Steven C. Chan

Steven K. Chan received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, in 1998, with a focus on electromagnetic wave propagation in random media. He is currently a Research Scientist in radar science and engineering with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. He is the Lead Product Developer of several NASA-funded operational soil moisture data records derived from Aqua/AMSR-E (2002–2011), GCOM-W/AMSR2 (2012–present), GMI (2014–present), SMOS (2009–present), and SMAP (2015–present) observations. He is also a science team member of the NASA Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System mission and the Project Scientist of the Observational Products for End-Users from Remote Sensing Analysis project. His research interests include passive microwave remote sensing of soil moisture and terrestrial hydrology applications of global navigation satellite systems observations.