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  • C. Nie and D.G. Long, "A C-band Wind/Rain Backscatter Model," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 45, No. 3, 621-631, 2007.
  • I.S. Ashcraft and D.G. Long, "Comparison of Methods for Melt Detection over Greenland using Active and Passive Microwave Measurements," International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 27, No. 12, pp. 2569-2488, 2006.
  • I.S. Ashcraft and D.G. Long, "Relating Microwave Backscatter Azimuth Modulation to Surface Properties of the Greenland Ice Sheet," Journal of Glaciology, Vol. 52, No. 177, pp. 257-266, 2006.
  • L.B. Kunz and D.G. Long, "Melt Detection in Antarctic Ice-Shelves Using Spaceborne Scatterometers and Radiometers," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 44, No. 9, pp. 2461-2469, 2006.
  • J.R. Allen and D.G. Long, "Microwave Observations of Daily Antarctic Sea-Ice Edge Expansion and Contraction Rates," Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 54-58, 2006.
  • J.R. Allen and D.G. Long, "An Analysis of SeaWinds-Based Rain Retrieval in Severe Weather Events," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 43, No. 12, pp. 2870-2878, 2005.
  • L.B. Kunz and D.G. Long, "Calibrating SeaWinds and QuikSCAT Scatterometers Using Natural Land Targets," Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 182-186, 2005.
  • I.S. Ashcraft and D.G. Long, "Differentiation Between Melt and Freeze Stages of the Melt Cycle Using SSM/I Channel Ratios," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 43, No. 6, pp. 1317-1323, 2005.
  • H.S. Anderson and D.G. Long, "Sea Ice Mapping Method for SeaWinds," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 647-657, 2005.
  • I.S. Ashcraft and D.G. Long, "Observation and Characterization of Radar Backscatter over Greenland," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp 237-246, 2005.
  • H. Stephen and D.G. Long, "Microwave Backscatter Modeling of Erg Surfaces in the Sahara Desert," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 238-247, 2005.
  • D.G. Long, M.W. Spencer, and E.G. Njoku, "Spatial Resolution and Processing Tradeoffs for HYDROS: Application of Reconstruction and Resolution Enhancement Techniques," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 3-12, 2005.
  • J. Etcheto, E.Dinnat, J. Boutin, A. Camps, J. Miller, S. Contardo, J. Wesson, J.Font, and D.G. Long, "Wind Speed Effect on L-band Brightness Temperature Inferred from EuroSTARRS and WISE 2001 Field Experiments," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 42, No. 10, pp. 2206-2213, 2004.
  • J. Haarpainter, R.T. Tonboe, D.G. Long and M. L. VanWoert, “Automatic Detection and Validity of the Sea Ice Edge: An Application of Enhanced Resolution QuikScat/SeaWinds Data,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 42, No. 7, pp. 1433-1443, 2004.
  • P.K. Yoho and D.G. Long, “Correlation and Covariance of Satellite Scatterometer Measurements,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 42, No. 6, pp. 1176-1187, 2004.
  • D.W. Draper and D.G. Long, “Simultaneous Wind and Rain Retrieval Using SeaWinds Data,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 42, No. 7, pp. 1411-1423, 2004.
  • D.W. Draper and D.G. Long, “Assessing the Quality of SeaWinds Rain Measurements,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 42, No. 7, pp. 1424-1432, 2004.
  • D.W. Draper and D.G. Long, “Evaluating the Effect of Rain on SeaWinds Scatterometer Measurements,” Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 109, No. C02005, doi:10.1029/2002JC001741, 2004.
  • P.K. Yoho and D.G. Long, "An Improved Simulation Model for Spaceborne Scatterometer Measurements," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 41, No. 11, pp. 2692-2695, 2003.
  • Q.P. Remund and D.G. Long, “Large-scale Inverse Ku-band Backscatter Modeling of Sea Ice,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 41, No. 8, pp. 1821-1832, 2003.
  • D.W. Draper and D.G. Long, “An Advanced Ambiguity Selection Algorithm for SeaWinds,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 538-547, 2003.
  • M.W. Spencer, W-Y Tsai, and D.G. Long, “High Resolution Measurements with a Spaceborne Pencil-Beam Scatterometer Using Combined Range/Doppler Discrimination Techniques,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 567-581, 2003.
  • D.W. Draper and D.G. Long, “An Assessment of SeaWinds on QuikSCAT Wind Retrieval,” Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 107, No. C12, pp. 3212-3226, Dec. 2002.
  • D.G. Long, Jarom Ballantyne, and C. Bertoia, “Is the Number of Icebergs Really Increasing?” EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, Vol. 83, No. 42, pp 469 & 474, 15 Oct. 2002.
  • Y. Zhao, A.K. Liu, and D.G. Long, “Validation of Sea Ice Motion from QuikSCAT with Those from SSM/I and Buoy,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 40, No. 6, pp. 1241-1246, 2002.
  • B.E. Barrowes and D.G. Long, "Evaluation of a Compound Probability Model with Tower-Mounted Scatterometer Data," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 40, No.1, pp. 42-49, 2002.
  • D.G. Long, M.R. Drinkwater, B. Holt, S. Saatchi, and C. Bertoia, "Global Ice and Land Climate Studies Using Scatterometer Image Data," EOS, Transaction of the American Geophysical Union, Vol. 82, No. 43, pg. 503, 23 Oct. 2001. Includes EOS Electronic Supplement: https://www.agu.org/eos_elec/010126e.html
  • R.R. Forster, D.G. Long, K.C. Jezek, S.D. Drobot, and M.R. Anderson, "The Onset of Arctic Sea-Ice Snowmelt as Detected with Passive- and Active-microwave Remote Sensing," Annals of Glaciology, Vol. 33, pp. 85-93, 2001.
  • M.R. Drinkwater, D.G. Long, and A.W. Bingham, "Greenland Snow Accumulation Estimates from Scatterometer Data," Journal of Geophysical Research, PARCA Special Issue, Vol. 106, No. D24, pp. 33935-33950, 2001.
  • D.S. Early and D.G. Long, "Image Reconstruction and Enhanced Resolution Imaging from Irregular Samples," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 291-302, 2001.
  • Q.P. Remund, D.G. Long, and M.R. Drinkwater, "An Iterative Approach to Multisensor Sea Ice Classification," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 1843-1856, 2000.
  • K. F. Warnick and W. C. Chew, "On the spectrum of the electric field integral equation and the convergence of the moment method," to appear, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 2000.
  • K. F. Warnick and W. C. Chew, "Accuracy of the method of moments for scattering by a cylinder," to appear, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 2000.
  • D.G. Long and M.R. Drinkwater, "Azimuth Variation in Microwave Scatterometer and Radiometer Data Over Antarctica," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 1857-1870, 2000.
  • M.W. Spencer, C. Wu, and D.G. Long, "Improved Resolution Backscatter Measurements with the SeaWinds Pencil-Beam Scatterometer," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp.89-104, 2000.
  • J. Zec, W .L. Jones, and D.G. Long, "NSCAT Normalized Radar Backscattering Coefficient Biases Using Homogenous Land Targets," Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 184, No. C5, pp. 11557-11568, 1999.
  • K. F. Warnick and W. C. Chew, "Convergence of moment method solutions of the EFIE for a 2D open cavity," Microw. Opt. Tech. Lett., Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 212-218, Nov. 1999
  • T. Oliphant and D.G. Long, "Accuracy of Scatterometer-Derived Winds Using the Cramer-Rao Bound," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 37, No. 6, pp. 2642-2652, 1999.
  • Q.P. Remund and D.G. Long, "Sea Ice Extent Mapping Using Ku-Band Scatterometer Data," Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 104, No. C5, pp. 11515-11527, 1999.
  • A.E. Gonzales and D.G. Long, "An Assessment of NSCAT Ambiguity Removal," Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 104, No. C5, pp. 11449-11457, 1999.
  • D.G. Long and M.R. Drinkwater, "Cryosphere Applications of NSCAT Data," IEEE Transactions Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 1671-1684, 1999.
  • W-Y Tsai, J.E. Graf, C. Winn, J.N. Huddleston, S. Dunbar, M.H. Freilich, F.J. Wentz, D.G. Long, and W.L. Jones, "Post-launch Sensor Verification and Calibration of the NASA Scatterometer," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 1517-1542, 1999.
  • P.J. Johnson and D.G. Long, "The Probability Density of Spectral Estimates Based on Modified Periodogram Averages," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 47, No. 5, pp. 1255-1261, 1999.
  • D.G. Long, Q.P. Remund, and D.L. Daum, "A Cloud-Removal Algorithm for SSM/I Data," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 54-62, 1999.
  • J. Graf, C. Sasaki, C. Winn, W.T. Liu, W. Tsai, M. Freilich and D. Long, "NASA Scatterometer Experiment," Acta Astronautica, Vol. 43, No. 7-8, pp. 377-407, 1998.
  • K. F. Warnick and D. V. Arnold, "Generalization of the geometrical optics scattering limit for a rough conducting surface," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, Vol. 15, pp. 2355-2361, 1998.
  • D.G. Long, and D.L. Daum, "Spatial Resolution Enhancement of SSM/I Data," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 407-417, 1998.
  • M. A. Jensen, "A recursive Green's function technique for acoustic scattering from heterogeneous objects," to appear in J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1997.
  • K. F. Warnick and D. V. Arnold, "Secondary dark rings of internal conical refraction," Phys. Rev. E, Vol. 55, No. 5, pp. 6092-6096, 1997.
  • K. F. Warnick and D. V. Arnold, "Green forms for anisotropic, inhomogeneous media," J. Electromagnetic Waves and Appl., Vol. 11, pp. 1145-1164, 1997.
  • M. A. Jensen and J.D. Freeze, "A recursive Green's function method for boundary integral analysis of inhomogeneous domains," to appear in IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag. 1997.
  • J. S. Colburn, Y. Rahmat-Samii, M. A. Jensen, and G. J. Pottie, "Evaluation of personal communications dual antenna handset diversity performance," to appear in IEEE Trans. Veh. Tech. 1997.
  • J. D. Freeze, M. A. Jensen, and R. H. Selfridge, "A unified Green's function analysis of complicated DFB lasers," IEEE J. Quantum Electron., vol. 33, pp. 1253-1259, Aug. 1997.
  • D. S. Early and D.G. Long, "Azimuth Modulation of C-band Scatterometer sigma-0 Over Southern Ocean Sea Ice," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 35, No. 5, pp. 1201-1209, 1997.
  • K. F. Warnick and D. V. Arnold, "Secondary Dark Rings of Internal Conical Refraction," Phys. Rev. E, Vol. 55, No. 5, pp. 6092-6096, May 1997.
  • K. F. Warnick, R. H. Selfridge and D. V. Arnold, "Teaching Electromagnetic Field Theory Using Differential Forms," IEEE Trans. on Education, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 53-68, Feb. 1997.
  • D. G. Long and M. W. Spencer, "Radar Backscatter Measurement Accuracy for a Spaceborne Pencil-Beam Wind Scatterometer with Transmit Modulation," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 102-114, Jan. 1997.
  • M. W. Spencer, C. Wu, and D. G. Long, "Tradeoffs in the Design of a Spaceborne Scanning Pencil-beam Scatterometer," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 115-126, Jan. 1997.
  • M. A. Jensen and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Finite-difference and finite-volume time-domain techniques in electromagnetics: a comparative study," Radio Science, vol. 31, pp. 1823-1836, Nov./Dec. 1996.
  • D.G. Long, R.S. Collyer, R. Reed, and D.V. Arnold, "Dependence of the Norma lized Radar Cross Section of Water Waves on Bragg Wavelength-Wind Speed Sensitivity," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 656-666, May 1996.
  • A. Fijany, M. A. Jensen, Y. Rahmat-Samii, and J. Barhen, "A massively parallel computation strategy for FDTD: The concept of time and space parallelism," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 43, pp. 1441-1449, Dec. 1995.
  • D.G. Long and G.B. Skouson, "Calibration of Spaceborne Scatterometers Using Tropical Rainforests," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 413-424, Mar. 1995.
  • P. J. Hardin and D. G. Long, "Integrating Reconstructed Scatterometer and AVHRR Data for Tropical Forest Inventory," Optical Engineering, Vol. 34, No. 11, pp. 3146-3153, Nov. 1995. Invited.
  • M. A. Jensen and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "EM interaction of handset antennas and a human in personal communications," IEEE Proc., vol. 83, pp. 7-17, Jan. 1995.
  • K. F. Warnick, R.H. Selfridge and D.V. Arnold, "Electromagnetic boundary conditions and differential forms," IEE Proceedings H--Microw. Antennas Propag., Vol. 142, No. 4, pp. 326-332, Aug 1995.
  • P. J. Hardin and D. G. Long "Discriminating Between Tropical Vegetation Formations Using Reconstructed High-Resolution Seasat-A Scatterometer Data," Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, Vol. 60, No. 12, pp. 1453-1462, Dec. 1994.
  • D. G. Long and P. Hardin, "Vegetation Studies of the Amazon Basin Using Enhanced Resolution Seasat Scatterometer Data," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 449-460, Mar. 1994.
  • M. R. Drinkwater, D. G. Long, and D.S. Early, "Enhanced Resolution ERS-1 Scatterometer Imaging of Southern Ocean Sea Ice," ESA Journal, Vol. 17, pp. 307-322, 1994.
  • M. R. Drinkwater, D. G. Long, and D.S. Early, "Enhanced Resolution ERS-1 Scatterometer Imaging of Antarctic Ice," Earth Observation Quarterly, No. 43, pp. 4-6, 1994.
  • D. G. Long and M.R. Drinkwater, "Greenland Observed at High Resolution by the Seasat-A Scatterometer," Journal of Glaciology, vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 213-230, 1994.
  • Y. Rahmat-Samii and M. A. Jensen, "Characterization of antennas for personal wireless communications applications," International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, vol. 1, pp. 165-176, 1994.
  • M. A. Jensen and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Performance analysis of antennas for hand-held transceivers using FDTD," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. 42, pp. 1106-1113, Aug. 1994.
  • D. G. Long, "Modeling Near-Surface Oceanic Winds," IASTED Journal of Modeling and Simulation, pp. 156-161, Vol. 13, No. 4, 1993.
  • D. G. Long, "Wind Field Model-Based Estimation of SEASAT Scatterometer Winds," Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 98, No. C8, pp. 14,651-14,668, 1993.
  • D. G. Long, P. Hardin, and P. Whiting, "Resolution Enhancement of Spaceborne Scatterometer Data," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 700-715, May 1993.
  • D. G. Long and D. Arnold, "Observational Research in Air/Sea Interaction," Invited Paper, Remote Sensing Reviews, Vol. 8, pp. 189-194, 1993.
  • M. A. Jensen and R. H. Selfridge, "Analysis of diffraction gratings based on D-shaped fiber," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, vol. 9, pp. 1086-1090, Jul. 1992.
  • M. A. Jensen and R. H. Selfridge, "Analysis of etching-induced birefringence changes in elliptic core fibers," Appl. Optics, vol. 31, pp. 2011-2016, 20 Apr. 1992.
  • F. Naderi, M. H. Freilich, and D. G. Long, "Spaceborne Radar Measurement of Wind Velocity Over the Ocean-An Overview of the NSCAT Scatterometer System", invited paper, Proceedings of the IEEE, pp. 850-866, Vol. 79, No. 6, June 1991.
  • D. G. Long and J. M. Mendel, "Identifiability in Wind Estimation from Wind Scatterometer Measurements," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 268-276, 1991.
  • S. J. Shaffer, R.S. Dunbar, S. V. Hsiao, and D.G. Long, "A Median-Filter-Based Ambiguity Removal Algorithm for NSCAT," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 167-174, Jan. 1991.
  • D. G. Long and J. M. Mendel, "Model-Based Estimation of Wind Fields over the Ocean From Scatterometer Measurements Part I: The Wind Field Model," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 28. No. 2, pp. 349-360, May 1990.
  • D. G. Long and J. M. Mendel, "Model-Based Estimation of Wind Fields over the Ocean From Scatterometer Measurements Part II: Estimation of the Model Parameters," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 28. No. 2, pp. 361-373, May 1990.