Dr. Shipley has a B.A. in Physics from Beloit College, with Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Meteorology from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He joined NASA Langley Research Center for 6 years, then moved to private industry in 1986. His 30+ years of experience with private industry includes STX/Hughes, Raytheon, Earth Resources Technology, and Ascentech. Dr. Shipley joined the Department of Geography at George Mason University in 1991. He founded WxAnalyst in 2007 and formed WxOps as a joint venture of WxAnalyst and SystemOperations.com in 2010.Scott is known for his work in lidar (co-inventor of the High Spectral Resolution Lidar) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). He assisted NOAA's National Weather Service in its development of ASOS, NEXRAD and AWIPS, and served as Raytheon's Program Lead for Cal/Val and algorithms with the NPOESS Satellite Ground System. Scott is also co-inventor (with Crabill & Dash) of the first Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) aka "Pilot Weather Advisor", US Patent No. 5,265,024 (1993).Scott pioneered COLLADA techniques for 4-Dimensional geoscience applications using geobrowsers such as Google Earth and NASA World Wind. SBIR funding from NASA and NOAA supported the WxAzygy(R) Transparent Interface, COLLADA Computing(TM), and Common Operating Environment (COE) innovations, which enabled flight demonstration of the OpsTablet(R) EFB on Hawaiian Airline's fleet of A330's and B767's."Dr Scotty" was part of the development team at NASA KSC who built and flight tested the Spectrum Fluorescence Imaging System (launch Nov 2019) for the International Space Station (ISS). This facility is currently in operational status for experiments in plant biology under micro-gravity.Specialties: Atmospheric, Oceanographic, Space & Geological Sciences; Radar/Lidar beam propagation and siting; GIS & Virtual Globes; Applied Physics & Mathematics; Navigation & Mapping; in situ Instrumentation; Electromagnetic Radiation; Optics; Field Experiments, Logistics; Project Management.
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