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Clarence Zarobila (Assoc)

Mr. Zarobila is a physicist in PML's Sensor Science Division. He co-developed the Robotic Optical Scattering Instrument (ROSI), the national reference instrument for specular and bi-directional reflectance measurements. For that work he and his colleagues received the NIST Judson C. French award. He also co-developed the air-LUSI telescope, the "eye" of a system which measures the spectral irradiance of the moon from an aircraft flying near the top of the atmosphere. He supports NIST STARS and a variety of other projects in PML and EL by developing optical and engineering models. His research interests include interferometry, spectrophotometry, color and appearance, and sensing using optical and fiber-optic techniques.

Research projects

ROSI

NIST Stars

Previous Publications

"Fiber-Optic Sensors," Davis, C. M. and Zarobila, C. J., In R.W. Waynant, & M.N. Ediger, Electro-Optics Handbook, (2nd ed., Chapter) New York: McGraw-Hill.

Selected Publications

Publications

Diffuse Visual Transmission Density

Author(s)
Clarence Zarobila, Robert E. Vest, Maria E. Nadal
This document, SP250-99 (2022), NIST Measurement Services: Diffuse Visual Transmission Density, describes the instrument used to measure diffuse visual
Created June 4, 2019, Updated March 2, 2024