- Publications in Refereed Journals
2. Barsi, J.A., Schott, J.R., Palluconi, F.D., Helder, D.L., Markham, B.L., Chander, G., O'Donnell, E.M., "Landsat TM and ETM+ Thermal Band Calibration," Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 141-153, Apr. 2003.
3. Chander, G., Markham, B.L., "Revised Landsat-5 TM Radiometric Calibration Procedures, and Post-Calibration Dynamic Ranges," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 41, No. 11, pp. 2674-2677, Nov. 2003.
4. Teillet, P.M., Helder, D.L., Ruggles, T., Landry, R., Ahern, F.J., Higgs, N.J., Barsi, J., Chander, G., Markham, B.L., Barker, J.L., Thome, K.J., Schott, J.R., Palluconi, F.D., "A definitive calibration record for the Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper anchored to the Landsat-7 radiometric scale", Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 631-643, Aug, 2004.
5. Chander, G., Helder, D.L., Markham, B.L., Dewald, J., Kaita, E., Thome, K.J., Micijevic, E., Ruggles, T., "Landsat-5 TM Reflective-Band Absolute Radiometric Calibration", " IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 42, No. 12, pp. 2747-2760, Dec, 2004. (Invited paper)
6. Chander, G., Meyer, D.J., Helder, D.L., "Cross-Calibration of the Landsat-7 ETM+ and EO-1 ALI sensors," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 42, No. 12, pp. 2821-2831, Dec, 2004. (Invited paper)
7. Hook, S.J, Chander, G., Barsi, J.A., Alley, R.E., Abtahi, A., Palluconi, F.D., Markham, B.L., Richards, R.C., Schladow, S.G., Helder, D.L., "In-Flight Validation and Recovery of Water Surface Temperature with Landsat 5 Thermal Infrared Data Using an Automated High Altitude Lake Validation Site at Lake Tahoe CA/NV, USA," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 42, No. 12, pp. 2767-2776, Dec, 2004. (Invited paper)
8. Chander, G., Markham, B. L., Barsi, J. A., "Revised Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper Radiometric Calibration," IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 490-494, Jul. 2007.
9. Chander, G., Coan, M.J., Scaramuzza, P.L., "Evaluation and Comparison of the IRS-P6 and the Landsat Sensors," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 209-221, Jan. 2008.
10. Helder, D.L., Markham, B. L., Thome, K. J., Barsi, J. A. Chander, G., Malla R., "Updated Radiometric Calibration for the Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper Reflective Bands," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 46, no. 10, pp. 3309-3325, Oct. 2008.
11. Chander, G., Markham, B.L., Helder, D.L., "Summary of Current Radiometric Calibration Coefficients for Landsat MSS, TM, ETM+, and EO-1 ALI Sensors", Remote Sensing of Environment, 113, 893 - 903, 2009.
12. Chander, G., and Groeneveld, D. P., "NDVI Crosscheck for Landsat 5 TM Radiometric Calibration," International Journal of Remote Sensing, 30:6, 1621 - 1628, 2009.
13. Chander, G., Saunier, S., Choate, M. J., Scaramuzza, P.L., "SSTL UK-DMC Data Quality Assessment," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 47, no. 7, pp. 2380-2391, Jul. 2009.
14. Chander, G., Huang, C., Yang, L., Homer, C., Larson, C., "Developing Consistent Landsat Data Sets for Large Area Applications: The MRLC 2001 Protocol," IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 777-781, Oct. 2009.
15. Xiong, X., Cao, C., Chander, G., "An Overview of Sensor Calibration Inter-comparison and Applications," Frontiers of Earth Science in China, DOI 10.1007/s11707-010-0002-z, Dec. 2009.
16. Chander, G., Haque, M.O., Micijevic, E., Barsi, J.A., "A Procedure for Radiometric Recalibration of Landsat 5 TM Reflective Band Data," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 556-574, Jan. 2010.
17. Chander, G., Xiong, X., Choi, T., Angal, A., "Monitoring on-orbit calibration stability of the Terra MODIS and Landsat 7 ETM+ sensors using pseudo-invariant test sites," Remote Sensing of Environment. 114, 925 - 939, 2010.
18. Angal, A., Xiong, X., Choi, T., Chander, G., Wu, A. "Using the Sonoran and Libyan Desert test sites to monitor the temporal stability of reflective solar bands for Landsat 7 enhanced thematic mapper plus and Terra moderate resolution imaging Spectroradiometer sensors," Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, v. 4, no. 1, p. 043525-12, April 2010.
19. Saunier, S., Chander, G., Goryl, P., Santer, R., Bouvet, M., Collet, B., Mambimba, A., Kocaman, S., "Radiometric, Geometric and Image Quality Assessment of the ALOS AVNIR-2 and PRISM Sensors," IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. (Accepted)
20. Teilliet, P.M., and Chander, G., "Terrestrial reference standard sites for post-launch sensor calibration," Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. (Accepted).
21. Cao, C., Uprety, S., Xiong, J., Wu, A., Jing, P., Smith, D., Chander, G., Henry, P., Fox, N., Ungar, S., "Establishing the Antarctic Dome C Community Reference Standard Site towards Consistent Measurements from Earth Observation Satellites," Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. (Accepted).
- Conference Proceedings
2. Schiller, S., Chander, G., Helder, D.L., "IKONOS Radiometric Calibration Using a Low Reflectance Grass Target," in Proc. JACIE, the Civil Commercial Imagery Evaluation Workshop, Greenbelt, Maryland, March 19-21, 2001.
3. Chander, G., Scaramuzza, P. L., "New Landsat-7 Gap Filled Products," in Proc. AAG, Philadelphia, March 15-19, 2004.
4. Chander, G., "Landsat-5 TM Radiometry Update," in Proc. AAG, Philadelphia, March 15-19, 2004.
5. Chander, G., Scaramuzza, P. L., "Landsat-5 TM and Landsat-7 ETM+ Products," in Tenth Biennial USDA Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Conference (RSAC), Salt Lake City, Utah April 5-9, 2004.
6. Chander, G., Scaramuzza, P. L., "Landsat-5 and Landsat-7 Status," in American Society of Photogrammetric and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Annual Conference Denver, CO, May 23-28, 2004.
7. Chander, G., Markham, B.L., Micijevic, E., Teillet, P.M., Helder, D.L., "Improvement in Absolute Calibration Accuracy of Landsat-5 TM with Landsat-7 ETM+ Data," in Proc. SPIE Int. Symp. Vol 5882, 588209, San Diego, CA, July 31-Aug 4, 2005.
8. Barsi, J.A., Chander, G., Markham, B.L., Higgs, N., "Landsat-4 and Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper Band 6 Historical performance and calibration," in Proc. SPIE Int. Symp. Vol 5882, 5888206, San Diego, CA, July 31-Aug 4, 2005.
9. Meyer, D.J., Chander, G., Christopherson, J., Stensaas, G., "A survey of specto-radiometric intercalibration techniques for long-term monitoring of land surface processes," in Proc. CALCON, Logan, UT, Aug 22-25, 2005.
10. Chander, G., Christopherson, J., Hayes, R., Helder, D.L., "An Overview of Landsat Data Calibration," in Proc. CALCON, Logan, UT, Aug 22-25, 2005.
11. Markham, B.L., Chander, G., Morfitt, R., Hollaren, D., Mendenhall, J.F., Ong, L., "Radiometric Processing and Calibration of EO-1 Advanced Land Imager Data," in Proc. PECORA, Sioux Falls, SD, Oct 2005.
12. Morfitt, R., Chander, G., Markham, B.L., Helder, D.L., Storey, J.C., "Improved Leaky Detector Correction for EO-1 ALI Imagery ," in Proc. PECORA, Sioux Falls, SD, Oct 2005.
13. Chander, G., "Cross-calibration of L5 TM and CBERS-2 CCD sensors," in Proc. JACIE, The Civil Commercial Imagery Evaluation Workshop, National Wildlife Center, Greenbelt, MD, Mar 14-16, 2006.
14. Chander, G., Micijevic, E., "Absolute calibration accuracy of L4 TM and L5 TM sensor image pairs," in Proc. SPIE Int. Symp., in Proc. SPIE Int. Symp., Vol 6296, 62960D, San Diego, CA, Aug 13-18, 2006.
15. Meyer, D.J., Chander, G., "Cross-calibration of MODIS with ETM+ and ALI sensors for long-term monitoring of land surface processes," in Proc. SPIE Int. Symp., Vol 6296, 62960H, San Diego, CA, Aug 13-18, 2006.
16. Micijevic, E., Chander, G., "Stability of Landsat-4 Thematic Mapper Outgassing Models Derived from the Internal Calibrator Responses," in Proc. SPIE Int. Symp., Vol 6296, 62960E, San Diego, CA, Aug 13-18, 2006.
17. Chander, G., Scaramuzza, P.L., "Cross-cal of the L7 ETM+ and L5 TM sensor with the IRS-P6 AWiFS and LISS-III sensors," in Proc. CALCON, Logan, UT, Oct. 3, 2006.
18. Chander, G., Scaramuzza, P.L., "Cross-cal of the L7 ETM+ and L5 TM sensor with the IRS-P6 AWiFS and LISS-III sensors," in Proc. SPIE Int. Symp., Vol. 6407, 64070E, Goa, Nov 2006.
19. Meyer, D.J., Chander, G., "Cross-calibration of A.M. constellation for long-term monitoring of land surface processes," in Proc. SPIE Int. Symp., Vol. 6405, 64050Z, Goa, Nov 2006.
20. Chander, G., Choate, M.J., "Geometric Characterization of DMC," in Proc. JACIE, The Civil Commercial Imagery Evaluation Workshop, Fairfax, Virginia, March 20-22, 2007.
21. Chander, G., Scaramuzza, P.L., "Cross Calibration of the Landsat-7 ETM+ and Landsat-5 TM with the ResurceSat-1 (IRS-P6) AWiFS and LISS-III Sensors," in Proc. JACIE, the Civil Commercial Imagery Evaluation Workshop, Fairfax, Virginia, March 20-22, 2007.
22. Chander, G., Choate, M.J., "Landsat Data Gap Study Team Activities," USGS Land Remote Sensing Science Fair, Reston, Virginia, Apr 11-12, 2007.
23. Chander, G., Micijevic, E., Hayes, R.H, Barsi J.A, "Radiometric Recalibration of Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper Data" in Proc. IGARSS, 4132 - 4135, Barcelona, Spain, July 21-27, 2007.
24. Meyer, D. J., Chander, G., "The effect of variations in relative spectral response on the retrieval of land surface parameters from multiple sources of remotely sensed imagery" in Proc. IGARSS, Barcelona, Spain, July 21-27, 2007.
25. Micijevic, E., Chander, G., Hayes, R. H., "Improved Outgassing Models for the Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper" in Proc. IGARSS, Barcelona, Spain, July 21-27, 2007.
26. Helder, D. L., Malla, R., Chander, G., Barsi, J. A., Markham, B. L., "Radiometric Trending of Landsat TM Using Pseudo-Invariant Sites" in Proc. IGARSS, Barcelona, Spain, July 21-27, 2007.
27. Hayes, R. H., Chander, G., Christopherson, J. B., "An Overview of Four Decades of Landsat Data Calibration," in Proc. IGARSS, Barcelona, Spain, July 21-27, 2007.
28. Bouvet, M., Goryl, P., Chander, G., Santer, R., Saunier, S., "Preliminary radiometric calibration results of ALOS AVNIR-2 performance," in Proc. IGARSS, Barcelona, Spain, July 21-27, 2007.
29. Saunier, S., Goryl, P., Bouvet, M., Santer, R., Chander, G., Gruen, A., Wolf, K., Viallefont, F., "The contribution of the European Space Agency to the ALOS PRISM / AVNIR-2 commissioning phase," The First Joint PI symposium of ALOS Data Nodes for ALOS Science Program in Kyota, Nov 19-23, 2007, Kyota, 2007.
30. Chander, G., Angal, A., Choi, T., Meyer, D. J., Xiong, X., Teillet, P.M., "Cross-calibration of the Terra MODIS, Landsat-7 ETM+ and EO-1 ALI sensors using near simultaneous surface observation over Railroad Valley Playa, Nevada test site," in Proc. SPIE Int. Symp. , Vol 6677, 6677-34, San Diego, CA, Aug 26-30, 2007.
31. Chander, G., Helder, D.H., Micijevic, E., Mettler, C.J., Malla, R., "Consistency of L4 TM absolute calibration with respect to the L5 TM sensor based on near simultaneous image acquisition," in Proc. SPIE Int. Symp. , Vol 6677, 6677-14, San Diego, CA, Aug 26-30, 2007.
32. Teillet, P.M., Barsi, J. A., Chander, G., Thome, K. J., "Prime Candidate Earth Targets for the Post-Launch Radiometric Calibration of Satellite Sensors," in Proc. SPIE Int. Symp. , Vol 6677, 6677-28, San Diego, CA, Aug 26-30, 2007.
33. Micijevic, E., Chander, G., "Comparison of the Outgassing Models for the Landsat Thematic Mapper Sensors," in Proc. SPIE Int. Symp. , Vol 6677, 6677-15, San Diego, CA, Aug 26-30, 2007.
34. Chander, G., Christopherson, J.B., Stensaas, G.L., Teillet, P.M., "Online Catalogue of World-wide Test Sites for the Post-Launch Characterization and Calibration of Optical Sensors," International Astronautical Federation - 58th International Astronautical Congress 3, pp. 2043-2051, Hyderabad, India, Sep. 24-28, 2007.
35. Barsi J.A., Markham, B.L., Helder D.L., Chander, G., "Radiometric calibration status of Landsat-7 and Landsat-5," in Proc. SPIE Int. Symp. , Vol 6744, 67441F Florence, Italy, Sep. 18-20, 2007.
36. Chander, G., "Cross-calibration of the L7 ETM+, L5 TM, IRS-P6 AWiFS/LISS-III and CBERS-2 HRCCD sensors," USDA-FAS/IPA Seminar, Featuring Resource Sat AWiFS and LISS Data, Nov 27, 2007, Greenbelt, MD
37. Chander, G., "Catalog of World-wide Test Sites for Sensor Characterization," in Proc. JACIE, The Civil Commercial Imagery Evaluation Workshop, Fairfax, Virginia, March 25-27, 2008.
38. Chander, G., "Radiometric and Geometric assessment of the ALOS AVNIR-2 data," in Proc. JACIE, The Civil Commercial Imagery Evaluation Workshop, Fairfax, Virginia, March 25-27, 2008.
39. Chander, G., Choate, M.J., "Geometric Characterization of SSTL TopSat," in Proc. JACIE, The Civil Commercial Imagery Evaluation Workshop, Fairfax, Virginia, March 25-27, 2008.
40. Chander, G., Stensaas, G.L., "Landsat Data Gap Study Technical Report Overview," in Proc. JACIE, The Civil Commercial Imagery Evaluation Workshop, Fairfax, Virginia, March 25-27, 2008.
41. Hayes, R. H., Lamb, R., Haque, M.O., Chander, G., Micijevic, E., "Application of Radiometric Recalibration Method for Improved Level 1 Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper (TM) Products," in Proc. AAG Annual Meeting, Boston Portland, Massachusetts, April, 15-19, 2008.
42. Lamb, R., Haque, M.O., Chander, G., Micijevic, E., Hayes, R.H, "Application of Radiometric Recalibration Method for Improved Level 1 Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper (TM) Products," in Proc. ASPRS Int. Symp., Portland, OR, April 28-May 2, 2008.
43. Chander, G., Haque, M.O., Micijevic, E., Barsi, J.A., "Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper Recalibration Procedure For Data Processed Using The National Landsat Archive Production System (NLAPS)," in Proc. IGARSS Int. Symp., Boston, MA, July 7-11, 2008.
44. Chander, G., Stensaas, G.L., "Evaluation of Candidate Landsat Data Gap Sensors," in Proc. IGARSS Int. Symp., IV 1376-1379, Boston, MA, July 7-11, 2008.
45. Angal, A., Choi, T., Chander, G., Xiong, X., "Monitoring on-orbit stability of the Terra MODIS and Landsat 7 ETM+ Reflective Solar Bands using the Railroad Valley Playa, Nevada (RVPN) " in Proc. IGARSS Int. Symp., IV: 1364 - 1367, Boston, MA, July 7-11, 2008.
46. Chander, G., Haque, M.O., Micijevic, E., Barsi, J.A., "Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper Radiometric Recalibration Procedure Using the Internal Calibration Gain Trends from the NLAPS Trending Database," in Proc. SPIE Int. Symp., Vol. 7081 708114-1, San Diego, CA, Aug 10-14, 2008.
47. Barsi, J.A., Chander, G., Micijevic, E., Markham, B.L., "Development of Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper Internal Calibrator Gain Look-Up Table," in Proc. SPIE Int. Symp., Vol. 7081 708115-1, San Diego, CA, Aug 10-14, 2008.
48. Choi, T., Angal, A., Chander, G., Xiong, X., "Cross-calibration of the Terra MODIS and the Landsat 7 ETM+ sensors using an invariant desert site," in Proc. SPIE Int. Symp., Vol. 7081 708110-1, San Diego, CA, Aug 10-14, 2008.
49. Meyer, D.J., Chander, G., "The effect of variations in relative spectral response on the retrieval of land surface parameters from multiple sources of remotely sensed imagery," in Proc. SPIE Int. Symp., San Diego, CA, Aug 10-14, 2008.
50. Chander, G., Choi, T., Angal, A., Xiong, X., "Monitoring On-orbit radiometric stability of the Terra MODIS and Landsat 7 ETM+ sensors using pseudo-invariant test sites," in Proc. CALCON Technical Conference, Logan, UT, Aug 25-28, 2008.
51. Chander, G., "Online Catalog of World-wide Test Sites for Sensor Characterization," in Proc. CALCON Technical Conference, Logan, UT, Aug 25-28, 2008.
52. Fox, N., Bojkov, B., Cao, C., Chander, G., Greening, M.C., Lecomte, P, Ottavianeli, G., Stensaas, G.L, "Facilitating Inter-operability: The data Quality assurance strategy of CEOS to address the needs of GEOSS," in Proc. IAC Int. Symp. , IAC-07-B1.1.08, Glasgow, Scotland, Sep 29-Oct 3, 2008.
53. Chander, G., "Monitoring On-orbit radiometric stability of the Landsat 7 ETM+, IRS-P6 AWiFS and Terra MODIS sensors using pseudo-invariant test sites," USDA-FAS/IPA Seminar, "Integrating ResourceSat, LISS and AWiFS Data into Multi-Sensor Solutions", Oct 20-21, 2008, Greenbelt, MD
54. Chander, G., "Catalog of worldwide test sites," in Reflection of the past, vision for the future Proc. ASPRS Annual Conf., Baltimore, MD, Mar 9-13, 2009.
55. Stensaas, G.L., and Chander, G., "CEOS WGCV QA4EO "Operational Guidelines, A Quality Assurance Framework for Earth Observation," in Proc. ASPRS Annual Conf., Baltimore, MD, Mar 9-13, 2009.
56. Chander, G., "Radiometric and Geometric Assessment of the CBERS-2B, SPOT-5, and RapidEye," in Proc. JACIE, The Civil Commercial Imagery Evaluation Workshop, Fairfax, Virginia, Mar 31- Apr 2, 2009.
57. Stensaas, G., and Chander, G., "Quality Assurance Framework for Earth Observation (QA4EO)," in Proc. JACIE, The Civil Commercial Imagery Evaluation Workshop, Fairfax, Virginia, Mar 31- Apr 2, 2009.
58. Chander, G., "CEOS Reference Standard Test Sites," in Proc. JACIE, The Civil Commercial Imagery Evaluation Workshop, Fairfax, Virginia, Mar 31- Apr 2, 2009.
59. Chander, G., "Use of Earth Targets for Sensor Calibration," in XIV Brazilian Remote Sensing Symposium, Natal, Brazil, Apr 25- 30, 2009.
60. Choi, T., Xiong, X., Chander, G., Angal, A., "Assessment of the short-term radiometric stability between Terra MODIS and Landsat 7 ETM+ sensors" in Proc. IGARSS Int. Symp., Cape Town, South Africa, Jul 13-17, 2009.
61. Chander, G., Xiong, X., Angal, A., Choi, T., "An Assessment of African Test sites in the Context of a Global Network of Quality-assured Reference Standards" in Proc. IGARSS Int. Symp., Cape Town, South Africa, Jul 13-17, 2009.
62. Llewellyn-Jones, D.T., Chander, G., Fox, N., Lecomte, P., Stensaas, G.L., "QA4EO: Meeting the Needs of the GEO Societal Themes Through Interoperability and Harmonisation" in Proc. IGARSS Int. Symp., Cape Town, South Africa, Jul 13-17, 2009.
63. Angal, A., Choi, T., Chander, G., Wu, A., Xiong, X., "Using the Sonoran Desert Test Site to Track the Long-term Radiometric Stability of the Landsat TM/ETM+ and MODIS Sensors," in Proc. SPIE Int. Symp., Vol. 7456 745606-1, San Diego, CA, Aug 2-6, 2009.
64. Chander, G., Xiong, X. Choi, T., Angal, A., "An Assessment of Pseudo-Invariant CEOS Reference Standard Test Sites for Stability Monitoring," in Proc. CALCON Technical Conference, Logan, UT, Aug 24-27, 2009.
65. Chander, G., Xiong, X., Angal, A., Choi, T., "Cross-comparison of the IRS-P6 AWiFS sensor with the L5 TM, L7 ETM+, & Terra MODIS sensors," in Proc. SPIE Europe Remote Sensing, Vol. 7474, 74740Z-1, Berlin, Germany, 31 Aug - 3 Sep, 2009.
66. Killough, B.D., Chander, G., and Gowda, S., "A Web-based Google-Earth coincident imaging tool for satellite calibration and validation", in Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 14-18, 2009, Eos Transactions, Suppl., v. 90, no. 52: Washington, D.C., American Geophysical Union, p. U51B-0016.
67. Chander, G., "Cross-comparison of the IRS-P6 AWiFS sensor with the L5 TM, L7 ETM+, & Terra MODIS sensors," in Proc. JACIE, The Civil Commercial Imagery Evaluation Workshop, Fairfax, Virginia, March 16-18, 2010.
68. Mackin, S., Chander, G., "Radiometric and Data Quality characteristics of the 2nd Generation Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC) satellites," in Proc. JACIE, The Civil Commercial Imagery Evaluation Workshop, Fairfax, Virginia, March 16-18, 2010.
69. Sampath, A., Chander, G., Hayes, R.H, Christpherson, J.B, "Using newly built USGS Test Ranges for Geometric Assessment of GeoEye & Worldview-1," in Proc. JACIE, The Civil Commercial Imagery Evaluation Workshop, Fairfax, Virginia, March 16-18, 2010.
70. Haque, O., Chander, G., Sampath, A., "Radiometric & Geometric Assessment of the Data from RapidEye Constellation of Satellites," in Proc. JACIE, The Civil Commercial Imagery Evaluation Workshop, Fairfax, Virginia, March 16-18, 2010.
71. Tolk, B., Vogelmann, J, Chander, G., "Advanced Wide Field Sensor (AWiFS) Imagery: A Viable Data Substitute for LANDFIRE Update Mapping?" in Proc. Association of American Geographers (AAG), Washington, DC, April 14-18, 2010.