Conference Papers (1985–1999)

Thome, K. J., J. H LaMarr, S. F. Biggar, A. S. Lopez, “Ground-reference calibration of Landsat-7 ETM+”, Proc. SPIE Conf. Vol. 3870, pp. 234-242, Florence, Italy, 1999.

Biggar, S. F., K. J. Thome, P. R. Spyak, E. F. Zalewski, “Solar-radiation based calibration in the range 740 to 2400 nm”, Proc. SPIE Conf. Vol. 3870, pp. 228-233, Florence, Italy, 1999.

Nandy, P., K. Thome, S. Biggar, “Laboratory characterization of a CCD camera system for retrieval of bi-directional reflectance distribution function”, Proc. SPIE Conf. Vol. 3870, pp. 243-253, Florence, Italy, 1999.

Teillet, P.M., G. Fedosejevs, R.P. Gauthier, R.T. Shin, N.T. O’Neill, K.J. Thome, S.F. Biggar, A. Meygret, 1999, “Quality Assurance and Stability Reference (QUASAR) Monitoring Results for Six Earth Observation Sensors Using Hyperspectral Data”, Proc. of Fifth International Symposium on Spectral Sensing Research (ISSSR) and ISPRS Commission VII Working Group 1 on Fundamental Physics and Modeling in Remote Sensing, Las Vegas, 1999.

Teillet, P. M, G. Fedosejevs, R. P. Gauthier, R. T. Shin, N. T. O’Neill, K. J. Thome, S. F. Biggar, H. Ripley, A. Meygret, “Radiometric calibration of multiple Earth observation sensors using airborne hyperspectral data at the Newell County rangeland test site”, Proc. SPIE Conf. Vol. 3750, Denver, Colorado, pp. 470-481, 1999.

Teillet, P. M, G. Fedosejevs, R. P. Gauthier, N. T. O’Neill, K. J. Thome, S. F. Biggar, H. Ripley, A. Meygret, “Radiometric calibration of Orbview-2 SeaWiFS and SPOT-4 Vegetation using airborne hyperspectral data”, Fourth Int’l. Airborne Remote Sensing Conference and Exhibition at the 21st Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing, Ottawa, Canada, pp. I371-I377, 1999.

Butler, J. J., B. Carol Johnson, S.W. Brown, H.W., Yoon, R.A. Barnes, B.L. Markham, S.F. Biggar, E.F. Zalewski, P.R. Spyak, J.W. Cooper, F. Sakuma, “Radiometric Measurement Comparisons Using Transfer Radiometers in Support of the Calibration of NASA’s Earth Observing System (EOS) Sensors”, Proc. SPIE Conf Vol. 3870, Florence Italy, 1999.

Thome, K., J. LaMarr, K. Scott, C. Gustafson‑Bold, “Methods for the calibration of SPOT‑4 HRVIR and Vegetation”, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3439, San Diego, California, pp. 439-449, 1998.

Nandy, P., K. Thome, S. Biggar, “Instrument for retrieval of BRDF data for vicarious calibration”, International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Seattle, Washington, pp. 562-564, 1998.

Sicard, M., P.R. Spyak, “Internally Calibrated, Thermal-Infrared Field Radiometer Characterization and Comparisons with Other Field Instruments”, 9th Conference on Satellite Meteorology & Oceanography, Paris, France, 1998.

Smith, J., K. Thome, B. Crowther, S. Biggar, “Field evaluation of a diffuse-to-global irradiance meter for vicarious calibration”, International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Seattle, Washington, pp. 562-564, 1998.

Thome, K., R. Parada, S. Schiller, J. Conel, J. LaMarr, “Evaluation of the use of dark and bright targets for the in-flight calibration of AVIRIS”, Proc. of the Seventh Annual JPL Airborne Earth Science Workshop, Pasadena, Calif., 1998.

Barnes, P.Y., E.A. Early, B.C. Johnson, J.J. Butler, C.J. Bruegge, S.F. Biggar, P.R. Spyak, M.M. Pavlov, “Intercomparisons of reflectance measurements”, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 3425:10-15, 1998.

Crowther, B. G., K. J. Thome, S. F. Biggar, C. J. Burkhart, “Internally baffled inegrating sphere cosine collector”, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3117, San Diego, Calif., pp. 246-252, 1997.

LaMarr, J. H., K. J. Thome, P. R. Spyak, “Verification and characterization of an autotracking radiometer”, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3117, San Diego, Calif., pp. 262-68, 1997.

Parada, R. J., K. J. Thome, S. F. Biggar, R. P. Santer, J. H. LaMarr, “Radiometer calibrations using solar radiation”, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3117, San Diego, Calif., pp. 253-261, 1997.

Spyak, P. R., J. H. LaMarr, K. J. Thome, “Errors in laboratory measurements resulting from atmospheric absorption near 1380 nm”, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3117, San Diego, Calif., pp. 208-216, 1997.

Descour, M. R., E. L. Dereniak, C. E. Volin, K. J. Thome, A. B. Schumacher, S. C. Schehr, M. E. Maese, “Demonstration of a high speed imaging spectrometer (U),” IRAS Workshop”, Tucson, Arizona, March 1997.

Thome, K., C. Gustafson-Bold, “Proposed method for the calibration of VEGETATION using HRVIR”, Workshop on Calibration of Optical and Thermal Sensors, Toulouse, France, September 18-20, 1996.

Arai, K., S. Tsuchida, K. Thome, “Calibration plan and preliminary field campaign for ASTER”, Proc. EUROPTO Vol. 2960, Taormina, Sicily, pp. 256-265, 1996.

Slater, P.N., S.F. Biggar, J.M. Palmer, K.J. Thome, “Unified approach to absolute radiometric calibration in the solar-reflective range”, Proc. EUROPTO, Taormina, Italy, 23-26 September 1996.

Sakuma, F., B.Carol Johnson, S.F. Biggar, J.J. Butler, J.W. Cooper, M. Hiramatsu, K. Suzuki, “EOS AM-1 preflight radiometric measurement comparison using the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection radiometer (ASTER) visible/near-infrared integrating sphere”, Proc. SPIE Vol 2820:184-196, 1996

Parada, R. J., K. J. Thome, R. P. Santer, “Results of dark target vicarious calibration using Lake Tahoe”, Proc. EUROPTO Vol. 2960, Taormina, Sicily, pp. 332-343, 1996.

Santer, R. P., C. Schemechtig, K. J. Thome, “BRDF and surface-surround effects on SPOT-HRV vicarious calibration”, Proc. EUROPTO Vol. 2960, Taormina, Sicily, pp. 344-354, 1996.

Thome, K. J., “Sensitivity analysis and validation plans for the retrieval of surface reflectance from ASTER”, Proc. SPIE Conf. Vol. 2820, Denver, Colorado, pp. 88-96, 1996.

Slater, P.N., S.F. Biggar, K.J. Thome, D.I. Gellman, P.R. Spyak, “Vicarious radiometric calibrations of EOS sensors”, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology Special issue on EOS calibration, Vol 13, No. 2:376-382, April 1996.

Thome, K. J., C. L. Gustafson-Bold, P. N. Slater, W. H. Farrand, “In-flight radiometric calibration of HYDICE using a reflectance-based approach”, Proc. SPIE Conf. Vol. 2821, Denver, Colorado, 1996.

Scott, K. P., K. J. Thome, M. R. Brownlee, “Evaluation of the Railroad Valley playa for use in vicarious calibration”, Proc. SPIE Conf. Vol. 2818, Denver, Colorado, 1996.

Murray, A., B. Eng, K. Thome, “Implementation of a very large atmospheric correction lookup table for ASTER using a relational database management system”, Proc. of SPIE Conf. 2820, Denver, Colorado, pp. 245-258, 1996.

Gustafson-Bold, C. L., K. J. Thome, “Cross-calibration of two small footprint sensors”, International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Lincoln, Nebraska, pp. 1283-1285, 1996.

Slater, P.N., S.F. Biggar, “Suggestions for radiometric calibration coefficient generation”, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Special issue on EOS calibration, Vol. 13 No. 2:349-359, April 1996

Slater, P. N., S. F. Biggar, J. M. Palmer, K. J. Thome, “Unified pre- and in-flight radiometric calibration of satellite sensors”, Proc. SPIE Conf. Vol. 2583, Paris, France, pp. 130-141, 1995.

Mueller, J. L., R. S. Fraser, S. F. Biggar, K. J. Thome, P. N. Slater, A. W. Holmes, R. A. Barnes, C. T. Weir, D. A. Siegel, D. W. Menzies, A. F. Michaels, G. Podesta, Volume 27, “Case studies for SeaWiFS calibration and validation, Part 3”, NASA Technical Memorandum 104566, May 1995.

McClain C. R., R. S. Fraser, J. T. McLean, M. Darzi, J. K. Firestone, F. S. Patt, B. D. Schieber, R. H. Woodward, E­. Yeh, S. Mattoo, S. F. Biggar, P. N. Slater, K. J. Thome, A. W. Holmes, R. A. Barnes, K. J. Voss, Volume 19, “Case studies for SeaWiFS calibration and validation, Part 2”, NASA Technical Memorandum 104566, August 1994.

Biggar, S. F., P. N. Slater, K. J. Thome, A. W. Holmes, R. A. Barnes. “Preflight solar­-based calibration of SeaWiFS”, SeaWiFS Technical Report Series (1994).

Slater, P. N., S. F. Biggar, K. J. Thome, D. I. Gellman, P. R. Spyak, “The in­flight radiometric calibration of ASTER by reference to well­-characterized scenes”, Proc. SPIE Conf. Vol. 2317, Rome, Italy, pp. 49-60, 1994.

Thome, K. J., “Proposed atmospheric correction for the solar-reflective bands of the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer”, International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Pasadena, pp. 202-204, 1994.

Thome, K. J., S. F. Biggar, D. I. Gellman, P. N. Slater, “Absolute-radiometric calibration of Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper and the proposed calibration of the Advance Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer”, International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Pasadena, pp. 2295-2297, 1994.

Thome, K.J., S.F. Biggar, D.I. Gellman, P.N. Slater, “Absolute-radiometric calibration of Landsat-5 thematic mapper and the proposed calibration of the advanced spaceborne thermal emissions and reflection radiometer”, IGARSS ‘94, Vol IV:2295-2297, 1994

Biggar, S. F., K. J. Thome, P. N. Slater, L. K. Balick, C. J. Golanics, “Solar-radiation-based absolute calibration of optical sensors: SeaWiFS and a Daedalus 1268”, International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Pasadena, pp. 1992-1995, 1994.

Qi, J., F. Cabot, M. S. Moran, G. Dedieu, K. J. Thome, “Biophysical parameter retrievals using bidirectional measurements”, International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Pasadena, pp. 1816-1818, 1994.

Thome, K. J., S. F. Biggar, P. N. Slater, “Recent absolute radiometric calibration of Landsat-5 TM and its application to the atmospheric correction of ASTER in the solar reflective region”, Proc. DLPO Workshop on Atmospheric Correction of Landsat Imagery, Torrance, Calif., pp. 36-40, 1993.

Biggar, S.F. P.N. Slater, “Preflight cross-calibration radiometer for EOS AM-1 platform visible and near-IR sources”, Proc. SPIE 1939:24:243-249, 1993

Thome, K. J., Y. J. Kaufman, R. S. Fraser, “Summary and results of recent aerosol workshop”, Proc. DLPO Workshop on Atmospheric Correction of Landsat Imagery, Torrance, Calif., pp. 1-5, 1993.

Thome, K. J., M. W. Smith, J. M. Palmer, J. A. Reagan. “Method and instrument for retrieving total columnar water vapor from solar transmittance”, Proc. SPIE Conf. Vol. 1968, Orlando, Florida, pp. 526-532, 1993.

Thome, K. J., D. I. Gellman, R. J. Parada, S. F. Biggar, P. N. Slater, M. S. Moran, “In-flight radiometric calibration of Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper from 1984 to present”, Proc. SPIE Conf. Vol. 1938, Orlando, Florida, pp. 126-131, 1993.

Biggar, S. F., P. N. Slater, K. J. Thome, A. W. Holmes, R. A. Barnes, “Preflight solar-based calibration of SeaWiFS”, Proc. SPIE Conf. Vol. 1939, Orlando, Florida, 233-242, 1993.

Gellman, D. I., S. F. Biggar, M. C. Dinguirard, P. J. Henry, M. S. Moran, K. J. Thome, P. N. Slater, “Review of SPOT-1 and -2 calibrations at White Sands from launch to the present.”, Proc. SPIE Conf. Vol. 1938, Orlando, Florida, pp. 118-125, 1993.

Reagan, J., K. Thome, B. Herman, R. Stone, J. DeLuisi, J. Snider, “A comparison of columnar water vapor retrievals obtained with a near-IR solar radiometer and microwave radiometer”, Proc. CO-MEAS’93, 1993.

Reagan, J., K. Thome, B. Herman, R. Stone, J. DeLuisi, J. Snider, “Intercomparisons of columnar water vapor retrievals obtained with near-IR solar radiometers and microwave radiometers”, Proc. Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing Applications, Boulder, Colo., Dept. Commerce, pp.334-337, 1992.

Reagan, J. A., K. J. Thome, B. M. Herman, “A simple instrument and technique for measuring columnar water vapor via near-IR differential solar transmission measurements”, International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Helsinki, pp. 903-906, 1991.

Bigger, S. F., M. C. Dinguirard, D. I. Gellman, P. Henry, R. D. Jackson, M. S. Moran, P. N. Slater, “Radiometric calibration of SPOT 2 HRV: a comparison of three methods,” Proc. SPIE Orlando ’91, 1493:155-162, 1991.

Gellman, D. I., S. F. Biggar, P. N. Slater, C. J. Bruegge, “Calibrated intercepts for solar radiometers used in remote sensor calibration”, Proc. SPIE Orlando ’91, 1493:175-181, 1991.

Guzman, C. T., J.M. Palmer, C.J. Bruegge, E.A. Miller, P.N. Slater, S.F. Biggar, “Requirements for a solar diffuser and measurements of some candidate materials”, Proc. SPIE Orlando ‘91, 1493:120-131, 1991.

Nianzeng,C., B. G. Grant, D. E. Flittner, P. N. Slater, S. F. Biggar, R. D. Jackson, M. S. Moran, “Results of calibrations of the NOAA-11 AVHRR made by reference to calibrated SPOT imagery at White Sands, N.M.”, Proc. SPIE Orlando ’91, 1493:182-194, 1991.

Markham, B.L., S. P. Ahmad, R. D. Jackson, M. S. Moran, S. F. Biggar, D. I. Gellman, P. N. Slater, “Radiometric calibration of an airborne multispectral scanner”, Proc. SPIE Orlando ’91, 1493:207-214, 1991.

Balick, L.K., C. J. Golanics, J. E. Shines, S. F. Biggar, P. N. Slater, “In-flight calibration of a helicopter-mounted Daedalus multispectral scanner”, Proc. SPIE Orlando ’91, 1493:215-223, 1991.

Slater, P.N., S. F. Biggar, J. M. Palmer, “Ground-reference site and on-board methods for sensor absolute calibration in the 0.4 to 2.5 μm range”, Proc. IGARSS’91 Vol. III:1349-1351, 1991.

Biggar, S.F., R.P. Santer, P.N. Slater, “Irradiance-based calibration of imaging sensors”, Proc. IGARSS ’90, Vol I:507-510, 1990.

Markham, B.L., J. R. Irons, D. W. Deering, R. N. Halthore, R. R. Irish, R. D. Jackson, M. S. Moran, S. Fl Biggar, D. I. Gellman, B. G. Grant, J. M. Palmer, P. N. Slater, “Radiometric calibration of aircraft and satellite sensors at White Sands, NM”, May 20-24, Proc. IGARSS ’90 Vol I:515-518, 1990.

Teillet, P.M., Y. Mao, P.N. Slater, Y. Ding, R.J. Bartell, S.F. Biggar, R.P. Santer, R.D. Jackson, M.S. Moran, “Absolute radiometric calibration of the NOAA AVHRR sensors”, Proc. SPIE 924:196-207, 1988.

Biggar, S.F., J. Labed, R.P. Santer, P.N. Slater, R.D. Jackson, M.S. Moran, “Laboratory calibration of field reflectance panels”, Proc. Soc. Photo-Opt. Instrum. Eng. 924:232-240, 1988.

Conel, J.E., R.O. Green, R.E. Alley, C.J. Bruegge, V. Carrere, J.S. Margolis, G. Vane, T.G. Chrien, P. N. Slater, S.F. Biggar, P.M. Teillet, R.D. Jackson, M.S. Moran, “In-flight radiometric calibration of the Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS)”, Proc. Soc. Photo-Opt. Instrum. Eng. 924:179-195, 1988.

Reagan, J. A., K. J. Thome, B. M. Herman, R. Gall, “Water vapor measurements in the 0.94 micron absorption band: calibration, measurements and data applications”, International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Ann Arbor, Michigan, pp. 63-67, 1987.

Slater, P.N., S.F. Biggar, R.G. Holm, R.D. Jackson, Y. Mao, M.S. Moran, J.M. Palmer, B. Yuan, “Absolute Radiometric Calibration of the Thematic Mapper”, Proc. Soc. Photo-Opt. Instrum. Eng. 660:2-8, 1986

Biggar, S.F. C.J. Bruegge, B.A. Capron, K.R. Castle, M.C. Dinguirard, R.G. Holm, R.D. Jackson, L.J. Lingg, Y. Mao, M.S. Moran, J.M. Palmer, A.L. Phillips, R.K. Savage, P.N. Slater, S.L. Witman B. Yuan, “Absolute calibration of remote sensing instruments”, invited paper at the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Third International Colloquium on Spectral Signatures of Objects in Remote Sensing, Les Arcs, France, ESA SP-247:309-314, 1985