Brandi Downs

Jet Propulsion Laboratory — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

6h-index178citations22works1.12yr avg
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Research Topics

Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing(13), Precipitation Measurement and Analysis(7), Flood Risk Assessment and Management(4), Geophysics and Gravity Measurements(4), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies(2)

Publications22 total

Earth Observations & the Earth Science Workforce: Advancing Water Security and National Preparedness
2025Open Access
Collaborative Development of A CYGNSS Flood Product for Enhanced Disaster Risk Management and Response
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society·2025
An Estimate of Effective Resolution for CYGNSS Surface Water Detection Revealed by Comparison with Multi-sensor Optical Data
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
The Microwave Monitoring of Water With Applications (MAMI WATA) MIRS Workshop: A Brief Report [Conference Reports]
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine·2024
NISAR: Seeing Beyond the Trees to Understand Wetlands, Forests and Biodiversity
2024· 3 cited
Preparing an on-Demand Cloud Processing Workflow for NISAR Ecosystems Science Products
2024· 1 citedOpen Access
The NASA ISRO SAR (NISAR) Mission - Validation of Science Measurement Requirements
2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Comparison of GNSS-R Coherent Reflection Detection Algorithms Using Simulated and Measured CYGNSS Data
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing·2023· 25 cited
Assessing the Relative Performance of GNSS-R Flood Extent Observations: Case Study in South Sudan
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing·2023· 30 cited
Comparison of SAR and CYGNSS Surface Water Extent Metrics
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing·2022· 16 citedOpen Access
Leveraging Nisar Activities to Support CYGNSS Wetlands Calibration & Validation
2021· 2 cited
Water Depth Retrieval in the Everglades Using Cygnss
2021· 5 cited
State of the Art in GNSS-R Capabilities Over Inland Waters
2021· 8 cited
Using GNSS Reflectometry Measurements Over the Everglades to Identify Variations in Wetland Inundation Extent Beneath Vegetation
2021· 2 citedOpen Access
Monitoring Dynamic Changes in Terrestrial Surface Water Using the NASA Cygnss Satellite Constellation
43rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 28 January - 4 February·2021
Modeling and Analysis of GNSS-R Measurements in Wetland Areas
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts·2020
Sea Ice Observations with 0.5-2 GHz Microwave Radiometry as part of the MOSAiC Campaign
2020
Investigation of Coherent and Incoherent Scattering from Lakes Using Cygnss Observations
2020· 6 cited
Simulation Study of Cygnss Observability of Dynamic Inundation Events
2020· 2 cited
Analysis of scattering characteristics from inland bodies of water observed by CYGNSS
Remote Sensing of Environment·2020· 72 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Cinzia Zuffada(15), Eric Loria(11), Andrew O’Brien(11), Valery U. Zavorotny(8), Mary Morris(8), Ilaria Mara Russo(6), Marco Lavalle(6), Bruce Chapman(5), M. Di Bisceglie(5), C. Galdi(4), Albert J. Kettner(2), Andrew O’Brien(2), Kyle McDonald(2), Alexandra Christensen(2), K. C. Cushman(2), Josef Kellndorfer(2), Adriana Parra(2), Sassan Saatchi(2), Paul Siqueira(2), G. Robert Brakenridge(1)