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)

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"