View of the mesas of Los Alamos, NM	View of Los Alamos from 20 km by AVIRIS

Dr. Christoph C. Borel-Donohue

Short Vitae:

Education :

• Dipl. El. Ing. ETH (diploma in electrical engineering), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland, 1981.
• Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Univ. of Massachusetts on `` A scattering model for foliage in the millimeter wave region using fractal theory", 1988.

Jobs :

• Research assistant at ETH and UMass, 1981-1988.
• Post-doc and staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory in T-Div (1988-1989), SST-8, SST-9 and NIS-2, ISR-2, 1990-2005.
• Senior Technical Manager, Ball Aerospace, Fairborn, Ohio, 2005 - present.

My current Interests (with links to significant figures):

• Optical remote sensing science.
• Hyperspectral imaging for ecology, geology, environmental restoration monitoring and non-proliferation.
• Optical sensor systems, global change and Earth ObservingSystem (EOS).
• Scene generation in visible, near infrared, infrared and microwave.
• End-to-end modeling of remote sensing systems: ,surface, atmosphere telescope, sensor & algorithms
• Computer graphics, image processing, visualization, high-performance and distributed computing.

Past and current projects at Ball Aerospace

• BAA with AFRL Hanscom to develop temperature-Emissivity separation algorithms and atmospehric corrections for hyperspectral data.
• Work on a BAA for AFRL in the area of hyperspectral remote sensing.
• Work on comparing ground measurements and simulations in the visible to determine aerosol optical properties.
• Work on a automatic version of the temperature-emissivity separation algorithm ARTEMISS.
• Obtained a 4 year contract to work on atmospheric corrections in the visible through thermal infrared for AFRL.
• Helped on various initiatives to enhance Ball Aerospace’s capabilities in the area of cluster computing and biometrics.

Past  Projects at Los Alamos National Laboratory in ISR-2 and NIS-2 Groups

• MISR - Multi-angle Spectro Radiometer (1990 - 2002)
• MTI - Multi-spectral Thermal Imager (1993 - present): MTI was successfully launched!
• RSSP - NASA Remote Sensing Science Program (1988 - 2002)
• ACCP - Accelerated Canopy Chemistry Program (1992 - 1995)
• HIRIS - High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (1990 - 1995)
• TEP - Temperature Retrieval in Complex Terrain (1998 - 2002)
• UCDRD collaboration with UC Santa Barbara- Satellite Imaging Spectrometry (97-present)
• ACA - Atmospheric correction activity (2003-present)

Professional Activities

• Senior Member of IEEE: Laser and Electro-optics Society (LEOS) and Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS)
• Associate editor for optical and hyperspectral remote sensing for IEEE Trans. GRSS (1998-2001).
• Reviewer for IEEE Trans. GRSS, Remote Sensing of Environment, JGR, Applied Optics, DOE, USDA and NASA proposals.

Recent Papers, Posters and Viewgraphs: (Text list of all papers 1977-2005)

• Atmospheric and Surface Adjacency Effects Modeled by the Radiosity Method (paper, talk)
• Invited Presentation ...Challenging Problems in the Exploitation of Hyper-Spectral Remote Sensing Data for the Visible and Infrared Spectral Region 

• ARTEMISS - an Algorithm to Retrieve Temperature and Emissivity from Hyper-Spectral Thermal Image Data (PDF)

• Temperature/Emissivity Separation for Hyperspectral Data (PDF)

• Challenging image analysis problems in the exploitation of hyperspectral remote sensing data for the visible and infrared spectral region (PDF)

• Recipes for Writing Algorithms for Atmospheric Corrections and Temperature/Emissivity Separations in the Thermal  Regime for a Multi-Spectral Sensor (PDF)ChristophC. Borel and William Clodius ( paper ,viewgraphs )
• Recipes for writing algorithms to retrieve columnar watervapor for 3-band multi-spectral data (PDF) Christoph C. Borel, KarenL. Hirsch and Lee K. Balick (paper , viewgraphs )
• A Comparison of Four Methods for Determining Precipitable Water  Vapor Contentfrom Multi-Spectral Data (PDF) Karen Lewis Hirsch, Lee Balick, Christoph Borel and Peter McLachlan (paper, PPT viewgraphs in PDF format ) 

• Movie of the removal of jitter from a "shaken" video camera for translations and rotations: left - jittered,  right - unjittered

MTI mission overview (PDF)

Multispectral Thermal Imager (MTI) Payload Overview

Multispectral Thermal Imager Optical Assembly Performance and Integration of the Flight Focal Plane Assembly (PDF)

MTI Focal Plane AssemblyDesign and Performance

Analysis of the MTI Electro-Optical System Performance: SNR and Resolution (withdrawn)

MTI On-orbit Calibration

MTI Ground Data Processing and Science Retrieval Pipeline Architecture (PDF)

MTI Core Science  ,(PDF-paper) ,(PDF-viewgraphs)

Evolving Retrieval Algorithms with a Genetic Programming Scheme (PDF)

Materials Identification and Anomaly Detection with Simulated MTI Data

Post-launch Validation of Multispectral Thermal Imager (MTI) Data and Algorithms

Bibliography of all other MTI papers from 1993-2003

• Paper: Practical atmospheric correction algorithms for a multispectral sensor from the visible through the thermal spectral region
• Viewgraphs: Practical atmospheric correction algorithms for a multispectral sensor from the visible through the thermal spectral region
•  Paper:  Comparing robust and physically based sea surface temperature retrievals for high-resolution, multi-spectral thermal sensors using one or multiple looks
•  Viewgraphs: Comparing robust and physically based sea surface temperature retrievals for high-resolution, multi-spectral thermal sensors using one or multiple looks
•  Paper:  Subpixel temperature retrieval with multispectral sensors by J. J. Szymanski, C.C.Borel, Q.O. Harberger, P. Smolarkiewicz and J. Theiler

• Interactive slideshow: Some examples of directional temperature variations for natural surfaces

• Surface Emissivity and Temperature Retrieval for a Hyperspectral Sensor( abstract, paper ,talk )

• D. Schlaepfer, C.C. Borel, J.Keller and K.I Itten,

"Atmospheric pre-corrected differential absorption technique to retrieve
columnar water vapor",
appeared special issue of Remote Sensing of the Environment, Vol. 65,No.3, September 1998, pp. 353-366.  

• Synthetic hyperspectral data cubes for complex thermal scenes ( paper , talk ,poster )
• Fractal plume movie in MPEG format

• Iterative Retrieval of Surface Emissivity and Temperature for a Hyperspectral Sensor ( paper )

• Nonlinear Spectral Mixing Theory to Model Multi-spectral Signatures
• Poster for above paper (won "Best of Session Award")

• Water Vapor Retrieval: Theory
• Viewgraphs: Water Vapor Retrieval: Theory
• Water Vapor Retrieval: Application
• Poster with watervapor retrieval results

• Paper: WaterVapor Retrieval over Many Surfaces
• Viewgraphs: Water Vapor Retrieval over Many Surfaces
• Paper: Accurate  Top of the Atmosphere Albedo Determination from Multiple Views of the MISR Instrument
• Viewgraphs: Accurate  Top of the Atmosphere Albedo Determination from Multiple Views of the MISR Instrument
• Poster:  Accurate Top of the Atmosphere Albedo Determination from Multiple Views of the MISR Instrument
• Paper: Partial Removal of Correlated Noise in Thermal Imagery
• Viewgraphs: Partial  Removal of Correlated Noise in Thermal Imagery
• Poster: Partial  Removal of Correlated Noise in Thermal Imagery
• Paper: Image Quality Degradation ... (B. Henderson is primary author)

• Paper: Accurate Top of the Atmosphere Albedo Determination from Multiple Views of the MISR Instrument

• C.C. Borel and Siegfried A.W. Gerstl, ``Non-linear spectral mixing models for vegetative and soil surfaces, "Remote Sens. of the Environment, 47:403-416, 1994 and LA-UR-92-1635, 1992. (Gzip'dPDF - 2.7 MB!)
• Radiosity in Remote Sensing - a perspective from a SIGGRAPH shortcourse
• VegetationModeling:

• C.C. Borel, S.A.W. Gerstl and B. J. Powers, ``The radiosity method in optical remote sensing of structured 3-D surfaces", Remote Sensing of the Environment, 36:13-44, 1991.   
• Figures to paper in GIF format
• C.C. Borel, S.A.W. Gerstl, ``Non-linear spectral mixing models for vegetative and soil surfaces", Remote Sens. of the Environment}, 47:403-416, 1993.
• Paper: C.C. Borel, S.A.W. Gerstl, ``Are Leaf Canopy Chemistry Signatures Preserved at the Canopy Level?",Proc. IGARSS'94, August 1994.
• Viewgraphs: C.C. Borel, S.A.W. Gerstl, ``Are Leaf Canopy Chemistry Signatures Preserved at the Canopy Level?",Proc. IGARSS'94, August 1994.
• Pre-print: C.C. Borel, S.A.W. Gerstl and S.N. Martens,``Modeling of Canopy Spectral Signature Retrievability Considering 3D Canopy Structure Variations", in preparation to be submitted to Remote Sens. of the Environment, May 1995 .

Old viewgraphs:

• Introduction to radiosity: Part 1
• Introduction to radiosity: Part 2

• TerrainEffects Modeling:

• Paper: C.C. Borel, S.A.W. Gerstl, ``Radiosity Based Model for Terrain Effects on Multi-Angular Views", IGARSS'94.
• Viewgraphs: C.C. Borel, S.A.W. Gerstl, ``Radiosity Based Model for Terrain Effects on Multi-Angular Views", IGARSS'94.

• Atmospheric Modeling

• Paper: C.C. Borel, S.A.W. Gerstl, ``Simulation of partially obscured scenes using the radiosity method", SPIE Vol. 1486, pp.271-277, April 1991.
• Viewgraphs: C.C. Borel, S.A.W. Gerstl, ``Simulation of partially obscured scenes using the radiosity method", SPIE Vol. 1486, pp.271-277, April 1991.
• Paper: C.C. Borel, S.A.W. Gerstl, ``Adjacency-blurring-effect of scenes modeled by the radiosity method", SPIE Vol. 1688, pp.620-624, 1992.
• Viewgraphs: C.C. Borel, S.A.W. Gerstl, ``Adjacency-blurring-effect of scenes modeled by the radiosity method", SPIE Vol. 1688, pp.620-624, 1992.
• Paper: S.A.W. Gerstl and C.C. Borel, ``Remote sensing applications of the extended radiosity method," Proc. of IGARSS'92, pp.503-504, 1992.
• Viewgraphs: S.A.W. Gerstl and C.C. Borel, ``Remote sensing applications of the extended radiosity method," Proc. of IGARSS'92, pp.503-504, 1992.
• Paper: C.C. Borel, S.A.W. Gerstl, ``Atmospheric corrections using the volume radiosity method", Proc. of IGARSS'92 , pp.1231-1234, 1992.
• Viewgraphs: C.C. Borel, S.A.W. Gerstl, ``Atmospheric corrections using the volume radiosity method", Proc. of IGARSS'92 , pp.1231-1234, 1992.