Cibele Teixeira Pinto received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Remote Sensing from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), São José dos Campos, Brazil, in 2011 and 2016, respectively. From January 2017 to July 2024, she served as an Image Engineer at the Image Processing Laboratory (IP Lab) of South Dakota State University (SDSU), in Brookings, SD, USA. In this role, her primary focus was on the radiometric calibration of the Landsat Satellite Mission Series. During her time at SDSU, she also held an position as an instructor, teaching graduate-level courses in remote sensing and image analysis.
One of her significant contributions at SDSU was a comprehensive radiometric cross-calibration update for the Landsat series sensors, covering the period from 1972 to 2018. This work established a consistent radiometric scale across all legacy Landsat instruments, from the Multispectral Scanner (MSS) aboard Landsat-1 (launched in 1972) to the Operational Land Imager (OLI) aboard Landsat-8 (launched in 2013).
Since August 2024, Dr. Teixeira Pinto has been serving as a Lead Research Scientist with Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI), working at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Her interest in radiometric calibration began in 2006 during her undergraduate studies, sparked by her involvement in a scientific initiation program. Throughout her doctoral research, she played a pioneering role—together with her advisors—in the radiometric calibration of the China–Brazil Earth Resources Satellite 4 (CBERS-4). Her research interests include vicarious radiometric calibration, intercalibration of satellite instruments, and the quantification and analysis of uncertainties in the calibration process.