Lee. Lee, S.-K (618), Fatoyinbo, T. (618), Lagomasino, D. (618), Feliciano, E., and Trettin, C., "Multi- Baseline TanDEM-X Mangrove Height Estimation: The Selection of the Vertical Wavenumber". IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, accepted.
Education
Taylor. Mike Taylor (618/SSAI) participated in Maryland Day 2018 at University of Maryland, College Park on April 28. Landsat Communications engaged the general public in discussion about the EM Spectrum with a focus on visible light and Near Infrared. The activity shows them spectral signatures, how we use them and how we use visible and invisible portions of the EM Spectrum to look at Earth using hands on learning devices such a handheld spectrometer, NIR filter goggles and a matching game.
Eck. Mok, J. (614/ESSIC), Krotkov, N. A. (614), Torres, O. (614), Jethva, H. (614), Li, Z., Kim, J., Koo, J.-H., Go, S., Irie, H., Labow (614/SSAI), G., Eck (USRA/618), T. F., Holben, B. N.(618), Herman, J. (614/ JCET), Loughman, R. P., Spinei, E., Lee, S. S., Khatri, P., and Campanelli, M., 2018: "Comparisons of spectral aerosol single scattering albedo in Seoul, South Korea", Atmos. Meas. Tech. This paper compares co-located ground- based measurements of aerosol single scattering albedo (SSA) in Seoul, South Korea by SKYNET, AERONET, and MFRSR techniques. GSFC 614 scientists developed the Multi-filter Rotating Shadowband (MFRSR) technique for measuring column average aerosol absorption and PANDORA direct sun DOAS technique to separate aerosol and gaseous absorptions by ozone and nitrogen dioxide.
Presentations
Poulter. Ben Poulter (618) Presented "Accounting and Spaceborne methodologies for closing the global methane (CH4) budget" at the Global Methane Forum in Toronto, Canada.
Multiple. Several Biospheric Sciences Laboratory colleagues (618) at SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing Conference in Orlando, FL, April 15-19:
Mu, Qiaozhen (618/SSAI), Amit Angal (618/SSAI), Xu Geng (618/SSAI), Aisheng Wu (618/SSAI), and Xiaoxiong Xiong (618) presented "Evaluation of the on-orbit response versus scan-angle (RVS) performance for the MODIS reflective solar bands using multiple ground targets" at SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing Conference in Orlando, FL, April 15-19.
Mu, Qiaozhen (618/SSAI), Tiejun Chang (618/SSAI), Aisheng Wu (618/SSAI), and Xiaoxiong Xiong (618) presented "Evaluating the long-term stability and response versus scan angle effect in the SNPP VIIRS SDR reflectance product using a deep convective cloud technique"
Shrestha, Ashish (618/SSAI), Amit Angal (618/SSAI), and Xiaoxiong Xiong (618) presented "Evaluation of MODIS and Sentinel-3 SLSTR thermal emissive bands calibration consistency using Dome C"
Shrestha, Ashish (618/SSAI), Truman Wilson (618/SSAI), Aisheng Wu, (618/SSAI), and Xiaoxiong Xiong (618) presented "Evaluating calibration consistency of Terra and Aqua MODIS LWIR PV bands using Dome C"
Lagomasino. David Lagomasino (618/UMD) and Priscilla Baltezar (618/UMD) were invited to be keynote speakers at Humboldt State University (HSU) for a Raza Empowerment Day. The purpose was for Priscilla and David to discuss their background, experience entering the NASA workforce, current research projects, and why diversity is important to NASA research and science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. In addition they also interacted with students in the Indian Natural Resources, Science, and Engineering Program (INRSEP).
Poulter. Ben Poulter (618) attended "The Future of Earth System Modeling" workshop at Caltech to discuss complexity and simplicity in Land and Biosphere Modeling. He discussed how land use and land cover change is currently implemented in land-surface models and how new remote sensing observations of forest structure will present novel opportunities to reduce uncertainties.
Fatoyinbo. On March 19, Lola Fatoyinbo (618) gave the Sigma Xi distinguished Lecturer Seminar at SUNY Purchase College, NY entitled: "Tree hugging meets Rocket Science-Space Aged Estimation of Global Carbon Stocks." The audience was college students in sciences and other majors.
External Interactions
Fatoyinbo. On March 27, Lola Fatoyinbo (618) presented at the Smithsonian FutureCon event entitled "NASA science in the Extremes". The event was part of the AwesomeCon Conference in Washington DC. The event was featured on NASA's Social media platforms and covered by the media.
Brown de Colstoun. Eric Brown de Colstoun (618) was recently invited to speak to 150 7th graders from Annapolis Middle School about NASA Missions, NASA Earth Sciences and his own career path and research on Landsat Land Cover and Urbanization. Annapolis Middle School is part of the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program (IB MYP) and students were beginning their research into space and environmental sciences, rockets and propulsion systems.
Brown de Colstoun. Eric Brown de Colstoun (618) recently spoke to a cohort of french-speaking diplomats at the State Department's Foreign Service Institute (FSI) in Arlington VA. The diplomats recently completed their language-specific training and exams at FSI and will be deploying shortly to various frenchspeaking countries throughout the world. Brown de Colstoun spoke about NASA Earth Sciences and the GLOBE Educational Program (globe.gov). The students also participated in a brief hands on land cover validation exercise using GLOBE protocols.
Delgado. From astronauts to comic book characters and movie heroes, NASA's ICESat-2 exhibit was a crowd pleaser of interaction and creativity at Washington DC's AwesomeCon. The sand box on display illustrates the elevation map changes and mapping capabilities of the ATLAS laser instrument on board the upcoming launch in September. ICESat-2 will use these measurements to record changes in the ice sheet, forestry, and sea surface levels among other applications. Shown above from left to right: Brent Smith (610.1 /SSAI), Sabrina Delgado A. (618.0/SSAI), and Oscar Hendrick (610.1/ADNET).
Juang. Kristen Weaver (612), Caroline Juang (618), Valerie Casasanto (610), Trena Ferrell (610), Kate Ramsayer (130), Shelly Bettinger (610), Sabrina Delgado (618), Oscar Hendrick (610), and Edmond Smith (610) supported the Awesome Con Conference at the DC Convention Center March 30 - April 1 with hands on activities. Several colleagues hosted a panel at Awesome Con: "NASA Science at the Extremes" led by Kate Ramsayer, (130/USRA) with panelists Kelly Brunt (615), Temilola Fatoyinbo (618), and Jake Bleacher (698).
