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 and Senior Remote Sensing Scientist, Ball Aerospace, Fairborn, Ohio, 1/2005 - 8/2009
• Member of the Research Staff, Riverside Research Institute, Beavercreek, OH, 11/2009 - 4/2010.
• Research Associate Professor, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, OH, 4/2010 - 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 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, NIS-2, SST-8 and T_DOT 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, International Journal of Remote Sensing, JGR, Applied Optics, DOE, USDA and NASA proposals.