About Current Students

The DIRS Laboratory typically has about 40 students researching topics in remote sensing at all levels: high school interns, BS, MS, and Ph.D. The majority of these students are pursuing degrees in Imaging Science. Here is a current list of the students working in the DIRS lab and the research projects:

James Albano - hyperspectral target detection
Cliff Anderson - LandSat vicarious calibration
May Arsenovic - remote sensing of ice and snow
Jake Clements - advanced analyst exploitation environment
Brian Daniel - image quality of sparse aperture telescope systems (DEFENDED!)
Chabitha Devaraj - polarimetric remote sensing
Colin Doody - advanced analyst exploitation environment
Tim Doster - graph theory approaches to hyperspectral image analysis
Kenny Fourspring - polarimetric BRDF estimation
Aaron Gerace - LandSat Data Continuity Mission
Matt Heimbueger - nighttime persistent surveillance
Shawn Higbee - Bayesian analysis of gaseous plumes
David Kelbe - undergraduate research assistant
Scott Klempner - improved atmsopheric compensation (DEFENDED!)
Christina Kucerak - spectral measurements of materials
Justin Kwong - hyperspectral imaging for archeological studies
Ryan Mercovich - multispectral / multitemporal remote sensing
Matt Montanaro - radiometric analysis of mechanical draft cooling towers
David Nilosek - unresolved target temperature estimation
Frank Padula - historical LandSat thermal calibration (DEFENDED!)
Sarah Paul - unresolved target temperature estimation
Ariel Schlamm - advanced mathematical approaches to hyperspectral image analysis
David Snyder - undergraduate research assistant
Eugenie Song - undergraduate research assistant
Jacqueline Speir - validation of the DIRSIG in-water radiometry model
Alvin Spivey - enhanced spatial / spectral image classification
Karl Walli - multi-modal, 3D registration
Mike Zelinski - sparse aperture image system trade study
Yushan Zhu - remote sensing data assimilation of fire propagation models