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Wedad Abdou

Education
  • B. Sc. in Physics and Mathematics, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt (1960)
  • Diploma of Imperial College (D.I.C.) from the Electrical Engineering Department, Imperial College, London, England (1963)
  • Ph.D. in Solid State Physics, Exeter University, England (1967)
Research Interests
  • Radiative properties of aerosols and surfaces and their effect on the top of the Atmosphere radiances
  • Surface Bidirectional reflectance properties
  • Validation and vicarious calibration of on-orbit satellite radiometers
  • Prediction of high-resolution broadband shortwave albedos using combined CERES and MISR measurements
Projects

MRO - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Icon MRO - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) launched in 2005 and is on a search for evidence that water persisted on the surface of Mars for a long period of time.

Professional Experience
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Senior Technical Staff, Division 32 (Present)
  • Globesat, Inc., Director of Advanced Programs (1986-1991)
  • Space and Astronomy Department, Baghdad, Iraq. Research Scientist, Council for Scientific Research (1984-1986)
  • Utah State University, Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences, Research Associate (1974-1984)
  • Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt, Assistant professor, Department of Physics and Mathematics, College of Engineering (1968-1974)
Selected Awards
  • NASA Group Achievement Award MRO MCS Science Team (2011)
  • NASA Board Award for NTR no. 17622: "Vicarious calibration of hyper-spectral and multi-angle sensors." Recommended by NASA Inventions and Contributions Board. (2005)
  • Notable Organizational Value - Added (NOVA) award, JPL. Recommended by MISR project management, for developing a mathematical formula that helped speed up MISR aerosol retrieval algorithm (1997).
Selected Publications
  1. Abdou, W. A., Stuart H. Pilorz, Mark C, Helmlinger, James E. Conel, David J. Diner, Carol J. Bruegge, and John V. Martonchik, Sua Pan surface Bidirectional Reflectance: A case study to evaluate the effect of atmospheric correction on the surface products of the Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR) during SAFARI 2000, IEEE Trans. Geosience and Remote Sensing, 44, (7), 1699-1706 (2006)
  2. Abdou, W. A., David. J. Diner, John V. Martonchik, Carol. J. Bruegge, Ralph A. Kahn, Barbara J. Gaitley, Kathleen A. Crean, Lorraine A. Remer and Brent Holben, Comparison of coincident MISR and MODIS aerosol optical depths over land and ocean scenes containing AERONET sites. J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 110, D10S07, doi:10.1029/2004JD004693 (2005)
  3. Bruegge, Carol J., Wedad A. Abdou, David J. Diner, Barbara J. Gaitley, Mark C. Helmlinger, Ralph A. Kahn, and John V. Martonchik, Validating the MISR radiometric scale for the ocean aerosol science communities. In Post-launch calibration of satellite sensors, Stanley A. Morain and Amelia M. Budge, editors. A.A. Balkema Publishers, Leiden, Netherlands, pp. 103-115 (2004)
  4. Abdou, W. A., Bruegge, C. J., Helmlinger, M. C., Conel, J. E., Pilorz, S. H., Ledeboer, W., Gaitley, B. J., and Thome, K. J., 'Vicarious Calibration Experiment in Support of the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer,' IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 40, 7, 1500-1511 (2002)
  5. Bruegge, Carol J., Nadine L. Chrien, Robert R. Ando, David J. Diner, Wedad A. Abdou , Mark C. Helmlinger, Kurtis Thome. Early validation of the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) radiometric scale. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 40 (7), 1477-1492 (2002)
  6. Abdou, W. A., Conel, J. E., Pilorz, S. H., Helmlinger, M. C., Bruegge, C. J., Gaitley, B. J., Ledeboer, W. C., and Martonchik, J. V., 'Vicarious calibration, A reflectance-based experiment with AirMISR,' Remote Sensing of Environment, 77, 338-353 (2001)
  7. Diner, D.J., Abdou, W.A., Bruegge, C.J., Conel, J.E., Crean, K.A., Gaitley, B.J., Helmlinger, M.C., Kahn, R.A., Martonchik, J.V., Pilorz, S.H., and Holben, B.N., 'MISR aerosol optical depth retrievals over southern Africa during the SAFARI-2000 dry season campaign,' Geophys. Res. Lett. 28, 3127 (2001)
  8. Abdou, W.A., Helmlinger, M. C., Conel, J. E., Bruegge, C. J., Pilorz, S. H., Martonchik, J. V., and Caitley, B. J., 'Ground measurements of surface BRF and HDRF using PARABOLA III,' J. Geophys. Res., 106 (D11), 11,967-11,976 (2000)
  9. Bruegge, Carol J., Mark C. Helmlinger, James E. Conel, Barbara J. Gaitley, Wedad A Abdou. PARABOLA III: a sphere-scanning radiometer for field determination of surface anisotropic reflectance functions. Remote Sensing Reviews, 19, 75-94 (2000)
  10. Abdou, W. A., Martonchik, J. V., Kahn, R. A., West, R. A., and Diner, D. J., 'A modified linear-mixing method for calculating atmospheric path radiances of aerosol mixtures,' J. Geophys. Res., 102 (D14), 16,883-16,888 (1997)
  11. Goody, R. and Abdou, W. A., 'Reversible and irreversible sources of radiation entropy,' Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 122. 483-494 (1996)
  12. R. Goody, R. Haskins, W. A. Abdou, and L. Chen, 'Detection of Climate Forcing Using Emission Spectra,' Issledovaniye Zemli iz Kosmosa (Earth Observations from Space), 5, 22-33 (1995)
  13. Abdou, W. A. and Sawat Tantiphanwadi, "The development of an Attitude Sensing System for Small Satellites," Proceedings of the second annual AIAA/USU conference on small satellites, USU, Logan, Utah (1989)
  14. Abdou, W. A. and L. Adwar, Airglow Observation and the F-layer Sounding: Prediction of the 7774 A Emission Using Ionosonde Data, J. of Space and Astronomy Research Center (Baghdad, Iraq), Vol. 4, No. 1 (1986)
  15. Richars, P. G., D. G. Torr and W. A. Abdou, Effect of vibrationale enhancement of N2 on the cooling rate of ionospheric thermal electrons, J. Geophys. Res., 91, 304 (1986)
  16. Abdou, W. A., Population of the N2+ Vibrational Excitation in the Day Time Thermosphere, J. of Space and Astronomy Research Center (Baghdad, Iraq), Vol. 3, No. 11 (1985)
  17. Abdou, W. A., Torr, D. G., Richards, P. G., Torr, M. R., Breig, E. L. Results of a comprehensive Study of the Photochemistry of N2+ in the Ionosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 88, 9069-9079 (1984)
  18. Torr, D.G., Abdou, W.A., Torr, M.R., Burnside, R.G., and Meriwether, J.W., Measurements of Metastable N+(1D) 6584 A Emission in the Twilight Thermosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 88, 3190-3196 (1983)
  19. Abdou, W. A., Torr, D. G, Richards, P. G., Torr, M. R., 'The effect on Thermospheric Chemistry of a Resonant Charge Exchange Reaction Involving Vibrationally Excited N2+ Ions with Atomic Oxygen,' J. Geophys. Res., 87, No. A8, 632 (1982)
  20. Torr, D. G., Wedad A. Abdou, P. G. Richards and M. R. Torr, The role of O+(2D) in thermospheric chemistry, Proceeding of the 10th Annual meeting on the study of upper atmospheric studies by Optical Methods, Grass, France, J. Clairemidi Ed. (6-11 September, 1982)
  21. Wilford N. Hansen and Wedad A. Abdou, Causality Calculations in Reflection Spectroscopy, J. Opt. Soc. Am., 67, No. 11 (1977)

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