
Contact
Office: B113 Engineering Building
Phone: 970-491-2228
Email: steven.reising@colostate.edu
Research Interests
- Microwave Remote Sensing of the Earth’s Atmosphere and Oceans
- Earth Science Measurements from Nanosatellites and CubeSats
- Radiometer and Radar Systems from GHz to THz Frequencies
- Low-Noise Monolithic Microwave IC Design and Packaging
Citations
Dr. Steven Reising
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Bio
Steven C. Reising is Full Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University (CSU) since July 2011, where he served as Associate Professor from 2004 to 2011. Before joining the CSU faculty in 2004, he served as Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 1998 to 2004 and received tenure. Dr. Reising received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1998, where he was supported by a NASA Earth Systems Science Fellowship and advised by Prof. Umran S. Inan. Previously, he received the B.S.E.E. (magna cum laude) and M.S.E.E. degrees in electrical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis. He served as a Summer Faculty Fellow for three years in the Remote Sensing Division of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC. For the first six months of 2014, Dr. Reising was a Visiting Faculty Member of the Sorbonne Universities, University of Paris VI, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France. Dr. Reising’s research interests span a broad range of remote sensing disciplines, including microwave remote sensing of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans from airborne platforms, small satellites and CubeSats; the design and development of radiometer systems from microwave to sub-millimeter-wave and THz frequencies (18-850 GHz), lidar systems for sensing temperature and winds in the middle and upper atmosphere; and lighting-ionosphere interactions and atmospheric electrodynamics. He has served as principal faculty advisor for 18 M.S./Ph.D. students who have completed their degrees and are now employed in universities, industry and government laboratories in the U.S., Europe and Asia. He has been Principal Investigator of 22 grants or contracts from NASA, NOAA, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Defense, the Office of Naval Research, the Naval Research Laboratory, the NPOESS Integrated Program Office, the European Space Agency, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., and FIRST RF Corporation. Dr. Reising received the 2023 Terahertz Science and Technology Best Paper Award from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society. He also received the 2023 Harry Rosenberg Distinguished Service Award from Colorado State University. Dr. Reising received the NSF CAREER Award (2003-2008) in the areas of physical and mesoscale dynamic meteorology, and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award (2000-2003) for passive microwave remote sensing of the oceans. Dr. Reising received the 2015 George T. Abell Outstanding Research Faculty Award from the College of Engineering at Colorado State University. In 2016, he received the Outstanding Service Award from the U.S. National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science (USNC-URSI), presented at the Plenary Session of the 2016 National Radio Science Meeting in Boulder, CO. His Ph.D. student Sharmila Padmanabhan received the Second Prize Student Paper Award at IGARSS 2003 in Toulouse, France, as well as the URSI Young Scientist Award at the General Assembly in New Delhi, India, in 2005. Dr. Reising won the URSI Young Scientist Award at the General Assembly in Toronto, Canada, in 1999. While at Stanford, he received First Place in the USNC-URSI Student Paper Competition at the 1998 National Radio Science Meeting in Boulder, Colorado.
Education
- B.S. Washington University, St. Louis, in Electrical Engineering
- M.S. Washington University, St. Louis, in Electrical Engineering
- Ph.D 1998 Stanford University in Electrical Engineering
Publications
- [1.] Williams, S. L., and S. C. Reising, “Waveguide-Based Split-Ring Resonators for Narrow-Band Filters Near 380 GHz,” Cover Feature Article, Electronics, vol. 13, no. 15, 2894, Aug. 2024, doi: 10.3390/electronics13152894
- [2.] Radhakrishnan, C., V. Chandrasekar, S. C. Reising, W. Berg and S. T. Brown, "TEMPEST-D and GPM-GMI Observations over Precipitating Systems: A Cross-Validation Study," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 16, pp. 7422-7432, Aug. 2023, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2023.3302025.
- [3.] Brown, S. T., A. Tanner, S. C. Reising and W. Berg, “Single-Point Calibration for Microwave Sounders: Application to TEMPEST-D,” Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, pp. 669-676, Jun. 2023, doi: 10.1175/JTECH-D-22-0063.1.
- [4.] Radhakrishnan, C., V. Chandrasekar, S. C. Reising, W. Berg, S. T. Brown, S. Tanelli, O. O. Sy and G. F. Sacco, “Cross-Validation of TEMPEST-D and RainCube Observations over Precipitation Systems,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 15, pp. 7826-7838, August 2022, doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2022.3199402.
- [5.] Radhakrishnan, C., V. Chandrasekar, S. C. Reising and W. Berg, "Rainfall Estimation from TEMPEST-D CubeSat Observations: A Machine Learning Approach," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 15, pp. 3626-3636, Apr. 2022. doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2022.3170835
- [6.] Goncharenko, Y. V., S. C. Reising, F. Iturbide-Sanchez and V. Chandrasekar, “Design and Analysis of CubeSat Microwave Radiometer Constellations to Observe Temporal Variability of the Atmosphere,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 14, pp. 11728-11736, Nov. 2021, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2021.3128069.
- [7.] Cooke, C., K. Leong, A. Zamora, B. Gorospe, G. X. B. Mei, P. Kangaslahti, E. Schlecht, M. Ogut, Y. Goncharenko, S. Reising and W. Deal, "A 670 GHz Integrated InP HEMT Direct- Detection Receiver for the Tropospheric Water and Cloud Ice (TWICE) Instrument," IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 566-576, Sept. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TTHZ.2021.3083939.
- [8.] Padmanabhan, S., T. C. Gaier, A. B. Tanner, S. T. Brown, B. H. Lim, S. C. Reising, R. Stachnik, R. Bendig and R. Cofield (2021) “TEMPEST-D Radiometer: Instrument Description and Prelaunch Calibration,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 59, no. 12, pp. 10213-10226, Dec. 2021, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2020.3041455.
- [9.] Ogut, M., C. Cooke, W. Deal, P. Kangaslahti, A. Tanner and S. C. Reising, "A Novel 1/f Noise Mitigation Technique Applied to 670 GHz Receiver," IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 109-112, Jan. 2021, doi:10.1109/TTHZ.2020.3036179.
- [10.] Berg, W., S. T. Brown, B. H. Lim, S. C. Reising, Y. Goncharenko, C. D. Kummerow, T. C. Gaier and S. Padmanabhan, "Calibration and Validation of the TEMPEST-D CubeSat Radiometer," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 59, no. 6, pp. 4904-4914, June 2021, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2020.3018999.
- [11.] Ogut, M., X. Bosch-Lluis and S. C. Reising, "Deep Learning Calibration of the High-Frequency Airborne Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Radiometer," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 58, no. 5, pp. 3391-3399, May 2020, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2019.2954454.
- [12.] Schulte, R. M., C. D. Kummerow, W. Berg, S. C. Reising, S. T. Brown, T. C. Gaier, B. H. Lim and S. Padmanabhan, "A Passive Microwave Retrieval Algorithm with Minimal View Angle Bias: Application to the TEMPEST-D CubeSat Mission," Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Feb. 2020, doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-19-0163.1.
- [13.] Bosch-Lluis, X., S. C. Reising, P. Kangaslahti, A. B. Tanner, S. T. Brown, S. Padmanabhan, C. Parashare, O. Montes, B. Razavi, V. D. Hadel, T. P. Johnson, M. Ogut and J. Ranson, "Instrument Design and Performance of the High-Frequency Airborne Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Radiometer," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 12, no. 11, pp. 4563-4577, Dec. 2019, doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2019.2949590.
- [14.] Jiang, J. H., Q. Yue, H. Su, P. Kangaslahti, M. Lebsock, S. Reising, M. Schoeberl, L. Wu and R. L. Herman, Simulation of Remote Sensing of Clouds and Humidity From Space Using a Combined Platform of Radar and Multifrequency Microwave Radiometers, Earth and Space Science, vol. 6, pp. 1234-1242, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EA000580.
- [15.] Ogut, M., X. Bosch-Lluis and S. C. Reising, A Deep Learning Approach for Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Radiometer Calibration, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 57, no. 8, pp. 5344-5355, Aug. 2019, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2019.2899110.
- [16.] Jiang J. H., Q. Yue, H. Su, S. C. Reising, P. P. Kangaslahti, W. R. Deal, E. T. Schlecht, L. Wu, and K. F. Evans (2017), "A Simulation of Ice Cloud Particle Size, Humidity and Temperature Measurements from the TWICE CubeSat," Earth and Space Science, 4, doi:10.1002/2017EA000296.
- [17.] Sahoo, S., X. Bosch-Lluis, S. C. Reising, S. M. Ellis, J. Vivekanandan, and P. Zuidema, "Retrieval of Slant Water Vapor Path and Slant Liquid Water from Microwave Radiometer Measurements during the DYNAMO Experiment," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 8, no. 9, pp. 4315-4324, Sep. 2015.
- [18.] Sahoo, S., X. Bosch-Lluis, S. C. Reising, and J. Vivekanandan, "Optimization of Background Information and Layer Thickness for Improved Accuracy of Water-Vapor Profile Retrieval from Ground-Based Microwave Radiometer Measurements at K-band," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 8, no. 9, pp. 4284-4295, Sep. 2015.
- [19.] Sahoo, S., X. Bosch-Lluis, S. C. Reising, and J. Vivekanandan, "Radiometric Information Content for Water Vapor and Temperature Profiling in Clear Skies between 10 and 200 GHz," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 859-871, Feb. 2015.
- [20.] DeBoer, D. R., S. L. Cruz-Pol, M. M. Davis, T. Gaier, P. Feldman, J. Judge, K. I. Kellermann, D. G. Log, L. Magnani, D. S. McKague, T. J. Pearson, A. E. E. Rogers, S. C. Reising, G. Taylor, A. R. Thompson and L. van Zee, "Radio Frequencies: Policy and Management," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 51, no. 10, pp. 4918-4927, Oct. 2013.
- [21.] Ferrazzoli, P., L. Guerriero, S. Paloscia, and S. C. Reising, "Introduction to the Special Issue on the 12th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing Applications (MicroRad 2012)," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 51, no. 9, pp. 4615-4618, Sep. 2013.
- [22.] Hoppe, D. J., B. Khayatian, J. B. Sosnowski, P. Bruneau, A. Johnson, S. C. Reising, and S. T. Brown, "A Three-Frequency Feed for Millimeter-Wave Radiometry," Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 54, no. 11, pp. 2483-2487, Nov. 2012.
- [23.] Sahoo, S., S. C. Reising, S. Padmanabhan, J. Vivekanandan, F. Iturbide-Sanchez, N. Pierdicca, E. Pichelli, and D. Cimini, "3-D Humidity Retrieval using a Network of Compact Microwave Radiometers to Correct for Variations in Wet Tropospheric Path Delay in Spaceborne Interferometric SAR Imagery," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, vol. 49, no. 9, pp. 3281-3290, Sep. 2011.
- [24.] Yuan, T., C.-Y. She, D. Krueger, S. C. Reising, X. Zhang and J. M. Forbes, “A collaborative study on temperature diurnal tide in the midlatitude mesopause region (41°N, 105°W) with Na lidar and TIMED/SABER observations,” J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., vol. 72, nos. 5-6, pp. 541-549, Apr. 2010.
- [25.] Padmanabhan, S., S. C. Reising, J. Vivekanandan and F. Iturbide-Sanchez, “Retrieval of atmospheric water vapor density with fine spatial resolution using 3-D tomographic inversion of microwave brightness temperatures measured by a network of scanning compact radiometers,” IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, vol. 47, no. 11, pp. 3708-3721, Nov. 2009.
- [26.] Entekhabi, D., J. P. Kerekes, E. L. Miller, and S. C. Reising, “Foreword to the Special Issue on the 2008 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS ’08),” IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, vol. 47, no. 11, pp. 3595-3597, Nov. 2009.
- [27.] Yue, J., S. L. Vadas, C.-Y. She, T. Nakamura, S. C. Reising, H.-L. Liu, P. Stamus, D. A. Krueger, W. Lyons and T. Li, “Concentric gravity waves in the mesosphere generated by deep convective plumes in the lower atmosphere near Fort Collins, Colorado,” J. Geophys. Res., vol. 114, D06104, doi:10.1029/2008JD011244, 2009.
- [28.] Roberts, R. D., F. Fabry, P. C. Kennedy, E. Nelson, J. W. Wilson, N. Rehak, J. Fritz, V. Chandrasekar, J. Braun, J. Sun, S. Ellis, S. Reising, T. Crum, L. Mooney, R. Palmer, T. Weckwerth, and S. Padmanabhan, “REFRACTT 2006: Real-time retrieval of high-resolution, low-level moisture fields from operational NEXRAD and research radars,” Bull. Amer. Meteo. Soc., vol. 89, pp. 1535-1548, Oct. 2008.
- [29.] Yuan, T., H. Schmidt, C.-Y. She, D. A. Krueger and S. C. Reising, “Seasonal variations of semidiurnal tidal perturbations in mesopause region temperature, zonal and meridional winds above Fort Collins, CO (40.6°N, 105°W),” J. Geophys. Res., vol. 113, D20103, doi:10.1029/2007JD009687, 2008.
- [30.] Iturbide-Sanchez, F., S. C. Reising and S. Padmanabhan, “A Miniaturized Spectrometer Radiometer Based on MMIC Technology for Tropospheric Water Vapor Profiling, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, vol. 45, pp. 2181-2194, July 2007.
- [31.] Reising, S. C., F. S. Marzano, E. G. Njoku, and E. R. Westwater, “Foreword to the Special Issue on the 9th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing Applications (MicroRad '06),” IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, vol. 45, pp. 1903-1906, Jul. 2007.
- [32.] Padmanabhan, S., S. C. Reising, W. E. Asher, L. A. Rose, and P. W. Gaiser, "Effects of foam on ocean surface microwave emission inferred from radiometric observations of reproducible breaking waves," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, vol. 44, pp. 569-583, March 2006.
- [33.] Aziz, M. A., S. C. Reising, W. E. Asher, L. A. Rose, P. W. Gaiser, and K. A. Horgan, "Effects of air-sea interaction parameters on ocean surface microwave emission at 10 and 37 GHz," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, vol. 43, pp. 1763-1774, August 2005.
- [34.] Anderson, A., B. Brooks, P. Caffrey, A. Clarke, L. Cohen, K. Crahan, K. Davidson, A. D. De-Jong, G. De Leeuw, D. Dion, S. Doss-Hammel, P. Frederickson, C. Friehe, T. Hristov, D. Khelif, M. Moerman, J. S. Reid, S. Reising, M. Smith, E. Terrill, and D. Tsintikidis, ”The RED Experiment: an Assessment of Boundary Layer Effects in a Trade Winds Regime on Microwave and Infrared Propagation over the Sea,” Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., vol. 85, pp. 1355-1365, September 2004.
- [35.] Camps, A., J. Font, M. Vall-llossera, C. Gabarro, I. Corbella, N. Duffo, F. Torres, S. Blanch, A. Aguasca, R. Villarino, L. Enrique, J. J. Miranda, J. Arenas, A. Julia, J. Etcheto, V. Caselles, A.Weill, J. Boutin, S. Contardo, R. Niclos, R. Rivas, S. C. Reising, P.Wursteisen, M. Berger, and M. Martin-Neira, “The WISE 2000 and 2001 Field Experiments in Support of the SMOS Mission: Sea Surface L-band Brightness Temperature Observations and Their Application to Sea Surface Salinity Retrieval,” IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, vol. 42, pp. 804-823, April 2004.
- [36.] Chen, D., L. Tsang, L. Zhou, S. C. Reising, W. Asher, L. A. Rose, K. H. Ding, and C.-T. Chen, “Microwave Emission and Scattering of Foam based on Monte Carlo Simulations of Dense Media,” IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, vol. 41, pp. 782-790, April 2003.
- [37.] Rose, L. A., W. E. Asher, S. C. Reising, P. W. Gaiser, K. M. St. Germain, D. J. Dowgiallo, K. A. Horgan, G. Farquharson, and E. J. Knapp, ”Radiometric measurements of the microwave emissivity of foam,” IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, vol. 40, pp. 2619-2625, December 2002.
- [38.] Camps, A., J. Font, J. Etchetto, V. Caselles, A.Weill, I. Corbella, M. Vall-llossera, N. Duffo, F. Torres, R. Villarino, L. Enrique, A. Julia, C. Gabarro, J. Boutin, E. Rubio, S. C. Reising, P. Wursteisen, M. Berger, and M. Martin-Neira, “Sea surface emissivity observations at L-band: First results of the Wind and Salinity Experiment WISE-2000,” IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, vol. 40, pp. 2117-2130, October 2002.
- [39.] Li, L., S. M. Sekelsky, S. C. Reising, C. T. Swift, S. L. Durden, G. A. Sadowy, S. J. Dinardo, F. K. Li, A. Huffman, G. Stephens, D. M. Babb, and H. W. Rosenberger, “Retrieval of atmospheric attenuation using combined ground-based and airborne 95 GHz cloud radar measurements,” J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., vol. 18, pp. 1345-1353, August 2001.
- [40.] Camps, A. J., and S. C. Reising, Wind direction azimuthal signature in the Stokes emission vector from the ocean surface at microwave frequencies,” Microwave Opt. Technol. Lett., vol. 29, pp. 426-432, June 2001.
- [41.] Bernhardt, P. A., C. A. Selcher, S. Basu, G. Bust, and S. C. Reising, “Atmospheric studies with the Tri-Band Beacon instrument on the COSMIC constellation,” Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, vol. 11, pp. 291-312, March 2000.
- [42.] Reising, S. C., U. S. Inan, and T. F. Bell, “ELF sferic energy as a proxy indicator for sprite occurrence,” Geophys. Res. Lett., vol. 26, pp. 987-990, April 1999.
- [43.] F¨ullekrug, M., and S. C. Reising, “Excitation of Earth-ionosphere cavity resonances by sprite-associated lightning flashes,” Geophys. Res. Lett., vol. 25, pp. 4145-4148, November 1998.
- [44.] Pasko, V. P., U. S. Inan, T. F. Bell, and S. C. Reising, “Mechanism of ELF radiation from sprites,” Geophys. Res. Lett., vol. 25, pp. 3493-3496, September 1998.
- [45.] F¨ullekrug, M., A. C. Fraser–Smith, and S. C. Reising, “Ultra-slow tails of sprite-associated lightning flashes,” Geophys. Res. Lett., vol. 25, pp. 3497-3500, September 1998.
- [46.] Bell, T. F., S. C. Reising, and U. S. Inan, “Intense continuing currents following positive cloud-to-ground lightning associated with Red Sprites,” Geophys. Res. Lett., vol. 25, pp. 1285-1288, April 1998.
- [47.] F¨ullekrug, M., S. C. Reising, and W. A. Lyons, “On the accuracy of arrival azimuth determination of sprite-associated lightning flashes by Earth-ionosphere cavity resonances,” Geophys. Res. Lett., vol. 23, pp. 3691-3694, December 1996.
- [48.] Reising, S. C., U. S. Inan, T. F. Bell, and W. A. Lyons, “Evidence for continuing current in sprite-producing cloud-to-ground lightning,” Geophys. Res. Lett., vol. 23, pp. 3639-3642, December 1996.
- [49.] Inan, U. S., S. C. Reising, G. J. Fishman, and J. M. Horack, “On the association of terrestrial gamma-ray bursts with lightning and implications for sprites,” Geophys. Res. Lett., vol. 23, pp. 1017-1020, May 1996.
- [50.] Indeck, R. S., S. C. Reising, J. R. Hoinville, and M.W. Muller, “DC track edge interactions,” J. Appl. Phys., vol. 69, pp. 4721-4723, 1991.