Brandi Downs is a Remote Sensing Technologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University, where her research focused on remote sensing of inland surface water using observations from NASA’s Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission. Her work focuses on synthetic aperture radar (SAR), Earth observation, remote sensing data analysis and visualization, and the development and validation of methods for characterizing surface water and other land-surface features. She currently supports calibration and validation activities for the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission, the Applied Science Systems Engineering Team for PO.DAAC, and the International GNSS Service (IGS) Central Bureau.