JACIE 2019 Presentations

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Presentations from this workshop are linked below and are also available in the  JACIE Search Tool.

Tuesday, September 24

Session 1: 8:30am-10:15am

• Greg Stensaas - Welcome and Opening Remarks
• JACIE Government Agency Panel
  • Brad Doorn, NASA
  • Frank Avila, NGA — Creating Trusted GEOINT Partnerships
  • Mitch Goldberg, NOAA — JACIE: Exploring New Paths
  • Glenn Bethel, USDA — USDA Global Crop Monitoring 
  • Tim Newman, USGS — National Land Imaging Update

Session 2: 10:30am -11:45am

• Garik Gutman, NASA — Analysis Results of the NASA Commercial Data Buy
• Andrew Mckenna, US Department of State — Commercial Satellite Imagery and Remote Sensing for Humanitarian Operations
• Chris Biddy, Astro Digital — Proven capabilities of Landmapper-BC constellation

Session 3: 1:15pm-2:45pm

• Steven Hartung, Maxar — Automated bundle adjustment at extreme scales enabled by cloud computing
• DongHan Lee, KARI — Spatial Quality from Edge target imaged by KOMPSAT-3
• Kara Burch, Innovative Imaging and Research — The DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer (DESIS) Instrument On-Orbit Performance and Data Access
• Brian Markham, NASA — Landsat 9 Pre-Launch Instrument Characterization and Calibration

Session 4: 3:15pm- 4:45pm

• Barbara Eckstein, L3Harris Technologies — The Spectral NITF Implementation Profile (SNIP): A new data format standard from NGA for MSI and HSI datasets
• Sara Bahloul, Planet — Quarterly Image Quality Reports at Planet
• Michele Kuester, Maxar — Improvements in Calibration, and Validation of the Absolute Radiometric Response of MAXAR Earth-Observing Sensors
• Kurt Thome, NASA — Applying lessons learned from vicarious calibration to surface reflectance validation

Wednesday, September 25

Session 5: 8:30am-10:15am

• Amy Weaver, NGA and Paul Meund, NRO — Cooperation in Commercial Data
• Valentina Boccia, ESA-ESRIN — ESA Earthnet Data Assessment Pilot project: Paving the Way for New Space Players
• Sam Hunt, UK National Physics Laboratory 

Session 6: 10:30am -11:45am

Panel Session: Moving Toward a Common Reporting Framework

• Sam Hunt, UK National Physics Laboratory 
• Valentina Boccia, ESA ESRIN
• Greg Stensaas, USGS — Data Quality and Interoperability
• Ignacio Zuleta, Planet

Session 7: 1:15pm-2:45pm

• Chris Durell, Labsphere, Inc. — On Demand Vicarious Calibration for Analysis Ready Data
• Francois Smith, Maxar — Machine Learning Based Radiometric and Atmospheric Normalization and Cloud Filling
• Robert Ryan, Innovative Imaging and Research — In-Flight Measurement of DESIS SNR Hyperspectral Imager Using Scene Data
• Minsu Kim, KBR — Total Propagated Uncertainty of the Surface Reflectance of the Satellite Imagery

Session 8: 3:15pm- 4:45pm

• Stephen Schiller, Raytheon, Inc. — Demonstration of the Mirror-based Empirical Line Method Abstract
• Josh Greenberg, Planet — Validation Study of Planet Doves against Sentinel-2 over Common Land Units
• Mary Pagnutti, Innovative Imaging and Research — Simulating Virtual Satellite Constellations of Multispectral Imagers using Hyperspectral Satellite and Airborne
• Aparajithan Sampath, KBR — Geometric and Spatial characterization Methods with examples from Planet and WorldView-3 data

Thursday, September 26

Session 9: 8:30am-10:15am

USGS Director and Commercial Space Leaders

• Dr. James Reilly, USGS Director

Panel: Commercial Providers' Insights

• Kevin Lousten, Digital Globe
• Robbie Schingler, Planet

Session 10: 10:30am -11:45am

• Amit Angal, SSAI — Intercomparison of the Terra imaging sensors: MODIS, MISR, and ASTER
• Chris Biddy, Astro Digital — Data calibration of Landmapper-BC satellite - v1.0
• Alan Collison, Planet — Planet Surface Reflectance: Implementing Atmospheric Correction for a Heterogenous Fleet of Satellites

Session 11: 1:15pm-2:45pm

• Mary Pagnutti, Innovative Imaging and Research — Laboratory Radiometric Calibration/Characterization of MicaSense Cameras for sUAS Applications
• Laurent Lebegue, CNES — The CO3D demonstrator, a worldwide one-meter accuracy DEM for 2025
• Joshua Mann, KBR — Collection-2, Level-2, and Level-2 field campaigns
• Minsu Kim, KBR — Radiometric & Geometric evaluation of Dove Classic, Dove Landsat, and Dove-R

Session 12: 3:15pm- 4:45pm

• Medhavy Thankappan, Geoscience Australia — Results from field-based validation of continental scale surface reflectance in Australia
• Michael Choate, USGS — Landsat Sentinel 2 Global Reference Image (GRI) Harmonization
• Cibele Teixeira Pinto, SDSU — New Approach for Pseudo-Invariant Calibration Sites Evaluation
• Jon Christopherson, KBR — Need for On-Orbit Gold Standard