Grants
PI, Cloud Mask and Quality Control (CM/QC) for Sea Surface Temperature (SST) products from VIIRS, NOAA/NESDIS, 2015-2016, $46,000Co-PI, Continuity of Cloud Top Pressure and Cloud Infrared Thermodynamics Phase by Combining CrIS and VIIRS Measurements, NASA (subcontract from UW, Madison), 2014-2016, $96,000
PI, Improved characterization of sea ice combined VIIRS NPP and MODIS EOS data: focus on leads and polynyas, ONR, 06/2013-05/2016, $468,000
PI, Statistical Reconstruction of a 13.3 micron channel for VIIRS using Multisensor Data Fusion with application to Cloud-Top Pressure Estimation, NOAA JPSS Proving Ground, 2013-2014, $30,000
PI, Combining JPSS with Geostationary Imager data for Fused Earth Observation Parameters: Improving JPSS data with fusion tool, NOAA JPSS Proving Ground, 09/2012-08/2014, $60,000
Co-PI, Application of information theory to measure and increase the skill of long-term forecasting, NOAA Climate Office Program, 08/2012 - 06/2014, $113,000
Co-PI (one of eight), Global-scale assessment of threatened river delta systems: Evaluation of connections between the continental land mass and ocean through integrated remote sensing and process modeling, NASA Land Cover/Land Use Change, 01/2012 - 01/2015, $1,495,661
PI, Quantitative Image Restoration for GOES-R risk reduction, NOAA GOES-R Risk Reduction, 09/2011 – 08/2013, $110,000
Co-PI, Graphyte Toolkit as Online Lab for NOAA Distance Learning, NOAA/NESDIS, 09/2010 - 08/2011, $40,000
Co-PI, Using Graphyte to create a Platform for NOAA Collaborative Scientific Computing, 09/2010 - 08/2011, $80,000
PI, Algorithm for Quantitative Image Restoration and Graphyte Algorithm Development Tool, NOAA/NESDIS, 09/2009 - 09/2010, $80,000
Co-PI, A NOAA Exploratorium: Teaming Game Technology with NOAA HPC resources for Collaborative Data Exploration and Research Prototyping, NOAA High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) Program, 2008-2010, $120,000
PI on Contract from NOAA-NESDIS for compression research in 2008, $230,000
PI on Contract from NOAA-NESDIS for compression research in 2007, $240,000
Co-PI (one of nine) on Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Center funded by NOAA 2006-2011, $12.5 million
PI, Robust compression and modeling of remote imager and sounder data, US Department of Commerce, NOAA/NESDIS, 2006-2007, $110,000
Co-PI (one of 12) on Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology
Center funded by NOAA,
10/1/2004-9/30/2006, $5 million
PI, Compression Algorithm for Infrared Hyperspectral Sounder Data, US Department of Commerce, NOAA/NESDIS, 2005-2006, $75,000
PI, A New Approach to Radar Waveform Design, DoD, U.S. Army, ARO, 2003-2005, $250,000
PI, Compression of AIRS data using Empirical Mode Decomposition, US Department of Commerce, NOAA/NESDIS, 2004-2005 $75,000
PI, Application of Non-Separable Waveforms to Data Compression, 10/2003-1/2004, US Department of Commerce, NOAA/NESDIS, $20,000
Co-PI, Designing Radar Waveforms Possessing The Thumbtack Ambiguity Function, Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, 1999-2001, $250,000
Research Contracts
- Consultant on SST image processing, General Science and Technology Inc., 2013-present
- Consultant on data compression algorithms to General Dynamics , 2005-2006
- Summer Faculty Fellow of ASEE at (Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center) SPAWAR, Summer 2003