Djordje Mirkovic

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Djordje Mirkovic

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Research
Scientist

djordje.mirkovic@ou.edu
djordje.mirkovic@noaa.gov
National Weather Center 4440

Education

PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Oklahoma
MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia
BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Affiliated CIWRO Team

DRASR

About

Dr. Mirkovic was born in Belgrade, Serbia where he completed his primary and college education. His Ph.D. he defended at the University of Oklahoma, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering researching in the area of polarimetric scattering and aeroecology.

His research topics include: modeling of large polarimetric phased array antennas, and their calibration, scattering of biological and meteorological scatterers, as well as design of UAV platforms for calibration tasks where minimal influence of the UAV to the onboard antenna is required.

As the adjunct faculty member of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at OU, Dr. Mirkovic teaches undergraduate courses and mentors graduate students. For the up to date list of teaching please check https://classnav.ou.edu/

Research Focus

Applied Computational Electromagnetics
Radar Cross Section
Antenna design and calibration
Polarimetric scattering
Aeroecology

CIWRO Research Themes

Weather Radar and Observations

Publications

Mirkovic, D., Stepanian, P. M., Kelly, J. F., & Chilson, P. B. (2016). Electromagnetic model reliably predicts radar scattering characteristics of airborne organisms. Scientific reports, 6(1), 35637.
Mirkovic, D., Zrnic, D. S., Melnikov, V., & Zhang, P. (2021). Effects of rough hail scattering on polarimetric variables. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 60, 1-14.
Mirkovic, D., & Zrnic, D. S. (2023). Bias in Differential Reflectivity Revealed With a Numerical Model of a Polarimetric Phased Array Antenna. IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems.
Mirkovic, D., & Zrnic, D. S. (2023). Library of rough hailstone backscattering coefficients at 2.8 GHz. Scientific Data, 10(1), 456.
Melnikov, V., Zrnić, D., & Mirković, D. (2024). Impacts of the Differential Phase of Incident Waves on the Polarimetric Variables from Hail. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
Mirkovic, D., Stepanian, P. M., Wainwright, C. E., Reynolds, D. R., & Menz, M. H. (2019). Characterizing animal anatomy and internal composition for electromagnetic modelling in radar entomology. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 5(2), 169-179.
Mirkovic, D., & Zrnic, D. S. (2019). Polarimetric weather radar calibration by computational electromagnetics. The Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal (ACES), 342-346.
Djordje, M., & Dusan, Z. (2019). Polarimetric phased-array radar for weather observations: status and challenges. Радиотехнические и телекоммуникационные системы, (2 (34)), 5-14.
Alistair Drake, V., Mirkovic, D., & Steinbauer, M. J. (2024). Insects as radar targets: size, form, density and permittivity. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 45(9), 2985-3002.
Weber, M., Hondl, K., Yussouf, N., Jung, Y., Stratman, D., Putnam, B., ... & Vincent, M. (2021). Towards the next generation operational meteorological radar. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102(7), E1357-E1383.
Tielens, E. K., Cimprich, P. M., Clark, B. A., DiPilla, A. M., Kelly, J. F., Mirkovic, D., ... & Stepanian, P. M. (2021). Nocturnal city lighting elicits a macroscale response from an insect outbreak population. Biology Letters, 17(3), 20200808.
Li, Z., Zhang, Y., Borowska, L., Ivić, I. R., Mirković, D., Perera, S., ... & Zrnić, D. S. (2020). Polarimetric phased array weather radar data quality evaluation through combined analysis, simulation, and measurements. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 18(6), 1029-1033.
Zrnic, D., Zhang, P., Melnikov, V., & Mirkovic, D. (2020). Of fire and smoke plumes, polarimetric radar characteristics. Atmosphere, 11(4), 363.

Conference presentations

Mirkovic, D., Zrnic, D. S., & Schvartzman, D. (2023, August). Polarimetric phased array radar bias dependence on antenna shape obtained from computational electromagnetic modeling. In 40th Conference on Radar Meteorology. AMS.
Zrnic, D. S., Zhang, P., Melnikov, V. M., & Mirkovic, D. (2022, January). Smoke Plume Observations with Surveillance Weather Radars. In 102nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting. AMS.
Mirkovic, D., & Zrnic, D. S. (2020, July). Antenna cased bias of polarimetric variables obtained by Electromagnetic simulations. In 2020 International Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Symposium (ACES) (pp. 1-2). IEEE.
Mirkovic, D., Sigmarsson, H. H., Milosevic, T., & Zrnic, D. S. (2018, August). Computational Electromagnetics in Service of Polarimetric Phased Array Radar Calibration-What Causes the Differential Phase bias?. In 2018 IEEE MTT-S International Conference on Numerical Electromagnetic and Multiphysics Modeling and Optimization (NEMO) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.
Fulton, C., Salazar, J., Zrnic, D., Mirkovic, D., Ivic, I., & Doviak, D. (2018, April). Polarimetrie phased array calibration for large-scale multi-mission radar applications. In 2018 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf18) (pp. 1272-1277). IEEE.
Mirkovic, D., & Zrnic, D. S. (2018, April). Polarimetrie calibration using the computational electromagnetics approach. In 2018 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf18) (pp. 1348-1352).
IEEE. Zrnic, D. S., & Mirkovic, D. (2018, January). Sensitivity of Calibration Parameters for Polarimetric Phased Array Weather Radar. In 98th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting. AMS.
Mirkovic, D., & Zrnic, D. S. (2017, August). Full Wave Electromagnetic approach to the Calibration of Polarimetric Phased Array Radars. In 38th Conference on Radar Meteorology. AMS.
Mirković, D., Zrnić, D., & Ryzhkov, A. (2013, January). Full wave EM calculation of polarimetric variables for the atmospheric scatterers with nonspheroidal shape. In 2013 US National Committee of URSI National Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI NRSM) (pp. 1-1). IEEE.

Djordje Mirkovic

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