What does your work entail?

I run a collection of laboratories that do radiometric calibration and characterization and reflectance characterization of materials for various types of instruments.

So calibration and characterization are the processes that allow us to understand the properties and performance of an instrument so that we can interpret those results for scientific application.

There's many types of calibration and characterization that go into the process of building an instrument.

But in my labs, we do radiometric and spectral calibration and characterization.

The radiometric calibration establishes the relationship between the sensor response and a physical parameter, in this case, radiance, or the amount of energy that is hitting that instrument.

And we work in the UV visible near-infrared and shortwave.

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