Dept of Engineering Physics
Email: Christoph Borel
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering,University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 1988.
Dipl. El. Ing. ETH, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, 1981.
Matura Typus B (Languages and Humanities), Gymnasium, Solothurn, Switzerland, 1976.
Christoph C. Borel is an Associate Research Professor at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He has been affiliated with the Center for MASINT Studies and Research (CMSR) and the Engineering Physics Department since November 2009. He is currently working on variety of remote sensing projects involving multi- and hyper-spectral data analysis and video data. His current spectral research interests are in temperature/emissivity separation, Bi-Directional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) modeling, adjoint radiosity methods to retrieve reflectance in complex environments, Fourier transform imaging, atmospheric correction of satellite imagery, scene simulation in the visible and infrared, end-to-end modeling of hyper-spectral sensors and top of atmosphere albedo of the Earth.
His current video processing research interests are in analyzing video to extract gait information and tracking vehicles in AngelFire like video data. He put together a workflow that starts with a raw video which is de-interlaced and stored as an uncompressed AVI file using the freeware VirtualDub program. Then an IDL program “TRACKMAN” developed by Dr. Borel performs a background subtraction to find a human walking, next finds the head and creates a window that follows the person. Dr. Borel created an algorithm to synthesize interferogram from thousands of data cubes of a internal combustion engine. Dr. Borel was one of 5 winners of an international contest sponsored by DigitalGlobe in 2010 on using 8-band data from the WorldView-2 satellite. He wrote a paper that generates maps of vegetative parameters based on a coupled leaf canopy model from atmospherically corrected data. Dr. Borel found a way to enhance the detection of sub-pixel targets by image restoration of the hyper-spectral cube. Dr. Borel was able recently to create hyper-spectral images of a simulated vegetation canopy and show for the first time the effects of multiple scattering at different wavelengths. For the Army Research Laboratory Dr. Borel performed a detailed analysis of a novel commercial hyper-spectral camera and wrote programs to rapidly flat-field and create calibrated and bad-pixel corrected data cubes of radiance, brightness temperature and relative emissivity.
Dr. Christoph C. Borel has over 25 years experience in remote sensing. He has worked in microwave and millimeter remote sensing, optical and infrared remote sensing and published over 90 papers with 14 papers that appeared in peer reviewed journals. He gave hundreds of talks at conferences, technical interchange meetings and internal seminars.
VISIBLE AND THERMAL REMOTE SENSING
HYPERSPECTRAL ANALYSIS
SCENE GENERATION
VIDEO ANALYSIS
IMAGE PROCESSING
SIGNAL PROCESSING
RADIATIVE TRANSFER
COMPUTER GRAPHICS
COMPUTER VISION
MODEL INVERSION
Selected peer reviewed publications:
- C.C. Borel and Robert E. McIntosh, "Millimeter Wave Backscatter From Deciduous Trees,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol.38, no.3, pp. 1391-1398, September 1990.
- C.C. Borel, Siegfried A.W. Gerstl and Bill J. Powers, "The Radiosity Method in Optical Remote Sensing of Structured 3-D Surfaces,” Remote Sensing of the Environment (RSE), Vol. 36, p.13-44, 1991.
- C.C. Borel, S.A.W. Gerstl, "Non-linear spectral mixing models for vegetative and soil surfaces,” SPIE Milestone Series, Optical Remote Sensing, J.A. Smith (ed.), 1997.
- P. Chylek, C. Borel, A. Davis, S. Bender, J. Augustine, and G. Hodges, "Effect of Broken Clouds on Satellite Based Columnar Water Vapor Retrieval,” IEEE Geosci. and Remote Sens. Lett, 1, 175-179, 2004.
- P. Chylek, and C. Borel, "Mixed Phase Clouds Water/Ice Structure From High Spatial Resolution Satellite Data,” AGU Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L14104, doi:10.1029/2004GL020428, 2004.
- Cooke, B.J., Lomheim, T.S., Laubscher, B.E., Rienstra, J.L., Clodius, W.B., Bender, S.C., Weber, P.G., Smith, B.W., Vampola, J.L., Claassen, P.J., Ballard, M., Galbraith, A.E., Borel, C.C., Atkins, W.H., "Modeling the MTI Electro-Optic System Sensitivity and Resolution,” Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on Volume 43, Issue 9, Sept. 2005, pp. 1950-1963.
- Borel, C., "Error analysis for a temperature and emissivity retrieval algorithm for hyper-spectral imaging data,” International Journal of Remote Sensing, Volume 29, Numbers 17-18, pp. 5029-5045(17), 2008.
Recent publications:
- Christoph C. Borel and Ronald F. Tuttle,” Improving the detectability of small spectral targets through spatial filtering,” Proc. SPIE 7812, (2010).
- Kevin C. Gross, Chris Borel, Allen White, Stephen Sakai, Rebecca DeVasher, and Glen P. Perram, “First imaging Fourier-transform spectral measurements of detonation in an internal combustion engine,” Proc. SPIE 7812, (2010) .
- Christoph C. Borel, Ronald F. Tuttle, and Clyde Spencer, “Improved panchromatic sharpening of multi-spectral image data,” Proc. SPIE 7812, (2010).
- Kevin C. Gross, Anthony M. Young, Christoph Borel, Bryan J. Steward, and Glen P. Perram, “Simulating systematic scene-change artifacts in Fourier-transform spectroscopy,” Proc. SPIE 7695, (2010).
- Christoph C. Borel, Robert McGrellis, Jonathan Juhl and Ronald F. Tuttle, “Automatic processing of gait video and extraction of features,” BAMS/ASTS meeting, Laurel, MD, August 31- September 2, (2010).(talk)
- Graham V. Walford, James S. Bogard, John E. Gunning, Alan M. Krichinsky, Linda A. Lewis, Steven E. Smith, Kevin C. Gross, Christoph C Borel, Glen P. Perram, Vincent Farley, Andre Villemaire, Gary D. Lux, John E. Patterson, “Enhancing Nuclear Non Proliferation Monitoring by Overlaying Nuclear, Infrared Hyper Spectral FTIR Imaging and Optical Imaging/Scanning Detection Technologies,” INMM 51st Annual Meeting, July 11-15, (2010).
- Christoph C. Borel, “Vegetative canopy parameter retrieval using 8-band data,” 2011 Geospatial World Forum, Hyderabad, India, January 18-21, 21p, (2011).(Talk)
- Christoph C. Borel and Ronald F. Tuttle, “Simulation of sub-pixel thermal target detection,” IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, March 5-12, (2011). (Talk)
- Christoph C. Borel and Ronald F. Tuttle, “Recent advances in temperature emissivity separation algorithms,” IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, March 5-12, (2011).(talk)
- Christoph C. Boreland Ronald F. Tuttle, “Multi- and hyperspectral scene modeling,” Proc. SPIE 7812, Defense & Security Symposium, Orlando, FL, 78120K, (2011) . (Talk)
- Christoph C. Borel, “Methods to find sub-pixel targets in hyperspectral data”, WHISPERS 2011,” Lisbon, IEEE (2011). (Talk)
More papers are available at : http:\\cborel.net
Talks:
- Christoph C. Borel, ARTEMISS temperature-emissivity separation algorithm, Aerospace Corp., El Segundo, CA, November 8, 2010.
- Christoph C. Borel, “Hyper-Cam calibration and scene measurements at AFIT,” TELOPS Scientific workshop, Baltimore, MD, May 11-12 2011.
- Christoph C. Borel, “Signatures and errors from polarization in the infrared”, workshop on polarization at DRDC Valcartier, January 18-19 2011 (2011). (delivered via previously recorded PPT presentation)
- Christoph C. Borel, “Thermal anomaly and quantification algorithms for sub-pixel targets using multi- and hyper-spectral data,” National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Ft. Belvoir, VA, May 13, 2011.
- Christoph C. Borel, “DigitalGlobe 8 band research challenge winner: WorldView-2 leaf and vegetation canopy parameter mapping,” National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Ft. Belvoir, VA, May 13, 2011.