ATM-MIRS 2018 Technical Program June 4 – June 6, 2018
Monday June 4, 2018 Boston College School of Law, East Wing 200
0730 – 0815: Registration/Check-In
Lecture Hall Foyer
0730 – 0815: Continental Breakfast
Lecture Hall Foyer
0815 – 0830: Chair’s Welcome and Opening Remarks
John Roadcap
Air Force Research Laboratory Kirtland AFB, New Mexico
0830 – 0845: Welcome from IEEE GRSS and MIRS TC
John Kerekes
Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing Laboratory
Rochester Institute of Technology
Session 1: Radiative Transfer for the Future Chair: John Roadcap
0845 – 0945: HITRAN and HITEMP: Towards Molecular Spectroscopic Databases for any Possible Scenario (invited) (abstract)
Iouli Gordon, Laurence Rothman, Yan Tan, Roman Kochanov, and Robert Hargreaves
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, Massachusetts
0945 – 1015: Challenges in Performing an In-flight Absolute Radiometric Calibration
Jeannette van den Bosch1 and Christopher Crawford2
1Air Force Research Laboratory Kirtland AFB, New Mexico
2USGS/ASRC
1015 – 1045: Morning Coffee Break
Session 2: Aerosols and Haze Chair: Jeannette van den Bosch
1045 – 1115: Measuring the Detector-Observed Impact of Optical Blurring Due to Aerosols in a Laboratory Cloud Chamber (abstract)
Corey D. Packard1, Raymond A. Shaw2, Will H. Cantrell2, Greg M. Kinney2, Michael Roggemann3, and John R. Valenzuela4
1ThermoAnalytics Inc., Calumet, Michigan
2Dept. of Physics and Atmospheric Sciences, Michigan Technological University
Houghton, Michigan
3Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan Technological University
Houghton, Michigan
4Integrity Applications, Inc. Chantilly, Virginia
1115 – 1145: Seeing through Heavily-Polluted Satellite Imagery Using QUAC (abstract)
Steven Adler-Golden, Lawrence Bernstein, Benjamin St. Peter, and Bridget Tannian
Spectral Sciences, Inc. Burlington, Massachusetts
1145 – 1315: Lunch Break Stuart 414 (Faculty Lounge)
Session 3: Atmospheric Properties Retrieval Chair: Wellesley Pereira
1315 – 1345: Using MODTRAN6 for Inter-Comparison of NOAA-20 and S-NPP CrIS Spectra (abstract)
Joe Kristl, Kori Moore, Mark Esplin, Deron Scott, and Ben Esplin
Space Dynamics Laboratory, Utah State University Research Foundation
1345 – 1415: Comparison of CIMSS DCOMP and TWST Cloud Optical Depth Retrievals
Jeannette van den Bosch
Air Force Research Laboratory Kirtland AFB, New Mexico
1415 – 1445: Integrating MODTRAN6 into the Plume Tracker Data Analysis Toolkit (abstract)
Paulo Penteado1, Vincent Realmuto1, Tim Perkins2 , and Alexander Berk2
1Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
2Spectral Sciences, Inc. Burlington, Massachusetts
1445 – 1515: Afternoon Break
Session 4: Optical Turbulence and Path Refraction Chair: Steven Fiorino
1515 – 1545: Turbulent Imaging Simulation at DRDC, Pt. I (abstract)
Guy Potvin
Defence Research and Development Canada Quebec, Canada
1545 – 1615: Turbulent Imaging Simulation at DRDC, Pt. II
Guy Potvin, DRDC
1615 – 1645: MODTRAN6 Multiple-Line-of-Sight (MLOS) Option (abstract)
Alexander Berk1 and Christopher Rice2
1Spectral Sciences, Inc. Burlington, Massachusetts
2Air Force Institute of Technology Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
1730 – 1930: Welcome Barbeque for All Registrants
Boston College Institute for Scientific Research Courtyard
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Tuesday, June 5, 2018 Boston College School of Law, East Wing 200
0730 – 0830: Registration/Check-in
0730 – 0830: Continental Breakfast
Session 5: Sky Radiance in Clear and Disturbed Conditions Chair: John Kerekes
0830 – 0900: Daytime Sky Radiance Model Validation of GEO-belt in NIR-SWIR (abstract)
Grant Thomas, Rich Cobb, Steve Fiorino, and Mike Hawks
Air Force Institute of Technology Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
0900 – 0930: Coupled Surface Observations of Temperature, Pressure, and Humidity with
Aerosol Particle Counts for Daytime Sky Radiance Quantification (abstract)
Scott Wolfmeyer1, Grant Thomas2, and Steven Fiorino1
1Dept. of Engineering Physics, Air Force Institute of Technology Wright-Patterson AFB,
Ohio
2Dept. of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology
Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
0930 – 1000: Energy Study of the Atmosphere Subjected to the Influence of Squall Lines in
the Sahelian Zone using a Radiative Transfer Model (abstract)
Bouya Diop
Gaston Berger University, Senegal
1000 – 1030: Morning Coffee Break
Session 6: Thermal IR Imagery and Polarimetric Detection Chair: Alexander Berk
1030 – 1100: Detecting Enhanced Levels of Atmospheric Methane Using Thermal Infrared Imagery (abstract)
Cody Webber, John Kerekes, and Rolando Raqueno
Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing Laboratory
Rochester Institute of Technology
1100 – 1130: Atmospheric Correction of Commercial Thermal Infrared Hyperspectral Imagery Using FLAASH-IR (abstract)
Steven Adler-Golden, Nevzat Guler, and Timothy Perkins
Spectral Sciences, Inc. Burlington, Massachusetts
1130 – 1200: Enhanced Target Detection and Identification in the Long-Wave IR Using Polarization (abstract)
Denis Dion, D. A. Lavigne, and J.-M. Thériault
Defence Research & Development Canada Quebec, Canada
1200 – 1330: Lunch Break Stuart 414 (Faculty Lounge)
Session 7: Atmospheric Compensation and Correction Chair: Steven Adler-Golden
1330 – 1400: A Case Study on the Use of MODTRAN for Atmospheric Correction of Satellite Imagery Obtained from High Spatial Resolution Pointable Sensors Over Agricultural Study Sites (abstract)
Brian Thomas Lamb1, Wells Dean Hively2,3, and Itiya P. Aneece4
1The City College of New York New York, New York
2U.S. Geological Survey Headquarters Reston, Virginia
3U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory Beltsville,
Maryland
4U.S. Geological Survey Western Geographic Science Center Flagstaff, Arizona
1400 – 1430: A Data-Driven Approach for Efficiently Storing, Evaluating, Integrating and Sampling Spherical and Hemispherical Datasets (abstract)
Adam Goodenough and Scott Brown*
Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing Laboratory
Rochester Institute of Technology
1430 – 1500: Afternoon Break
Session 8: EOIR Signatures and MODTRAN Chair: Denis Dion
1500 – 1530: EOIR Sensor Radiance Predictions Using MuSES and MODTRAN (abstract)
Corey D. Packard, Mark D. Klein, David Less, and Pete Rynes
ThermoAnalytics, Inc. Calumet, Michigan
1530 – 1615: MODTRAN6 2018 Update
Timothy Perkins and Alexander Berk
Spectral Sciences, Inc. Burlington, Massachusetts
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Wednesday, June 6 Boston College School of Law, East Wing 200
0730 – 0830: Continental Breakfast
Session 9: Transmission in Optically-Thick Media Chair: John Kerekes
0830 – 0900: Decomposition of Volumetric Path-Tracing for In-Water Radiative Transfer: A Hybrid Beam, Path, and Forward Scattering Approach (abstract)
Adam Goodenough and Scott Brown
Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing Laboratory
Rochester Institute of Technology
0900 – 0930: Numerical Calculations of the Transmission Function in a Plane-Parallel Atmosphere (abstract)
John Roadcap1 and Surendra Singh2,3
1Air Force Research Laboratory Kirtland AFB, New Mexico
2Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Tulsa Tulsa,
Oklahoma
3U.S. Air Force Summer Faculty Fellow
0930 – 1000: Closing Remarks for ATM-MIRS 2018