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Author:

Narayanan, Udit

Title:

Investigation of Hydrologic Remote Sensing Techniques at Spring Creek, Centre County, Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Remote Sensing
Hydrology
Spring Creek
Thermal Imaging
Ground penetrating radar
Image processing
thermography.

File:

Download Thesis-UditNarayanan-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy Joseph Kane, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julio Urbina, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hua, Zhenyan

Title:

BEAM DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR LASER FIRED CONTACT

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Diffractive Beam Splitter
Diffractive
Diffractive Optical Element
DBS
DOE
Laser Fired Contact
LFC
MicroOptics
Microlens Array
Microlens
Silicon Solar Cell

File:

Download MS_Thesis_v.03_040910.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy Joseph Kane, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Joseph Kane, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bickel, Brady Richard

Title:

Image Processing Techniques for Extraction of Wind Fields from Lidar Aerosol Backscatter

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

aerosol lidar
bilateral filter
registration
backscatter
nonlinear filter
correlation

File:

Download bickel.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy Joseph Kane, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kizilkaya, Serdar

Title:

Optical Propagation through the Ocean Surface

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Optical propagation
laser
ocean
ocean surface
ocean waves
gravity waves.

File:

Download 1-FinalSubmission.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy Joseph Kane, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julio Urbina, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Rotthoff, Eric Stephen

Title:

Improving the Detection of Wind Features In Backscatter LIDAR Scans Using Feature Extraction

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

wind
LIDAR
scanning LIDAR
image segmentation
wind field
feature extraction

File:

Download rotthoff.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy Joseph Kane, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Riley, Elliot Jay

Title:

Planar Antenna Arrays for Correlation Direction Finding Systems for use on Mobile Platforms

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Direction Finding
Correlation Direction Finding
DF Antenna Arrays

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram Mohan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Joseph Kane, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Smith, Sonny

Title:

Design, Analysis and Performance of an Ultra-wide S-band, Through-wall Noise Radar

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Ultra-wide Band
Noise Radar
Helical Antenna
Through-Wall Detection
Correlation
micro-Doppler
Human Activity Recognition

File:

Download 1-SonnySmith-Thesis.pdfDownload SonnySmith-Thesis__erratum_.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram Mohan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Joseph Kane, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Gallagher, Kyle A

Title:

Simultaneous Human Detection And Ranging Using A Millimeter-wave Radar System Transmitting Wideband Noise With An Embedded Tone.

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Radar
Noise Radar
Doppler Radar
Human Detection
Human Doppler
Doppler
Micro-Doppler
Millimeter-Wave
Millimeter Wave

File:

Download Thesis_Gallagher.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram Mohan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Joseph Kane, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Padmanabhan, Viveknarayanan

Title:

Automatic Contrail Detection and Segmentation in Polar-orbiter Satellite Images

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Contrail
AVHRR
Line detection
segmentation
Hough Transform

File:

Download Thesis-Viveknarayanan.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Mark Carleton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Joseph Kane, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Evan Higgins, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wilson, Scott Alden

Title:

Compressive Microwave Radar Holography

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Compressive sensing
sparse sampling
near-field imaging
radar imaging
microwave holography

File:

Download ThesisWilson_final_draft.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram Mohan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Joseph Kane, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor