Journal of Applied Remote Sensing Editorial Board

Wei Gao (bio)
Colorado State University
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory
USDA UV-B Monitoring and
Research Program
USA

Wei Gao is a senior research scientist and director of the USDA UV-B Monitoring and Research Program at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, and a joint professor in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, both at Colorado State University. He received his PhD from Purdue University and had his postdoctoral training at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. His research interests include UV radiation and modeling, remote sensing application, regional climate/ecosystem modeling, and impact of climate change. He is a fellow of SPIE.

Harold Annegarn (bio)
University of the Witwatersrand
Africa

Harold Annegarn graduated with a PhD in Nuclear Physics from the University of the Witwatersrand. Prof Annegarn currently occupies a Chair in the Department of Geography, Environmental Management and Energy Studies at the University of Johannesburg. He is a member of the Governing Board of the African Association for Remote Sensing of the Environment, and the General Chair of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing IGARSS’09 symposium. He has spent much of his career in applied nuclear physics, focusing on the analysis of atmospheric aerosols.

Paul R. Houser (bio)
George Mason University
North America

Paul R. Houser received his BS and PhD in hydrology and water resources from the University of Arizona in 1992 and 1996, respectively. In 2005, he joined the George Mason University Climate Dynamics Program as the professor of global hydrology, and he formed the Center for Research for Environment and Water. He is an expert in local-to-global land-surface atmospheric remote sensing, in-situ observation, numerical simulation, development, and application of hydrologic data assimilation methods, and global water and energy cycling.

Hung-Lung Allen Huang (bio)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
North America

Hung-Lung Allen Huang has been with the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) of University of Wisconsin-Madison as a research scientist since 1989. He conducts remote sensing research in numerous areas, including atmospheric sounding retrieval, information content analysis, satellite and aircraft high-spectral resolution sounding instrument data processing, data compression, instrument design and performance analysis, cloud-clearing, and cloud property characterization. He also advises and supports both national and international MS and PhD students and visiting scientists.

K. Dieter Klaes (bio)
European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)
Europe

K. Dieter Klaes received his diploma in meteorology from the University of Bonn, Germany, in 1983. He completed his doctorate in physics, remote sensing, at the University of Paris VII in 1994. Currently, he serves as the chief mission scientist and coleader of the Product Science and Validation Team in the EPS Commissioning Team. He has more than 110 scientific and technical publications.

Qingxi Tong (bio)
Beijing University
Asia

Tong Qingxi was a former director of the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Now he serves as director and professor of the Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems, Beijing University. He has made great progress in the study of hyperspectral data processing, classification, information extraction, recognition, and application. He is the chairman on the Expert Committee of National Remote Sensing Center of China, the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, and the editorial committeeman of the Chinese Journal of Space Science.

Martha C. Anderson (bio)
USDA-ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory
USA

Martha C. Anderson received her BA in physics from Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota in 1987, and her PhD in astrophysics from the University of Minnesota in 1993. She has held an appointment as a research scientist with the USDA-ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory since 2005. Her research focuses on modeling exchanges within the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. Anderson is affiliated with the American Geophysical Union, the American Meterological Society, and Sigma Xi.

Philip E. Ardanuy (bio)
Raytheon Information Solutions
USA

Philip E. Ardanuy is chief scientist and director of remote sensing applications at Raytheon Information Solutions. A meteorology graduate of Florida State University, Dr. Ardanuy has 30 years of professional experience participating in NOAA, NASA, and DOD remote sensing programs. He specializes in developing integrated mission concepts leveraging the synergies of user requirements, science and sensor maturity, and data systems through government-industry-academic partnerships. Dr. Ardanuy serves on the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council Earth Science and Applications from Space (ESAS) Committee, Panel on Earth Science Applications and Societal Objectives, and is a former member of the NAS/NRC Committee on Environmental Satellite Data Utilization (CESDU).

Hal J. Bloom (bio)
NPOESS Integrated Program Office
USA

Hal J. Bloom graduated with a MS in atmospheric sciences from the University of Maryland in 1985. Bloom is currently the division chief of payloads for the NPOESS integrated program office. Initial work in this capacity included leading the development of a common spacecraft/sensor interface and data throughput.

Vittorio E. Brando (bio)
CSIRO Land & Water
Australia

Vittorio E. Brando is a Research Scientist at CSIRO Land and Water in Canberra. He has a background in aquatic ecology and ecological modelling of in shallow water environments. His main interests include: optical oceanography in estuarine systems, hyperspectral signal and imagery analysis, radiative transfer models, retrieval of water quality parameters from ocean color data, shallow waters mapping, assimilation of remote sensing data into coastal biogeochemical models. He has co-authored 17 peer reviewed journal papers, 8 book chapters, 26 conference papers and 17 technical reports.

Ni-Bin Chang (bio)
University of Central Florida
USA

Ni-Bin Chang received his master’s and PhD degrees from Cornell University in 1989 and 1991, respectively, in the field of environmental systems engineering. He is a professor with the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Central Florida. His area of expertise is environmental systems modeling, remote sensing, environmental informatics, and sustainable systems engineering. He has authored and coauthored over 122 peer-reviewed journal articles, 7 books and chapters, and 112 conference papers.

Jing Ming Chen (bio)
University of Toronto
Canada

Jing Ming Chen received his BSc in 1982 from the Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, China, and his PhD in 1986 from Reading University, United Kingdom. He is a professor in the Department of Geography and Program in Planning at the University of Toronto, a senior Canada research chair, and fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His main research interest is in remote sensing of vegetation and in ecosystem-atmosphere interaction. He has published over 160 refereed journal papers, which have been cited over 3000 times in the scientific literature.

Allen Chu (bio)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
USA

Allen Chu received a BS from the National Taiwan University and a PhD in from Georgia Institute of Technology, both in atmospheric sciences. In 2004, he joined Joint Center for Earth System Technology of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, as an associate research scientist. Since then, he has been involved in various projects including the application of MODIS AOD to air quality, aura validation using simultaneous MODIS, OMI, and CALIPSO observations, and evaluation of aerosol radiative forcing in the INTEX field experiments.

Andrew D. Collard (bio)
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
United Kingdom

Andrew Collard earned his BA in physics from Oxford University in 1989. He went on to receive a DPhil in atmospheric physics in 1994. Since 1998 he has been working on the assimilation of advanced infrared sounder data into numerical weather prediction models at the Met Office in Bracknell, United Kingdom and the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts in Reading, United Kingdom.

Adolfo Comeron (bio)
Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya
Spain

Adolfo Comerón received his DIng from University Paris-XI, Orsay, France, in 1980, and a doctorate in telecommunications engineering from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 1982. He has served as a full professor in the Department of Signal Theory and Communications at UPC since 1992. His research activity has included nonlinear devices at infrared wavelengths, low-noise converters for satellite communications at centimeter and millimeter waves, and radar receivers.

Rebecca L. Dodge (bio)
Midwestern State University
USA

Rebecca Dodge received her master’s and PhD degrees from the Colorado School of Mines. Her petroleum exploration career began at Exxon Production Research, where she applied remote sensing to structural interpretation, international and domestic frontier play analysis, and environmental impact analysis. She currently teaches geospatial applications and environmental science courses at Midwestern State University. In addition, she is deeply committed to training and educating future science teachers on environmental observations techniques, with an emphasis on the integration of field observations and geospatial technology.

Robert Frouin (bio)
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
USA

Robert Frouin, a research scientist in the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, has expertise in radiation transfer, specializing in inverse problems related to light scattering. His background is in fundamental physics, acquired at the University of Lille, France. Dr. Frouin has over 20 years of experience in satellite remote sensing of the atmosphere, land surface, and ocean. Current research topics include statistical inversion of satellite ocean-color data and influence of phytoplankton on ocean circulation and climate.

William B. Gail (bio)
Microsoft Virtual Earth
USA

William B. Gail is director of strategic development within Virtual Earth at Microsoft Corporation. He received his undergraduate degree in physics and his PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University, focusing his research on wave-particle interactions in the Earth's magnetosphere. Dr. Gail is currently on the board of directors of Peak Weather Resources, Inc., the editorial board for Imaging Notes magazine, and is the director of industry relations for the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society.

Marco Gianinetto (bio)
Politecnico di Milano University
Italy

Marco Gianinetto is a research scientist at the Laboratory of Remote Sensing and a joint professor (not tenured) in the Department of Building Environment Sciences and Technology (BEST), both at Politecnico di Milano University. His current research interests include multispectral, hyperspectral and high-resolution remote sensing, image processing, environmental analysis and mapping, data fusion, change detection, sensor calibration and validation. He is also Editor for the International Journal of Remote Sensing, Editor, for the International Journal of Navigation and Observation and for the Italian Journal of Remote Sensing.

Mitchell D. Goldberg
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
USA

John Gonglewski (bio)
Air Force Research Lab
USA

John Gonglewski is the principle investigator for laser imaging at the Directed Energy Directorates Optics Division at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He received his BSc in mathematics from Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, and his PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Houston. His current research interests are in airborne Lidars, remote sensing, polarization, and adaptive optics. He has 150 publications and is a Fellow of SPIE.

Xingfa Gu
Institute of Remote Sensing Application, Chinese Academy of Sciences
China

Huadong Guo (bio)
Chinese Academy of Sciences
China

Huadong Guo graduated from the Geology Department at Nanjing University in 1977 and received his MSc degree from the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) in 1981. He is Director-General of the Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, CAS. He is Secretary General of the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE), Chairman of Chinese National Committee for the ISDE, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Digital Earth, and member of the CODATA Executive Committee. He is a guest professor at eight universities in China and has written more than 200 publications including 16 books. Current research includes radar remote sensing, applications of earth observing technologies to global change, and Digital Earth.

Thomas Jackson (bio)
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USA

Thomas J. Jackson is a research hydrologist with the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab. He received his PhD from the University of Maryland in 1976 and joined ARS in 1977. His research involves the application and development of remote sensing technology in hydrology and agriculture, primarily microwave measurement of soil moisture. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the American Meteorological Society, and the American Geophysical Union.

Nicole Jacquinet (bio)
Ecole Polytechnique
France

Nicole Jacquinet received her master’s degree from the Paris/Sorbonne Faculty of Sciences, and she completed her doctorate in the field of high-resolution molecular spectroscopy. She is professor emeritus of physics at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie, and senior research physicist at the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Ecole Polytechnique, France. Her research includes theoretical infrared spectroscopic studies related to molecules of atmospheric interest, and 3-D analysis of the terrestrial and planetary atmospheres’ thermodynamic state using vertical remote sounding.

Philippe Keckhut (bio)
University Versailles Saint-Quentin
France

Philippe Keckhut serves as vice director of the Institute Pierre-Simon Laplace with a main focus on observing systems. His own research areas include remote sensing and lidar techniques, satellite validation, and long-term monitoring of the middle atmosphere. He has coauthored 85 peer-reviewed publications. He is a member of the expert groups of Stratospheric Temperature Trends Assessment (SPARC/WCRP), Atmospheric Chemistry Validation Team ENVISAT/ESA, and ICLAS (International Coordination-group on Laser Atmospheric Studies). He currently serves as deputy director of the Europeen project Geomon (synergy of space and ground-based networks). He earned his PhD in physics from the University of Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France, in 1992 and was a visitor scientist at NOAA in 1994.

Rick Lawrence (bio)
Montana State University
USA

Rick L. Lawrence received his PhD in forest resources from Oregon State University in 1998. He also holds an MS in forest management from Oregon State University (1995). His current research spans a wide range of applications related to natural resource management, from carbon sequestration, to crop and range issues, to forest and wildlife. Dr. Lawrence has been on the faculty at Montana State University since 1998 and has been the director of MSU’s Spatial Sciences Center since 2006.

Michael Lefsky
Colorado State University
USA

John F. Le Marshall
Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation
USA

Elizabeth M. Middleton (bio)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
USA

Elizabeth M. Middleton is a senior scientist in the Biospheric Sciences Branch with the Hydrospheric and Biospheric Laboratory at the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. Her research areas have included bidirectional reflectance distribution properties of vegetation canopies, UV-B effects on soybean cultivars, plant pigment levels and photosynthetic function using hyperspectral measurements, chlorophyll fluorescence of plants, and field and remote sensing using multiple sensors and satellites. Currently, she serves as the mission scientist for the technology satellite, Earth Exploring-1.

Manfred Owe
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
USA

Gelsomina Pappalardo (bio)
Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis
Italy

Gelsomina Pappalardo received her PhD from the University of Florence, Italy. She is a senior scientist at the Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis of the National Research Council in Italy (CNR-IMAA). Her research activity in the field of applied remote sensing for the study of the atmosphere focuses on lidar remote sensing of aerosols, clouds, and water vapor. She is the speaker of EARLINET, the European Aerosol Research Lidar Network. She is a member of the steering group of GALION, the GAW Aerosol Lidar Observation Network, and a member of the WMO GAW Scientific Advisory Group on Aerosols.

Stuart Phinn (bio)
University of Queensland
Australia

Stuart Phinn runs the Centre for Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Science and coordinates undergraduate and postgraduate remote sensing courses at the University of Queensland. His research and student project work focus on developing remote sensing applications for monitoring environmental conditions in a range of aquatic, wetland, and terrestrial environments. He has coauthored 70 peer-reviewed journal papers, nine book chapters, and over 100 conference papers.

Jeffery J. Puschell (bio)
Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems
USA

Jeff Puschell received an AB degree in physics from the University of Chicago in 1975 and a PhD in astrophysics from the University of Minnesota in 1979. He is a principal engineering fellow in Raytheon’s Space Systems business area in El Segundo, California. His experience includes development of visible-infrared instruments for space-based operational environmental imaging, development and field testing of laser-based communication, and remote sensing systems and building and using millimeter, infrared, visible, and ultraviolet wavelength instrumentation for ground-based astronomy.

John J. Qu (bio)
George Mason University
USA

John J. Qu is an associate professor in remote sensing of the Department of Geography and GeoInformation Science at the College of Science, George Mason University (GMU). He is the director of Environmental Science and Technology Center (ESTC) and the founder and co-director of EastFIRE Lab, at GMU. He has over 20 year experience with GMU, NASA/GSFC, Raytheon, and Chinese NMC. He received his PhD and MSc from Colorado State University. His major research areas are satellite remote sensing, atmospheric radiation transfer, environment and climate sciences, fire sciences, and geographical information system applications.

Gilbert Rochon (bio)
Purdue University
USA

Dr. Gilbert Rochon is the associate vice president of Collaborative Research & Engagement at Purdue University-ITaP, chief scientist for Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, and director of the Purdue Terrestrial Observatory. He is a courtesy professor in Purdue’s Departments of Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, and Agronomy. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Urban & Regional Planning. His research focuses on real-time remote sensing applications for biogenic and anthropogenic disaster mitigation, environmental sustainability, public health, and food security in developing countries.

Klaus Schaefer (bio)
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH
Germany

Klaus Schäfer is a physicist and senior scientist with the Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research Branch (IMK-IFU), Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. His work in the field of applied remote sensing includes air quality studies and improvement of emission inventories, development of nonintrusive measurement methods, and application and evaluation of methodologies to determine particulate matter concentrations near the surface by high spatial resolution satellite images.

Upendra N. Singh (bio)
NASA Langley Research Center
USA

Upendra N. Singh is the chief technologist for the Systems Engineering Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center. He is a resource in the areas of solid-state lasers, electro-optics, electronics, optics, and infrared detector technology development as related to all active and passive remote-sensing experiments for research aircraft and space flight. Dr. Singh earned his PhD in physics from the University of Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France, in 1985. He is a Fellow of SPIE.

Ramesh Sivanpillai (bio)
University of Wyoming
USA

Ramesh Sivanpillai is an associate research scientist with the Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center and Department of Botany at the University of Wyoming. He received his MS from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and his PhD from Texas A&M University. His research interests include the effect of scale and application of remotely sensed data for natural resource management, change analyses, and locust habitat mapping.

Elisabeth Weisz (bio)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
USA

Elisabeth Weisz received her MS in theoretical physics and her doctorate in geophysics and meteorology from the University of Graz, Austria. She has been with the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS), University of Wisconsin-Madison as a research scientist since 2001. Her research focuses on the development of atmospheric sounding retrieval algorithms using high-spectral resolution infrared radiance measurements. These includes studies to investigate the positive impact of the sounding and cloud products obtained from high spectral instruments as well from the synergistic use of instruments with high spectral and high spatial and/or high temporal resolution on weather (including severe weather like hurricanes) forecasting, numerical weather prediction, and the development of future instruments.

Xiong Xiaoxiong (bio)
NASA
USA

Xiaoxiong (Jack) Xiong is an optical physicist at the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. He received his PhD in physics from University of Maryland at College Park and his BS in optical engineering from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China. He currently serves as the MODIS project scientist and technical leader for the MODIS Characterization Support Team (MCST) and NPP Instrument Calibration Support Team (NICST). Prior to his service at NASA, Dr. Xiong had worked for a number of years in private industry and at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the fields of nonlinear optics, laser and atomic spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, and instrument calibration and characterization.

Wenjian Zhang
World Meterological Organization, Observing and Information Systems (OBS) Department
Switzerland

Xiaolei Zou (bio)
Florida State University
USA

Xiaolei Zou received his BSc in mathematics and MS in meteorology from the Institute of Nanjing Meteorology, 1982 and 1984, respectively. He completed his PhD in meteorology at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1988. He currently serves as an affiliate scientist for the National Center for Atmospheric Research, associate of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute at Florida State University, and affiliate professor of Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology.