Dr. Fritz Foss
Senior Research Associate
Currently resides in Colorado
Targets of Interest: Earth, Mars, Moon
Disciplines/Techniques: Numerical Modeling, Radar, Remote Sensing
Missions: Kaguya (Japan), Mars Express (ESA), MRO
Orbital radar data processing and analysis applied to producing and enhancing 3D images of Mars polar ice caps and mid-latitudes regions of interest. Numerical methods for solviing linear and nonlinear partial differential equations in several application areas including viscoplastic flow, nonlinear eigenvalue problems, wave propagation and optimal control. Seismic data processing and analysis applied to oil and gas exploration.
Active Projects
High Resolution 3D Imaging of SHARAD Data (HiRad)
NASA Planetary Data Archiving, Restoration, and Tools Program
Institutional PI
Project Team
3D subsurface imaging and analysis of the Martian polar regions with MARSIS data (MARSIS 3D)
NASA Mars Data Analysis Program
Institutional PI
Project Team
External Partners
- Fritz Foss (Freestyle Analytical & Quantitative Services) -- PI of the primary grant
Principal Investigator
Planetary Orbital Radar Processing and Simulation System (PORPASS)
NASA Planetary Data Archiving, Restoration, and Tools Program
Principal Investigator
Project Team
External Partners
- Colorado School of Mines
- Smithsonian Institution
- US Naval Observatory
