David E. Weissman, Vladimir G. Irisov, William J. Plant, William Keller; Polarimetric radiometer sensing of sea surface friction velocity, Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS'99 Conference, pp. 1338 - 1340, September 1999.
David E. Weissman, William J. Plant, William C. Keller, Vahid Hesany; Spatial variations of sea surface microwave backscatter in response to wind, wind stress and surface current variations, Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS'96 Conference, pp. 1285 - 1289, September 1996.
David E. Weissman, William J. Plant, William C. Keller, Vahid Hesany; The response of the short wave directional spectrum to rapid wind and surface variations using microwave backscatter, Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS'95 Conference, pp. 84 - 89, September 1995.
David E. Weissman, William J. Plant, Siegfried Stolte; The modulation and coherence functions between atmospheric turbulence at the sea surface and the microwave radar cross section fluctuations, Proceedings of IEEE OCEANS'94 Conference, pp. 104 - 109, September 1994.
Lisa M. Zurk, William J. Plant; Simulations of SAR imagery of the ocean compared with data, Proceedings of IEEE OCEANS'93 Conference, pp. 304 - 309, October 1993.
David E. Weissman, William J. Plant, Siegfried Stolte, John P. Dugan; The modulation and coherence functions between atmospheric turbulence at the sea surface and the microwave radar cross section, Proceedings of IEEE OCEANS'93 Conference, pp. 359 - 364, October 1993.
Dale L. Schuler, William C. Keller, William J. Plant; A three-frequency scatterometer technique for the measurement of ocean wave spectra, IEEE J. Oceanic Eng., vol. 16, pp. 244 - 253, July 1991.
David E. Weissman, Kenneth L. Davidson, William J. Plant, Robert A. Brown; Relating the microwave radar cross section to the sea surface stress: Developing a new model function, Proceedings of IEEE OCEANS'91 Conference, pp. 1013 - 1018, October 1991.
David E. Weissman, William J. Plant; Calculations of the microwave radar cross section dependence on wave height and slope skewness, Proceedings of IEEE OCEANS'90 Conference, pp. 578 - 584, September 1990.
Dale L. Schuler, William J. Plant, H. Carl Miller; Experimental Verification of the Three-Frequency Scatterometer Concept, Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS'84 Conference, pp. 145 - 149, September 1984.
William J. Plant; Comments on "on the synthetic aperture radar imaging of ocean surface waves", IEEE J. Oceanic Eng., vol. 8, pp. 300 - 301, October 1983.
Dale L. Schuler, William J. Plant, Allen B. Reeves, Wah P. Eng; The Two-Frequency Microwave Ocean Wave Scatterometer - A New Approach, Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS'83 Conference, pp. 298 - 300, August 1983.
W. C. Keller, W. J. Plant, J. W. Johnson; Microwave measurement of sea surface velocities from pier and aircraft, Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS'82 Conference, pp. 909 - 913, September 1982.
William J. Plant; Studies of backscattered sea return with a CW, dual-frequency, X -band radar, IEEE J. Oceanic Eng., vol. 2, pp. 28 - 36, January 1977.
William J. Plant received the B.S. degree in physics in 1966 from Kansas State University and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Purdue University in 1968 and 1972, respectively.During 1972 and 1973 he was a National Research Council Postdoctoral Associate at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC. He joined the staff of the NRL in 1973 and began research on microwave techniques for probing the ocean surface. For several years he concentrated on microwave backscatter experiments in wind wavetanks and from fixed ocean platforms. In 1985 he was appointed head of the Ocean Measurements Section at NRL and expanded his research to include aircraft remote sensing of the ocean surface. He worked on the theory and application of ocean wave spectrometers, scatterometers, and synthetic aperture radars. In 1988, he accepted a position as Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Woods Hole, MA, where his research has centered on air/sea interactions, scatterometer model function development, and studies of the variability of microwave backscatter from the ocean. Most recently, he was the American chief scientist in the SAXON-FPN experiment in the North Sea.