Steven W. Brown

Brown's interests lie in the development of advanced radiometric artifacts and new approaches to radiometric sensor calibrations to improve the performance of instruments used in climate research; absolute stellar, lunar and solar radiometry; and medical imaging.

Recognition

Arthur S. Fleming Award
Department of Commerce (Gold Medal, 2 Silver Medals)
NIST (2 Bronze Medals)
NASA (Robert H. Goddard Award, Goddard Group Achievement Award)
National Geospatial Agency (Group Citation)
Naval Research Laboratory (Alan R. Berman Research Publication Award)

Research Projects

Development of standards and technologies to improve the characterization and calibration of remote sensing sensors.

Selected Publications

Stray Light Correction of the Marine Optical System

January 1, 2009

Author(s)

M Feinholz, S Flora, M Yarbrough, Keith R. Lykke, Steven W. Brown, B. Carol Johnson, Dennis Clark

The Marine Optical System is a spectrograph-based sensor used in the Marine Optical Buoy for the vicarious calibration of ocean color satellite sensors. It is

A Hyperspectral Image Projector for Hyperspectral Imagers

September 3, 2007

Author(s)

Joseph P. Rice, Steven W. Brown, Jorge E. Neira, Robert R. Bousquet

We have developed and demonstrated a Hyperspectral Image Projector (HIP) intended for system-level validation testing of hyperspectral imagers, including the

Simple Spectral Stray Light Correction Method for Array Spectroradiometers

February 20, 2006

Author(s)

Yuqin Zong, Steven W. Brown, Bettye C. Johnson, Keith R. Lykke, Yoshihiro Ohno

In many applications, the measurement accuracy of spectroradiometers, particularly instruments with a single dispersive element, is limited by the presence of

Publications

Measurements of Absolute, SI-traceable Lunar Irradiance with the Airborne LUnar Spectral Irradiance (air-LUSI) Instrument

May 5, 2022

Author(s)

John T. Woodward IV, Kevin Turpie, Thomas Stone, S. Andrew Gadsden, Andrew Newton, Stephen Maxwell, Steven Grantham, Thomas Larason, Steven W. Brown

The Airborne LUnar Spectral Irradiance (Air-LUSI) instrument is designed to make low uncertainty, hyperspectral measurements of the lunar spectral irradiance

Incandescent lamp-based facility for measuring the long-term radiometric stability of spectrographs

December 10, 2021

Author(s)

Ping-Shine Shaw, John T. Woodward IV, B. Carol Johnson, Steven W. Brown, Howard W. Yoon

The stability of a spectrograph is a one of the most important characteristics affecting the spectrograph's radiometric performance. For many applications such

Characterization and Absolute Calibration of an AERONET-OC Radiometer

April 15, 2021

Author(s)

B. Carol Johnson, Giuseppe Zibordi, Steven W. Brown, Michael Feinholz, Mikhail Sorokin, Ilya Slutsker, John T. Woodward IV, Howard Yoon

The Ocean Color component of the global Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET-OC) utilizes CE-318 sun photometers modified for above-water radiometry from fixed

Optical and Mechanical Design of a Telescope for Lunar Spectral Irradiance Measurements from a High-Altitude Aircraft

September 8, 2020

Author(s)

Clarence Zarobila, Steven Grantham, Steven W. Brown, John T. Woodward IV, Stephen Maxwell, Dana R. Defibaugh, Thomas Larason, Kevin Turpie

We have designed a non-imaging telescope for measurement of the spectral irradiance of the moon. The telescope was integrated into a wing pod of a NASA ER-2

Invited Article: Advances in Tunable Laser-based Radiometric Calibration Applications at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

September 26, 2018

Author(s)

John T. Woodward IV, Ping-Shine Shaw, Howard Yoon, Yuqin Zong, Steven W. Brown, Keith R. Lykke

Recent developments at the National Institute of Standards and Technology's facility for Spectral Irradiance and Radiance responsivity Calibrations using

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