MULTISPECTRAL THERMAL IMAGER SCIENCE

 PUBLICATIONS FROM 1993 UNTIL JANUARY 2003
(prepared by Paul Weber, (1993-1999) and Lee Balick (2000-2003))

 

Calendar Year 2003

 

Rodger, A. P., L. K. Balick, W. C. Clodius, S. J. Hook. “Mutispectral Thermal Imager (MTI)Water temperature retrievals at Lake Tahoe, California”, For submission to IEEE Trans. on Geosci. and Rem. Sens.,  in preparation.

 

Balick, L. K., A. P. Rodger and J. R Ballard, “Directional Differences of Satellite Sensed Temperature of a Leafless Deciduous Forest”, Submitted to the Internationsal Symposium on Spectral Signature Research.   Santa Barbara CA, 2-6 June 2003.

Chylek, P and B. L. Henderson, “Comparison of a double-view and a single-view aerosol optical depth retrieval algorithm”, Submitted to SPIE 48 th Annual Meeting, San Diego CA, 3-8 August, 2003.

Chylek, R., C. C. Borel, W. Clodius, P. A. Pope and A. P. Rodger, “Satellite based columnular water vapor retrieval with the Multispectral Thermal Imager (MTI)” Submitted to IEEE Trans. on Geosci. and Rem. Sens.,   submitted January 2003.

Lawson, S. L., A. P. Rodger, B. G. Henderson, S. C. Bender and P. G. Lucey, “Multispectral Thermal Imager observations of the moon during total eclipse”,

Thirty-Fourth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston Texas, March 17-21, 2003

 

Chylek, P., B. L. Henderson, and, M. Mishchenko, “Satellite based retrieval of optical thickness: The effect of sun and sensor geometry” , Submitted to Geophys. Res. Letters, Jan. 2003.

 

Henderson, B. L., Balick, L. K., A. R Rodger, P. A. Pope, and Goltz, S. M., “Concurrent measurements of directional reflectance and temperature of a wintertime coniferous forest from space”   Submitted to SPIE 48th Annual Conference (AM103), San Diego, CA, August 3-8, 2003.

 

Pope, P. A. and J. Theiler, "Photogrammetric Image Registration (PIR) of MTI Imagery".

SPIE 48th Annual Conference, Earth Observing Systems VIII (AM101), San Diego, CA, August 3-8, 2003

 

Galbraith, A., Theiler, J., and Bender, S.,   “Resampling Methods for the MTI Coregistration Product”, SPIE Aerosense 2003, Orlando FL, April, 2003.

 

Pope, P. A. and J. Theiler. “Automated Image Registration (AIR) of MTI Imagery",

SPIE AeroSense, Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral,

and Ultraspectral Imagery IX (OR38), Orlando, FL. April 21-25, pp. 314-327, 2003

 

Henderson, B. G. “The Polarized Emissivity of A Wind-Roughened Sea Surface: A Monte Carlo Model”, accepted for publication in Rem. Sens. Environ. 2003.

 

Calendar Year 2002

 

Mushkin, A., Balick, L. K., and Gillespie, A. R.,   “Surface-temperature and emissivity recovery using the spaceborne Multispectral Thermal Imager (MTI) sensor” Submitted to the Symposium of the American Geophysical Union,   Session P10:  Closing the Loop: Remote Analysis of Terrestrial and Planetary Surfaces, Dec. 2002.

 

Jeffery, C. A., Balick, L. K., and Henderson, B. G., “Modeling turbulence induced skin temperature fluctuations on a bluff-rough surface using surface renewal theory, “ Submitted to the Symposium of the American Geophysical Union, Dec. 2002.

 

Balick, L.K., Jeffery, C.A., Henderson, B. G., “Turbulence Induced Spatial Variation of Surface Temperature In High Resolution Thermal IR Satellite Imager”.    SPIE Proceedings Vol. 4879, 2002.

 

Clodius, W.C., Borel, C.C., Balick,L. K. and Hook, S.J., “Validation of the MTI Water Surface Temperature Retrieval Algorithms ”.  Int. Geosci. and Rem. Sens. Symp. (IGARSS02).  Session on Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing.  Toronto, Ont., Canada

 

Davis, A., and Marshak, A., “Optical Remote Sensing of Isolated Dense Clouds With High-Resolution Satellite-and Ground-Based Imagers”, IEEE Int. Geosci. and Rem. Sens. Symp. (IGARSS ’02), Toronto, Canada, June 24-28, 2002.

 

Henderson, B. L. “A Monte Carlo Model of the Directional Polarized Emissivity of a Wind-Roughened Sea Surface”, presented at the Third International Workshop on Multiangular Measurements and Models, Steamboat Springs, CO, June 10-12, 2002.

 

Davis, A., and Marshak, A., “Broken Clouds in High-Resolution Multi-Angle VIS/NIR Imagery: From Geometry to Optical Properties”, 3 rd International Workshop on Multiangular Measurements and Models, Steamboat Springs, CO, June 10-12, 2002.

 

Davis, A., Petrov, N., and Clothiaux, E.,  “Semi-Discrete Wavelet Characterizations of Cloud Structure from mm-Radar and Satellite Data ” Proceedings of 11th AMS Conference on Cloud Physics, Ogden, Utah, June 3-7, 2002, AMS, Boston, MA ., 2002

 

Davis, A., Petrov, N., Clothiaux, E., and Marshak, A., “Stratus Cloud Structure from mm-Radar Transects and Satellite Images: Scaling Properties and Artifact Detection with Semi-Discrete Wavelet Analyses” .  Proceedings of 12th Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Science Team Meeting, St. Petersburg, FL, April 8-12, 2002.

 

Davis, A., “Cloud Remote Sensing with Sideways-Looks: Theory and First Results Using Multispectral Thermal Imager Data”, SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 4625, pp. 397-405      

 

Clodius, W. B., Brislawn, C. M., Harvey N. R., Pal M. D., and Theiler, J.,   "Contribution to the Image Processing Section of the Dekker Encyclopedia of Optical Engineering", Los Alamos National Laboratory Unclassified Report, LAUR-02-2785, Submitted as a final draft to Marcel Dekker, Inc. to become the "Multispectral and Hyperspectral Image Processing" chapter.   2002

 

Mushkin, A., Balick, L. K., and Gillespie, A. R., “Temperature/Emissivity Separation of MTI Data Using the Terra/ASTER TES Algorithm”.  SPIE Proceedings Vol. 4725, 2002.

 

Harvey, N.R., Theiler, J.P., Balick, L.K., Pope, P.A., Szymanski,J.J., Perkins, S.J., Porter, R.B., Brumby, S.P., Bloch, J.J., David, N.A., and Galassi, M., “Automated Simultaneous Feature Classification of MTI Data”,  SPIE Proceedings Vol. 4725, pp. 346-356, 2002.

 

Theiler, J, Galbraith, A., Pope, P., Ramsey, K., and Szymanski, J., “Automated Coregistration of MTI Spectral Bands”.   SPIE Proceedings Vol. 4725, pp. 314-327, 2002.

 

Collins, E., Roberts, D., and Borel, C., “Spectral Mixture Analysis of Thermal Infrared Spectrometry Data: Effects of Radiometric Resolution on Accuracy”, IEEE Int. Geosci. and Rem. Sens. Symp. IGARSS 02, Toronto Ont. CA, Vol. 6, pp. 3674 –3676, 2002.

 

Calendar Year 2001

 

Davis, A., and Petrov,N., “Semi-Discrete Wavelet Transforms of Remote Sensing Data Reveal Long-Range Mutifractal Correlations in Cloud Structure”, American Geophysical Union- 2001 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 10-14, 2001.

 

Balick, L., Ballard, J., Smith, J., and Goltz, S., “ Directional Satellite Thermal IR Measurements and Modeling of a Forest in Winter and Their Relationship to Air Temperature”, SPIE International Remote Sensing Symposium, Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology III, Toulouse, France, 17-19 Sept., pp.162-169. 2001.

 

Balick, L., Gillespie, A., and Abbott, E., Sabol, D., Kahle, A. B., Borel, C,. Pendergast, M., “Multiscale Thermal-Infrared Measurements of the Mauna Loa Caldera, Hawai’i”, SPIE Proceedings Vol. 4381, pp.440-446, 2001.

 

Hirsch, L., Balick, L., Borel, C., and McLachlan, P., “Comparision of Four Methods for Determining Precipible Water Content From Multi-Spectral Data”.  SPIE Proceedings Vol. 4381, pp.417-428. 2001.

 

Borel, C., Hirsch, K., and Balick, L., “Recipes for Writing Algorithms to Retrieve Columnar Water Vapor for Three-Band Multispectral Data”.  SPIE Proceedings Vol. 4381, pp. 409-416 , 2001).

 

S. P. Brumby, K. Lewis Hirsch, A. B. Davis, N. R. Harvey, and C. A. Rohde, Genetic Refinement of Cloud-Masking Algorithms for the Multispectral Thermal Imager (MTI), in Proceedings of IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2001), pp. 1152-1154, Syney (Aus), July 9-13, 2001, IEEE, 2001

 

Szymanski, J., Atkins, W., Balick, L., Borel, C., Clodius, W.,  Christensen, W., Davis, A., Echohawk, J., Galbraith, A., Hirsch, K., Krone, J., Little, C., McLachlan, P., Morrison, A., Novak, C., Pollock, K., Ramsey, K., Riddle, E., Rohde, C., Roussel-Dupre, D., Smith, B., Smith, K., Starkovich, K., Theiler, J., and Weber, P., “MTI Science, Data Products, and Ground-Data Processing Overview”. IGARSS 2001 Proceedings, 2001.

 

Szymanski, J., Atkins, W., Balick, L., Borel, C., Clodius, W.,  Christensen, W., Davis, A., Echohawk, J., Galbraith, A., Hirsch, K., Krone, J., Little, C., McLachlan, P., Morrison, A., Novak, C., Pollock, K., Ramsey, K., Riddle, E., Rohde, C., Roussel-Dupre, D., Smith, B., Smith, K., Starkovich, K., Theiler, J., and Weber, P., “MTI Science, Data Products, and Ground-Data Processing Overview”.   SPIE Proceedings Vol. 4381, pp.195-203, 2001.

 

Collins, E., Roberts, D., and Borel, C., “Spectral Mixture Analysis of Simulated Thermal Infrared Spectrometry Data: An Initial Temperature Estimate Bounded TESSMA Search Approach”.   IEEE Trans. of Geosci. and Rem. Sens., Volume: 39, No. 7, pp. 1435-1446, 2001.

 

 

Calendar Year 2000

 

Clodius, W., “MTI Data Reference Guide for Level 1 Imagery”, TINC Users of MTI Imagery, December 12, 2000.

 

Clodius, W., “MTI Level 1 Image Data Caveats Summary ”, TINC Summary to Users of MTI Imagery, December 12, 2000.

 

Szymanski, J., Bell, R., Brock, B., “Multispectral Thermal Imager”, TINC Informal Distribution, November 30, 2000.

 

Szymanski, J., Bell, R., Brock, B., “Demonstrating Advanced Multispectral and Thermal Imaging Technology from Space”, TINC Informal Distribution, November 30, 2000.

 

Bell, R., Weber, P., “Multispectral Thermal Imager- Overview”, SPIE Aero Sense, November 8, 2000.

 

Borel, C., Hirsch, K., Balick, L., “Recipes for Writing Algorithms to Retrieve Columnar Water Vapor For 3-Band Multispectral Data ”, SPIE Aero Sense, September 19, 2000.

 

Rohde, C., Hirsch, K., Davis, A., “Performance of the Interactive Procedures for Cloud Detection in the MTI Production Pipeline”, SPIE Aero Sense, September 19, 2000.

 

Borel, C., Clodius, W., “Recipes for Writing Algorithms for Atmospheric Corrections and Temperature/Emissivity Separations in the Thermal Regime for a Multi-Spectral Sensor”, SPIE Aero Sense, September 19, 2000.

 

Hirsch, K, Balick, L., Borel, C., McLachlan, P., “Comparison of Four Methods For Determining Precipitable Water Vapor Content”, SPIE Aero Sense, September 13, 2000.

 

Bender, S., Atkins, W., Christensen, W., Clodius, W., Little, C., Kay, R., Anderson, D., Bridenstine, D., “Calibration of an IR Imaging Sensor- Part 1: Concept and Methodology”, Characterization and Radiometric Calibration for Remote, August 17, 2000

 

Bender, S., Atkins, W., Christensen, W., Clodius, W., Little, C., Kay, R., Bridenstine, D., “Calibration of an IR Imaging Sensor- Part 2: Experience and On-Orbit Results”, Characterization and Radiometric Calibration for Remote, August 17, 2000.

 

Collins, E., Borel, C., Roberts, D., “Spectral Mixture Analysis of Simulated Thermal Infrared Spectrometry Data: An Initial Temperature Estimate Bounded Tessma Search Approach Search.”   TINC IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, August 2, 2000

 

Clodius. W., Bender, S., Atkins, W., Christensen, W., Little, C., Kay, R., Bridenstine, D., “Initial MTI On-Orbit Calibration Performance”, SPIE Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, July 20, 2000.

 

Rice,J., Bender, S., Atkins, W., “Thermal-Infrared Scale Verifications at 10 Micrometers Using the NIS EOS TXR”, SPIE 45 th Annual Meeting, July 5, 2000.

 

Hirsch, K., Brumby, S., Harvey, N., Davis, A., “Performance of the MTI Dense-Cloud Mask Algorithm, and its Refinement With a Genetic Learning Program”, SPIE 45th Annual Meeting, June 29, 2000.

 

Davis, A., Rohde, Ch., “Numerical Modeling of Higher-Order Effects Resulting From Complex Terrain Features in the Multispectral Radiometry” .  SPIE Aero Sense, April 19, 2000

 

Davis, A., and Rohde, C., “Monte Carlo Ray-Tracing in Stratified Atmospheres Over Complex Terrain, with Applications to Active and Passive Remote Sensing from Space”, Proceedings of Opto-Southwest, SPIE Regional meeting on Optoelectronics, Photonics, and Imaging, pp. 56-57, April 10-11, 2000.

 

Chen, M. Weber, P., “Initial Performance Verification for the Multispectral Thermal Imager”, SPIE Infrared Imaging Systems, March 24, 2000.

 

Clodius, W., Bender, S., Atkins, W., Christensen, W., Little, C., Rex, K., Bridenstine, D., “Initial MTI On-Orbit Calibration Performance”.  SPIE 45th Annual Meeting, January 2000

 

Weber, P., “Initial Performance Validation for the Multispectral Thermal Imager”, SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 4030, pp. 2-9. 2000.

                  

Balick, L., Hirsch, K., McLachlan, P., Borel, C., Clodius, W., and Villenueve, P., “Impelementation and Validation of Atmospheric Compensation Algorithms for Multispectral Thermal Imager (MTI) Pipeline Processing”, SPIE Proceedings Vol 4125. pp.150-158, 2000.

 

Collins, E., Roberts, D., Funk, P., Borel, C., “Temperature Estimation and Compositional Mapping Using Spectral Mixture Analysis of Thermal Imaging Spectrometry Data”. Proceedings of SPIE, Volume: 3753, pp. 286-297. 2000.

 

Hirsch, K., Brumby, S., Harvey, N., and Davis, A., “The MTI Dense-Cloud Mask Algorithm Compared to a Cloud Mask Evolved by a Genetic Algorithm and to the MODIS Cloud Mask”., SPIE Proceedings, 2000.

 

Davis, A., Hirsch, K., Brumby, S., Rohde, C., “Genetic Refinement of Cloud-Mask Algorithms for the Mutlispectral Thermal Imager (MTI)”, IGARSS 2000, 2000.

 

Szymanski, J., Borel, C., Clodius, W., Davis, A., Krone, J., Ramsey, K., Smith, B., Smith, K., Theiler, J., Villeneuve, P., and Weber, P., “MTI Ground Data Processing and Science Retrieval Pipeline Architecture” .  SPIE Proceedings, Volume: 3753, pp. 394-402 2000.

 

Calendar Year 1999

 

67.   C. C. Borel, W. B. Clodius, A. B. Davis, B. W. Smith, J. J. Szymanski, J. P. Theiler, P. V. Villeneuve and P. G. Weber: “MTI Core Science Retrieval Algorithms”, in: Imaging Spectrometry V, M. R. Descour and S. S. Shen, Editors, Denver, 18-23 July 1999, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3753, (1999).

 

66.   C. C. Borel, W. B. Clodius, J. J. Szymanski and J. Theiler: “Comparing Robust and Physically Based Sea Surface Temperature Retrievals for High Resolution Multispectral Thermal Sensors Using One or Multiple Looks”, in: Algorithms for Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imagery V, S. S. Shen and M. R. Descour, Editors, Orlando, 5-6 April 1999, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3717, (1999).

 

65. Christoph C. Borel, Pierre V. Villeneuve, William B. Clodius, John J. Szymanski, and Anthony Davis: “Practical Atmospheric Correction Algorithms for a Multi-Spectral Sensor from the Visible through the Thermal Spectral Regions”, in: Algorithms for Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imagery V, S. S. Shen and M. R. Descour, Editors, Orlando, 5-6 April 1999, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3717, (1999).

 

64.   W. B. Clodius, S. C. Bender and B. W. Smith: “MTI On-orbit Calibration”, in: Imaging Spectrometry V, M. R. Descour and S. S. Shen, Editors, Denver, 18-23 July 1999, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3753, (1999).

 

63.   B. J. Cooke, T. S. Lomheim, C. C. Borel, W. B. Clodius, B. E. Laubscher, B. W. Smith and P. G. Weber: “Analysis of the MTI Electro-optical System Performance: SNR and Resolution”, in: Imaging Spectrometry V, M. R. Descour and S. S. Shen, Editors, Denver, 18-23 July 1999, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3753, (1999).

 

62.   A. J. Garrett, R. J. Kurzeja, B. L. O’Steen, E. Villa and M. J. Parker: “Post-launch Validation of Multispectral Thermal Imager (MTI) Data and Algorithms”, in: Imaging Spectrometry V, M. R. Descour and S. S. Shen, Editors, Denver, 18-23 July 1999, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3753, (1999).

 

61.   Alfred J. Garrett, John M. Irvine, Amy D. King,   Thomas K. Evers, Daniel A. Levine, Clell Ford, John L. Smyre: “Application of Multi-spectral Imagery to Assessment of a Hydrodynamic Simulation of an Effluent Stream Entering the Clinch River”, accepted for publication in Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (PE&RS) (1999).

 

60.   T. D. Henson, L. Krummel, R. J. Blake, D. A. Byrd, W. Christensen, W. M. Rapoport, G. Shen: “Multispectral Thermal Imager (MTI) Optical Assembly Performance and Integration of the Flight Focal Plane Assembly (FPA)”, in: Imaging Spectrometry V, M. R. Descour and S. S. Shen, Editors, Denver, 18-23 July 1999, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3753, (1999).

 

59.   R. R. Kay, T. D. Henson, J. L. Rienstra, M. L. Decker, N. G. Rackley, P. J. Claassen, R. E. Kidner, R. B. Taplin, D. M. Bullington, K. D. Marbach, C. E. Lanes, B. C. Brock, P. G. Weber, S. C. Bender, B. W. Smith, W. B. Clodius, and C. C. Borel: “Multispectral Thermal Imager (MTI) Payload Overview”, in: Imaging Spectrometry V, M. R. Descour and S. S. Shen, Editors, Denver, 18-23 July 1999, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3753, (1999).

 

58.   B. Lance O'steen:  "Plant Vogtle Cooling Tower Plume Studies" WSRC-TR-99-00174, Savannah River Technology Center, Aiken, SC, May 1999.

 

57.   J. L. Rienstra and M. Ballard: “MTI Focal Plane Assembly Design and Performance”, in: Imaging Spectrometry V, M. R. Descour and S. S. Shen, Editors, Denver, 18-23 July 1999, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3753, (1999).

 

56.   B. R. Stallard and J. G. Taylor: “Materials Identification and Anomaly Detection with Simulated MTI Data”, in: Imaging Spectrometry V, M. R. Descour and S. S. Shen, Editors, Denver, 18-23 July 1999, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3753, (1999).

 

55.   J. J. Szymanski, C. C. Borel, W. B. Clodius, A. B. Davis, J. B. Krone, K. Ramsey, B. W. Smith, K. Smith, J. P. Theiler, P. V. Villeneuve and P. G. Weber: “MTI Ground Data Processing and Science Retrieval Pipeline Architecture”, in: Imaging Spectrometry V, M. R. Descour and S. S. Shen, Editors, Denver, 18-23 July 1999, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3753, (1999).

 

54.   John J. Szymanski, Christoph C. Borel, Quincy O. Harberger, Pawel Smolarkiewicz and James Theiler: “Subpixel temperature retrieval with multispectral sensors” in: Algorithms for Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imagery V, S. S. Shen and M. R. Descour, Editors, Orlando, 5-6 April 1999, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3717, (1999).

 

53.   J. P. Theiler, S. P. Brumby, J. J. Szymanski, S. Alferink and J. J. Bloch: “Evolving Retrieval Algorithms with a Genetic Programming Scheme”, in: Imaging Spectrometry V, M. R. Descour and S. S. Shen, Editors, Denver, 18-23 July 1999, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3753, (1999).

 

52.   Paul G. Weber, Christoph C. Borel, William B. Clodius, Bradly J. Cooke and Barham W. Smith: "Design considerations, modeling and analysis for the Multispectral Thermal Imager", Proc. SPIE Conference on Infrared Imaging Systems: Design, Analysis, Modeling, and Testing, SPIE Vol. 3701, paper 3701-13 (1999).

 

51.   Paul G. Weber, James Theiler, Barham W. Smith, Steven P. Love, Bradly J. Cooke, William B. Clodius, Christoph C. Borel, and Steven C. Bender: "Measurement strategies for remote sensing applications", 1998 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Colorado March 6-13, 1999.

 

50.   P. G. Weber, B. C. Brock, A. J. Garrett, B. W. Smith, C. C. Borel, W. B. Clodius, S. C. Bender, R. R. Kay, M. L. Decker: “Multispectral Thermal Imager (MTI) Mission Overview”, in: Imaging Spectrometry V, M. R. Descour and S. S. Shen, Editors, Denver, 18-23 July 1999, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3753, (1999).

 

 

Calendar Year 1998

 

49.   Christoph C. Borel: “Surface Emissivity and Temperature Retrieval for a Hyperspectral Sensor” IGARSS ’98, LA-UR-98-1366.

 

48.   C. C. Borel, W. B. Clodius and P. V. Villeneuve, “Synthetic Hyperspectral Data Cubes for Complex Thermal Scenes”, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3438, pp. 222-231 (1998).

 

47.   D. A. Byrd, W. H. Atkins, S. C. Bender, R. W. Christensen and F. D. Michaud,  “Vacuum-Compatible Standard Diffuse Source: Manufacture and Calibration” in Illumination and Source Engineering, Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 3428, 9-22 (1998).   (Also available as LA-UR-98-3144).

 

46.   W. B. Clodius, P.G. Weber, C. C. Borel and B. W. Smith, “Multi-spectral band selection for satellite-based systems”, SPIE Conference on Imaging Systems: design, Modeling and testing IX, 15-16 April 1998, Orlando, Florida, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3377, pp. 11-21 (1998).

 

45.   John Gustafson: Threat Reduction Directorate, Los Alamos National; Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, Vol. 1, No. 4 (1998)

 

44.   Tammy Henson, Steve Bender, Don Byrd, William Rapoport and Gon-Yen Shen: “Optical Assembly of a Visible through Thermal Infrared Multispectral Imaging System” SPIE, Volume 3439, pp. 70-78   (1998).

 

43.   R. Rex Kay, Brian C. Brock, Tammy D. Henson, Jeffrey L. Rienstra, Max L. Decker, N. Glenn Rackley, Paul G. Weber, Steven C. Bender and Donald A. Byrd, “An introduction to the Department of Energy’s Multispectral Thermal Imager Project Emphasizing the Imaging and Calibration Subsystems”, Proc. 12Th. AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, Utah State University, September 1998 (1998).

 

42.   Joe Magner and Tammy Henson: “Optical Fabrication and Metrology for a Visible Through Thermal Infrared Multi-Band Imaging System” SPIE, Volume 3377, pp. 258-266  (1998).

 

41.   Jeffrey Rienstra and Mary Ballard, "Multispectral Focal Plane Assembly for Satellite Remote Sensing", 1998 IEEE Aerospace Applications Conference Proceedings, 233-241, 1998.

 

40.   Sandia Lab News, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, Vol. 50, No. 9  (1998).

 

39.   Daniel Schlapfer, Christoph C. Borel, Johannes Keller and Klaus I. Itten, "Atmospheric Precorrected Differential Absorption Technique to Retrieve Columnar Water Vapor", Remote Sensing of the Environment, 65, 353-366, 1998.

 

38.   Barham W. Smith, Christoph C. Borel, William B. Clodius, Anthony B. Davis, Pawel Smolarkiewicz, John J. Szymanski, James Theiler and Pierre V. Villeneuve: “Handbook of Science Algorithms for the Multispectral Thermal Imager” LA-UR-98-306  (1998).

 

37.   Paul G. Weber, Steven C. Bender, Christoph C. Borel, William B. Clodius, Alfred Garrett, Malcolm M. Pendergast and Barham W. Smith, “Multispectral Thermal Imaging”, Proc. SPIE Conference, Vol. 3438, pp. 234-242, San Diego, CA, 21 July 1998 (1998) (Invited paper).

 

 

Calendar Year 1997

 

36.   C. C. Borel, Iterative Retrieval of Surface Emissivity and Temperature for a Hyperspectral Sensor, First JPL Workshop on Remote Sensing of Land Surface Emissivity, JPL, May 6-8,1997

 

35.   C.C. Borel, S.A.W. Gerstl, ``Non-linear spectral mixing models for vegetative and soil surfaces", SPIE Milestone Series, Optical Remote Sensing, J.A. Smith (ed.), 1997. (selected  RSE paper from 1992)

 

34.   J. Garrett and D. W. Hayes, "Cooling Lake Simulations Compared to Thermal Imagery and Dye Tracers." J. Hydr. Engineering., 123(10),   885-894, 1997.

 

33.   Bradley G. Henderson, James Theiler and Pierre V. Villeneuve: “ The Polarized Emissivity of a Wind-Roughened Sea Surfaces: A Monte Carlo Model” Los Alamos National Laboratory Report LA-UR-97-14 (1997).

 

32.   James Theiler: “Finding Weak Signatures in Cluttered Backgrounds Using Covariance Matrix Methods”  (1997).

 

31.   James Theiler and Galen Gisler: “A contiguity-enhanced k-means clustering algorithm for unsupervised multispectral image segmentation” Proc. SPIE, Vol. 3159, pp. 1-11 (1997).

 

30.   James Theiler and Bradley G. Henderson, "A Geometrical Constraint on Shadowing in Rough Surfaces", Infrared Spaceborne Remote Sensing V, Marija Strojnik and Bjorn Andresen, Editors, Proc.   SPIE Vol. 3122, 271-279, 1997.

 

29.   James Theiler, Bradley G. Henderson and Barham W. Smith, "Algorithms Using Inter-band Cross-correlation for Pixel Registration and Jitter Reconstruction in Multi-channel Push-broom Imagers", Proc. SPIE Vol. 3163, pp. 1-11 (1997).

 

28.   James Theiler and William C. Priedhorsky: “Intensity masking to get high resolution images from low quality apertures” SPIE, Volume 3170, pp. 1-11  (1997).

 

 

Calendar Year 1996

 

27.   Naomi Becker, Randy Bell, Robert Carlos, John Carson, Tom Evers, John Irvine, Amy King, Stan Moore, Mal Pendergast, Barham Smith, John Smyre, Ed Van Eeckhout and Paul Weber.  “Determining Waste Pit Locations through Temperature, Moisture and Infrared Measurements” Eighth National Technology Information Exchange Workshop, US Department of Energy, Santa Fe, NM April 16-18, 1996.

 

26.   W. Randy Bell: “The Department of Energy’s Multispectral Thermal Imager (MTI) Project” DOE/NN-20  (1996).

 

25.   C.C. Borel, ``Nonlinear spectral mixing theory to model multi-spectral signatures," Proc. Eleventh Thematic Conference and Workshops on Applied Geologic Remote Sensing (27-29 February 1996), Las Vegas, NV, pp. II-20 (1996).

 

24.   Christoph C. Borel, William B. Clodius and Jennifer Johnson: “Water Vapor Retrieval Over many Surface Types”, Proc. SPIE Vol. 2758, pp. 218-228 (1996).

 

23.   C. C. Borel, B. J. Cooke, and B. E. Laubscher: “Partial Removal of Correlated Noise in Thermal Imagery”, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 2759, pp. 131-138 (1996).

 

22.   C. C. Borel, S. A. Gerstl, and C. Tornow: “Accurate Top-of-the-Atmosphere Albedo Determination from Multiple Views of the MISR Instrument”, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 2758, pp. 241-251 (1996).

 

21.   C.C. Borel and D. Schlaepfer, ``Atmospheric pre-corrected differential absorption techniques to retrieve columnar water vapor: theory and simulations," 6th Annual JPL Airborne Earth Science Workshop (4-8 March 1996),

Pasadena, CA, 10 p.

 

20.   Donald A. Byrd, F. D. Michaud, Steven C. Bender, Allen L. Luettgen, Redus F. Holland, William H. Atkins, T.R. O’Brian and S.R. Lorentz: “Design, manufacture, and calibration of infrared radiometric blackbody sources” Aerospace / Defense Sensing and Controls, Proceedings of SPIE, 8-12 April 1996, SPIE Volume 2743, pp.216-226  (1996).

 

19.   Bradly J. Cooke, Bryan E. Laubscher, Christoph C. Borel, Terrence S. Lomheim and Christopher F. Klein, "Methodology for Rapid Infrared Multi-Spectral, Electro-Optical Imaging System Performance Analysis and Synthesis", Aerospace / Defense Sensing and Controls, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 2743, pp. 52-86 (1996).

 

18.   G.Gisler and C.C. Borel, ``Neural network identifications of spectral signatures," Proc. Eleventh Thematic Conference and Workshops on Applied Geologic Remote Sensing (27-29 February 1996), Las Vegas, NV, pp. II-21-29.

 

17.   Bradley G. Henderson, Christoph C. Borel, James P. Theiler and Barham W. Smith: “Image Quality Degradation and Retrieval Errors Introduced by Registration and Interpolation of Multispectral Digital Images”, Proc. SPIE Vol. 2759, pp. 149-160 (1996).

 

16.   D. Schlaepfer, C.C. Borel, J. Keller and K.I. Itten, ``Atmospheric pre-corrected differential absorption techniques to retrieve columnar water vapor: application to AVIRIS 91/95 data," 6th Annual JPL Airborne Earth Science

Workshop(4-8 March 1996), Pasadena, CA, 10 p.

 

15.   Ker-Li Shu and Tammy Henson: “Optical Design for a Visible Through Thermal Infrared Multi-Band Imaging System” Proc. SPIE Vol. 2863, pp. 301-310   (1996).

 

14.   Barham W. Smith, Christoph C. Borel, William B. Clodius, James Theiler, Bryan Laubscher and Paul G. Weber: “End-to-end performance modeling of passive remote sensing systems” Proc. SPIE, Vol. 2743, pp. 285-289 (1996).

 

 

Calendar Year 1995

 

13.   George Auchampaugh: “The Effect of Discharge Channel Parameters and Pixel Size on Thermal Plume from a River Cooling System” LA-UR-95-1800.

 

12.   Donald A. Byrd: “Design, Manufacture, and Calibration of Infrared Radiometric Blackbody Source” 5th Symposium on Infrared Radiometric Sensor Calibration and SPIE ’95, LA-UR-95-673.

 

11.   Donald A. Byrd: “Resiliency of Enhanced martin – Black on Aluminum Surfaces Under Stress” 5th Symposium on Infrared Radiometric Sensor Calibration, LA-UR-95-672.

 

10.   A.J. Garrett: “Sensitivity of Operating Power Estimates to Biases in Temperatures Derived from Thermal Imagery” Special Programs Savannah River Technology Center, SRTC-NN-95-10  (1995).

 

 

Calendar Year 1994:

 

9.   C.C. Borel and Siegfried A.W. Gerstl, ``Radiosity Based Model for Terrain Effects on Multi-Angular Views," Proc. IGARSS'94 (1994).

 

8.   George Auchampaugh: “Production of Plutonium and the Temperature of the Discharge Water”  (1994).

 

7.   S. C. Bender, W. B. Maier II, D. Byrd, et al, “The Los Alamos Calibration Laboratory for Multi-spectral and Thermal Imaging Radiometer Systems”, Proceedings Fourth SDL/USU Symposium on Infrared Radiometric Sensor Calibration, 1994.

 

6.         D. A. Byrd, W. B. Maier II, S. C. Bender, et al: "Visible / Infrared Radiometric

Calibration Station", Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 2268, 398-403, 1994.

 

5.   Carmen Tornow, Christoph C. Borel and Bill J. Powers, ``Robust water temperature retrieval using multi-spectral and multi-angular IR measurements," IGARSS'94, Pasadena, pp.441-443, (1994).

 

4.   Paul G. Weber, “Multispectral Thermal Imaging”, Proceedings of Sensor Technical Conference, Air Force Technical Applications Center, Florida, 4-5 May 1994 (1994).

 

 

Calendar Year 1993:

 

3.   George Auchampaugh: “Calculations of Thermal Signatures from TMI-2 Spent Fuel Assemblies” LA-UR-93-1741.

 

2.   George Auchampaugh: “Circular Polar Orbit Calculations for MTI Mission” Technical Note for MTI Project, LA-UR-93-2194 (Rev-1).

 

1.   D. D. Cobb, P. G. Weber, W. C. Priedhorsky and K. R. Moore: “Satellite-based Remote Sensing”, LA-CP-93-0025, Expo ‘93, Oak Ridge, TN, May 1993 (1993).