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Carol Bruegge

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Address:

4800 Oak Grove Drive
M/S 183-601

Pasadena, CA 91109

Member of:

Laboratory Studies And Atmospheric Observations

Education

  • MS, BA Applied Physics, University of California, San Diego (1978)
  • PhD, MS Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson (1985)

Professional Experience

Carol has experience in terrestrial remote sensing, calibration of remote sensing sensors, radiative transfer, and use of ground-truth measurements for validation and calibration of airborne and on-orbit sensors and their data products. Current projects include:

  • Co-investigators for MAIA, responsible for preflight and on-orbit calibration.
  • Co-Investigator on the Earth Observing System (EOS)/ Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) team.
  • On-orbit calibration of the JAXA/ Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT) sensor
  • Prelaunch and on-orbit calibration of the Orbital Carbon Observatory (OCO, OCO-2, and OCO-3)
  • Principal Investigator responsible for the develop and maintenance of an autonomous vicarious calibration test site, at Railroad Valley, NV

Research Interests

  • Terrestrial remote sensing
  • Calibration of remote sensing sensors
  • Radiative transfer
  • Use of ground-truth measurements for validation and calibration of airborne and on-orbit sensors and sensor data

Selected Awards

  • NASA Honor Awards: Air-MSPI 2015-2016 Campaign (2017); Multi-Angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer Team (2015); AirMSPI Field Campaign Team (2014); AVIRIS (1991); FIFE (1990)
  • SPACE ACT AWARD, February 22, 2008. NTR 45425: LED Spectrometer (LSpec) autonomous vicarious calibration facility. Carol J. Bruegge, Mark C. Helmlinger, Shannon Jackson.
  • SPACE ACT AWARD, January 5, 2006. NTR 20998: MISR in-flight radiometric calibration process. Carol J. Bruegge, Nadine L. Chrien, Barbara J. Gaitley, Ghobie S. Saghri, Brian G. Chafin.
  • SPACE ACT AWARD, January 5, 2006. NTR 17622: Vicarious calibration of hyper-spectral and multi-angle sensors. Carol J. Bruegge, Robert O. Green, Mark C. Helmlinger, Wedad A. Abdou, and Ronald E. Alley.
  • SPACE ACT AWARD, June 21, 2005NPO 19048. Use of Spectralon as a diffuse reflectance standard for in-flight calibration of earth-orbiting sensors. Carol J. Bruegge, Albert E. Stiegman, Arthur W. Springsteen.
  • NASA Exceptional Service Medal for development of the MISR on-board calibrator (an individual award and medal). (Aug 8, 2001)
  • Group achievement awards for MISR and AirMISR. (Aug 8, 2001)
  • Intellectual property patent: MISR radiometric calibration software. (Jan 2, 2001)
  • NPO-18431 In-situ atmospheric water-vapor retrieval in support of AVIRIS validation. NASA Tech Briefs Journal award. See NASA Tech Briefs, December 1994, Vol. 18(12), p. 82. (1993)
  • NPO-19048 Stabilization of Spectralon Diffuse Reflectance Material to UV Radiation. NASA Tech Briefs Journal award. (1993)
  • NPO-18023 Atmospheric water mapping with the Airborne Visible/ Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS). NASA Tech Briefs Journal award. (1991)
  • Martonchik, J.V., D.J. Diner, E.D. Danielson, C.J. Bruegge. Application of heterogeneous scene models to retrieval of land surface and atmospheric optical properties from space. Office of Patents and Technology Utilization (OPATU), Item no. 7965, Patent Docket No. D-18440. (1991)
  • AVIRIS Group Achievement Award, NASA (1990)
  • FIFE Group Achievement Awards, NASA (1990)
  • Diner, D.J., J.V. Martonchik, C.J. Bruegge, E.D. Danielson, L.E. Hovland, T.P. Ackerman, R. Davies, S.A.W. Gerstl, H.R. Gordon. Atmospheric and surface observations from EOS with the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer. Achievement Award in Atmospheric Science, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), 28th Meeting: award for paper presentation. (1990)
  • NPO-17622 Preliminary Analysis of Data from AVIRIS. NASA Tech Brief Award for New Technology Development, NASA Tech Briefs Journal award. (1989)
  • Bruegge, C.J. Aerosol optical depth retrieval during FIFE. Achievement Award in Atmospheric Science. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), 27th Meeting: award for paper presentation. (1989)

Selected Publications

First-Author Publications

  1. Carol J. Bruegge, Ab Davis , Tarek Nagaty Jagmit Sandhu , David Scott , Gerrit Van Harten, “Radiometric and spectral calibration of the Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA),” SPIE Earth Observing Systems XXVI, Conference 11829-10 (August 2021).
  2. Carol J. Bruegge, Craig Coburn, Arthur Elmes, Mark C. Helmlinger, Fumie Kataoka, Michele Kuester, Akihiho Kuze, Tina Ochoa, Tina, Crystal Schaaf, Kei Shiomi, Florian M. Schwandner, “Bi-Directional Reflectance Factor Determination of the Railroad Valley Playa,” Remote Sens. 11(22), 2601 (2019). https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11222601
  3. Carol J. Bruegge , G. Thomas Arnold , Jeffrey Czapla-Myers, RoseAnne Dominguez, Mark C. Helmlinger, David R. Thompson, Jeannette Van den Bosch, and Brian N. Wenny, “Vicarious Calibration of eMAS, AirMSPI, and AVIRIS Sensors During FIREX-AQ,” Trans. Geosci. and Remote Sensing, Vol. 59(12), pp. 1-12, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2021.3066997, Print ISSN: 0196-2892, Online ISSN: 1558-0644
  4. Carol J. Bruegge, David Crisp, Mark C. Helmlinger, Fumie Kataoka, Akihiko Kuze, Richard A. Lee, James L.McDuffie, Robert A. Rosenberg, Florian M. Schwandner, Kei Shiomi, Shanshan Yu, “Vicarious Calibration of Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2,” IEEE Trans. on Geosci. and Remote Sensing, vol. 57, no. 7, pp. 5135-5145 (2019). DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2019.2897068
  5. Carol J. Bruegge, David J. Diner, Ralph A. Kahn, Nadine Chrien, Mark C. Helmlinger, Barbara J. Gaitley, Wedad A. Abdou, “The MISR radiometric calibration process,” Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 107 (1-2), pp. 2-11, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1016/ j.rse.2006.07.024.
  6. Carol J. Bruegge, Mark C. Helmlinger, Wedad A. Abdou, John Martonchik, Aslan Demircan Bernhard Geiger, Michael Schaepman, Thomas H. Painter, Bradley E. Paden, and Jeff Dozier (2004). Field measurements of bidirectional reflectance. In "Reflection Properties of Vegetation and Soil-with a BRDF Data base", Wissenschaft und Technik Verlag, Berlin.
  7. Bruegge, Carol J., Wedad A. Abdou, David J. Diner, Barbara J. Gaitley, Mark C. Helmlinger, Ralph A. Kahn, and John V. Martonchik (2004). Validating the MISR radiometric scale for the ocean aerosol science communities. Proceedings of the The International Workshop on Radiometric and Geometric Calibration, December 2-5, 2003, Gulfport, Mississippi. A.A. Balkema Publishers, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
  8. Bruegge, Carol J., Nadine L. Chrien, Robert R. Ando, David J. Diner, Mark C. Helmlinger, Wedad A. Abdou, Kurtis Thome (2002). Early validation of Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) radiometric scale. IEEE Trans. Geosci. and Remote Sens., 40(7), 1500-1511.
  9. Bruegge, Carol, Nadine Chrien, David Haner (2001). A Spectralon BRF data base for MISR calibration applications. Remote Sensing of Environment 76, pp. 354-366.
  10. Bruegge, Carol J., Mark C. Helmlinger, James E. Conel, Barbara J. Gaitley, Wedad A Abdou (2000). PARABOLA III: a sphere-scanning radiometer for field determination of surface anisotropic reflectance functions. Remote Sensing Reviews, Vol 19,pp. 75-94.
  11. Bruegge, C.J., V.G. Duval, N.L. Chrien, R.P. Korechoff, B.J. Gaitley, and E.B. Hochberg (1998). MISR prelaunch instrument calibration and characterization results. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Rem. Sens., Vol. 36, pp. 1186-1198.
  12. Bruegge, C.J., N. L. Chrien, R. A. Kahn, J. V. Martonchik, David Diner (1998). MISR radiometric uncertainty analyses and their utilization within geophysical retrievals. Conference issue: New Developments and Applications in Optical Radiometry (NEWRAD '97), Metrologia., 35, 571-579.
  13. Bruegge, C.J., D.J. Diner, and V.G. Duval (1996). The MISR calibration program. J. of Atmos. and Oceanic Tech., Vol. 13 (2), 86-299.
  14. Bruegge, C.J., V.G. Duval, N.L. Chrien, and D.J. Diner (1993). Calibration Plans for the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer(MISR). Metrologia, 30 (4), 213-221.
  15. Bruegge, C.J., A.E. Stiegman, R.A. Rainen, A.W. Springsteen (1993). Use of Spectralon as a diffuse reflectance standard for in-flight calibration of earth-orbiting sensors. Opt. Eng. 32(4), 805-814.
  16. Bruegge, C.J., R.N. Halthore, B. Markham, M. Spanner, and R. Wrigley (1992a). Aerosol optical depth retrievals over the Konza Prairie. J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 97(D17), 18743-18758.
  17. Bruegge, C.J., J.E. Conel, R.O. Green, J.S. Margolis, R.G. Holm, and G. Toon (1992b). Water-vapor column abundance retrievals. J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 97(D17), 18759-18768.

Projects

OCO-2 - Orbiting Carbon Observatory
MAIA
MISR
OCO-3 - Orbiting Carbon Observatory 3