NPOESS Aircraft Sounder Testbed-Microwave (NAST-M): instrument description and initial flight results. - William J. Blackwell; John W. Barrett 002; Frederick W. Chen; Robert Vincent Leslie; Philip W. Rosenkranz; Michael J. Schwartz; David H. Staelin (IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2001)

Analysis of cloud impact on infrared and microwave atmospheric sounding performance using NAST. - William J. Blackwell; David H. Staelin (IGARSS, 2002)

Cloud flagging and clearing using high-resolution infrared and microwave sounding data. - William J. Blackwell; David H. Staelin (IGARSS, 2002)

Retrieval of atmospheric temperature and moisture pro .les from hyperspectral sounding data using a projected principal components transform and a neural network. - William J. Blackwell (IGARSS, 2003)

183-GHz and 425-GHz passive microwave spectrometers on the NPOESS Aircraft Sounder Testbed-Microwave (NAST-M). - Robert Vincent Leslie; William J. Blackwell; Philip W. Rosenkranz; David H. Staelin (IGARSS, 2003)

Neural network retrieval of atmospheric temperature and moisture profiles from cloud-cleared AIRS/AMSU radiances. - William J. Blackwell (IGARSS, 2004)

A neural-network technique for the retrieval of atmospheric temperature and moisture profiles from high spectral resolution sounding data. - William J. Blackwell (IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2005)

Combined microwave and hyperspectral infrared retrievals of atmospheric profiles in the presence of clouds using nonlinear stochastic methods. - William J. Blackwell; Frederick W. Chen; Laura G. Jairam (IGARSS, 2007)

Neural network retrieval of precipitation using NPOESS microwave sensors. - Frederick W. Chen; Laura J. Bickmeier; William J. Blackwell; Laura G. Jairam; Robert Vincent Leslie (IGARSS, 2007)

Atmospheric Thermodynamic Profiling with Neural Networks. - Frederick W. Chen; William J. Blackwell (IJCNN, 2007)

Neural Network Estimation of Atmospheric Profiles Using AIRS/IASI/AMSU Data in the Presence of Clouds. - William J. Blackwell; Frederick W. Chen; Laura G. Jairam; Michael L. Pieper (IGARSS (1), 2008)

Radiometric Validation of Microwave Satellite Instruments Using the Npoess Aircraft Sounder Testbed-Microwave (NAST-M) Sensor. - Laura G. Jairam; Laura J. Bickmeier; William J. Blackwell; Robert Vincent Leslie; Frederick W. Chen (IGARSS (2), 2008)

Improved Simulation Methodology for Retrieval of Convective Precipitation from Spaceborne Passive Microwave Measurements. - Robert Vincent Leslie; Laura J. Bickmeier; William J. Blackwell; Laura G. Jairam; Frederick W. Chen (IGARSS (1), 2008)

Improved all-weather atmospheric sounding using hyperspectral microwave observations. - William J. Blackwell; Robert Vincent Leslie; Michael L. Pieper; Jenna E. Samra (IGARSS, 2010)

Porting and testing NPOESS CrIMSS EDR algorithms. - Susan Kizer; Xu Liu 018; Allen M. Larar; William L. Smith; Daniel K. Zhou; Chris Barnet; Murty Divakarla; Guang Guo; William J. Blackwell; Robert Vincent Leslie; Laura G. Jairam; Karen St. Jermain (IGARSS, 2010)

Spatial filtering and resampling of multi-resolution microwave sounder observations. - Jenna E. Samra; William J. Blackwell; Robert Vincent Leslie (IGARSS, 2010)

NPP ATMS prelaunch performance assessment and Sensor Data Record validation. - William J. Blackwell; Lynn Chidester; Edward J. Kim 001; Robert Vincent Leslie; C.-H. Joseph Lyu; Tsan Mo (IGARSS, 2011)

Neural network estimation of atmospheric profiles using AIRS/AMSU observations: Improved uncertainty assessments. - William J. Blackwell; Michael L. Pieper; Zuoyu Tao (IGARSS, 2011)

NPP ATMS sensor model using fractional Brownian motion and thermal vacuum data. - Robert Vincent Leslie; William J. Blackwell; Michael DiLiberto; Mark Tolman (IGARSS, 2011)

Hyperspectral Microwave Atmospheric Sounding. - William J. Blackwell; Laura J. Bickmeier; Robert Vincent Leslie; Michael L. Pieper; Jenna E. Samra; Chinnawat Surussavadee; Carolyn A. Upham (IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2011)

Nanosatellites for earth environmental monitoring: The MicroMAS project. - William J. Blackwell; G. Allen; Christopher J. Galbraith; Timothy M. Hancock; Robert Vincent Leslie; Idahosa A. Osaretin; L. Retherford; Michael Scarito; C. Semisch; Michael Shields; M. Silver; D. Toher; et al. (IGARSS, 2012)

Design and analysis of a hyperspectral microwave receiver subsystem. - William J. Blackwell; Christopher J. Galbraith; Timothy M. Hancock; Robert Vincent Leslie; Idahosa A. Osaretin; Michael Shields; Paul Racette; Lawrence Hilliard (IGARSS, 2012)

Evaluation of CrIMSS operational products using in-situ measurements, model analysis fields, and retrieval products from heritage algorithms. - Murty Divakarla; Chris Barnet; Mitchell D. Goldberg; Degui Gu; Xu Liu 018; Xiaozhen Xiong; Susan Kizer; Guang Guo; Mike Wilson; Eric S. Maddy; Nicholas R. Nalli; Antonia Gambacorta; et al. (IGARSS, 2012)

Retrieving atmospheric temperature and moisture profiles from SUOMI NPP CrIS/ATMS sensors using CrIMSS EDR algorithm. - Xu Liu 018; Susan Kizer; Chris Barnet; Murty Divakarla; Degui Gu; Daniel K. Zhou; Allen M. Larar; Xiaozhen Xiong; Guang Guo; Nicholas R. Nalli; Antonia Gambacorta; Michael Wilson; et al. (IGARSS, 2012)

A global Precipitation retrieval algorithm for Suomi NPP ATMS. - Chinnawat Surussavadee; William J. Blackwell; Dara Entekhabi; Robert Vincent Leslie (IGARSS, 2012)

Neural network Jacobian analysis for high-resolution profiling of the atmosphere. - William J. Blackwell (EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process., 2012)

Foreword to the Special Issue on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing. - Antonio Plaza; José M. Bioucas-Dias; Anita Simic; William J. Blackwell (IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens., 2012)

Preparations for the MicroMAS CubeSat mission. - William J. Blackwell; G. Allen; Christopher J. Galbraith; Robert Vincent Leslie; Idahosa A. Osaretin; B. Reid; Michael Scarito; Michael Shields; E. Thompson; D. Toher; D. Townzen; Kerri L. Cahoy; et al. (IGARSS, 2013)

Earth limb calibration of scanning spaceborne microwave radiometers. - William J. Blackwell; Michael DiLiberto; Robert Vincent Leslie; Adam B. Milstein; Idahosa A. Osaretin; B. S. Cohen; Pratik K. Dave; Kerri L. Cahoy (IGARSS, 2013)

S-NPP advanced technology microwave sounder: Reflector emissivity model, mitigation, & verification. - Robert Vincent Leslie; William J. Blackwell; Kent Anderson; Edward Kim 001; F. Weng (IGARSS, 2013)

Foreword to the Special Issue on Radio Frequency Interference: Identification, Mitigation, and Impact Assessment. - William J. Blackwell; Ian Adams; Adriano Camps; David Kunkee (IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2013)

Foreword to the Special Issue on Intercalibration of Satellite Instruments. - Gyanesh Chander; Tim J. Hewison; Nigel P. Fox; Xiangqian Wu 001; Xiaoxiong Xiong; William J. Blackwell (IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2013)

Overview of Intercalibration of Satellite Instruments. - Gyanesh Chander; Tim J. Hewison; Nigel P. Fox; Xiangqian Wu 001; Xiaoxiong Xiong; William J. Blackwell (IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2013)

Error Variance Estimation for Individual Geophysical Parameter Retrievals. - Zuoyu Tao; William J. Blackwell; David H. Staelin (IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2013)

Small Satellite Constellations for Data Driven Atmospheric Remote Sensing. - William J. Blackwell; Kerri L. Cahoy (DyDESS, 2014)

Neural Network Estimation of Atmospheric Thermodynamic State for Weather Forecasting Applications. - William J. Blackwell; Adam B. Milstein; Bradley T. Zavodsky; Clay B. Blankenship (HCI (25), 2014)

A Neural Network Retrieval Technique for High-Resolution Profiling of Cloudy Atmospheres. - William J. Blackwell; Adam B. Milstein (IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens., 2014)

Radiometer Calibration Using Colocated GPS Radio Occultation Measurements. - William J. Blackwell; Rebecca L. Bishop; Kerri L. Cahoy; Brian Cohen; Clayton Crail; Lidia Cucurull; Pratik K. Dave; Michael DiLiberto; Neal Erickson; Chad Fish; Shu-peng Ho; Robert Vincent Leslie; et al. (IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2014)

Development of the Microwave Radiometer Technology Acceleration (MiRaTA) CubeSat for all-weather atmospheric sounding. - Kerri L. Cahoy; Anne D. Marinan; Weston Marlow; Timothy Cordeiro; William J. Blackwell; Rebecca L. Bishop; Neal Erickson (IGARSS, 2015)

Estimation theoretic methods for cubesat data interpolation in the presence of geolocation errors. - Weitong Ruan; Adam B. Milstein; William J. Blackwell; Eric L. Miller 001 (IGARSS, 2015)

Assessment of Radiometer Calibration With GPS Radio Occultation for the MiRaTA CubeSat Mission. - Anne D. Marinan; Kerri L. Cahoy; Rebecca L. Bishop; Susan Seto Lui; James R. Bardeen; Tamitha Mulligan; William J. Blackwell; Robert Vincent Leslie; Idahosa A. Osaretin; Michael Shields (IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens., 2016)

On the Use of Gaussian Random Processes for Probabilistic Interpolation of CubeSat Data in the Presence of Geolocation Error. - Weitong Ruan; Adam B. Milstein; William J. Blackwell; Eric L. Miller 001 (IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens., 2016)

Radiometer development for small satellite microwave atmospheric remote sensing. - William J. Blackwell (IGARSS, 2017)

An overview of the NASA tropics earth venture mission. - William J. Blackwell (IGARSS, 2017)

Potential impacts of WRC-2019 agenda items on scientific services. - Jasmeet Judge; Liese van Zee; William J. Blackwell; Sandra Cruz-Pol; Todd Gaier; Namir Kassim; David M. Le Vine; Amy Lovell; James Moran; Scott Ransom; Gabriel M. Rebeiz; Paul Siqueira (IGARSS, 2017)

Multiple output Gaussian process regression algorithm for multi-frequency scattered data interpolation. - Weitong Ruan; Adam B. Milstein; William J. Blackwell; Eric L. Miller 001 (IGARSS, 2017)

A Probabilistic Analysis of Positional Errors on Satellite Remote Sensing Data Using Scattered Interpolation. - Weitong Ruan; Adam B. Milstein; William J. Blackwell; Eric L. Miller 001 (IEEE Geosci. Remote. Sens. Lett., 2017)

Tropics: A Distributed Spacecraft Mission for Studying Tropical Storms. - William J. Blackwell (IGARSS, 2018)

Design and Performance of the Tropics Radiometer Components. - William J. Blackwell (IGARSS, 2018)

Precipitation Retrieval Accuracies of the Tropics Constellation of Passive Microwave Cubesats. - Chinnawat Surussavadee; William J. Blackwell; Dara Entekhabi; Robert Vincent Leslie (IGARSS, 2018)

Technology Evolution to Enable High-Performance Cubesat Radiometry Missions. - William J. Blackwell (IGARSS, 2019)

Development of an IEEE Standard for Calibration of Microwave Radiometers. - Derek Houtz; William J. Blackwell; Adriano Camps; William J. Emery; Albin J. Gasiewski; Axel Murk (IGARSS, 2019)

The Nasa Tropics Mission as a Pathfinder for Future Operational Earth Observing Systems. - William J. Blackwell (IGARSS, 2020)

Pre-Launch Calibration of the Nasa Tropics Constellation Mission. - Robert Vincent Leslie; William J. Blackwell; Andrew Cunningham; Michael DiLiberto; James Eshbaugh; Idahosa A. Osaretin (IGARSS, 2020)

Climate-Quality Calibration for Low Earth-Orbit Microwave Radiometry. - Philip W. Rosenkranz; William J. Blackwell; Robert Vincent Leslie (Remote. Sens., 2020)

NASA Tropics Pathfinder and Constellation Mission Preparations for Launches in 2021 and 2022. - William J. Blackwell (IGARSS, 2021)

Radiometer Calibration for the NASA Tropics Cubesat Mission. - Robert Vincent Leslie; William J. Blackwell; Michael DiLiberto (IGARSS, 2021)

Initial Radiance Validation of the Microsized Microwave Atmospheric Satellite-2A. - Angela Crews; William J. Blackwell; Robert Vincent Leslie; Michael S. Grant; Idahosa A. Osaretin; Michael DiLiberto; Adam B. Milstein; Stephen S. Leroy; Amelia Gagnon; Kerri L. Cahoy (IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2021)

New Measurements of Cloud Ice and Snow at 205 Ghz from the Nasa Tropics Pathfinder Mission. - William J. Blackwell (IGARSS, 2022)

TECHNOLOGY MATURATION ACHIEVED THROUGH THE NASA TROPICS MISSION. - William J. Blackwell (IGARSS, 2022)

The NASA Tropics Mission as a Pathfinder for Future LEO Microwave Sounders. - William J. Blackwell; Andrew Cunningham; Shawn Donnelly; Robert Vincent Leslie; Nicholas Zorn (IGARSS, 2022)

Precipitation Estimation from the NASA TROPICS Mission: Initial Retrievals and Validation. - Chris Kidd; Toshi Matsui; William J. Blackwell; Scott Braun; Robert Vincent Leslie; Zach Griffith (Remote. Sens., 2022)

Correcting Calibration Drifts Using Solar and Lunar Intrusions for Miniaturized Microwave Radiometers. - Angela Crews; William J. Blackwell; Robert Vincent Leslie; Michael S. Grant; Hu Yang 002; Kerri L. Cahoy (IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2022)

An Evaluation of NOAA-20 ATMS Instrument Pre-Launch and On-Orbit Performance Characterization. - Edward Kim 001; Saji Abraham; Joel Amato; William J. Blackwell; Peter Cho; James Fuentes; Mark Hernquist; James Kam; Robert Vincent Leslie; Quanhua (Mark) Liu; Cheng-Hsuan Lyu; Taichien Mao; et al. (IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2022)

An Adaptive Calibration Window for Noise Reduction of Satellite Microwave Radiometers. - John Xun Yang; Yalei You; William J. Blackwell; Quanhua (Mark) Liu; Ralph Ferraro; David W. Draper; Nigel Atkinson; Tim J. Hewison; Sidharth Misra; Jinzheng Peng (IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2022)

Quantifying and Characterizing Striping of Microwave Humidity Sounder With Observation and Simulation. - John Xun Yang; Yalei You; William J. Blackwell; Sidharth Misra; Rachael A. Kroodsma (IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2022)

Performance Analyses of Passive Microwave Atmospheric Sounding Approaches That Use Hyper-Spectral-Sampling and/or Multi-Angle-Sampling: Methods, Simulation Examples, and Pitfalls. - William J. Blackwell; Adam B. Milstein (IGARSS, 2023)

Tropics near Real Time Atmospheric Vertical Temperature and Water Vapor Profile Retrieval. - Adam B. Milstein; Michael L. Pieper; Robert Vincent Leslie; William J. Blackwell (IGARSS, 2023)

AI Enhancement to Resolve the Planetary Boundary Layer in AIRS/AMSU Retrievals. - Adam B. Milstein; Joseph A. Santanello; William J. Blackwell (IGARSS, 2023)

Results from the NASA Tropics Mission After One Year in Orbit. - William J. Blackwell; Andrew Cunningham; Michael DiLiberto; Shawn Donnelly; Chris Kidd; Min-Jeong Kim; Robert Vincent Leslie; Adam B. Milstein; Glenn Perras; Michael L. Pieper; Joelle Prince; Nicholas Zorn (IGARSS, 2024)

An Initial Validation of the NASA TROPICS Pathfinder Microwave Radiometer Observations. - Amelia Gagnon; Samantha N. Hasler; Juliana Chew; William J. Blackwell; Robert Vincent Leslie; Michael DiLiberto; Kerri L. Cahoy (IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens., 2025)