Christoph C. Borel received a diploma in electrical engineering (Dipl.
El. Ing. ETH) in 1981 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in
Zurich, Switzerland.
From 1981-1983 he held a research position with the Institute of Communication
Technology at the ETH. He worked on simulating and characterizing fiber
optic transmission systems. In the fall of 1983 he joined the Microwave Remote
Sensing Laboratory (MIRSL) of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
He received a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from UMass in
1988 with a thesis on scattering models of vegetation in the millimeter
wave region.
In 1988 he joined the Theoretical Division of the Los Alamos National
Laboratory in Los Alamos, NM. As a postdoctoral fellow he worked on the
implementation of the radiosity theory, design and construction of an
artificial canopy and atmospheric correction algorithms. In 1990 he joined
the Space Science and Technology which later became the Non-proliferation and 
International Security Division as a staff member. His current
research interests are vegetation modeling in the visible and infrared using
the radiosity method, computer graphics algorithms, image analysis,
hyperspectral image analysis and synthesis, and atmospheric corrections.
He was the principal investigator on a project entitled ``Radiosity Modeling
for Remote Sensing" funded by NASA HQ through Diane Wickland from 1993 to 1996.
He is currently investigating retrieval methods of land-surface temperatures
for complex terrain under a program funded by NASA's Terrestrial Ecology 
Program (TEP).

He works with the MISR science team member S. Gerstl on algorithms to
determine the clear sky albedo at the top of the atmosphere.

He is the deputy team leader for the modeling and science analysis team
on the DOE sponsored Multispectral Thermal Imager (MTI) project and is
spear-heading the algorithm development for water and land temperature 
retrievals, chlorophyll retrieval in water, water vapor retrievals 
over heterogeneous surfaces, material identification, radiometric, 
geometric and atmospheric correction of data, end-to-end
simulation of the imaging system and image restoration methods.

In 1985 he received first prize in the USNC/URSI student paper contest 
for a paper entitled ``A scattering model for foliage in the millimeter 
wave region using fractal theory". 

He has published over 60 scientific papers in the area of remote sensing
in the optical and microwave regime.  He has been involved in research projects
sponsored by the Swiss Postal Office, US Air Force, Army Research Office and
NASA. He has served as associate editor for IEEE Transaction on Geoscience and
Remote Sensing in the area of optical and hyperspectral remote sensing, was
chairman of the Los Alamos section of IEEE and LEOS chapter.