on Jupiter from a preliminary inversion of Juno microwave radiometer data” Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 44, no. 11, June 2017
Cai, X., Pan, M., Chaney, N., Colliander, A., S. Misra, Cosh, M., Crow, W., Jackson, T.J., Wood, E., “Validation of the SMAP soil moisture for the SMAPVEX15 field campaign using a hyper-resolution model” AGU Water Resources Research, vol. 53, no. 4, April 2017
Janssen, M., et al., “MWR: Microwave Radiometer for the Juno Mission to Jupiter,” Space Science Reviews, 1-47
S. T. Brown and S. Misra, “Characterizing drifts in spaceborne L-band radiometers using stable reference regions: Application to Aquarius,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing., vol. 9, no. 11, 5239-5251, 2016
M. Aksoy, J.T. Johnson, , A. ColliandS. Misraer, and I. O’Dwyer, “L-band Radio Frequency Interference observations during the SMAP validation experiment 2012,” IEEE Trans. Geosci Remote Sens., vol. 54, no. 3, 1323-1398, 2016
S. Misra and P. de Matthaeis, "Passive Remote Sensing and Radio Frequency Interference (RFI): An Overview of Spectrum Allocations and RFI Management Algorithms [Technical Committees]," in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 68-73, June 2014
S. Misra, R.D. DeRoo and C.S.Ruf, “An improved Radio Frequency Interference model: Reevaluation of the kurtosis detection algorithm performance under central limit conditions,” IEEE Trans. Gesoci. Remote Sens., vol. 50, no. 11, 4565-4574, 2012
S. Misra and C.S.Ruf, “Analysis of Radio Frequency Interference detection algorithms in the angular domain for SMOS,” IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 50, no. 5, 1448-1457, 2012
J. Park, J. T. Johnson, N. Majurec, N. Niamsuwan, J. Piepmeier, P. Mohammed, C. Ruf, S. Misra, S. Yueh and S. Dinardo, “Airborne L-band Radio Frequency Interference observations from the SMAPVEX08 campaign and associated flights,” IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 49, no. 9., 3359 - 3370, 2011
R. De Roo and S. Misra, “A moment ratio RFI detection algorithm that can detect pulsed sinusoids of any duty cycle,” IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens. Letters, vol. 7, no. 3., 606-610, 2010
N. Skou, S. Misra, J. Balling, S. Kristensen and S. Søbjærg. “L-Band RFI as experienced during airborne campaigns in preparations for SMOS,” IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 48, no. 3(2)., 1398 - 1407, 2010
S. Misra, P. Mohammed, B. Guner, Ruf, C.S., J. Piepmeier, and J. Johnson, “Microwave radiometer Radio Frequency Interference detection algorithms: A comparative study,” IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 47, no. 11., 3742 - 3754, 2009
S. Misra and Ruf, C.S., “Detection of Radio Frequency Interference for the Aquarius Radiometer,” IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 46, no. 10., 3123-3128, Oct. 2008
R. De Roo and S. Misra, “A Demonstration of the Effects of Digitization on the Calculation of Kurtosis for the Detection of RFI in Microwave Radiometry,” IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 46, no. 10., 3129-3136, Oct. 2008
R. De Roo, S. Misra and Ruf, C.S., “Sensitivity of the Kurtosis as a Detector of Pulsed Sinusoidal RFI,” IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens. , vol 45, 1938-1946, July 2007
Ruf, C.S., S. M. Gross and S. Misra, "RFI Detection and Mitigation for Microwave Radiometry with an Agile Digital Detector," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 44, no. 3., 694-706, March 2006.