JACIE 2020 Presentations
Virtual Attendance
Presentations from this workshop are linked below and are also available in the JACIE Search Tool
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Session 1: Data Quality in Government 10:00 am – 12:30 pm (Presenter biographies)
- Greg Stensaas, USGS JACIE Co-Chair — Welcome and opening remarks
- Frank Avila, NGA — Commercial GEOINT Discovery
- Greg Snyder, USGS; Carolyn Vadnais, Centauri — USGS National Land Imaging Requirements
- Kevin Murphy, NASA — Commercial Data Use and the Future
- Mitch Goldberg, NOAA — Importance of Calibration and Data Quality
- Jeremy Banik, NRO — Commercial Data for the Future
Session 2: Tools, Techniques, and Methods 1:30 – 4:00 pm (Presenter biographies)
- David Davis, USDA — Accuracy of the Continent-wide NAIP Aerial Imaging Program
- Libby Linfield, Airbus Defence and Space Intelligence — MTF variation across high-resolution Vision-1 images using airports as Experimental MTF test sites
- David Conran, RIT — Defining an Image Quality Technique based on the Rayleigh Criterion for Satellite Resolvability
- Mary Pagnutti and Bob Ryan, I2R — UAS Based Approach to Calibrate Satellite Imagery
- Crista Straub, USGS — Use and Impact of Remote Sensing
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Session 3: Interoperability and Standards 10:00 am – 12:30 pm (Presenter biographies)
- Steve Labahn, USGS — Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Analysis Ready Data for Land (CARD4L)
- Ajit Sampath, KBR — USGS System Characterization Results and Plans
- Nigel Fox, NPL — CEOS Interoperability Efforts
- Jeff Masek, NASA — Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel 2 Data
- George Percivall, OGC — Impacts of Big Data and Analytics
Session 4: Characterization Results 1:30 – 4:00 pm (Presenter biographies)
- Minsu Kim, KBR — A Toolset for Technical Analysis of Data Performance and USGS Characterizations of Planet Data
- Mahesh Shrestha, KBR — DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer Level-1 Product Evaluation Using RadCalNet Measurements
- Christa Johnson, NGA — Results of BlackSky and Planet SkySat Analysis
- Dr. Afreen Siddiqi, MIT — Integrating Calibration Value for Satellite Constellations
- Robert Tetrault, USDA — Use of Multiple Data Sources and the Importance of Data Quality
Thursday, November 19, 2020
Session 5: Remote Sensing Technology 10:00 am – 12:30 pm
Panel on Future Remote Sensing and Data Quality
Presentations by:
- Valentina Boccia, Data Quality Manager for Sentinel-2, FLEX and ESA optical 3rd Party Missions at ESA; PhD in Aerospace Engineering
- Joe Janiak, Chief of National Image Quality and Utility Division, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- Fabio Pacifici, MAXAR / IEEE, Fellow Scientist & Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Maxar, and Director of Industry Relations at IEEE-Geoscience and Remote Sensing (GRSS); PhD in Geoinformation — Future of Remote Sensing and Data Quality
- Peter Wegner, Chief Technology Officer at BlackSky Global and Spaceflight Industries, PhD in Mechanical Engineering
- Ignacio Zuleta, formerly Senior Director of the Payload Group at Planet, Inc.; PhD in Physical Chemistry
Session 6: Calibration Resources 1:30 – 4:00 pm (Presenter biographies)
- Stephen Schiller, Raytheon — Enhancing Inter-sensor SI Traceability and Image Data Exploitation with Specular Array Calibration (SPARC)
- Brandon Russell, Labsphere — Initial Results of FLARE ALPHA System Operation and Uncertainties
- Kevin Gallo, NOAA — Land Product Characterization System (LPCS)
- Cody Anderson and Greg Stensaas, USGS — ECCOE and JACIE Best Practices and Data Quality