RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  • Monitoring Earth’s climate variables with satellite laser altimetry January 30, 2024
    “Monitoring Earth’s climate variables with satellite laser altimetry” , was recently published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment by the Center’s Lori Magruder and Amy Neuenschwander on how satellite laser altimetry has provided critical measurements of Earth for multi-disciplinary knowledge of climate impact. Co-authors on the paper include Sinead Farrell and Laura Duncanson of the ...
  • Monitoring Coastal Waves with ICESat-2 January 11, 2024
    “Monitoring Coastal Waves with ICESat-2“, was recently published in the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering by the Center’s James Dietrich and Matt Holwill characterizing coastal waves with ICESat-2. Abstract: The coastal zone faces an ever-growing risk associated with climate-driven change, including sea level rise and increased frequency of extreme natural hazards. Often the location and ...
  • Paper on Innovative Solutions for Remote Sensing Analytics published by CSR Ph.D Student Jonathan Sipps December 21, 2023
    A new paper, “Modeling Uncertainty of GEDI Clear-Sky Terrain Height Retrievals Using a Mixture Density Network”, was recently published in the Special Issue of Remote Sensing and Ecosystem Modeling for Nature-Based Solutions by The University of Texas Center for Space Research Ph.D student, Jonathan Sipps, about innovative solutions for remote sensing analytics using machine learning ...
  • Ocean Altimetry Observations Confirm Models of Sea-Level Change from Greenland Mass Loss September 30, 2022
    As ice sheets and glaciers continue to lose mass, we expect sea levels to rise by different amounts around the world and even to fall near the ice sheets. Models predicting these patterns form the basis of future sea-level projections.  However, the patterns over large spatial scales have never been directly observed, as they were ...
  • Earth gravity field models from first space borne laser ranging interferometer December 22, 2021
    CSR GRACE Follow-On group published the first global Earth gravity field models to be derived from space borne laser ranging interferometer, flown as a technology demonstration onboard the joint NASA/GFZ GRACE Follow-On mission. This paper is particularly significant because space geodesy is transitioning from using the microwave interferometric techniques (used on GRACE and GRACE-FO missions) ...
  • Amazon river runoff from GRACE gravimetry, climate models and in situ observations October 29, 2020
    A group of researchers led by Dr. Jianli Chen at the Center for Space Research published a new study in Water Resources Research (https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR028032). The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite gravimetry provides a revolutionary means for monitoring and measuring global mass redistribution and movement with unprecedented accuracy. Combining GRACE observed terrestrial water storage ...
  • CSR Contributes to NASA Earth Science Implementation Plans February 12, 2020
    Dr. Bettadpur is one of the authors of a National Academies committee report that provides an assessment of the geodetic infrastructure needed for NASA to implement its next decade’s Earth Science plans. Dr. Bettadpur’s contribution to this report drew on the long-standing CSR contributions in the areas of space geodesy and space missions. Source: https://www.nap.edu/read/25579/ https://www.unavco.org/highlights/2020/gi-report.html
  • Interannual Oscillations in Earth Rotation January 10, 2020
    Dr. Jianli Chen, a Senior Research Scientist at the UT Center for Space Research led a new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research . Variations of Earth rotation are ...
  • Missing Hydrological Contribution to Sea Level Rise December 18, 2019
    Researchers at the Seoul National University and UT Center for Space Research published a new joint study in the Geophysical Research Letters (https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019GL085470). This study was led by Jae-Seung Kim, a graduate student of Dr. Ki-Weon Seo who has been a visiting scientist at UT CSR for the past year. During the last decade, the ...
  • Improved Quantification of Global Mean Ocean Mass Change Using GRACE December 6, 2019
    Dr. Jianli Chen and a group of scientists at the Center for Space Research are the authors of a new study just published in the Geophysical Research Letters (https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019GL085519). GRACE satellite gravimetry provides a revolutionary means for monitoring and measuring global mass redistribution and movement with unprecedented accuracy. The Integration of GRACE satellite gravity measurements, ...