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 and a PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the 
University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA under Prof. R.E. McIntosh and Prof. 
C.T. Swift 1988 with a thesis on electromagnetic scattering models of vegetation 
in the millimeter wave region which measured and modeled polarization 
signatures from vegetation. In 1988 he joined Los Alamos National Laboratory 
where he worked on various NASA science teams (HIRIS and MISR) as well as 
on the Multispectral Thermal Imager (MTI) a DOE program. He worked on end-
to-end modeling and data analysis of a Multi-spectral Thermal Imager (MTI) for 
DOE-NN. Developed algorithms include robust and physics based sea surface 
temperature retrieval, atmospheric pre-corrected differential absorption (APDA) 
for water vapor retrieval, atmospheric corrections, cloud and water masks, Entropy 
and PIXON based image sharpening, 1/f  noise  mitigation,  automatic  image 
registration, mosaicing and geolocation. He was the Principal Investigator of the 
Automatic Retrieval of Temperature and Emissivity using Spectral Smoothness 
(ARTEMISS) for the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA). The goal 
of this program was to retrieve temperature and emissivity from hyperspectral 
thermal infrared and mid-wave thermal infrared sensor data (e.g. SHARP, 
SEBASS,...). 
  In early 2005 he joined Ball Aerospace in Fairborn, OH where he currently 
works on projects funded by AFRL-VS and the MASINT program related to 
temperature-emissivity separation in the Long Wave InfraRed (LWIR) and Middle 
Wave InfraRed (MWIR), aerosol scattering, atmospheric corrections, inversion of 
radiative transfer models and image processing algorithm development. His 
research interests are in hyperspectral image analysis and synthesis, 
atmospheric corrections, remote sensing system end-to-end modeling, computer 
graphics and geospatial intelligence problems. Dr. Borel has over 20 years 
experience in optical and microwave remote sensing, published more than 70 
papers, is a senior member of IEEE and served as peer reviewer for articles in 
IEEE-TGARS, Applied Optics and Remote Sensing of Environment and 
proposals for NASA, DOE, USDA. He has experience with many radiative 
transfer codes, such as MODTRAN, 5S, 6S, 6S-V (polarized version of 6S), 
SBDART and others. 
   In 2001-2002 Dr. Borel served as a Distinguished Space Industry and National 
Laboratory Fellow by the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicle Division 
(AFRL-VSOE) at Hanscom AFB in the Battle Space Environmental Division.