Sciences and Exploration Directorate

Brian N Wenny

(SR. SCIENTIST)

Brian N Wenny's Contact Card & Information.
Email: brian.n.wenny@nasa.gov
Phone: 301.614.6706
Org Code: 618
Address:
NASA/GSFC
Mail Code 618
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Employer: SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC

Selected Publications


Refereed

2025. "The Characterization of the Railroad Valley Playa Test Site Using the DESIS Imaging Spectrometer from the Space Station Orbit." Remote Sensing 17 (3): 396 [10.3390/rs17030396] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "Uncertainty budget for detector-based absolute radiometric calibration with GLAMR." Applied Optics 63 (12): 3015 [10.1364/ao.519586] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "The Ground-Based Absolute Radiometric Calibration of the Landsat 9 Operational Land Imager." Remote Sensing 16 (6): 1101 [10.3390/rs16061101] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "Landsat 9 Thermal Infrared Sensor-2 (TIRS-2) Pre- and Post-Launch Spatial Response Performance." Remote Sensing 16 (6): 1065 [10.3390/rs16061065] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "Intercomparison of Landsat Operational Land Imager and Terra Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer Radiometric Calibrations Using Radiometric Calibration Network Data." Remote Sensing 16 (2): 400 [10.3390/rs16020400] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "Combining RadCalNet Sites for Radiometric Cross Calibration of Landsat 9 and Landsat 8 Operational Land Imagers (OLIs)." Remote Sensing 15 (24): 5752 [10.3390/rs15245752] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "Intercomparison of Landsat OLI and JPSS VIIRS Using a Combination of RadCalNet Sites as a Common Reference." Remote Sensing 15 (23): 5562 [10.3390/rs15235562] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Band-Averaged Response Sensitivity Study of an Imaging Spectrometer for the CLARREO Pathfinder Mission." Remote Sensing 14 (10): 2302 [10.3390/rs14102302] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Absolute Radiometric Calibration of an Imaging Spectroradiometer Using a Laboratory Detector-Based Approach." Remote Sensing 14 (9): 2245 [10.3390/rs14092245] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Look-up table approach for uncertainty determination for operational vicarious calibration of Earth imaging sensors." Applied Optics 61 (6): 1357 [10.1364/ao.442170] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Evaluation of vicarious calibration for airborne sensors using RadCalNet." Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 15 (03): [10.1117/1.jrs.15.034501] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Cross-Calibration of Terra and Aqua MODIS Using RadCalNet." IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 18 (2): 188-192 [10.1109/lgrs.2020.2973535] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Prelaunch Radiometric Calibration and Uncertainty Analysis of Landsat Thermal Infrared Sensor 2." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 1-12 [10.1109/tgrs.2020.3008655] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "RadCalNet: A Radiometric Calibration Network for Earth Observing Imagers Operating in the Visible to Shortwave Infrared Spectral Range." Remote Sensing 11 (20): 2401 [10.3390/rs11202401] [Journal Article/Letter]

2018. "Ultra-portable field transfer radiometer for vicarious calibration of earth imaging sensors." Metrologia 55 (3): S104-S117 [10.1088/1681-7575/aab311] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "Noise Characterization and Performance of MODIS Thermal Emissive Bands." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 54 (6): 3221-3234 [10.1109/tgrs.2015.2514061] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "Evaluation of VIIRS and MODIS Thermal Emissive Band Calibration Stability Using Ground Target." Remote Sensing 8 (2): 158 [10.3390/rs8020158] [Journal Article/Letter]

2015. "Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on Terra and Aqua Missions." Qian/Optical Payloads for Space Missions 53-89 [10.1002/9781118945179.ch3] [Article in Book]

2015. "Terra and Aqua MODIS Thermal Emissive Bands On-Orbit Calibration and Performance." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 53 (10): 5709-5721 [10.1109/tgrs.2015.2428198] [Journal Article/Letter]

2015. "Sensitivity of Inter-calibration Uncertainty of the CLARREO Reflected Solar Spectrometer Features." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 53 (9): 4741-4751 [10.1109/TGRS.2015.2409030] [Journal Article/Letter]

2015. "Pre- and Post-Launch Spatial Quality of the Landsat 8 Thermal Infrared Sensor." Remote Sens. 7 (2): 1962-1980 [10.3390/rs70201962] [Journal Article/Letter]

2014. "Evaluation of Radiometric Improvements With Electronic Crosstalk Correction for Terra MODIS Band 27." Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on 52 (10): 6497 - 6507 [10.1109/TGRS.2013.2296747] [Journal Article/Letter]

2014. "Radiometric Calibration Methodology of the Landsat 8 Thermal Infrared Sensor." Remote Sens. 6 (9): 8803-8821 [10.3390/rs6098803] [Journal Article/Letter]

2014. "Terra MODIS Band 27 Electronic Crosstalk Effect and Its Removal." Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on 52 (3): 1551-1561 [10.1109/TGRS.2013.2252180] [Journal Article/Letter]

2013. "Status of MODIS instrument and radiometric calibration." Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2013 IEEE International 4419-4422 [10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6723815] [Journal Article/Letter]

2013. "Terra and Aqua moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer collection 6 level 1B algorithm." Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 7 (1): 073557 [10.1117/1.JRS.7.073557] [Journal Article/Letter]

2009. "Using Dome C for moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer calibration stability and consistency." J. Appl. Remote Sens 3 (1): 033520 [10.1117/1.3116663] [Journal Article/Letter]

2009. "MODIS Onboard Blackbody Function and Performance." IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing 47 (12): 4210-4222 [10.1109/TGRS.2009.2023317] [Journal Article/Letter]

2009. "Aqua MODIS Thermal Emissive Band On-Orbit Calibration, Characterization, and Performance." IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing 47 (3): 803-814 [10.1109/TGRS.2008.2005109] [Journal Article/Letter]

2008. "Using a Cold Earth Surface Target to Characterize Long-Term Stability of the MODIS Thermal Emissive Bands." IEEE Geosci. Remote Sensing Lett. 5 (2): 162-165 [10.1109/LGRS.2008.915603] [Journal Article/Letter]

2005. "Evaluation of the MODIS aerosol retrievals over ocean and land during CLAMS." J Atmos Sci 62 974-992 [10.1175/JAS3391.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2002. "Role of sulfate aerosols in modifying the cloud albedo: a closure experiment." Atmos Res 61 (3): 169-187 [10.1016/S0169-8095(01)00140-5] [Journal Article/Letter]

1998. "A study of regional aerosol radiative properties and effects on ultraviolet-B radiation." J Geophys Res 103 (D14): 17,083-17,097 [10.1029/98JD01481] [Journal Article/Letter]

1996. "Observed influence of clouds on ultraviolet-B radiation." Geophys Res Lett 23 (19): 2625-2628 [Journal Article/Letter]

Non-Refereed

2023. "On-orbit spatial calibration performance of Landsat 8 and 9 thermal infrared sensors." Infrared Remote Sensing and Instrumentation XXXI [10.1117/12.2675861] [Proceedings]

2023. "Development of a pre-launch absolute radiometric calibration test plan for CLARREO pathfinder." Imaging Spectrometry XXVI: Applications, Sensors, and Processing [10.1117/12.2675648] [Proceedings]

2023. "Intercomparison of Landsat OLI and Terra ASTER solar reflective calibrations using the Radiometric Calibration Network data from Railroad Valley, Nevada." Earth Observing Systems XXVIII [10.1117/12.2677409] [Proceedings]

2023. "Design of an ultra-portable field-capable short wave infrared transfer radiometer supporting Earth observing sensor calibration." Earth Observing Systems XXVIII [10.1117/12.2676533] [Proceedings]

2023. "Radiance-based and reflectance-based retrievals of surface reflectance for vicarious calibration." Earth Observing Systems XXVIII [10.1117/12.2676913] [Proceedings]