Publications
Journal Papers
1. K. J. Kanaly, S. F. Bass, R. E. Jarvis, J. W. McDaniel, K. C. Kerby-Patel, and J. E. Ruyle, “Calibrated Cross-Frequency Backscatter Measurement of Antennas with Time-Varying Loads,” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 2022. (accepted).
2. C. Silva, A. A. Wael, J. W. McDaniel, and N. Pohl, “TC-24 Microwave/mm-Wave Radar, Sensing, and Array Systems Committee–2022,” IEEE Microwave Magazine, October, 2022. (accepted).
3. R. E. Jarvis, J. G. Metcalf, and J. W. McDaniel, “Adaptive Pulse Compression and Its Application in Radar Cross Section Measurements,” IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2022. (accepted).
4. R. E. Jarvis and J. W. McDaniel, “Methodology and Techniques for Highly-Precise Radar Cross Section Measurements at W-Band,” IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 86744-86749, Aug. 2022.
5. R. H. Kenney, J. L. Salazar-Cerreno, and J. W. McDaniel, “Two-Dimensional Beam Pattern Synthesis for Phased Arrays with Arbitrary Element Geometry via Magnitude Least Squares Optimization,” IEEE Journal of Microwaves, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 337-346, Apr. 2022.
6. R. E. Jarvis, J. G. Metcalf, J. E. Ruyle, and J. W. McDaniel, “Wideband Measurement Techniques for Extracting Accurate RCS of Single and Distributed Targets,” IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 71, pp. 1-12, Feb. 2022.
7. B. Sun, R. H. Kenney, M. B. Yeary, H. H. Sigmarsson, and J. W. McDaniel, “An Up-Sampled Particle Filter Fusion Technique and Its Application in Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging,” IEEE Journal of Microwaves, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 108-122, Nov. 2021.
8. R. E. Jarvis, R. G. Mattingly, and J. W. McDaniel, “UHF-Band Radar Cross Section Measure- ments Using Single Antenna Reflection Coefficient Results,” IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 70, pp. 1-4, Aug. 2021.
9. R. H. Kenney, C. Walker, H. H. Sigmarsson, and J. W. McDaniel, “A Varactor-Based Tun- able Combline Bandpass Filter Using Suspended Integrated Stripline (SISL),” IEEE Journal on Miniaturization for Air and Space Systems, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 112-116, Oct. 2020.
10. C. Walker, H. H. Sigmarsson, and J. W. McDaniel, “Design of a Wideband Surface Mountable Suspended Integrated Strip-line Technology,” IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 188825-188832, Oct. 2020.
11. F. R. Morales, C. Leuschen, J. Paden, C. Carabajal, A. Wolf, and S. Garrison, and J. W. Mc- Daniel, “An Improved UWB Microwave Radar for Very Long-Range Measurements of Snow Cover,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 69, no. 10, pp. 7761- 7772, Oct. 2020.
12. F. R. Morales, J. W. McDaniel, C. Carabajal, C. Leuschen, A. Wolf, and S. Garrison, “Prototyping an UWB Airborne Radar for Snow Probing Using Modular Building Blocks,” Microwave Journal, vol. 62, no. 9, pp. 78-90, Sept. 2019.
13. J. W. McDaniel and H. H. Sigmarsson, “Low Loss and Ultra-wide Passband Highpass Filter Using Suspended Integrated Strip-line Technology,” IET Electronic Letters., vol. 55, no. 14, pp. 803-805, July 2019.
14. J. W. McDaniel, J. B. Yan, and S. Gogineni, “Super-wideband Cascaded Bandpass Filter Using Suspended Substrate Stripline Technology,” Wiley Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 61, no. 6, pp. 1491-1499, Apr. 2019.
15. J. W. McDaniel, S. Saeedi, M. B. Yeary, and H. H. Sigmarsson, “A Low Loss Fully-Board Integrated Low Pass Filter Using Suspended Integrated Strip-line Technology,” IEEE Trans. on Compon. Packag. Manuf. Technol., vol. 8, no. 11, pp. 1948-1955, Nov. 2018.
16. J. W. McDaniel, M. B. Yeary, H. H. Sigmarsson, J. A. Wolf, S. Garrison, K. Byers, and M. Clewell, “Integration and Miniaturization of a Ka-Band Stepped Frequency Radar for UAV Applications,” Advancing Microelectronics, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 6-10, Mar. 2018. (invited).
17. J. B. Yan, J. W. McDaniel, D. Gomez, Y. Li, and S. Gogineni, “Ultra-Wideband FMCW Radar for Airborne Measurements of Snow Over Sea-ice and Land,” IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 834-843, Feb. 2017.
18. J. W. McDaniel, J. B. Yan, and S. Gogineni, “Design, Integration, and Miniaturization of a Multi- channel Ultrawide-band (UWB) Snow Radar Receiver for Airborne Remote Sensing,” Microwave Journal. vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 20-28, Apr. 2016.
Conference Papers
1. B. D. Carlton, J. W. McDaniel, and J. G. Metcalf, “Optimizing the Tradeoff Between Radar Waveform Resolution and Sidelobe Level Using a Dolph-Chebyshev Approach,” 2023 IEEE Radar Conference, San Antonio, TX, 2023. (under review)
2. E. W. Wells, H. H. Sigmarsson, and J. W. McDaniel, “Design of a Frequency-Agile and Surface Mountable Suspended Integrated Strip-Line Bandpass Filter Using Castellated Vias,” 2022 IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON), Clearwater Beach, FL, 2022.
3. J. M. Knowles, H. H. Sigmarsson, and J. W. McDaniel, “Design of a Symmetric Lumped-Element Bandpass Filtering Attenuator (Filtenuator),” 2022 IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON), Clearwater Beach, FL, 2022.
4. C. Fulton, N. Goodman, M. Yeary, B. Palmer, H. H. Sigmarsson, and J. W. McDaniel, “Prelim- inary System Integration and Performance Features for an S-Band, Dual-Polarized, All-Digital Phased Array Radar,” 2022 IEEE International Microwave Symposium, Denver, CO, 2022.
5. J. L. Salazar, D. Schvartzman, D. Bodine, R. Palmer, J. W. McDaniel, M. Yeary, N. Aboserwal, B. Cheong, and T. Yu, “A Dual-Doppler Ka-Band Mobile Radar Architecture with Rapid-Scanning Volumetric Imaging for Earth Systems Science,” 2022 IEEE Radar Conference, Times Square, New York, 2022.
6. R. E. Jarvis, J. G. Metcalf, J. E. Ruyle, and J. W. McDaniel, “High Temporal Resolution Time- Gating for Wideband Radar Cross Section Measurements,” European Microwave Week, London, UK, 2021.
7. R. E. Jarvis, J. G. Metcalf, J. E. Ruyle, and J. W. McDaniel, “Measurement and Signal Pro- cessing Techniques for Extracting Highly Accurate and Wideband RCS,” IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Glasglow, Scotland, May 2021.
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8. R. H. Kenney, K. Konyalioglu, M. B. Yeary, H. H. Sigmarsson, and J. W. McDaniel, “An All- COTS High Sampling Frequency Pulse-Doppler Imaging Radar,” 2020 IEEE Radar Conference, Florence, Italy, Sept. 2020.
9. B. Sun, M. B. Yeary, H. H. Sigmarsson, and J. W. McDaniel, “A New Multi-Particle Filter Sensor Fusion Technique Based on Sequential Importance Re-sampling,” IEEE International Instrumen- tation and Measurement Technology Conference, Dubrovnik, HR, May 2020.
10. J. G. Metcalf, J. W. McDaniel, J. E. Ruyle, N. A. Goodman, and J. C. Borders, “An Exami- nation of Frequency-Modulated Continuous Wave Radar for Biomedical Imaging,” IEEE Radar Conference, Washington, D.C., Apr. 2020.
11. A. M. Palmer, N. L. Bohannon, J. W. McDaniel, K. C. Kerby-Patel, and J. E. Ruyle “Investigation of Varactor Loaded Slot Antenna for Parametric Mixing,” 2019 Antenna Applications Symposium, Allerton Park, Monticello, IL, 2019.
12. B. Sun, M. B. Yeary, H. H. Sigmarsson, and J. W. McDaniel, “Fine Resolution Estimation Using Kalman Filtering,” IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Confer- ence, Auckland, NZ, May 2019.
13. J. W. McDaniel, “Simulation Guidelines for Wideband Ground Backed Coplanar Waveguide Transmission Lines,” IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON), Cocoa Beach, FL, Apr. 2019.
14. R. H. Kenney, M. B. Yeary, H. H. Sigmarsson, and J. W. McDaniel, “Clock-Incoherence in All-Digital Radar Back-Ends,” Government Microcircuit Applications and Critical Technology Conference (GOMACTech19), Albuquerque, NM, Mar. 2019.
15. J. W. McDaniel, S. Saeedi, M. B. Yeary, and H. H. Sigmarsson, “A Ka-band Suspended Integrated Strip-line Transition and Low Pass Filter Design,” Government Microcircuit Applications and Critical Technology Conference (GOMACTech18), Miami, FL, Mar. 2018.
16. J. W. McDaniel, H. H. Sigmarsson, M. B. Yeary, F. R. Morales, C. Leuschen, A. Feathers, “Ultrawideband Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave Radar and Ku-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar for Airborne Imaging and Snow Characterization,” in Proceedings of 2017 International Symposium on Earth-Science Challenges (ISEC), Uji, Kyoto, Japan, Oct. 2017.
17. F. R. Morales, C. Leuschen, A. Feathers, J. W. McDaniel, J. A. Wolf, and S. Garrison, “Packaging and Miniaturization of a 2-18 GHz UWB Radar for Measurements of Snow and Ice: Initial Re- sults,” in Proceedings of 2017 International Microelectronics Assembly and Packaging Conference (IMAPS), Raleigh, NC, Oct. 2017.
18. J. W. McDaniel, M. B. Yeary, H. H. Sigmarsson, J. A. Wolf, S. Garrison, K. Byers, and M. Clewell, “Integration and Miniaturization of a Ka-Band Stepped Frequency Radar for UAV Ap- plications,” in Proceedings of 2017 International Microelectronics Assembly and Packaging Con- ference (IMAPS), Raleigh, NC, Oct. 2017.
19. J. W. McDaniel, S. Saeedi, M. B. Yeary, and H. H. Sigmarsson, “Suspended Integrated Strip- line Transition Design for Highly Integrated Radar Systems,” in Proceedings of 2017 Government Microcircuit Applications and Critical Technology Conference (GOMACTech17), Reno, NV, Mar. 2017.
20. J. B. Yan, J. W. McDaniel, D. Gomez, Y. Li, and S. Gogineni, “Multi-channel Ultra-Wideband Airborne Radar for Snow Back-scattering Measurements,” in Proceedings of 2016 IEEE Interna- tional Symposium on Phased Array Systems and Technology (PAST), Waltham, MA, Oct. 2016.
21. J. B. Yan, J. W. McDaniel, D. Gomez, Y. Li, C. Leuschen, S. Gogineni, and J. Brozena, “Ultra- wideband 2-18 GHz FMCW Radar with 1.4-cm Range Resolution for Airborne Measurement of Snow,” Snow Thickness on Sea Ice Working Group (STOSIWIG), Irvine, CA, 2015. (invited).
Abstracts
1. J. Salazar-Cerreno, R.D. Palmer, D. Bodine, J.W. McDaniel, C.R. Homeyer, et. al, “Dual- Doppler 3D Mobile Ka-band Rapid-Scanning Volume Imaging Radar for Earth System Science,” 102nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, Jan. 2022. (submitted)
2. R.D. Palmer, J. W. McDaniel, et. al, “Transportable Phased Array Radar: Meeting Weather Community Needs,” 102nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, Jan. 2022. (Submitted)
3. R.D. Palmer, J. W. McDaniel, et. al, “The Transportable Phased Array Radar: Meeting Com- munity Imperatives in Weather Science,” AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Dec. 2021. (Sub- mitted)
4. J. Salazar, D. J. Bodine, J. W. McDaniel, C. R. Homeyer, R. D. Palmer, et. al, “A New Ka- Band Image PAR Concept for 4D-Volume Rapid Scan for Cloud Observations,” 100th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, Jan. 2020.
5. D. J. Bodine, J. Salazar, J. W. McDaniel, C. R. Homeyer, R. D. Palmer, et. al, “Next-Generation Cloud Radars: How Do We Obtain Rapid Three-Dimensional Observation of Clouds?,” 100th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, Jan. 2020.
6. D. J. Bodine, J. Salazar, J. W. McDaniel, C. R. Homeyer, R. D. Palmer, et. al, “Next-generation cloud radars: Applications of rapid-scan cloud radars for three-dimensional mapping of clouds,” AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2019.
7. P. E. Kirtsetter, R. D. Palmer, D. J. Bodine, C. R. Homeyer, T. Y. Yu, J. W. McDaniel, et. al, “Stratospheric Radar Observations of Convection and Precipitation,” AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2019.
8. A. M. Palmer, J. W. McDaniel, N. L. Bohannon, and J. E. Ruyle “Investigation of Varactor Loaded Slot Antenna for Parametric Mixing,” CAPCON XIV, VA, May 2019.
Patents
1. J. W. McDaniel, M. B. Yeary, H. H. Sigmarsson, and B. Sun, “Multi-Inertial Measurement Unit Fusion for Fine Resolution Position Estimation,” U.S. Patent 11,435,485, issued Sept. 6, 2022.
2. J. W. McDaniel, J. G. Metcalf, and R. E. Jarvis, “Application of Adaptive Pulse Compression (APC) in Cluttered Radar Cross-Section (RCS) Measurements,” U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Provisional Patent 63/379,553, submitted Oct. 14, 2022.