Jilu Li
- Associate Research Professor
Contact Info
2335 Irving Hill Road
Lawrence, KS 66045
Education —
Research —
Primary Research Interests
- Radar systems for ice sheet remote sensing
- Advanced Radar signal and array processing
- Radar data analysis and interpretation
Selected Publications —
S. Kaundinya, P. Toledo, C. Leuschen, R. Hale, A. S. Escalera Mendoza, B. Schroeder, 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., (accepted), Aug. 2025.
J. A. MacGregor, M. A. Fahnestock, J. D. Paden, J. Li, J. P. Harbeck, and A. Aschwanden, A revised and expanded deep radiostratigraphy of the Greenland Ice Sheet from airborne radar sounding surveys between 1993 and 2019, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 2911–2931, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2911-2025.
Kenichi Matsuoka, Geir Moholdt, Jennifer Arthur, et al. (including J. Li), Towards an improved understanding of the Antarctic coastal zone and its contribution to future global sea level, ESS Open Archive, July 13, 2025.
J. Li, V. Goel, and K. Matsuoka, Re-processed radargram (NASA Operation Ice Bridge) across Martin Peninsula in the Amundsen Embayment, West Antarctica [Dataset], Norwegian Polar Institute, 2025. https://doi.org/10.21334/NPOLAR.2025.A8C519F4.
J.Li, D. Gomez-Garcia, F. Rodriguez-Morales, and C. Leuschen, Testing and Assessment of Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Susceptibility to Environmental Radio Frequency Interference, IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, vol. 66, no. 3, pp. 728-748, Jun. 2024. doi: 10.1109/TEMC.2024.3382576
[6] D. Varshney, M. Yari, O. Ibikunle, J. Li, J. Paden, A. Gangopadhyay, and M. Rahnemoonfar, Skip-WaveNet: a wavelet based multi-scale architecture to trace snow layers in radar echograms, Environmental Data Science (2024), 3: e39, 1–21, doi:10.1017/eds.2024.25
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.
I. Rowell, C. Martin, R. Mulvaney , H. Pryer, D. Tetzner, E. Doyle, H. M. Talasila , J. Li , and E. Wolff, An age scale for new climate records from Sherman Island, West Antarctica,” Clim. Past, 19, 1699–1714, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1699-2023.
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.
V., Debvrat, M. Rahnemoonfar, M. Yari, J. Paden, O. Ibikunle, and J. Li, Deep Learning on Airborne Radar Echograms for Tracing Snow Accumulation Layers of the Greenland Ice Sheet Remote Sensing 13, no. 14: 2707, 2021. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13142707.
T. M. Jordan, D. M. Schroeder, D. Castelletti, J. Li, and J. Dall, A Polarimetric Coherence Method to Determine Ice Crystal Orientation Fabric from Radar Sounding: Application to the NEEM Ice Core Region, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 57, No. 11, Nov. 2019, pp 8641-8657.
J. Li, F. Rodriguez-Morales, E. Arnold, C. Leuschen, J. Paden, J. Shang, D. Gomez-Garcia, C. Larsen, Airborne Snow Measurements over Alaska Mountains and Glaciers with a Compact FMCW Radar, IGARSS 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Yokohama, Japan, 2019, pp. 3906-3909.
Arnold E, Leuschen C, Rodriguez-Morales F, Li J, Paden J, Hale R, Keshmiri S (2019). CReSIS airborne radars and platforms for ice and snow sounding, Annals of Glaciology 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2019.37.
J. Li, B. Camps-Raga, F. Rodriguez, C. Leuschen, J. Paden, I. Otosaka, A. Shepherd, Airborne measurements of a Ka-band radar altimeter over Greenland land ice and arctic sea ice (abstract), IGS Symposium, July 2019, Stanford, CA.
J. Li, J. A. Vélez González, C. Leuschen, A. Harish, P. Gogineni, M. Montagnat, I. Weikusat, F. Rodriguez-Morales, and J. Paden, Multi-Channel and Multi-Polarization Radar Measurements around the NEEM Site, The Cryosphere, 12, 2689–2705, 2018.
H. Jeofry, N. Ross, A. L. Brocqd, A. Grahamd, J. Li, P. Gogineni, M. Morlighem, T. Jordan, and M. J. Siegert, Hard rock landforms generate 130 km ice shelf channels through water focusing in basal corrugations, Nature Communications, 9, 4576, 2018.
H. Jeofry, N. Ross, H. Corr, J. Li, M. Morlighem, P. Gogineni, and M. Siegert, A new bed elevation model for the Weddell Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Earth System Science Data Journal, essd-10, 711-725, 2018.
M. Adhikari and J. Li, Ice Surface and Bed Roughness Estimation of Petermann Glacier, 2018 IEEE Radar Conference, Oklahoma City, USA, April 23-27, 2018
S. K. Malyala, J.Li, M. Adhikari, and F. Rodriguez-Morales, Estimation of Ice Basal Reflectivity of Byrd Glacier Using RES Data, IGARSS 2017, 2017 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium at Fort Worth, TX, USA, DOI10.1109/IGARSS.2017.8127589.
J. B. Yan, S. Gogineni, F. Rodriguez-Morales, D. Gomez-Garcia, J. Paden, J. Li, C. Leuschen, D. Braaten, J. Richter-Menge, S. Farrell, J. Brozena, and R. Hale, Airborne Measurements of Snow Thickness: Using ultrawide-band frequency-modulated-continuous-wave radars, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine, vol. 5, Issue 2, pp. 57-76, June 2017.
H. Jeofry, N. Ross, H. Corr, J. Li, P. Gogineni, and M. Siegert, A deep subglacial embayment adjacent to the grounding line of Institute Ice Stream, West Antarctica, Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 461, 13 June 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP461.11.
A. M. Ilisei, J. Li, S. Gogineni, L. Bruzzone, Estimation of ice sheet attenuation by using radar sounder and ice core data, Proc. SPIE 10004, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XXII, 1000416; doi: 10.1117/12.2242038/.
M. J. Siegert, N. Ross, J. Li, D. M. Schroeder, D. Rippin, D. Ashmore, R. Bingham, and P. Gogineni, Subglacial controls on the flow of Institute Ice Stream, West Antarctica, Annals of Glaciology 57(73) 2016 doi: 10.1017/aog.2016.17.
T. Hughes, A. Sargent, J. Fastook, K. Purdon, J. Li, J.-B. Yan, and S. Gogineni, Sheet, stream, and shelf flow as progressive ice-bed uncoupling: Byrd Glacier, Antarctica, and Jakobshavn Isbrae, Greenland, The Cryosphere 10: 193-225. doi:10.5194/tc-10-193-2016.
R. Hale, H. Miller, S. Gogineni, J. B. Yan, F. Rodriguez-Morales, C. Leuschen, J. Paden, J. Li, T. Binder, D. Steinhage, M. Gehrmann, and D. Braaten, Multi-Channel Ultra-Wideband Radar Sounder and Imager, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2016 IEEE International.
J. A. MacGregor, J. Li, J. D. Paden, G. A. Catania, G. D. Clow, M. A. Fahnestock, S. Gogineni, R. E. Grimm, M. Morlighem, S. Nandi, H. Seroussi, and D. E. Stillman, Radar attenuation and temperature within the Greenland Ice Sheet, J. Geophys. Res. Earth Surface, Jun. 1, 2015, doi: 10.1002/2014JF003418.
Z. Wang, S. Gogineni, F. Rodriguez-Morales, J.-B. Yan, J. Paden, C. Leuschen, R. Hale, J. Li, C. Carabajal, D. Gomez-Garcia, B. Townley, R. Willer, L. Stearns, S. Child. and D. Braaten, Multichannel Wideband Synthetic Aperture Radar for Ice Sheet Remote Sensing: Development and the First Deployment in Antarctica,IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Vol. 9, No. 3, Mar 2016.
S. Gogineni, J.-B. Yan, J. Paden, C. Leuschen, J. Li, F. Rodrigueze-Morales, D. Braaten, K. Purdon, Z. Wang, W. Liu, and J. Gauch, Bed topography of Jakobshavn Isbrae, Greenland, and Byrd Glacier, Antarctica, J. of Glaciology, Vol. 60, No. 223, 2014, pp 813-833.
F. Rodriguez-Morales, S. Gogineni, C. Leuschen, J. Paden, J. Li, C. Lewis, B. Panzer, D. Gomez-Garcia, A. Patel, K. Byers, R. Crowe, K. Player, R. Hale, E. Arnold, L. Smith, C. Gifford, D. Braaten, and C. Panton, Advanced Multi-Frequency Radar Instrumentation for Polar Research, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., Vol. 52, No. 5, May 2014, pp. 2824-2842.
J. Li, J. Paden, C. Leuschen, F. Rodriguez-Morales, R. Hale, E. Arnold, R. Crowe, D. Gomez-Garcia, and S. Gogineni, High-Altitude Radar Measurements of Ice Thickness over the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets as a part of Operation Ice Bridge, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, VOL. 51, NO. 2, FEBRUARY 2013, pp. 742-754, DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2203822.
J. Yan, J. Li, F. Rodriguez-Morales, R. Crowe, D. Gomez-Garcia, E. Arnold, J. Paden, C. Leuschen, and S. Gogineni, Measurements of In-Flight Cross-Track Antenna Patterns of Radar Depth Sounder/Imager, IEEE Transactions on Antennas & Propagation, Vol. 60, No. 12, Dec. 2012, pp. 5669-5678, DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2211327 .
A. Shepherd, and 43 other coauthors including J. Li, A Reconciled Estimate of Ice Sheet Mass Balance, Science, VOL. 338, NO. 6111 30 Nov. 2012, pp. 1183-1189, DOI: 10.1126/science.1228102.
Selected Presentations —
J. Li, D. Gomez-Garcia, F. Rodriguez-Morales, and C. Leuschen, Evaluation of Front-Door and Back-Door RFI Impacts on Small UAS Operation Safety, 2023 IEEE Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility & Signal/Power Integrity (EMC+SIPI), Grand Rapids, MI, USA, 2023, pp. 712-717, doi: 10.1109/EMCSIPI50001.2023.10241597.
O. Ibikunle, H. M. Talasila, D. Varshney, J. D. Paden, J. Li and M. Rahnemoonfar, Snow Radar Echogram Layer Tracker: Deep Neural Networks for radar data from NASA Operation IceBridge, 2023 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf23), San Antonio, TX, USA, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/RadarConf2351548.2023.10149734.
J. Li , C. Larsen , F. Rodriguez-Morales, E. Arnold, C. Leuschen, J. Paden, J. Shang , and D. Gomez-Garcia, Comparison of Coincident Forest Canopy Measurements from Airborne Lidar and Ultra- Wideband Microwave Radar, 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS, 2021, pp. 6064-6067, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9554932.
J.Li, B. Camps-Raga, F. Rodriguez-Morales, D. Gomez-Garcia, J. Paden and C. Leuschen, Snow Grain Size Estimates from Airborne Ka-Band Radar Measurements, IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Waikoloa, HI, USA, 2020, pp. 2924-2927, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9324062.
F. Rodríguez-Morales, J. Li, C. Leuschen, S. M. Hvidegaard and R. Forsberg, Airborne Altimetry Measurements in the Arctic Using a Compact Multi-Band Radar System: Initial Results, IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Waikoloa, HI, USA, 2020, pp. 3019-3022, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323804.
M. Adhikari and J. Li, Ice Surface and Bed Roughness Estimation of Petermann Glacier, 2018 IEEE Radar Conference, Oklahoma City, USA, April 23-27, 2018
Malyala, S. K., Li, J., Adhikari M., Rodriguez-Morales, F., "Estimation of Ice Basal Reflectivity of Byrd Glacier Using Radio Echo Sounding (RES) Data." IGARSS 2017, IGARSS 2017, 2017 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium at Fort Worth, TX, USA, DOI10.1109/IGARSS.2017.8127589
Memberships —
Senior member of IEEE
International Glaciology Society