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Rashmi Shah

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4800 Oak Grove Drive

Pasadena, CA 91109

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Member of:

Water & Ecosystems

Group Supervisor

Biography

Rashmi Shah is the group supervisor for the Water and Ecosystems group. An expert in microwave remote sensing, she specializes in using signals of opportunity reflectometry to study snow, soil moisture, and coastal oceans. Since joining JPL, she has contributed to ocean altimetry calibration and validation, led technology development for snow remote sensing using signals of opportunity, and served as project manager for the NASA INVEST SNOOPI mission. She has also participated in numerous other mission development efforts and acted as associate directorate technologist for JPL's Earth Science and Technology Directory.

Education

  • PhD., Aeronautics/Astronautics Engineering, Purdue University (2014)
  • M.S., Aeronautics/Astronautics Engineering, Purdue University (2010)
  • B.S., Electrical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology (2007)

Professional Experience

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2014-present):

  • Associate Directorate Technologist for the Earth Science and Technology Directorate (2021-Present)
  • Research Technologist (2014-Present)
  • Architecture-Team Core Team Member (2018-2022)

Community Service

  • Technical Committee Chair for IEEE GRSS Instrumentation and Future Technologies Technical Committee (2023-Present)
  • Technical Program Co-Chair for 2023 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2023
  • Associate Editor for IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS), (2019-Present)

Research Interests

Rashmi Shah's research interests lie in science and technology development using small satellites for land and ocean remote sensing, including snow, soil moisture, altimetry of water bodies, and signals of opportunity remote sensing. She is particularly interested in understanding ocean-land dynamics in coastal regions and understanding snow’s effect on water resource management.

Selected Awards

  • JPL Lew Allen Award (2024)
  • IEEE GRSS JSTARS Best Paper Award (2021)
  • NASA Group Honor Award (2021)
  • IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Early Career Award (2020)
  • NASA Early Career Public Achievement Medal (2019)
  • JPL Voyager Award (2023, 2019)

Selected Publications

  1. J. L. Garrison, M. A. Vega, R. Shah, J. R. Mansell, B. Nold, J. Raymond, R. Banting, R. Bindlish, K. Larsen, S. Kim, W. Li, M. Kurum, J. Piepmeier, H. Khalifi, F. A. Tanner, K. Horgan, C. E. Kielbasa, S. R. Babu, “SNOOPI: Demonstrating Earth remote sensing using P-band signals of opportunity (SoOp) on a CubeSat,” Advances in Space Research, Volume 73, Issue 6, 2024, Pages 2855-2879, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2023.10.050.
  2. J. Gaudreau, E. Raines, J. T. Johnson, J. L. Garrison, J. D. Ouellette and R. Shah, "Ocean Wave Period Measurements Using S-Band Signals of Opportunity Reflections," in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 17, pp. 8020-8027, 2024, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3383842.
  3. KISS Continuity Study Team. "Toward a US framework for continuity of satellite observations of Earth's climate and for supporting societal resilience." Earth's Future 12.2 (2024): e2023EF003757. doi: 10.1029/2023EF003757
  4. H. Xu, L. Tsang, X. Xu, S. Yueh, S. A. Margulis and R. Shah, "Bistatic Rough Surface Scattering at P-Band in Grand Mesa Based on Lidar Observations of Surface Roughness and Topography," in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 17, pp. 35-44, 2024, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2023.3324217.
  5. I. Collett, Y. Wang, R. Shah and Y. J. Morton, “Phase Coherence of GPS Signal Land Reflections and its Dependence on Surface Characteristics," IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 19, pp. 1-5, 2022, Art no. 3003705, https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2021.3094407
  6. T.M. Roberts, I. Colwell, C. Chew, S. Lowe, R. Shah, “A Deep-Learning Approach to Soil Moisture Estimation with GNSS-R," Remote Sens., 2022, 14, 3299. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14143299
  7. S. H. Yueh, R. Shah, X. Xu, B. Stiles and X. Bosch-Lluis, “A Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar Concept Using P-Band Signals of Opportunity," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 14, pp. 2796-2816, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2021.3059242
  8. H. Carreno-Luengo, A. Camps, C. Ruf, ..., R. Shah, et al., “The IEEE-SA Working Group on Spaceborne GNSS-R: Scene Study," IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 89906-89933, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3089762
  9. S. Abdalla, A.K. Abdolnabi, M. Ablain, S. Adusumilli, S. A. Bhowmick, ..., R. Shah, et al., “Altimetry for the future: Building on 25 years of progress." Advances in Space Research 68, no. 2 (2021): 319-363. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2021.01.022
  10. M. M. Al-Khaldi, ..., R. Shah, et al., “Inland Water Body Mapping Using CYGNSS Coherence Detection," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 59, no. 9, pp. 7385-7394, Sept. 2021, https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2020.3047075
  11. M. M. Al-Khaldi, R. Shah, C. C. Chew, J. T. Johnson and S. Gleason, “Mapping the Dynamics of the South Asian Monsoon Using CYGNSS's Level-1 Signal Coherency," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 14, pp. 1111-1119, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2020.3042170
  12. S. H. Yueh, R. Shah, M. J. Chaubell, A. Hayashi, X. Xu and A. Colliander, “A Semiempirical Modeling of Soil Moisture, Vegetation, and Surface Roughness Impact on CYGNSS Reectometry Data," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 60, pp. 1-17, 2022, Art no. 5800117, https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2020.3035989
  13. M. Morris, C. Chew, J. T. Reager, R. Shah, and C. Zuffada, “A novel approach to monitoring wetland dynamics using CYGNSS: Everglades case study," Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 233, pp. 111417, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111417
  14. P. N. Mohammed, A. J. Schoenwald, R. Pannu, J. R. Piepmeier, D. Bradley, S. C. Ho, R. Shah and J. L. Garrison, “Detection of Radio Frequency Interference in Microwave Radiometers Operating in Shared Spectrum," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 57, no. 9, pp. 7067-7074, Sept. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2019.2911290
  15. J. Benveniste, A. Cazenave, S. Vignudelli, L. Fenoglio-Marc, R. Shah, R. Almar, O. B. Andersen, et al., “Requirements for a Coastal Zone Observing System," Frontiers in Marine Science, section Coastal Ocean Processes, vol. 6, pp. 348, Jul. 2019. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00348
  16. S. Yueh, R. Shah, X. Xu, K. Elder, and B. Starr, “Experimental Demonstration of Soil Moisture Remote Sensing Using P-Band Satellite Signals of Opportunity," IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Jul. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2019.2918764
  17. S. C. Ho, R. Shah, P. Mohammed, A. Scheonwald, J. Piepmeier, and R. K. Pannu, “Wideband Ocean Altimetry using Ku and K-band Satellite Signals of Opportunity (SoOp): Proof of Concept," IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 16, no. 7, pp. 1012-1016, Jul. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2019.2891976
  18. S. H. Yueh, X. Xu, R. Shah, Y. Kim, J. L. Garrison, A. Komanduru, and K. Elder, “Remote Sensing of Snow Water Equivalent Using Coherent Reflection from Satellite Signals of Opportunity: Theoretical Modeling," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 10, no. 12, pp. 5529-5540, Dec. 2017. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2017.2743172
  19. R. Shah and J. L. Garrison, “Precision of Ku-Band Reflected Signals of Opportunity Altimetry," IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 14, no. 10, pp. 1840-1844, Oct. 2017. https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2017.2737949
  20. R. Shah, X. Xu, S. Yueh, C. Chae, K. Elder, B. Starr, and Y. Kim, “Remote Sensing of Snow Water Equivalent Using P-Band Coherent Reflection," IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 309-313, March 2017. https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2016.2636664
  21. S.V. Nghiem, C. Zuffada, R. Shah, C. Chew, S. T. Lowe, A. J. Mannucci, E. Cardellach, G. R. Brakenridge, G. Geller, and A. Rosenqvist, “Wetland Monitoring with Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry," Earth and Space Science, vol. 4, pp. 16{39, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016EA000194
  22. C. Chew, R. Shah, C. Zuffada, G. Hajj, D. Masters, and A.J. Mannucci, “Demonstrating soil moisture remote sensing with observations from the UK TechDemoSat-1 satellite mission," Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 43, no. 7, pp. 3317-3324, Apr. 2016. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL068189
  23. R. Shah, J.L. Garrison, A. Egido, and G. Ruffni, “Bistatic Radar Measurements of Significant Wave Height Using Signals of Opportunity in L-, S-, and Ku-Bands," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 54, no. 2, pp 826-841, Feb. 2016. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2015.2466682
  24. R. Shah and J.L. Garrison, “Application of Digital Communication Signals to Measure Ocean Parameters using ICF Coherence Time Method," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 1584-1591, May 2014. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2314531
  25. R. Shah, J. L. Garrison, and M.S. Grant, “Demonstration of Bistatic Radar for Ocean Remote Sensing Using Communication Satellite Signals," IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 619-623, July, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2011.2177061