Dr.
R. Keith Raney
Principal Professional Staff, Ocean Remote Sensing Group
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Dr.
Raney received a BS (with honors) in physics from Harvard
University in 1960, a MSEE from Purdue University in 1962,
and PhD in Computer Information and Control from the University
of Michigan in 1968. He contributed to the design of NASA's
Magellan Venus mapping radar, the European Space Agency's
ERS-1 SAR, and the Shuttle Imaging Radar SIR-C. He holds U.S.
patents on the chirp scaling SAR processing algorithm, the
Delay/Doppler radar altimeter, and an ice sounding radar,
and has a patent pending on bistatic radar altimetry. While
with the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (1976-1994) Dr.
Raney was co-initiator of the Radarsat mission. As the Radarsat
Project Scientist, he was responsible for the conceptual design
of the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system, and he was scientific
authority for the Canadian Seasat processor, the world's first
digital processor for satellite SAR data. These and other
contributions in remote sensing systems, theory, and applications
are documented in more than 300 professional publications.
He has been the keynote speaker for numerous conferences,
such as the Advanced SAR Workshop (2003) at the Canadian Space
Agency.
Dr. Raney was on the founding Board of Associate Editors for
the International Journal of Remote Sensing, has served since
1982 as an Associate Editor (radar) for the IEEE Transactions
on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, and is on the Editorial
Board of the Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing and the Proceedings
of the IEEE. He is a past president of the IEEE Geoscience
and Remote Sensing Society (1988 and 1989). He has served
on numerous advisory committees, including the Office of Naval
Research Board of Visitors, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
review board for space-based imaging radar and Committee on
Earth Sciences, Germany’s Helmholtz Society, the Danish
Technical Research Council, and NASA's Instrument Definition
Teams for the Europa Orbiter and the Mars ’05 missions.
He is on the Science Advisory Group for the European Space
Agency's CryoSat radar altimeter Earth Explorer mission. He
was Project Scientist for the NOAA/APL ESSP Proposal ABYSS.
He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Electromagnetics
Academy, and an Associate Fellow of the Canadian Aeronautics
and Space Institute. Dr. Raney is a recipient of the Outstanding
Achievement Award of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Society, Group Achievement Awards for the Pioneer Venus and
the Magellan Radar Science Teams, the 1999 Gold Medal of the
Canadian Remote Sensing Society, the IEEE Geoscience and Remote
Sensing Society Transactions Prize Paper for 1998, the Millennium
Medal 2000 from the IEEE, and other awards.
Selected
Publications
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Raney, R. K., W. H. F. Smith, D. T. Sandwell, J. R. Jensen,
D. L. Porter, and E. Reynolds, Abyss-Lite: Improved Bathymetry
from a Dedicated Small Satellite Delay-Doppler Radar Altimeter,
Proceedings, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
IGARSS 2003, Toulouse, France, July, 2003 (CD-ROM).
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Raney, R. K., & Jensen, J. R. (2002). An Airborne CryoSat
Prototype: The D2P Radar Altimeter, Proceedings of the International
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS02. Toronto:
IEEE.
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Raney, R. K., Porter, D. L., & Monaldo, F. M. (2002).
Bistatic WITTEX: an Innovative Constellation of Radar Altimeter
Satellites, Proceedings of the International Geoscience
and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS02. Toronto: IEEE.
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Raney, R. K., & Porter, D. L. (2001). WITTEX: An innovative
three-satellite radar altimeter concept. IEEE Transactions
on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 39(11), 2387-2391.
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Raney, R. K. and J. R. Jensen (2001). The New Generation
of Radar Altimeters: Proof of Concept, Final Report, to
NASA Instrument Incubator Program 1999-2001. Laurel, MD:
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
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Raney, R. K. (1999). Radar Altimetry. In J. G. Webster (Ed.),
Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
(Vol. 17, pp. 547-560). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
- Raney,
R. K. (1998). The delay Doppler radar altimeter. IEEE Transactions
on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 36(5), 1578-1588.
- Raney,
R. K. (1998). Radar fundamentals: technical perspective.
In F. Henderson & A. Lewis (Eds.), Principles and Applications
of Imaging Radar (3 ed., pp. 9-130). New York: Wiley Interscience.
- Raney,
R. K., Runge, H., Bamler, R., Cumming, I. G., & Wong,
F. G. (1994). Precision SAR processing using chirp scaling.
Transactions, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 32(4),
786-799.
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