Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Laboratory
11100 Johns Hopkins Road
Mail Code 7-374
Laurel, MD 20723-6099
Tel: 240-228-5384
FAX: 240-228-5548
Email:
keith.raney@jhuapl.edu
Biography (Synopsis): R. Keith Raney
Dr. Raney is a member of the Principal Professional Staff with
the Space Department of the Johns Hopkins University Applied
Physics Laboratory, and is the Assistant Supervisor of the
Ocean Remote Sensing Group. Currently he is developing advanced
radar altimeter and radar ice sounding concepts. While with the
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (1976-1994) Dr. Raney helped
to initiate the Radarsat mission. As the Radarsat Project
Scientist, he was responsible for the conceptual design of the
synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system. 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 was scientific authority for the Canadian Seasat processor,
the world's first digital processor for satellite SAR data. He
is the principal inventor for the U.S. patent on the chirp
scaling SAR processing algorithm, holds the patent on the
Delay/Doppler radar altimeter, and has a patent pending on an
ice sounding radar. These and other contributions in remote
sensing systems, theory, and applications are documented in
more than 300 professional publications.
Dr. Raney was on the founding Board of Associate Editors for
the International Journal of Remote Sensing (1980 -), serves as
an Associate Editor (radar) for the IEEE Transactions on
Geoscience and Remote Sensing (1982 -) and is on the Editorial
Board of the Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. He is a past
president of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
(1988 and 1989). He serves on source selection boards and
advisory committees for various organizations, including NASA
(Pioneer Venus, SIR-B Investigator selection, etc.), the Office
of Naval Research Board of Visitors (1992, 1993, 1995), the
U.S. National Academy of Sciences review board for space-based
imaging radar (1997) and Committee on Earth Sciences (1998-),
and NASA's Instrument Definition Team (1998-1999) for the
Europa Orbiter. He is on the Science Advisory Group for the
European Space Agency's CryoSat radar altimeter Earth Explorer
project, serves on the Europa Orbiter Radar Sounder Team
(NASA/JPL), and is the Principal Investigator of the JHU/APL
Instrument Incubator Project (NASA) The New Generation of
Radar Altimeters: Proof of Concept. He is a Fellow of the
Electromagnetics Academy and a Fellow of the IEEE. Dr. Raney is
a recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award and the
Outstanding Service Award of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote
Sensing Society, a Group Achievement Award for the Magellan
Radar Science Team, the 1999 Gold Medal of the Canadian Remote
Sensing Society, the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
Transactions Prize Paper for 1998, a Special Publication
Award for 1999 from the Johns Hopkins University Applied
Physics Laboratory, the Millennium Medal 2000 from the IEEE,
and other awards.
Selected Bibliography
- R. K. Raney, G. H. Fountain, R. E. Gold, A. L. Lew, and D. L.
Porter, WITTEX: A Constellation of Three Small Satellite Radar
Altimeters, Proceedings, The 13th Annual AIAA/Utah State
University Conference on Small Satellites, August 23-26,
Provo, Utah, 1999.
- R. K. Raney, Radar Altimetry, Volume 17, Encyclopedia of
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, John Wiley and Sons,
March 1999, pp 547-560.
- R. K. Raney, The Delay/Doppler Radar Altimeter, Transactions,
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 36, No. 5, Sept.
1998, pp 1578-1588.
- R. K. Raney, Delay Compensated Doppler Radar Altimeter, U. S.
Patent No. 5,736,957, Issued April, 1998.
- R. K. Raney, Radar Fundamentals: Technical Perspective, Chapter 1,
Manual of Remote Sensing, 3rd Ed., Vol. 2, Principles and
Applications of Imaging Radar, F. Henderson and A. Lewis (Eds),
John Wiley and Sons, July 1998, pp 9-130.
- R. K. Raney, From Coherence to Confusion: a Conservative SAR View,
in Modern Radio Science 1996, J. Hamelin, Editor, Oxford
University Press, 1996, pp 1-33.
- R. K. Raney, H. Runge, R. Bamler, I. G. Cumming, and F. W. Wong,
Precision SAR Processing Using Chirp Scaling, IEEE
Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 32, No.
4, 1994, pp 786 -799.
- S. Haykin, E. O. Lewis, R. K. Raney, and J. Rossiter, Remote
Sensing of Sea Ice and Icebergs, Wiley-Interscience, New
York, 1994, 678 pages plus index. (Author or co-author of three
chapters).
- R. K. Raney, Radar Views of the Ocean Surface, Chapter 19
(Invited), Review of Radio Science 1990-1992, W. Ross
Stone (Ed.), International Union of Radio Science, Oxford
University Press, New York, 1993, pp 373-392.
- R. K. Raney, Probing Ice Sheets with Imaging Radar, Perspective
Article (Invited), Science, Vol. 262, 3 Dec 1993, pp
1521-1522.
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