Fernando Rodriguez-Morales
- Senior Scientist
Contact Info
2335 Irving Hill Road
Lawrence, KS 66045
Biography —
Dr. Rodriguez-Morales contributes to the design, development, deployment and calibration of numerous ground and airborne radar systems. He has led or co-led multiple surveys of ice and snow in cold regions, including the Arctic and the Antarctic. Before joining CReSIS, Dr. Rodriguez-Morales developed devices, circuits, and systems for passive remote sensing operating at microwave, millimeter-wave, and sub-millimeter wave frequencies.
Education —
Selected Publications —
C. Leuschen, R. Forsberg, E. Arnold, Stokholm, T. Jensen, J. Li, J. Paden and F. Rodriguez-Morales, Dual-Frequency Radar Measurements for the SWIDA-RINGS Mission: Circumventing Antarctica to Map Its Grounding Line, Proc. IEEE Int. Geosci. Remote Sens. Symp., Brisbane, Australia, 2025, pp. 31-34.
F. Rodriguez-Morales, C. Leuschen, L. Taylor, V. Occhiogrosso, J. Mendel, and A. Wolf, A Low-Cost, UWB Microwave Radar Testbed for Measurements of Snow Thickness and Layered Media: Development and Operation onboard a Small UAS, Int. J. Microw. Wireless Tech., Aug. 2025, pp. 1-13, doi:10.1017/S1759078725101967.
S. Kaundinya, P. Toledo, C. Leuschen, R. Hale, J. Li, K.T. Karidi, J. Shang, J. Paden, H. Ailon, J. Sonntag, and F. Rodriguez-Morales, Development, Integration, and Deployment of an Advanced Radar Depth Sounder for Ice Imaging Onboard the NASA Gulfstream V Aircraft, IEEE J. Sel. Top. App. Earth Obs. Remote Sens., Vol. 18, 2025, pp. 23012-23028, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2025.3603948.
F. Rodriguez-Morales, J. Paden, A.S. Escalera Mendoza, R. Hale, K.T. Karidi, B. Schroeder, J. Shang, H. Talasila, C. Robinson, T. Jordan, and K. Nicholls, An UWB UHF Ice-Penetrating Radar for the Thwaites MELT Project, Proc. IEEE Int. Geosci. Remote Sens. Symp., Athens, Greece, 2024, pp. 37-40. DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10642054.
J. Li, F. Rodriguez-Morales, C. Leuschen, J. Paden, and E. Arnold, Snow stratigraphy observations from Operation IceBridge surveys in Alaska using S and C band airborne ultra-wideband FMCW (frequency-modulated continuous wave) radar, The Cryosphere, 17, 175–193, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-175-2023, 2023.
F. Rodriguez-Morales, J. Paden, H. Mai, V. Occhiogrosso, L. Taylor, H. Talasila, C. Leuschen, R. Hale, B. Schroeder, J. Kolli, E. Arnold, and N. Kurtz, A Multi-Channel UWB Airborne Microwave Radar for Swath Mapping of Snow Layers, Proc. IEEE Int. Geosci. Remote Sens. Symp., Athens, Greece, 2024, pp. 2163-2166. DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10641248.
F. Rodriguez-Morales, V. Occhiogrosso, B. Scarbrough, E. Arnold, V. Gjokaj, J. Albrecht, J. Papapolymerou, and P. Chahal, Operation of Rigid-Flex 3-D Printed Microwave Antennas for UWB Radar Under Thermal and Vibration Stress Conditions, Proc. 4th IEEE MTT-S Latin America Microwave Conference (LAMC-2023), San Jose, Costa Rica, Dec. 2023, pp. 129-132. DOI: 10.1109/LAMC59011.2023.10375538.
F. Rodriguez-Morales, J. Li, D. Gomez-Garcia, J. Shang, E. Arnold, C. Leuschen, C. Larsen, A. Shepherd, S. Hvidegaard, and R. Forsberg, A Compact, Reconfigurable, Multi-UWB Radar for Snow Thickness Evaluation and Altimetry: Development and Field Trials, IEEE J. Sel. Top. App. Earth Obs. Remote Sens., Vol. 14, 2021, pp. 6755–6765, 10.1109/JSTARS.2021.3092313.
F. Rodriguez-Morales, C. Leuschen, C. Carabajal, J. Paden, J. A. Wolf, S. Garrison, and J. McDaniel, “An Improved UWB Microwave Radar for Very Long-Range Measurements of Snow Cover,” IEEE Trans. Instr. Meas., Vol. 69, No. 10, Oct. 2020. pp. 7761-7772, 10.1109/TIM.2020.2982813.
F. Rodriguez-Morales, D. Braaten, H. T. Mai, J. Paden, P. Gogineni, J-B Yan, A. Abe-Ouchi, S. Fujita, K. Kawamura, S. Tsutaki, B. Van Liefferinge, and K. Matsuoka, A Mobile, Multi-Channel, UWB Radar for Ice Core Drill Site Identification in East Antarctica: Development and First Results, IEEE J. Sel. Top. App. Earth Obs. Remote Sens., Vol. 13, 2020, pp. 4836-4847, 10.1109/JSTARS.2020.3016287.
Memberships —
Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Senior Member, International Union of Radio Science (URSI)