GC22B
Emerging Issues in Nighttime Environmental Remote Sensing and Earth System Science Applications I

Tuesday, 15 December 2015: 10:20-12:20
3022 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Miguel O Roman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Edward J. Hyer, Naval Research Laboratory, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA, United States, Steven D Miller, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Changyong Cao, NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Chairs:  Miguel O Roman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Edward J. Hyer, Naval Research Laboratory, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Miguel O Roman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
10:20
Mitigating JPSS J1 VIIRS DNB Performance Shortfalls with Expanded Cal/Val (59517)
Changyong Cao1, Wenhui Wang2, Shihyan Lee1, Xi Shao3, Yan Bai1 and STAR VIIRS SDR DNB team, (1)NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
10:35
Radiometric Quantification of Aurora Activities during Severe Geomagnetic Storms from SNPP VIIRS Day-Night Band Observations (59473)
Xi Shao1, Changyong Cao2, Tung-Chang Liu1, Bin Zhang3, Shing F Fung4 and A Surjalal Sharma5, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (3)Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Univ Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
10:50
Mapping Nighttime Lights using the VIIRS Day/Night Band (Invited) (61113)
Kimberly Baugh, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
11:05
Lunar BRDF Correction of Suomi-NPP VIIRS Day/Night Band Time Series Product (69254)
Zhuosen Wang1, Miguel O Roman1, Virginia Kalb1, Eleanor Stokes2 and Steven D Miller3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT, United States, (3)Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States
11:20
The Production and Operational Use of Day-Night Band Imagery in Alaska (Invited) (60909)
Eric Stevens, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
11:35
Mapping man-made CO2 emissions using satellite-observed nighttime lights (70107)
Tomohiro Oda, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
11:50
The use of moonlight reflectance for improving cloud parameters at night (Invited) (61093)
Andi Walther, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, Madison, WI, United States
12:05
Star Photometry for the Characterization of Columnar Aerosol Properties (76889)
Daniel Perez-Ramirez, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States