Articles
The Transient Optical Sky Survey data pipeline (with Elena Hadjiyska, Philip Lubin, Scott Taylor, Rory Hartong-Redden, and Joshua Zierten), New Astronomy (2013)
The Transient Optical Sky Survey (TOSS) is an automated, ground-based telescope system dedicated to searching...
Algorithms for Sensor Chip Alignment to Blind Datums, Journal of Electronic Imaging (2006)
The sensor element of an imaging system should be mounted into its housing in such...
Modern Spectral Climate Patterns in Rhythmically Deposited Argillites of the Gowganda Formation (Early Proterozoic), Southern Ontario, Canada (with Robert Giegengack and Haralambos N. Kritikos), Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2003)
Rhythmically deposited argillites of the Gowganda Formation (ca. 2.0–2.5 Ga) probably formed in a glacial...
Extensive Forest Leaf Area Survey Aiming at Detection of Vegetation Change in Subarctic-Boreal Zone (with Tomoko Kusakabe, Hayato Tsuzuki, and Tatsuo Sweda), Polar Bioscience (2000)
The warming resulting from increasing anthropogenic carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses is expected to...
Spectral indications of unexpected contributors to atmospheric CO2 variability? (with Robert Gigengack and Haralambos N. Kritikos), International Journal of Climatology (1999)
The frequency spectrum of Northern Hemisphere atmospheric CO2 concentration shows strong periodicities at 6.2, 1.0...
Patents
Sensor Calibration Systems and Methods for Infrared Cameras (with George Speake, Nuwan Nagahawatte, Richard M. Goeden, Ted Takagi, Robert Ernst, Joseph Kostrzewa, John Graff, Russell Granneman, Michael Kent, Neela Nalam, Stephen Lyon, Barbara Sharp, Pierre Boulanger, Neil Cuteliffe, TIm Martin, and Ted Hoelter), United States Patent Number: 8,378,290 (2013)
Systems and methods directed to calibration techniques for infrared cameras are disclosed for some embodiments....
Filtering Systems & Methods for Infrared Image Processing (with Nicholas Högasten and Nuwan Nagahawatte), United States Patent Number 8,189,050 (2012)
Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide filtering techniques for image processing applications. For...
Calibration Systems and Methods for Infrared Cameras (with Russell Granneman, Nuwan Nagahawatte, Richard M. Goeden, Ted Takagi, Robert Ernst, Joseph Kostrzewa, John Graff, George Speake, Michael Kent, Neela Nalam, Stephen Lyon, Barbara Sharp, Pierre Boulanger, Neil Cutcliffe, Tim Martin, and Ted Hoelter), United States Patent Number: 8,049,163 (2011)
Systems and methods directed to calibration techniques for infrared cameras are disclosed. For example, a...
Automated Systems and Methods for Testing Infrared Cameras, United States Patent Number: 8,004,564 (2011)
Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide automated testing on infrared image data to...
Fabrication Method for Adhesive Pressure Bonding Two Components Together with Closed-Loop Control (with James P. McDonald, Arthur V. Schweidler, and Lloyd D. Ingle), United States Patent Number: 6,802,918 (2004)
Two components are bonded together in a bonding apparatus using a bonding medium of malleable...
Conference Proceedings
Additional Algorithms for Sensor Chip Alignment to Blind Datums, Proceedings of SPIE (2006)
Alignment of the sensor focal plane array (FPA) to optical components is a critical design...
Improvements To and Status of the Data Quality Health and Status System (with K. Kehoe, K. Sonntag, R. Peppler, B. Burkholder, C. Shafer, M. Zaman, T. Thompson, S. Moore, and K. Doty), Fifteenth ARM Science Team Meeting Proceedings: Daytona Beach, FL (2005)
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Data Quality Office (DQO) has made a number of improvements...
Instrument Cross-Comparisons and Automated Quality Control of Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Data (with S. Moore), Fifteenth ARM Science Team Meeting Proceedings: Daytona Beach, FL (2005)
Within the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) instrument network, several different systems often measure the same...
Latest Tools for Viewing and Quality Checking ARM Data (with S. Moore), Fourteenth ARM Science Team Meeting Proceedings: Albuquerque, NM (2004)
The DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program has acquired an incredibly large quantity of data...
Numeric issues in test software correctness (with Robert G. Hayes, Phillip M. Dorin, and Raymond J. Toal), Proceedings of Autotestcon 2002 (2002)
Test system designers are comfortable with the concepts of precision and accuracy with regard to...
Book Chapters
Sclerosponges: Potential High-Resolution Recorders of Marine Paleotemperatures (with Charles W. Thayer), Geological Perspectives of Global Climate Change (2001)
Sclerosponges have great potential as seawater temperature recorders. These animals precipitate their skeletons in carbon...
Unpublished Papers
Calculating Ellipse Overlap Areas (with Mohcine Chraibi), Statistics (2011)
We present a general algorithm for finding the overlap area between two ellipses. The algorithm...
Radiometric Clocks, Statistics (2008)
This paper provides and introduction to radioactivity, and how geologists exploit radioactive decay to determine...
Spatial Interpolation of Point Rainfall Data by Kriging, Statistics (1999)
In Earth science research, climatic conditions can have significant effects on dynamic processes. For example,...
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Transient Optical Sky Survey Automated Telescope System (with Elena Hadjiyska, Philip Lubin, and Scott Taylor), Proceedings of SPIE (2008)
We describe the optical design of a sky survey system comprised of small aperture telescope...