Former Members

  • Nik Anderson – B.S in 2003
  • Richard Bartel – M.S. in 1987, “Atmospheric Corrections for In-Flight Satellite Radiometric Calibration”
  • Stuart Biggar – M.S. in 1989 (without thesis), and Ph.D. in 1990, “In-flight methods for satellite sensor absolute radiometric calibration”
  • Michelle Brownlee – M.S. in 1994 (without thesis)
  • Kelly Canham – B.S. in 2003.
  • Ken Castle – Ph.D. in 1985, “Absolute radiometric calibration of a spectropolarimeter”
  • Hyun Joo Choi – M.S. in 2005, “Spatial Resolution Characterization of Satellite Sensors Using Radiometric Calibration Sites”
  • Jahid Chowdhury – Currently working on MS in Electrical Engineering.
  • Blake Crowther – M.S. in 1994 (without thesis), Ph.D. in 1997, “The Design, Construction, and Calibration of a Spectral Diffuse-to-Global Irradiance Meter”
  • Jeff Czapla-Myers – Ph.D. in 2006, “Automated Ground-based Methodology in Support of Vicarious Calibration”
  • Jessica D’Amico – M.S. in 2006, “”
  • Carolina Deschapelles – M.S. in 1995, “Characterization of a solar radiometer for aureole scans”
  • Jeremy Dobler – Ph.D. in 2006, “Novel Alternating Frequency Doppler Lidar Instrument for Wind Measurements in the Lower Troposphere”
  • Sarah Dreckman – B.S. in 2001, Atmospheric Science
  • David Dyche – M.S. in 1983, “Experimental determination of atmospheric scattering effects on scanner edge response”
  • Farshad Forouhar – M.S. in 2003, “Design and Testing of a Radiometer for Plant Canopy Transmission Measurements”
  • David Flittner – Ph.D. in 1994, “Atmospheric O3 and SO3 from satellite measurements of backscattered ultraviolet light”
  • Bill Garland – M.S. in 2004, “The Developement and Validation of Optically Corrected Spectral Characterization Techniques”
  • Jason Geis – M.S. in 2005, “Comparison of ground-reference calibration results for Landsat-7 ETM+ for large and small test sites”
  • Barbara Grant – M.S. in 1989, “Calibration of the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer”
  • Carter Grotbeck – M.S. in 1992 (without thesis), and PhD in 1994, “Solar aureole instrumentation and inversion techniques for aerosol studies”
  • Carmen Guzman – M.S. in 1991, “Ratioing radiometer, solar diffuser system for in-flight calibration of multispectral satellite sensors”
  • Quinn Hart – M.S. in 1990, “Surface and aerosol models for use in radiative transfer codes”
  • Ron Holm – M.S. in 1984 (without thesis), and Ph.D. in 1987, “The absolute radiometric calibration of space-based sensors”
  • Cedric Hugon – M.S. in 2007, “Design of an Inexpensive Robust Spectrometer “
  • Carol Kastner (Bruegge) – M.S. in 1984 (without thesis), and Ph.D. in 1985, “Inflight radiometric calibration of the Landsat Thematic Mapper”
  • Hyunki Kim – M.S. in 2000, “Improved Design and Characterization of an Automated Solar Radiometer”
  • Keith Krause– M.S. in 2001, ” Evaluation of Solar Diffusers for On-Orbit Radiometric Calibration”
  • Michele Kuester– M.S. in 2002, “Development of an Improved Method of Intercept Determination for the Characterization of an Automated Solar Radiometer”
  • John LaMarr – Ph.D. in 2002, “Diffuse Light Correction for field Reflectance Measurements”
  • Curt Laumann – M.S. in 1995 (without thesis)
  • Mélanie Laurent – M.S. 2004, “Method of Columnar Water Vapor Amount Determination from Solar Transmittance Measurements”
  • Aseneth Lopez – M.S. in 1998, “Calibration of MODIS Airborne Simulator Using Vicarious Methods”
  • Nadine Lu – M.S. in 1989, “Radiometric sensitivity comparisons of multispectral imaging systems”
  • Brian Magi – B.S. Engineering Physics
  • Matthew Mavko – B.S. in 2002, Atmospheric Physics
  • John McCalmont – Ph.D. (with Arvind Marathay)
  • Joel McCorkel – Ph.D. in 2009, “On-Orbit Characterization of Hyperspectral Imagers”
  • Marek Mienko – Finished M.S. at Cambridge 2000
  • David Moyer – M.S in 2003
  • Prabal Nandy – Ph.D. in 2000, “Evaluation of a CCD Camera System for BRDF Retrieval for Remote Sensing Applications for Vicarious Calibration”
  • Rob Parada – M.S. in 1995 (without thesis), Ph.D. in 1997, “In-Flight Absolute Calibration of Radiometric Sensors Over Dark Targets Using Vicarious Methods”
  • Iain Penny – M.S. in 1991, “Detector-based absolute radiometric calibration of lamps and reflectance panels”
  • Amy Phillips – M.S. in 1985, “Atmospheric measurements using calibrated field spectroradiometers”
  • John Piña – B.S. in 2002, Optical Engineering
  • Quinn Sanford – M.S. in 2004
  • Mark Alan Sartor – M.S. in 1992, “Characterization and Modeling of Microchannel Plate Intensified Charge Coupled Device Signal to Noise Ratio Variations with Image Size”
  • Jody Smith – M.S. in 1998, “Field evaluation of a diffuse-to-global irradiance meter for vicarious calibration of satellite sensors”
  • Mark Smith – M.S. in 1989 , “Effect of infrared reflectance on stem temperatures of Saguaros,” and PhD in 1992, “Design, construction, and calibration of a portable shortwave infrared spectrometer”
  • Courtney Stratton – M.S in 2003, “Evaluation of Cirrus Cloud Radiances for use in Radiometric Calibration”
  • Kurt Thome – Former Director
  • Wit Wisniewski
  • Sandra Witman – M.S. in 1986, “Radiometric calibration of the Thematic Mapper 48-inch diameter spherical integrating source (48-SIS) using two different calibration methods”