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to good practices for spectral calibration in collaboration
with CEOS WGCV as well as building upon the EUFAR
work that is specific to airborne imaging spectrometers.
A major outcome of the workshop was the agreement to
capture the extensive knowledge into a guidebook on good
practices for calibration and validation, specifically for spaceborne imaging spectroscopy. The skeleton structure and contributing authors were discussed at the workshop, and further
details are currently being developed including identifying a
relevant publisher. Additionally, to help capture and disseminate relevant knowledge, developing a repository of relevant
papers, standards, reports, programs, and any other relevant resources as well as links to other calibration and validation work
was identified as a useful resource for the community. This initiative will be initially hosted on the Geoscience Spaceborne
Imaging Spectroscopy web page (http://www.grss-ieee.org/
community/technical-committees/international-spaceborneimaging-spectroscopy/).
A key topic discussed at the workshop was the need for
training in good practices to ensure consistency across the
community and to disseminate knowledge. Knowing how
to perform an error budget was identified as the fundamental basis for vicarious calibration. Therefore, it was decided
that a training workshop on error budgeting will be conducted concurrent with the IGARSS 2016 in Beijing as the
next stage of the development of the calibration and validation initiative.
auTHOR inFORMaTiOn
Cindy Ong (cindy.ong@csiro.au) pursued her graduate training in mechanical engineering and received her Ph.D. degree
in applied physics. For the past 22 years, she has worked as a
research scientist, performing research and development on
hyperspectral technology with a focus on providing quantitative environmental measurements for natural resources
management and regulatory requirements for the mining
industry. More recently, her work has extended to the extractive and agriculture industry. She is currently a research
team leader at the Spectral Sensing Team in the Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organization, Mineral Resources, Australia. Her expertise is in calibration and
validation (lab and vicarious), spectral libraries, standards,
environmental regulations, and environmental monitoring,
especially in the mining and extractive industry, i.e., rehabilitation, dust, acid mine drainage, and fugitive gas.
Andreas Mueller (andreas.mueller@dlr.de) received his
diploma from the Working Group for Geoscientific Remote
Sensing at Munich, Germany, in geology and remote sensing
in May 1990. He is now a research scientist at the German
Remote Sensing Data Center. His research interests include
radiometric and spectral simulation of imaging spectrometers, spectral characterization of natural surfaces, and application development focusing on land degradation and
mining environments.
Kurtis Thome (kurtis.thome@nasa.gov) received a B.S.
degree in meteorology from Texas A&M University, College
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Station, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in atmospheric sciences from the University of Arizona, Tucson. He then joined
what is now the College of Optical Sciences and became full
professor in 2006. He served as the director of the Remote
Sensing Group from 1997 to 2008. Since 2008, he has
been with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center as a physical
scientist in the Biospheric Sciences Branch. He served as the
calibration lead for the thermal infrared sensor on Landsat
8 and as a member of the Landsat-7, ASTER, MODIS, and
EO-1 science teams, providing vicarious calibration results
for those and other imaging sensors. He is a fellow of the International Society for Optics and Photonics, the Terra Project
scientist, and is an instrument scientist for the Visible Infrared
Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Joint Polar Satellite System.
He is the deputy project scientist for the Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory, for which he is also the
instrument lead for the reflected solar instrument.
Leland E. Pierce (lep@umich.edu) received B.S. degrees in
both electrical and aerospace engineering in 1983 and M.S.
and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering in 1986 and 1991,
respectively, all from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Since then, he has been the head of the Microwave Image Processing Facility in the Radiation Laboratory of the Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Michigan, where he is responsible for research in
the uses of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar systems for
remote sensing applications, especially forest canopy parameter inversion. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Timothy Malthus (tim.malthus@csiro.au) received his
Ph.D. from the University of Otago, New Zealand, in 1986.
Prior to joining the Commonwealth Scientific Industrial
Research Organization (CSIRO), he was senior lecturer in
remote sensing at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, and director of the Natural Environment Research
Council Field Spectroscopy Facility based at the university.
He is currently the research group leader for the Coastal
Monitoring, Modeling, and Informatics Group in the
Coastal Management and Development Program at CSIRO,
Oceans and Atmosphere, Australia. His research career has
focused on earth observation of both the aquatic and terrestrial environments. He combines skills in calibration, validation, and field spectroscopy with analysis of airborne and
satellite Earth-observation data to develop improved monitoring tools for the management of land and water resources
informing wider environmental policies.
REFEREnCES
[1] CEOS. (2015). Commitee on Earth Observation Satellites. [Online].
Available: http://ceos.org/ourwork/workinggroups/wgcv/
[2] A. Mueller, U. Heiden, and C. Ong, "Current developments of
spaceborne imaging spectroscopy missions-Overview, potential
cross-links, and synergies," presented at the IEEE Int. Geoscience
and Remote Sensing Symp., Milan, Italy, 2015.
[3] L. Guanter, H. Kaufmann, K. Segl, S. Foerster, C. Rogass, S.
Chabrillat, T. Kuester, A. Hollstein, G. Rossner, C. Chlebek, C.
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