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our partners in the NSF Center for Remote Sensing of Ice
Sheets (CReSIS), and the Association of Computer/Information Sciences and Engineering Departments at Minority
Institutions (ADMI).
Dr. Moore was a pioneer in the field of microwavebased satellite remote sensing and was a prolific inventor
of new remote-sensing devices that helped
to revolutionize mapping and monitoring of
the Earth's surface. He was also a major contributor to understanding how microwave
signals vary with surface characteristics. His
research had significant impact in the field
of remote sensing.
During Dr. Moore's talk, he noted that
Microwave remote sensing became prominent with World War II military radars (active
sensors) and Radio telescopes (passive sensors). These sensors were initially carried on aircraft until
1968, when they were also carried on spacecraft.
The first Ground Penetrating Radars (GPRs) were used
to study the depth of polar ice caps in Greenland and Ant-

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arctica. In 1947, a plane crashed in Greenland because its
altimeter (400 MHz) showed distance to the bottom of the
ice instead of the surface. This led to developing special
VHF radars to probe the ice caps. At Kansas (1986) Dr.
Moore initiated design of a coherent radar (at 150 MHz) to
get more sensitivity and better depth resolution. He also
played a significant role in the development of Seasat-A,
the first earth-orbiting satellite designed to monitor the
global surface wave field and polar sea ice conditions.
Although the initial 150 MHz effort was unsuccessful, Dr. Sivaprasad Gogineni, using NASA funding, and
with the help of graduate and undergraduate students,
rebuilt the 150-MHz radar into a successful instrument
for probing the Greenland ice cap. Under the direction
of Dr. Gogineni, a CReSIS article, titled UAS-Based Radar
Sounding of the Polar Ice Sheets is featured on the cover
of the March 2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine. Also the work of CERSER in the Antarctic was documented in the paper titled Temporal Reduction and Loss of an Ice Shelf in Pine Island Bay, Antarctica:
1972-2003 in the June 2013 issue of the IEEE Journal
of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and
Remote Sensing. As a result of this study, the bay, which
was progressively exposed over the 30 year
period during which, the occupying ice
shelf slowly retreated, was named by the USAdvisory Committee on Antarctic Names
(ACAN) Board of Geographic Names (BGN)
for Elizabeth City State University and was
entered into the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), the nation's official
geographic names repository.
The GRSS Distinguished Lecture Series
has been a major part of the chapter programming and has served to stimulate the remote sensing
research efforts of faculty, graduate and undergraduate student chapter members at ECSU. Dr. Linda Bailey Hayden
is president of chapter #03191.

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