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Monday, October 17 |
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| 07:30 |
Registration |
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| 8:50 – 10:50 |
S01: Opening Session – Session Chair : Joel T. Johnson |
| 8:50 – 9:10 |
Organizing Committee |
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Conference Opening |
| 9:10 – 9:50 |
Vanessa Moss (University of Sydney, Australia), Ron Ekers and John Reynolds |
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The Impact of RFI on Radio Astronomy Science |
| 9:50 – 10:30 |
David Le Vine (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA), Jeffrey R. Piepmeier and Joel T. Johnson |
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RFI and Remote Sensing from Space |
| 10:30 – 10:50 |
Michael Davis, David M. Le Vine, Liese van Zee, Jasmeet Judge, William Blackwell, Todd Gaier, Darrel Emerson, Amy Lovell, Paul Feldman, Paul Siqueira and Greg Taylor (University of New Mexico, USA) |
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The Committee on Radio Frequencies: Protecting the Scientific Use of the Radio Spectrum |
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| 10:50 – 11:10 |
Coffee break |
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| 11:10 – 12:50 |
S02: RFI Mitigation: General Techniques and Their Applications to Radio Astronomy – Session Chair: Brian D. Jeffs |
| 11:10 – 11:50 |
Willlem Baan (ASTRON, The Netherlands) and Albert-Jan Boonstra |
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Interference Mitigation and Excision: A Review |
| 11:50 – 12:10 |
Michael R. Inggs, Amit K. Mishra (University of Cape Town, South Africa) and Carel van der Merwe |
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FM Band Commensal Radar Technology Used for Air Situation Awareness over Radio Astronomy Reserves |
| 12:10 – 12:30 |
Pravin Raybole, Shri. Suresh Kumar (GMRT/NCRA-TIFR, India), Santaji Katore and Sanjeet Rai |
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Real Time Prediction, Detection and Co-Existing with Satellite Interference at GMRT |
| 12:30 – 12:50 |
Kaushal D. Buch (GMRT/NCRA-TIFR, India), Yashwant Gupta, Shruti Bhatporia, Swapnil Nalawade, Kishor Naik and Ajithkumar B. |
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Real-Time RFI Excision for the GMRT Wide-Band Correlator |
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| 12:50 – 14:00 |
Lunch break |
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| 14:00 – 16:00 |
S03: RFI and the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Mission (SMOS) – Session Chairs: Paolo de Matthaeis and Roger Oliva-Balague |
| 14:00 – 14:40 |
Yann Kerr (CESBIO-CNES, France), Philippe Richaume, Roger Oliva-Balague, Francois Cabot, Eric Anterrieu and Elena Daganzo-Eusebio |
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SMOS and RFI: A Long Story |
| 14:40 – 15:00 |
Manuel Castillo, Ekhi Uranga (ESA/ESAC, Spain), Roger Oliva-Balague, Elena Daganzo-Eusebio, Yann Kerr and Antonio de La Fuente |
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ESAC RFI Survey in the SMOS 1400–1427 MHz Passive Band |
| 15:00 – 15:20 |
Eric Anterrieu, Ali Khazaal, Francois Cabot (CESBIO-CNES, France) and Yann Kerr |
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Accurate Geolocation of RFI Sources from SMOS Interferometric Data |
| 15:20 – 15:40 |
Francois Cabot (CESBIO-CNES, France), Eric Anterrieu, Philippe Richaume, Yann Kerr and Ali Khazaal |
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RFI Assessment and Filtering Through SMOS Data Processing |
| 15:40 – 16:00 |
Roger Oliva-Balague (ESA/ESAC, Spain), Elena Daganzo-Eusebio, Yann Kerr, Manuel Castillo and Ekhi Uranga |
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RFI Can Be Switched Off: The SMOS Example |
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| 16:00 – 16:20 |
Coffee break |
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| 16:20 – 18:20 |
S04: Self-RFI Suppression in Astronomy – Session Chair: Amit K. Mishra |
| 16:20 – 16:40 |
Lister Staveley-Smith (International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research / University of WA, Australia), Bi-Qing For, Fuheng Liang, Wolfram Freudling and Martin Zwaan |
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HI RFI Environment at Large Single-Dish Telescopes |
| 16:40 – 17:00 |
Robert P. Millenaar (Square Kilometre Array, South Africa) and Abraham J. Otto |
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Innovations in Instrumentation for RFI Monitoring |
| 17:00 – 17:20 |
Michiel Brentjens (ASTRON, The Netherlands) and Willem A. Baan |
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Interference Due to Wind Turbines at 10–200 MHz |
| 17:20 – 17:40 |
Marcin Sokolowski (ICRAR, Australia), T. Ellement and Randall B. Wayth |
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The Statistics of Radio Frequency Interference Propagating from Long Distances to the Murchison Radio-Astronomy Observatory |
| 17:40 – 18:00 |
Bin Li and Sun Yunxia (Shanghay Astronomical Observatory, China) |
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RFI Protection at the Tianma Telescope Site |
| 18:00 – 18:20 |
Stuart Harper (University of Manchester, UK) |
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Impact of RFI from Satellites on Future Hi Intensity Mapping Experiments |
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| 19:00 – 20:30 |
Welcome reception |
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Tuesday, October 18 |
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| 8:30 – 10:30 |
S05: Spatial Approaches – Session Chair: Gregory Hellbourg |
| 8:30 – 9:10 |
Brian D. Jeffs (Brigham Young University, USA), Richard A. Black and Karl F. Warnick |
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Array Processing Methods for Radio Astronomical RFI Mitigation: Assessment of the State of the Art |
| 9:10 – 9:30 |
Jan-Willem Steeb (Stellenbosch University, South Africa), David B. Davidson and Stefan J. Wijnholds |
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Spatial Filtering of Near-Field Radio Frequency Interference at a LOFAR LBA Station |
| 9:30 – 9:50 |
Richard Black (Brigham Young University, USA) and Brian D. Jeffs |
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Spatial Null Broadening for Smeared RFI Mitigation in Phased Array Feed Radio Astronomy |
| 9:50 – 10:10 |
Peter Wyckoff (Pre-Detection Solutions LLC, USA) and Gregory Hellbourg |
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Polar Excision for RFI Mitigation in Radio Astronomy |
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| 10:10 – 10:30 |
Coffee break |
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| 10:30 – 12:30 |
S06: RFI and Passive Remote Sensing Below 4 GHz – Session Chairs: David M. Le Vine and Yann Kerr |
| 10:30 – 11:10 |
Priscilla N. Mohammed (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA), Jeffrey R. Piepmeier, Joel T. Johnson and Alexandra Bringer |
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Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Microwave Radiometer Radio Frequency Interference Mitigation: On Orbit Results |
| 11:10 – 11:30 |
Edward Kim (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA), Lynn Miles, Mark Wong and Albert Wu |
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Application of SMAP Spaceborne RFI Detection Schemes to Airborne Earth Sensing at L-Band |
| 11:30 – 11:50 |
Joel T. Johnson (Ohio State University, USA), Kenneth C. Jezek , Mustafa Aksoy, Alexandra Bringer, Mark Andrews, Hongkun Li, Chi-Chih Chen, Domenic Belgiovane, Vladimir Leuski, Giovanni Macelloni and Marco Brogioni |
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The Ultra-Wideband Software-Defined Radiometer (UWBRAD) for Ice Sheet Internal Temperature Sensing: RFI Detection and Filtering |
| 11:50 – 12:10 |
Elena Daganzo-Eusebio, Roger Oliva-Balague (ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands), Yann Kerr, Manuel Castillo and Ekhi Uranga |
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Extended RFI Sources in SMOS Data: Japan |
| 12:10 – 12:30 |
Yan Soldo, Paolo de Matthaeis (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA) and David M. Le Vine |
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L-Band RFI in Japan |
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| 12:30 |
Lunch distribution and Dispatch for VLA tour |
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| 14:00 – 18:30 |
VLA Tour |
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Wednesday, October 9 |
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| 8:30 – 10:30 |
S07: RFI Monitoring in Radio Astronomy – Session Chair: Willem Baan |
| 8:30 – 8:50 |
Willem A. Baan (ASTRON, The Netherlands) |
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Measuring Radio Frequency Interference |
| 8:50 – 9:10 |
Abraham J. Otto (Square Kilometre Array, South Africa), Robert P. Millenaar and Paul S. van der Merwe |
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Characterising RFI for SKA Phase 1 |
| 9:10 – 9:30 |
Daniel J. Mertely (NRAO, USA) |
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RF Emissions Characterization in an RF Reverberation Chamber |
| 9:30 – 9:50 |
Vinand Prayag (University of Mauritius, Mauritius), Nazir Vydelingum, Girish Kumar Beeharry and Michael R. Inggs |
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Radio Frequency Interference in Mauritius (Remote)
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| 9:50 – 10:10 |
Mark Bentum (ASTRON, The Netherlands) and Albert-Jan Boonstra |
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The RFI Situation for a Space-Based Low-Frequency Radio Astronomy Instrument (Remote)
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| 10:10 – 10:30 |
Diakanua Nkazi and Serge Tshibangu (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) |
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A Sustainable Petroleum Practice Around The SKA Protected Areas (Remote) |
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| 10:30 – 10:50 |
Coffee break |
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| 10:50 – 11:50 |
S08: Spectrum Management for Remote Sensing – Session Chair: Jeffrey Piepmeier |
| 10:50 – 11:30 |
Edoardo Marelli and Elena Daganzo-Eusebio (ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands) |
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Frequency Management for Remote Sensing: the ESA Perspective (Remote)
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| 11:30 – 11:50 |
Thomas von Deak (NASA Glenn Research Center, USA) and Daniel Bishop |
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Analysis Methodologies for Assessing RF Interference Impact on Space Based Remote Sensor Measurements |
| 11:50 – 12:50 |
S09: RFI in Active Remote Sensing Systems – Session Chair: Thomas von Deak |
| 11:50 – 12:30 |
Michael Spencer (NASA JPL, USA) |
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Spectrum Issues Faced by Active Remote Sensing: Radio Frequency Interference and Operational Restrictions |
| 12:30 – 12:50 |
Tobias Bollian (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA), Seung-Kuk Lee, Rafael Rincon, Batuhan Osmanoglu and Temilola Fatoyinbo |
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RFI Suppression in EcoSAR Data Using Music and Digital Beamforming |
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| 12:50 – 13:50 |
Lunch break |
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| 13:50 – 15:50 |
S10: Spectrum Management for Radio Astronomy – Session Chair: Tasso Tzioumis |
| 13:50 – 14:30 |
Harvey Liszt (NRAO, USA) |
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Spectrum Management in Theory and Practice, and its Relationship with Interference and RFI Mitigation |
| 14:30 – 14:50 |
Selaelo Matlhane (Square Kilometre Array, South Africa) |
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Wicked Problems of the Karoo Central Astronomy Advantage Areas |
| 14:50 – 15:10 |
Haiyan Zhang (National Astronomical Observatories of CAS, China), Hengqian Gan, Youling Yue, Jianmin Sun, Hao Hu, Shijie Huang, Jinyou Song, Bo Peng and Rendong Nan |
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Maintenance of FAST Radio Quiet Zone |
| 15:10 – 15:30 |
Qi Liu (XinJiang Astronomical Observatory, China), Ye Liu , Na Wang and Mao-Zheng Chen |
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Key Areas Interference Level Limits Quantized for 110m Radio Telescope Site |
| 15:30 – 15:50 |
Yahia Ramadan, Yucheng Dai, Hlaing Minn (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) and Fabiano Rodrigues |
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Spectrum Sharing Between WiFi and Radio Astronomy Systems |
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| 15:50 – 16:10 |
Coffee break |
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| 16:10 – 18:10 |
S11: RFI Detection, Identification and Characterization – Session Chair: André Offringa |
| 16:10 – 16:50 |
Dan Werthimer (University of California at Berkeley, USA) |
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Is Anybody Out There? |
| 16:50 – 17:10 |
Vishal Gajjar (University of California at Berkeley, USA), Jeff Cobb, Dan Werthimer, Eric Korpela, Matt Lebofsky and Andrew Siemion |
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RFI Mitigation from Commensal SETI Surveys |
| 17:10 – 17:30 |
Alan Erickson (NRAO, USA) and Kerry Shores |
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Architecture of a Database to Store Comprehensive RFI Data for Use in a Wide Variety of Instruments |
| 17:30 – 17:50 |
Daniel Czech, Amit K. Mishra (University of Cape Town, South Africa) and Michael R. Inggs |
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Identifying Radio Frequency Interference with Hidden Markov Models |
| 17:50 – 18:10 |
Daniel Czech, Amit K. Mishra (University of Cape Town, South Africa) and Michael R. Inggs |
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A Canonical Interferencelet-Based Approach to RFI Identification |
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| 19:30 – 22:00 |
Conference dinner |
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Thursday, October 20 |
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| 8:30 – 10:30 |
S12: RFI and Passive Remote Sensing Above 4 GHz – Session Chairs: Albin Gasiewski and Sidhart Misra |
| 8:30 – 9:10 |
Jeffrey R. Piepmeier (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA) |
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Radio Frequency Interference in Earth-Observing Microwave Radiometers Operating Within Shared Spectrum Allocations |
| 9:10 – 9:30 |
David W. Draper (Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation, USA) |
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Terrestrial and Space-Based RFI Observed by the GPM Microwave Imager (GMI) Within NTIA Semi-Protected Passive Earth Exploration Bands at 10.65 and 18.7 GHz |
| 9:30 – 9:50 |
Steen S. Kristensen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark), Jan E. Balling, Mirjana Tasevska, and Niels Skou |
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Real Time Processor for RFI Detection and Mitigation On-Board Future Spaceborne Radiometer Missions |
| 9:50 – 10:10 |
Joel T. Johnson, Chi-Chi Chen, Andrew O'Brien , Graeme E. Smith, Christa McKelvey (Ohio State University, USA), Mark Andrews, Chris Ball, Landon Garry, Sidharth Misra, Shannon Brown, Jonathan Kocz, Robert Jarnot, Damon C. Bradley, Priscilla N. Mohammed, Jared F. Lucey, Jeffrey R. Piepmeier, Kevin Horgan and Michael A. Solly |
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The CubeSat Radiometer Radio Frequency Interference Technology Validation (CubeRRT) Mission |
| 10:10 – 10:30 |
Sidhart Misra (NASA JPL, USA), Jonathon Kocz, Robert Jarnot, Shannon Brown and Joel T. Johnson |
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A Wide-Band On-Board Radio Frequency Interference Mitigating Digital Back-End System for the CubeRRT Cubesat Mission |
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| 10:30 – 10:50 |
Coffee break |
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| 10:50 – 12:50 |
S13: Hardware and Sofware Approaches for RFI Detection and Mitigation – Session Chair: Richard Prestage |
| 10:50 – 11:10 |
Phaneendra Kumar Bikkina (Alphacore Inc., USA), Esko Mikkola, Lloyd Linder and Andrew Levy |
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RFI Mitigating Receiver Back-End for Radiometers |
| 11:10 – 11:30 |
Ahmed Soliman (California Institute of Technology, USA), Sander Weinreb, Ganesh Rajagopalan, Chris Eckert and Lawrence Hilliard |
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Quad-Ridge Flared Horn Feed with Internal RFI Band Rejection Filter (Remote)
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| 11:30 – 11:50 |
Gregory Hellbourg (UC Berkeley, USA), Keith Bannister and Aidan Hotan |
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Spatial Filtering Experiment with the ASKAP Beta Array |
| 11:50 – 12:10 |
Cedric Dumez-Viou (Station de Radioastronomie Nançay, France), Gregory Hellbourg, Rodolphe Weber, Karim Abed-Meraim, Christophe Taffoureau and Steve Torchinsky |
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Two RFI Mitigation Experiments with the Embrace Demonstrator |
| 12:10 – 12:30 |
Eric Korpela (UC Berkeley, USA) |
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RFI Rejection in the SETI@home Pipeline : Status and Plans |
| 12:30 – 12:50 |
Richard Prestage (NRAO, USA) |
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Towards Production, Real-Time RFI Mitigation Implementations for Single Dish Radio Telescopes |
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| 12:50 – 13:50 |
Lunch break |
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| 13:50 – 15:50 |
S14: RFI Characterization – Session Chair: Harvey Liszt |
| 13:50 – 14:10 |
Balthasar T. Indermühle (CSIRO, Australia), Lisa Harvey-Smith, Carol Wilson and Kate Chow |
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The ASKAP RFI Environment as Seen Through BETA |
| 14:10 – 14:30 |
Shri S. Suresh Kumar (GMRT/NCRA-TIFR, India), Pravin Raybole, Sanjeet Rai and Ankur |
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Characterising and Mitigating RFI at the GMRT |
| 14:30 – 14:50 |
André Offringa (ASTRON, The Netherlands) |
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Using the AOFLAGGER for RFI Detection |
| 14:50 – 15:10 |
Bruno J. Martins and Urvashi Rau (NRAO, USA) |
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Automated Tuning of RFI Identification and Flagging Algorithms |
| 15:10 – 15:30 |
Thushara K. Gunaratne (NRC Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics, Canada), Michael P. Rupen and Brent Carlson |
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RFI Detection and Flagging in the SKA1-Mid Correlator Beamformer |
| 15:30 – 15:50 |
Robert V. Van Nieuwpoort (Netherlands eScience Center, The Netherlands) and Hanno Spreeuw |
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Towards Exascale Real-Time RFI Mitigation |
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| 15:50 – 16:10 |
Coffee break |
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| 16:10 – 17:10 |
S15: Kurtosis, Higher Order Statistics and Applications – Session Chair: Dan Werthimer |
| 16:10 – 16:30 |
Adam J. Schoenwald (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA), Damon C. Bradley, Priscilla N. Mohammed, Jeffrey R. Piepmeier, Mark Wong and Armen Gholian |
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Hardware Optimization and Performance Improvements for a Complex Signal Kurtosis Radio-Frequency Interference Detector |
| 16:30 – 16:50 |
Gelu M. Nita (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA), Dale E. Gary and Gregory Hellbourg |
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The Quantized Spectral Kurtosis Estimator |
| 16:50 – 17:10 |
Frank Schinzel (NRAO, USA) |
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Low-Frequency Interference, Mitigation, and Excision at The Long Wavelength Array in New Mexico |
