Ground-Based Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing

Pranab Kumar Karmakar is currently pursuing research work principally in the area of modeling of integrated water vapor and liquid water in the ambient atmosphere. He is involved in research and teaching at the post-graduate level at the Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics, University of Calcutta in India. Dr. Karmakar published noteworthy outcomes of his research of tropical locations in different international and national journals of repute. All these are culminated into a book entitled Microwave Propagation and Remote Sensing: Atmospheric Influences with Models and Applications published by CRC Press in 2012.

• Ground-Based Remote Sensing. Radiometry. Ground-Based Zenith-Looking Radio Visibility at Microwave Frequencies over a Tropical Location. Radiometric Sensing of Temperature, Water Vapor, and Cloud Liquid Water. Ground-Based Radiometric Sensing of Thermodynamic Variables in the Polar Regions. Radiometric Estimation of Integrated Water Vapor Content. Microwave Radiometric Estimation of Excess Electrical Path. Characterization of Rain and Attenuation in the Earth-Space Path. References. Index.

"Certainly, the information content as well as the presentation of the book makes me interested to have it on my shelf. … The author has provided the necessary background for general readership as well as recent trends to arouse interest in the mind of students of electronics and communication engineering, in general, and microwave engineering, in particular. In addition, the book is going to be an important source of inspiration to researchers in the area of microwave sensing and measurement."––B. N. Basu, Emeritus Professor and Research Coordinator, Supreme Knowledge Foundation Group of Institutions, W. Bengal, India and Former Head, Electronics Engineering Department and Coordinator, Centre of Research in Microwave Tubes, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India"Written for physicists and engineers working in the area of microwave sensing of the atmosphere, this book is completely devoted to ground-based remote sensing. The text covers the fundamentals of microwave remote sensing, and examines microwave radiometric measurements and their applications."––IEEE Microwave Magazine, June 2014