Introduction to Spectral Technology
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Understanding Spectral
Riverside Research Institute offers an introductory, unclassified course that explores advanced spectral technologies and their direct application to intelligence and operational problems. The new generation of airborne and space-borne spectral sensors and exploitation tools provide discrimination and often direct detection of targets enabling rapid development of Advanced Geospatial Intelligence (AGI) products. Spectral applications have transformed the remote sensing field are one of the fastest growing sectors of AGI. This course provides a detailed look at the range of spectral techniques and applications to the intelligence community and operational user.
Who should attend?
Program managers, scientists and other technical specialists in both federal and industrial sectors are encouraged to attend. Students ranging from analyst to supervisor will find the course packed with strategic, concise, cutting-edge technological information and data. The most current and applied AGI analysis methods and sensors (especially commercial and civilian government sensors) will be discussed at levels appealing to both individuals and groups involved in day-to-day analysis as well as at managerial operations and decision-making levels.
What you will learn
Though taught at an unclassified level, the course material gets to the heart of AGI: advanced sensors and analysis techniques applied to detection and discrimination. Students will gain an understanding of how spectral data is used in today's intelligence world through structured discussions and review of unclassified case-studies covering major areas of security and defense interest.
Instruction focuses on: fundamental history and development of spectral data and its subsequent influence in government and intelligence programs; basic phenomenology and the importance of the spectral signature; most useful and significant unclassified sensors and platforms; a review of both standard and advanced spectral data analysis and reduction methods.
Instructors:
Dr. Brigette Martini, Primary Instructor
Coming most recently from the commercial hyperspectral field, Dr. Martini facilitates important bridge-building between the applied, commercial geospatial industry and the AGI disciplines. Her experience ranges from advanced geophysical applications and analysis of hyper/multi-spectral data to planning and administering complex geospatial missions on five continents. She possesses expert knowledge of applied geospatial solutions for surface material identification and mapping including defense and security targets. Her roles in the both the academic and commercial worlds have made her an expert in available remote sensing technologies for the unclassified user. Dr. Martini holds a B.S. in Geosciences (University of Arizona) and a PhD in Earth Science/Hyperspectral Imaging (University of California, Santa Cruz).
Clearance:
Unclassified
Duration:
1 day
Location:
Beavercreek, OH, Washington DC, or at your facility
