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Appendix B: Biographical Information for Steering Committee Members and Workshop Speakers and Panelists
Appendix B: Biographical Information for Steering Committee Members and Workshop Speakers and Panelists
Pages 62-74
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service includes former membership on the Space Studies Board, the Board's Task Group on Research and Analysis Programs, and the Climate Research Committee. She currently serves on the NRC Committee on Global Change Research and the NRC Committee on the Geographic Foundation for Agenda 21.
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Previously he spent 15 years at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) , where he started and headed the geologic remote sensing group and initiated the development of imaging spectrometry, now known as hyperspectral imaging.
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He also directs Sea Grant educational activities in remote sensing in collaboration with NASA scientists. His main interests include coordination of a regional, multiplatform remote sensing program in the Chesapeake Bay region to further the understanding of ecosystem health by applying new technologies to contemporary ecological issues.
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He led the design team for the first Landsat ground-processing system produced by MDA, Ltd., and was involved in the early development of synthetic aperture radar processing at this company. His technical activities have been in the areas of information extraction from advanced sensor systems and the applications of remote sensing with particular emphasis on the physics of the backscatter process and the use of integrated data sets as a means of increasing the ability to extract useful information from remotely sensed data.
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His past experience includes technical management of the Commercial Remote Sensing Program at NASA's Stennis Space Center, where he completed more than 100 remote sensing application projects and the development of five airborne remote sensing systems, including the Calibrated Airborne Multispectral Scanner (CAMS) and the Airborne Terrestrial and Land Acquisition Sensor (ATLAS)
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His current research is on using hyperspectral remote sensing to assess the optical properties and phytoplankton dynamics of coastal ocean ecosystems. He has worked on coastal upwelling systems off the coasts of North and South America, Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula, and conducted studies of Puget Sound, Chesapeake Bay, San Francisco Bay, and the Laurentian Great Lakes.
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He has conducted research there on Landsat data applications and on characterizing the bidirectional reflectance distribution functions of soil surfaces and plant canopies. He was the instrument scientist for the airborne Advanced Solid State Array Spectroradiometer (ASAS)
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He is a science team member and leader of the land discipline group for the NASA Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and heads up a small research group responsible for MODIS land data processing at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
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It is currently providing test support to the Mobile Services System (MSS) , Canada's contribution to the International Space Station, and is preparing for Radarsat-2.
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Mr. Nicastri has more than 30 years' experience developing and operating commercial and government ground and space systems, developing and transitioning advanced technologies, and maintaining Air Defense and Federal Aviation Administration command and control systems.
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He is a PI and member of the Landsat 7 science team, and is a PI with the Canadian Radarsat program and the Japanese Earth Resources Satellite program.
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Thomas was appointed acting director of the applications division of NASA's Office of Earth Science in March 2000. He is on loan to NASA Headquarters from the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, where he is currently the director in waiting for the Geospace Applications Development Directorate.
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civil operational environmental satellite programs, which supply the nation's weather and environmental satellite data, and he also leads three national environmental data centers that archive and make accessible climate, ocean, and geophysical data and products.
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