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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            -F. Scott Fitzgerald

Md Mehedi Farhad, is a Ph.D. candidate and  Research Assistant,  at IMPRESS LAB in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Mississippi State University, USA since January 2019. He is the recipient of NASA's Future Investigator of NASA's Earth and Space Science and Technology FINESST23 research grant. Prior joining to Mississippi State University, he worked as a Lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering from January 2016 to December 2018 at Port City International University, Bangladesh. He completed his Bachelor of Science from Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (AUST).  Afterward, April 2013, he joined Reverie Power & Automation Engineering Ltd as an Assistant Engineer. He worked there as a Testing & Commissioning Engineer for one and a half years. 

Reflected GPS Signals to Estimate Soil Moisture at Sub-field Scale from Small Unmanned Air Craft Systems platform


His Research Thrusts Includes :

1. Signals of Opportunity (SoOp’s) land remote sensing using Software Defined Radio (SDR).

2. Surface Reflectivity using Smartphones’ GNSS chip and GNSS-R techniques.

3. High Resolution Surface Soil Moisture retrieval using smartphone and off-the-shelf custom GNSS receivers.

4. L-band dual-polarized Microwave Radiometer for land remote sensing operating from small Unmanned Aircraft Systems.

GNSS Reflectometry  Using Survey Grade (IFEN) GNSS receivers. 

Pan-Tilt Mechanism to test the GNSS antenna radiation pattern

Pan-tilt Experiment Setup