Sr. Principle System Engineer
Validation of Advanced Geospatial Information Tool Kit (AGITK) Image Exploitation Algorithms. Characterize spatial and radiometric performance of government and commercial remote sensing systems for small target exploitation. Designed and carried out field experiments to collect ground truth to evaluate sensor performance.Vicarious Calibration of Civil and Commercial EO Sensors.Radiometric and spectral characterization of ground targets and the atmosphere. Performed analysis to measure radiometric and spatial performance for WorldView-2, GeoEye -1, IKONOS, Quickbird, Orbview commercial sensors and Landsat 5 & 7, Hyperion, ALI and MODIS NASA sensors. Developed innovative methods for improving in-flight radiometric absolute accuracy.Calibration System Engineer for National Technical Means Program. Designed calibration procedures and algorithms to meet radiometric and image quality requirements from system to component level. Developed test procedures and methods for the verification of hardware performance. Built calibrator/sensor radiometric model and authored extensive calibration plan document.In-flight Image Quality AnalysisDeveloped innovative approach to oversample the system level Point Spread Function from images collected under operational conditions and perform small target radiometric calibration. Use data to perform image quality assessment along processing chain. Radiometric Calibration of the ARTEMIS Hyperspectral Sensor (AFRL TacSat-3 Program)Principle calibration lead for post-launch calibration and performance assessment of ARTEMIS. System Engineering Analyst for Calibration of Aerosol Polarimetric Sensor (Glory Mission). Managed calibration requirements, algorithm design and integration procedures of the on-board solar calibration system. Derived test procedures to measure polarimetric calibration parameters of spectralon solar diffuser sub-system.Principle Calibration System Engineer for wide FOV Thermal Sensor.
