Hyperspectral Imaging and Sensing of the Environment (HISE)

OSA Topical Meeting and Tabletop Exhibit

Collocated with

Digital Holography and Three-Dimensional Imaging (DH)
Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS)
Novel Techniques in Microscopy (NTM)
Optical Trapping Applications (OTA)

Technical Conference: April 26-30, 2009
Exhibition: April 27-29, 2009
Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel
Vancouver, BC, Canada

PDP Submissions Deadline: April 2, 2009, 12:00 p.m. noon, EDT (16.00 GMT)
Housing Deadline: March 25, 2009
Pre-Registration Deadline: April 1, 2009

2009 Meeting Chairs

Bryan Baum, Univ.of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, Chair
Ping Yang, Texas A&M Univ., USA, Chair

About Hyperspectral Imaging and Sensing of the Environment

The unprecedented advancement of remote sensing imaging and sounding by passive and active measurement technologies during and beyond this decade will provide unprecedented monitoring and understanding of our planetary system. The uniqueness of these new observations is already challenging scientists and users in all disciplinary areas and requires new approaches for managing, processing and using the data, including the integration of observations from different sensor constellations to better assess the information that these new sensors will provide.

Today, a number of advanced hyperspectral imaging and sounding instruments are on NASA and European aircraft and satellite platforms, and some of them will evolve in the near future into operational imaging and sounding systems, for example NPOESS, CLARREO, and GOES-R. Passive hyperspectral imaging and sounding data provide  unique and independent sources of spatial and spectral information that are critical for studying the intricate characteristics of various weather and climate phenomena. Where sounding information is required to study the evolution of various atmospheric processes, imaging information is quite useful for the investigation of clouds and aerosols as well as land and coastal-ocean ecosystems. Additionally, active sensors such as Calipso and CloudSAT, currently operational as part of the NASA A-Train, provide a key role by providing additional insights into the vertical profiles of clouds and aerosols. They also provide an important source of information for assessing regional and global retrievals from passive sensors.

The focus of HISE 2009 is to increase the dialogue among various communities relating to new research and applications based on these unprecedented data sources to better understand weather and climate issues.

All relevant passive, active, imaging, and sounding hyperspectral remote sensing programs, missions, field campaigns, data processing, applications, validation approaches, basic research, educational outreach and users’ feedback are welcome.

Topics to be Considered

• Algorithm development, research, and applications of current and planned advanced imager and sounders (e.g., NPOESS, GOES-R, MTG, CLARREO);
• Sensor system performance and new results of satellite capabilities from current observations;
• Determination of cloud and aerosol properties from active and passive remote sensing observations and atmospheric soundings of temperature, water vapor and other trace gas constituents;
• Assessment of cloud and aerosol properties derived from both active and passive sensors;
• Assimilation of data from hyperspectral sensors into numerical weather models;
• The development of new radiative transfer models necessary for the interpretation of the data;
• Environmental monitoring using imager and hyperspectral data; and
• Potential offered by new sensors under development.