Presentations

ATM-MIRS 2018 Technical Program June 4 – June 6, 2018

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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 (presentation)

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)(presentation)

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 (presentation)

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)(presentation)

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)(presentation)

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)(presentation)

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 (presentation)

Jeannette van den Bosch

Air Force Research Laboratory   Kirtland AFB, New Mexico

1415 – 1445:     Integrating MODTRAN6 into the Plume Tracker Data Analysis Toolkit (abstract)(presentation)

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)(presentation)

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)(presentation)

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)(presentation)

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)(presentation part 1, part 2)

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

   *Presenting Author

0930 – 1000:      Energy Study of the Atmosphere Subjected to the Influence of Squall Lines in

the Sahelian Zone using a Radiative Transfer Model (abstract)(presentation)

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)(presentation)

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)(presentation)

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)(presentation)

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)(presentation)

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)(presentation)

Adam Goodenough and Scott Brown*

Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing Laboratory
Rochester Institute of Technology

*Presenting Author

1430 – 1500:       Afternoon Break

Session 8:     EOIR Signatures and MODTRAN                                   Chair:  Denis Dion

1500 – 1530:      EOIR Sensor Radiance Predictions Using MuSES and MODTRAN (abstract)(presentation)

Corey D. Packard, Mark D. Klein, David Less, and Pete Rynes

ThermoAnalytics, Inc.  Calumet, Michigan

1530 – 1615:      MODTRAN6 2018 Update (presentation)

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)(presentation)

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)(presentation)

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    

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